Heavy Metal Anthem

2000 studio album by Anthem

Heavy Metal Anthem

Studio album by

Anthem

Released| April 21, 2000
Recorded| 2000
Genre| Heavy metal
Length| 51:02
Language| English
Label| JVC Victor
Producer| Yorimasa Hisatake, Naoto Shibata, Chris Tsangarides
Anthem chronology
| Domestic Booty
(1992)  | Heavy Metal Anthem
(2000)  | Seven Hills
(2001)

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Heavy Metal Anthem is the eighth studio album by the Japanese heavy metal band Anthem, released on April 21, 2000. It was their first album since their disbandment in 1992. Most of the former members play on the album, but with the English singer Graham Bonnet on vocals;[1] the original vocalist, Eizo Sakamoto, returned on the next album, Seven Hills. All of the songs are from Anthem's older releases, rerecorded and sung in English by Bonnet.[2] Bassist and principal songwriter Naoto Shibata recreated the songs with Bonnet's voice in mind, including the English lyrics.[3]

## Track listing

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1. "Gypsy Ways (Win, Lose or Draw)" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 5:47
2. "Evil Touch" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 4:47
3. "Show Must Go On!" (Sakamoto, Shibata, Tsangarides) \- 3:52
4. "Midnight Sun" (Boyd, Shibata, Tsangarides) \- 4:44
5. "The Juggler" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 3:49
6. "Mr. Genius" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 4:32
7. "Cryin' Heart" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 4:47
8. "Hunting Time" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 6:02
9. "Hungry Soul" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 5:23
10. "Blinded Pain" (Boyd, Shibata) \- 7:15

## Personnel

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Anthem

* Graham Bonnet \- vocals
* Naoto Shibata - bass, producer
* Takamasa "mad" Ohuchi - drums
* Akio Shimizu - guitars

Additional musicians

* Kazumasa Saito - guitar on "Gypsy Ways"
* Hirotsugu Homma - drums on "Hungry Soul"
* Yoshitaka Mikuni - keyboards

Production

* Yorimasa Hisatake - producer
* Chris Tsangarides \- producer, mixing
* Masahiro Fukuhara - engineer
* Yasuo Higashidate - engineer
* Katsuyuki Kobayashi - assistant engineer
* Nobuyoshi Tanaka - assistant engineer
* Tim Luce - vocal engineer
* Kevin Valentine \- vocal engineer
* George Azuma - supervisor

## References

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1. ^ "Anthem (Jpn) - Heavy Metal Anthem". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
2. ^ "Heavy Metal Anthem". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
3. ^ "Burrn!". Burrn! (in Japanese). Burrn! Corporation. April 2000.

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Anthem

* Naoto Shibata
* Akio Shimizu
* Isamu Tamaru
* Yukio Morikawa

* Toshihito Maeda
* Akifumi Koyanagi
* Takamasa Ohuchi
* Eizo Sakamoto
* Yoshitaka Mikuni
* Hiroya Fukuda
* Hideaki Nakama
* Don Airey
* Kazumasa Saitoh
* Graham Bonnet
* Hirotsugu Homma

Studio albums|

* Heavy Metal Anthem
* Seven Hills
* Overload
* Eternal Warrior
* Immortal
* Black Empire

Live albums|

* Live' Melt Down

Labels|

* Victor Entertainment
* King Records
* Universal Music/Thunderball 667
* Nuclear Blast

Related articles|

* Animetal
* Loudness
* Chris Tsangarides

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* MusicBrainz release group

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