Tokyo Blade is the debut album by English heavy metal band Tokyo Blade. It was originally released in 1983 and reissued by High Vaultage Records in a remastered edition on CD in 1997, including all the 4 tracks from the 1984 Midnight Rendezvous EP, which actually were recorded in early 1983 while the band was called Genghis Khan plus "Death On Main Street" which was originally the b-side on "Powergame" 7" and recorded at the same sessions as the album.[4]
| Tokyo Blade | ||||
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 Original album cover | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Studio | Wickham Studios, Rooster Studios, Cave Studios, Bristol, UK | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 43:52 | |||
| Label | Powerstation Records | |||
| Producer | Kevin D. Nixon, Andy Allen | |||
| Tokyo Blade chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Tokyo Blade | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[2] |
| Metal Forces | 9/10[3] |
Track listings
edit- Side one
- "Powergame" (Andy Boulton, Al Marsh) – 4:12
- "Break the Chains" (Boulton, Marsh, John Wiggins) – 5:07
- "If Heaven Is Hell" (Boulton, Marsh) – 6:04
- "On Through the Night" (Boulton, Marsh) – 7:29
- Side two
- "Killer City" (Boulton, Marsh) – 5:47
- "Liar" (Boulton, Marsh) – 5:37
- "Tonight" (Russ Ballard) – 4:02
- "Sunrise in Tokyo" (Boulton, Marsh) – 5:47
- "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" – 1:13
1997 remastered edition
edit- "Powergame" – 4:12
- "Break the Chains" – 5:07
- "If Heaven Is Hell" – 6:04
- "On Through the Night" – 7:29
- "Killer City" – 5:47
- "Liar" – 5:37
- "Tonight" – 4:02
- "Sunrise in Tokyo" – 5:47
- "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" – 1:13
- "If Heaven Is Hell" – 6:00
- "Highway Passion" – 4:24
- "Midnight Rendezvous" – 3:22
- "Mean Streak" – 4:44
- "Death on Main Street" – 4:38
Personnel
editTokyo Blade
edit- Alan Marsh – lead vocals
- Andy Boulton – guitar
- John Wiggins – guitar (except tracks 3, 10-13)
- Andy Robbins – bass guitar
- Steve Pierce – drums
Additional musicians
edit- Ray Dismore – guitar on tracks 3,10-13.
Production
edit- Kevin D. Nixon – producer
- Ralph Jezzard – engineer
- Tony Spath – mixing
- Andy Allen – producer, engineer and mixing of tracks 3, 10-13.
References
edit- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- ^ Doe, Bernard (1983). "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Metal Forces. No. 2. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ^ "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 30 March 2010.