Heavy Metal Anthem

{{Infobox album | name = Heavy Metal Anthem | type = studio | artist = [[Anthem (band)|Anthem]] | cover = Heavy metal anthem.jpg | alt = | released = April 21, 2000 | recorded = 2000 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]] | length = 51:02 | language = English | label = [[JVC|JVC Victor]] | producer = Yorimasa Hisatake, Naoto Shibata, [[Chris Tsangarides]] | prev_title = [[Domestic Booty]] | prev_year = 1992 | next_title = [[Seven Hills (album)|Seven Hills]] | next_year = 2001 }}

'''''Heavy Metal Anthem''''' is the eighth studio album by the Japanese [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Anthem (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;<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthem (Jpn) - Heavy Metal Anthem |url=http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=18691 |accessdate=2010-03-24 |publisher=[[Encyclopaedia Metallum]]}}</ref> the original vocalist, [[Eizo Sakamoto]], returned on the next album, ''[[Seven Hills (album)|Seven Hills]].'' All of the songs are from Anthem's older releases, rerecorded and sung in English by Bonnet.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r487219|pure_url=yes}} |title=Heavy Metal Anthem |accessdate=2010-03-24 |publisher=[[Allmusic]] }}</ref> Bassist and principal songwriter Naoto Shibata recreated the songs with Bonnet's voice in mind, including the English lyrics.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=[[Burrn!]] |date=April 2000 |publisher=Burrn! Corporation |language=ja|magazine=Burrn!}}</ref>

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

==Personnel== '''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== {{reflist}} {{Anthem}}

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