Hurricane Eyes is the seventh studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It was released in 1987 worldwide with standard English lyrics. A "Japanese Version" was subsequently released only in Japan later in the year with Niihara singing most of the lyrics in Japanese. The album was produced by the famous producer and sound engineer Eddie Kramer, who had worked with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Kiss. The song "So Lonely", a reprise of "Ares Lament" from the album Disillusion of 1984, was instead produced by Andy Johns, another world-famous producer. This was the last Loudness album to enter the US Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for 4 weeks, peaking at No. 190.
Track listing International release
Japanese version
Personnel Loudness Minoru Niihara – vocals Akira Takasaki – guitars Masayoshi Yamashita – bass Munetaka Higuchi – drums
Additional musicians Gregg Giuffria – keyboards Steve "Zeus" Johnstad, David Glen Eisley, Tod Howarth – background vocals and assistance with English lyrics
Production Eddie Kramer – producer, engineer, mixing Tory Swenson – engineer Thom Cadley, Hidemi Nakatani, Masashi Goto, Stan Katayama – assistant engineers Scott Mabuchi – mixing Andy Johns – producer and mixing on "So Lonely" Bill Freesh – engineer on "So Lonely" Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York Sam Nagashima – coordinator Toshi Nakashita – executive producer
See also 1987 in Japanese music
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