{"id":4005,"date":"2012-07-25T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:46:50","slug":"loudness-announces-eve-to-dawn-north-american-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2012\/07\/25\/loudness-announces-eve-to-dawn-north-american-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"LOUDNESS Announces &#8220;Eve To Dawn&#8221; North American Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Loudness_ETD.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4005]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4006\" title=\"Loudness_ETD\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Loudness_ETD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Loudness_ETD.jpg 400w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Loudness_ETD-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Loudness_ETD-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>International metal giants Loudness will release their new album EVE TO DAWN on August 14<sup>th<\/sup> via FrostByte Media.\u00a0 EVE TO DAWN marks the legendary Japanese band&#8217;s 26<sup>th<\/sup> studio album since their inception in 1981 (Loudness just celebrated their 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary last year).\u00a0 EVE TO DAWN is a spectacularly heavy opus from the &#8220;beast from the east&#8221; and is Loudness&#8217; first North American release in years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Known for their blistering technical ability, Loudness was formed in Japan in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and late drummer Munetaka Higuchi.\u00a0 With four very successful and critically-acclaimed albums under their belt in their native Japan, Loudness became the first Japanese heavy metal band to sign to a major label in the United States.\u00a0 With an astonishing 26 studio albums, numerous EPs, live albums and videos, Loudness show no signs of slowing down as the band continues to tour the world extensively in support of EVE TO DAWN.\u00a0 To date, Loudness has sold upwards of one million albums worldwide.\u00a0\u00a0 Loudness is: Minoru Niihara (vocals), Akira Takasaki (guitars), Masayoshi Yamashita (bass guitar) and Masayuki Suzuki (drums).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International metal giants Loudness will release their new album EVE TO DAWN on August 14th via FrostByte Media.\u00a0 EVE TO DAWN marks the legendary Japanese band&#8217;s 26th studio album since their inception in 1981 (Loudness just celebrated their 30th anniversary last year).\u00a0 EVE TO DAWN is a spectacularly heavy opus from the &#8220;beast from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2012\/07\/25\/loudness-announces-eve-to-dawn-north-american-release-date\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOUDNESS Announces &#8220;Eve To Dawn&#8221; North American Release Date&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}