How did I found this japanese heavy metal band?
EASY! VERY EASY! ^_^
I was originally looking for 2 songs from them, "Light it Up" and "The Show must Go on", these 2 songs originally apear on the 2 OVAs of Devilman.

And the only thing I could find was the entire discography, so I downloaded it and got very surprised....

You just need to know that :
NAOTO SHIBATA is THE GENIOUS IN HERE! HE IS THE ONE GUY THAT CREATED THE DRACULA'S BATTLE PERFECT SELECTION from castlevania series. In many songs you people can catch the solo guitars that look like the songs of Dracula's Battle Perfect Selections.
And...Eizo Sakamoto is the vocal on this band, he is also in ANIMETAL band and in JAM PROJECT (in some songs)!!
They have a very cool sound! :) ^^



♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ALBUMS♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪


ANTHEM (1985) (http://www.mediafire.com/?ooi9dc7ck1sfzcw) / Ready to Ride (1985)

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TIGHTROPE (1986) (http://www.mediafire.com/?znr8u1oqspd8t18) / BOUND TO BREAK (1987) (http://www.mediafire.com/?q42emsx462zzuwg)


GYPSY WAYS (1988) (http://www.mediafire.com/?33rv165fnc355ze)


HUNTING TIME (1989) (http://www.mediafire.com/?b5e95i038f3zdo2) / No Smoke Without Fire


DOMESTIC BOOTY (1992) (http://www.mediafire.com/?845i5hberjvlhgx) / Heavy Metal Anthem


Seven Hills / Overload


Eternal Warrior / IMMORTAL (2006) (http://www.mediafire.com/?8ueg7hj682c97cq)


BLACK EMPIRE (2008) (http://www.mediafire.com/?ua4fzpxeq45qzi0) / Heraldic Device


BURNING OATH (2012) (http://uptobox.com/mrkrwmfcsl06)


♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪SINGLES♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

"Xanadu"



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"GYPSY WAYS (WIN, LOSE OR DRAW)" (http://www.mediafire.com/?5fx2d4h20th4080) / "GRIEVE OF HEART" (http://www.mediafire.com/?d2e5ll3j1jr5ttb) / "THE VOICES" (http://www.mediafire.com/?fcsmra9ke02t65w)


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"ONSLAUGHT" (http://www.mediafire.com/?3kt8neptjdysw3t) / "IMMORTAL BIND" + BONUS CD EXTRA (http://www.mediafire.com/?06fcm1w31tkqpkq) / "HEAT OF THE NIGHT" (http://www.mediafire.com/?n4q7i98ka7tssya)


"EVIL ONE" (http://uptobox.com/se81u8tgwgyr)



♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪OTHERS♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪


The Show Carries On! (Live Album) (http://www.mediafire.com/?n864yidwoaa22l5)

Release date: 1987.09.21

Tracklist:

01 LIMITED LIGHTS
02 MACHINE MADE DOG
03 EMPTY EYES
04 SHOW MUST GO ON!
05 SOLDIERS
06 BLACK EYED TOUGH
07 BOUND TO BREAK
08 LAY DOWN
09 STEELER
10 WILD ANTHEM
11 HEADSTRONG


Last Anthem
Live' Melt Down

Best 1981-1990
Best II 1981-1992


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Soon:

AKIO SHIMIZU (guitar) SECTION:

Akio Shimizu -1993- [Time Axis]

EIZO SAKAMOTO (vocals) SECTION:

Eizo Sakamoto -2000- [Metal Icchokusen]
Eizo Sakamoto -2001- [Shout Drunker]
Eizo Sakamoto -2003- [Metal Handsome Man]

HIROTSUGU HONMA (drums) SECTION:

Flatbacker -1984- [Minagoroshi]
Flatbacker -1985- [Senzo]
Flatbacker -1986- [Esa]
Ezo -1987- [Ezo]
Ezo -1989- [Fire Fire]

NAOTO SHIBATA SECTION:

PERFECT SELECTION KONAMI SHOOTING BATTLE (KICA-1136)
PERFECT SELECTION KONAMI SHOOTING BATTLE II (KICA-1171) (Thread 60661)

Naoto Shibata - [Stand Proud! 2]
Dracula's Battle Perfect Selection
Dracula's Battle Perfect Selection II
Shooting Battle Perfect Selection
CRUSH40


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hmm... which one do you recommend?

never remember this anymore :/

I have more to put.

I recomend Bound to break (it has THE SHOW MUST GO ON featured on DEVILMAN OVA), and Gypsy Ways.

And other album I put here on the near Future... HUNTING TIME. the songs is my favorite of all

what do you mean? never remember this anymore ..... ok i wont .....????

morrigan666, thanks very much!

But some links seems to be useless.

You can try "The Show Carries On".

Morrigan, the game you are referring to is a very old PC game, dating back to 1985/1986. It is "XANADU", part of the "Dragon Slayer" metaseries.

This game was created by Nihon Falcom, which would later become world-famous among gamers for one major reason, a series which has without a doubt become one of the most beloved RPG series of all time, ranking up there with such classics as Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest and of course Final Fantasy. I am talking, of course, about the series that chronicles the adventures of the red-haired hero Adol Christin...the one, and only..."Ys".

Ys is highly renowned for its outstanding musical score composed by its in-house musical production team "Falcom Sound Team J.D.K", which was led by none other than the now-legendary Yuzo Koshiro, and featured Mieko Ishikawa, Hideya Nagata, Masaya Hashimoto, Ryo Yonemitsu, Tomohiko Kishimoto, Wataru Ishibashi and Hayato Sonoda, among others. Truly, a classic for the ages.

thanks:)

I have the complete discography of ANTHEM and i forgot to upload the rest :/

hmm... which one do you recommend?

Anthem and Tightrope cause they have songs like Wild Anthem! Night after Night! and because Eizo sakamoto is on vocals!! When morrigan666 will upload the rest try every album after 2001 Seven Hills, Overload, The voices (single), Eternal Warrior, Onslaught, Immortal which is again with Eizo on vocals. Morikawa sings great ofcourse so the rest of the albums are enjoyable to listen but does not have the feeling of Sakamoto. Anthem is band that plays true heavy metal! thing that is gone these days.

that is true, i have the ones that are in devilman, and they are great! i was waiting for some recommendations, cause i dont have that much space on my pc anymore. deleting as we speak. thx sybnios, ill take em into consideration.

Morrigan, the game you are referring to is a very old PC game, dating back to 1985/1986. It is "XANADU", part of the "Dragon Slayer" metaseries.

This game was created by Nihon Falcom, which would later become world-famous among gamers for one major reason, a series which has without a doubt become one of the most beloved RPG series of all time, ranking up there with such classics as Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest and of course Final Fantasy. I am talking, of course, about the series that chronicles the adventures of the red-haired hero Adol Christin...the one, and only..."Ys".

Ys is highly renowned for its outstanding musical score composed by its in-house musical production team "Falcom Sound Team J.D.K", which was led by none other than the now-legendary Yuzo Koshiro, and featured Mieko Ishikawa, Hideya Nagata, Masaya Hashimoto, Ryo Yonemitsu, Tomohiko Kishimoto, Wataru Ishibashi and Hayato Sonoda, among others. Truly, a classic for the ages.

Thanks for the inmfo of it!

that is true, i have the ones that are in devilman, and they are great! i was waiting for some recommendations, cause i dont have that much space on my pc anymore. deleting as we speak. thx sybnios, ill take em into consideration.

No prob DevilmanG. :) I have the same problem with space. I have about 1,5 TB total and still no space free :( I think its time to buy a new hard disk!

......!!!!!! ayayay!!! thats alot! now im too embarrassed to tell you my hardrive space!! why dont you buy one of those portable hard drives? theyre pretty good, in my opinion. planning to get one actually!

......!!!!!! ayayay!!! thats alot! now im too embarrassed to tell you my hardrive space!! why dont you buy one of those portable hard drives? theyre pretty good, in my opinion. planning to get one actually!

:P haha! It happened yesterday I was at the electronic store in my neiborhood and saw a western digital external disk 1 TB with firewire for 130 Euros. I just have a fear for portable disks. I have awful past memories first day my girlfriend bought me as a present a 500 GB WD I copied a lot of stuff in about 140 GB free and then she accidentally dropped it :kirbyfly: Can't describe how I felt.. Thinking about it...

ah, dont worry, just dont leave it near your girlfriend next time. and wow, one TB! havent seen one of those in america!

ah, dont worry, just dont leave it near your girlfriend next time. and wow, one TB! havent seen one of those in america!

I will definetaly do that! Haven't seen really? Strange! There was also a grey WD external firewire disk with 2TB but it was kind of expensive. I think 159 Euros. Thats why I'll go with the 1TB.

hey morrigan still waiting for those other albums you have. or did you put them all already? btw, thx for recommendations sybnios, got them after finally freeing space on my drive. they are really good!!!

hey morrigan still waiting for those other albums you have. or did you put them all already? btw, thx for recommendations sybnios, got them after finally freeing space on my drive. they are really good!!!

Glad I could help DevilmanG ;)

hey morrigan still waiting for those other albums you have. or did you put them all already? btw, thx for recommendations sybnios, got them after finally freeing space on my drive. they are really good!!!

Damn! I'm sorry i forgot it.
It's so many request for uploading..

Damn! I'm sorry i forgot it.
It's so many request for uploading..

My friend, you seemed to be a little nervous.

Take it easy. Just relax.

:)

New albums uploaded:

Anthem -1989- [Hunting Time]
Anthem -1990- [No Smoke Without Fire]
Anthem -1990- [Best I (1981-1990)]
Anthem -1992- [Domestic Booty]
Anthem -1992- [Best II (1981-1992)]

GET ADDICTED ^_^

sweet!! thx morrigan! snatched best I and II.

New uploads added:

Anthem -1992- [Last Anthem]
Anthem -2000- [Heavy Metal Anthem]
Anthem -2001- [Seven Hills]

:P


I was thinking on add here the other works of the bands. I dont know...
I could add the ANIMETAL (which is featured by eizo sakamoto)
and the KONAMI perfect selections of Naoto Shibata.
waht you think?
I also have AKIO SHIMIZU first solo album, and the other band that could be ANTHEM, but they changed everything. don't remeber the name :/

New uploads added:

Anthem -1992- [Last Anthem]
Anthem -2000- [Heavy Metal Anthem]
Anthem -2001- [Seven Hills]

:P


I was thinking on add here the other works of the bands. I dont know...
I could add the ANIMETAL (which is featured by eizo sakamoto)
and the KONAMI perfect selections of Naoto Shibata.
waht you think?
I also have AKIO SHIMIZU first solo album, and the other band that could be ANTHEM, but they changed everything. don't remeber the name :/

that is entirely up to you, but if you have the time, go ahead!! btw, i barely realized that best I and II have almost all the tracks from two of the albums i got. forgot the names right now, but anyway, does that other group sound like anthem? might be worth hearing!!

did not get it!
what other group?

list updated

did not get it!
what other group?

New uploads added:

Anthem -1992- [Last Anthem]
Anthem -2000- [Heavy Metal Anthem]
Anthem -2001- [Seven Hills]

:P


I was thinking on add here the other works of the bands. I dont know...
I could add the ANIMETAL (which is featured by eizo sakamoto)
and the KONAMI perfect selections of Naoto Shibata.
waht you think?
I also have AKIO SHIMIZU first solo album, AND THE OTHER BAND THAT COULD BE ANTHEM, BUT THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING. DONT REMEMBER THE NAME:/

that could be anthem. who are they?

The band was ... EZO and then changed to Flatbacker

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezo_%28band%29
After all it was the band of the ANTHEM drummer. :P

I have more to had. I'm on vacation so it's dificult to answer everything

its alright! enjoy your vacations!!

hey.... all the links on mediafire are dead :(
could you re-upload the links please? :D

Awesome thread!
Great band. Thank You

Amazing thread. I hope you wouldn't re-upping the ones that need re-upping. You are the fucking MAN. or WOMAN. Thanks.

I will be updating this thread very soon, if not today.
I have no excuse about forgeting one of my favorite Heavy Metal bands in the world (right down to X-japan :p)
New links will ba added soon :)

Updated new links for

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ALBUMS♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
[Anthem]
[Tightrope]
[Bound To Break]
[Gypsy Ways]
[Hunting Time]
[DOMESTIC BOOTY]

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪OTHERS♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
[The Show Carries On!] (Live album)

Added new links

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪SINGLES♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
Anthem -2000.03.23- [GYPSY WAYS (WIN, LOSE OR DRAW)]
Anthem -2001.07.25- [GRIEVE OF HEART]
Anthem -2002.08.21- [THE VOICES]
Anthem -2004.06.09- [ONSLAUGHT]
Anthem -2006.07.12- [IMMORTAL BIND]
Anthem -2008.10.01- [HEAT OF THE NIGHT]

Had missed that the first time. Download time !!!:D:D

You are sure going to like it since you are a heavy guy :p

I have been re-uploading this in a very slow mood because I am upgrading my albums quality converted from FLAC. And adding complete scans. The process is slow because of slow connections. :(

+ added new uploads.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ALBUMS♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

Anthem -2006.08.30- [IMMORTAL]
Anthem -2008.10.29- [BLACK EMPIRE]

MP3 VBR -V0 with booklet scans included.


also edit the layout of teh main thread. Thiking it looks better now and less confusing.
Let me know what you think :)

+ added new uploads.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪Naoto Shibata Section♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

PERFECT SELECTION KONAMI SHOOTING BATTLE (KICA-1136)
PERFECT SELECTION KONAMI SHOOTING BATTLE II (KICA-1171) (Thread 60661)

+ added new uploads.

We have 2 new releases from our dears. ;)

Anthem -2012.09.26- [EVIL ONE]
Anthem -2012.10.24- [BURNING OATH]



This year, in very last days of Summer and entering Autumn. You would not really want something else. I was quite sure they were not going to release anything. The single was released in september, and in the next month the full album came.
The sinlge is good, with 2 revisited tracks re-recorde. "Empty eyes" and "Shadow Walk". They sound so amazing. :)
The album has one interesting thing. If you heard Dracula's Battle Perfect Selection I, you will get the "joke" behind "GHOST IN THE FLAME", just one of my favorite tracks of this album. And as always, and instrumental track is here. :p "DOUBLE HELIX" and creeps you out of your skin. XD Guittar rifs and solos are very cool too. Not a bad album, if I may say so. :)

Don't really want to necro a thread but... all of the links are dead now. Torrent sites don't seem to have Anthem albums.

what albums do you want?

what albums do you want?

I'd like Domestic Booty the most. But of course it would be nice that I could listen to all of them. Thank you. :)

1993 - Perfect Selection Konami Shooting Battle [KICA-1136] - 47:26
1994 - Perfect Selection Dracula Battle [KICA-1145] - 43:40
1995 - Perfect Selection Snatcher Battle [KICA-1152] - 40:45
1995 - Perfect Selection Dracula Battle II [KICA-1162] - 42:13
1995 - Perfect Selection Konami Shooting Battle II [KICA-1171] - 41:36
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4134550
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Crush 40
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2112017
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Anthem - (70 CD)
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4276872

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