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ANTHEM
1989 - Hunting Time.
1992 - Domestic Booty.
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July 31, 1989 - 2024: 35 years of: Hunting Time.

More Nippon horsepower.

While true Euro-heavymetal was in the backseat for the late 80s, one band made sure the VU-meters didn't rest quietly. Scream it out loud and clear, this is pure ANTHEM !

Perfect heavymetal marksmanship, as "The Juggler" dazzles sights and sounds. Running wild after it's prey, it's "Hunting Time" as the arenarock "Let Your Heart Beat" pushes dedicated hooks deep into the skin. More monumental might rolls down the highway with that enchanting "Evil Touch", while the fast aerial Kamikaze attacks of "Sleepless Night" and "Bottle Bottom" are two defined grand declaration war.

While 1989's calendar-year would be remembered as West-Hollywood's pinnacle, ANTHEM's powermetal proves that traditionnal heavymetal is still unleashed in the East !

Repeating the winning formula, the band would provide another muscular aural assault with 1990's No Smoke Without Fire CD.

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Hunting Time = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8V1aa79hDM&list=OLAK5uy_nfBLuC-TnsBVMuA0ZtidHhF1FQgG9_FWM
some guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86TGQOctrXc

March 16, 1992 - 2022: 30 years of: Domestic Booty.

From the land of the rising sun comes the apex of power.

These slick Japanese stealth killers have been supplying, high-pace heavymetal, all the way from the glorious 1985 spring-board. But since 1990's powerhouse No Smoke Without Fire CD ...the katana got sharper, the gain got higher and the over-heads got crispier.

Bass-drums are rolling, amps are humming and real powermetal stings like a rattlesnake on "Venom Strike". The lovely poison is rapidly spreading within along a far "Cry In The Night". All tracks are proudly sung in Japanese, yet it doesn't take a "Mr. Genius" to hear that these gents are pure "Heavy Duty" metal. The rough praises of "Devil Inside" rips your stereo in half with pristine quality metal like shiny "Gold & Diamonds"

Sadly, just like powermetal counter-part Germany's SINNER and Canada's own EXCITER, this band has totally been under the radar of the Western metal-market. So discover and rejoice, the asian painkiller, the precision and might of Tokyo's finest metal-men: ANTHEM !

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Domestic Booty = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr4D6ehg7r8&list=OLAK5uy_mDzLQoZdWBeirwg9wy06L8tdfpvsjX_O4
Live in Tokyo in 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-EXqHb769c
some band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6dNMOmmNI