Biosphere (album) explained

Biosphere
Type:	studio
Artist:	Loudness
Cover:	Loudness Biosphere.jpg
Released:	September 4, 2002
Studio:	Little Bach Kobuchizawa and Freedom Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Genre:	Heavy metal
Length:	57:13
Language:	Japanese / English
Label:	Tokuma Japan
Producer:	Loudness, Noricazu Shimano
Prev Title:	Pandemonium
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	Loudness Live 2002
Next Year:	2003

is the seventeenth studio album by the Japanese metal band Loudness. It was released only in Japan, in 2002.

Track listing

All lyrics by Minoru Niihara, music as indicated.

1. "Hellrider" (Akira Takasaki & Loudness) - 5:30
2. "Biosphere" (Masayoshi Yamashita & Loudness) - 3:52
3. "Savior" (Yamashita & Loudness) - 3:44
4. "My Precious" (Takasaki & Loudness) - 5:08
5. "Wind from Tibet" (Yamashita & Loudness) - 5:39
6. "System Crush" (Yamashita & Loudness) - 4:23
7. "The Night Is Still Young" (Takasaki & Loudness) - 4:37
8. "Shame on You" (Yamashita & Loudness) - 5:53
9. "Break My Mind" (Munetaka Higuchi & Loudness) - 4:30
10. "So Beautiful" (Yamashita & Loudness) - 4:53
11. "For You" (Niihara & Loudness) - 6:53

Personnel

Loudness

• Minoru Niihara - vocals
• Akira Takasaki - guitars
• Masayoshi Yamashita - bass
• Munetaka Higuchi - drums

Production

• Masatoshi Sakimoto - engineer, mixing
• Kazumi Tokue, Nobuko Shimura, Tadashi Hashimoto - assistant engineers
• Yoichi Aikawa - mastering
• Nobuo Naka, Yukichi Kawaguchi - supervisors
• Noricazu Shimano - executive producer