Tokyo Blade (album) explained

Tokyo Blade
Type:	studio
Artist:	Tokyo Blade
Cover:	Tokio Blade 1983.jpg
Caption:	Original album cover
Released:	1983
Recorded:	1983
Studio:	Wickham Studios, Rooster Studios, Cave Studios, Bristol, UK
Genre:	Heavy metal
Length:	43:52
Label:	Powerstation Records
Producer:	Kevin D. Nixon, Andy Allen
Next Title:	Midnight Rendezvous
Next Year:	1984

Tokyo Blade is the debut album by English heavy metal band Tokyo Blade. It was originally released in 1983 and reissued by High Vaultage Records in a remastered edition on CD in 1997, including all the 4 tracks from the 1984 Midnight Rendezvous EP, which actually were recorded in early 1983 while the band was called Genghis Khan plus "Death On Main Street" which was originally the b-side on "Powergame" 7" and recorded at the same sessions as the album.^[1]

Track listings

Side one

1. "Powergame" (Andy Boulton, Al Marsh) – 4:12
2. "Break the Chains" (Boulton, Marsh, John Wiggins) – 5:07
3. "If Heaven Is Hell" (Boulton, Marsh) – 6:04
4. "On Through the Night" (Boulton, Marsh) – 7:29

Side two

5. "Killer City" (Boulton, Marsh) – 5:47
6. "Liar" (Boulton, Marsh) – 5:37
7. "Tonight" (Russ Ballard) – 4:02
8. "Sunrise in Tokyo" (Boulton, Marsh) – 5:47
9. "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" – 1:13

1997 remastered edition

1. "Powergame" – 4:12
2. "Break the Chains" – 5:07
3. "If Heaven Is Hell" – 6:04
4. "On Through the Night" – 7:29
5. "Killer City" – 5:47
6. "Liar" – 5:37
7. "Tonight" – 4:02
8. "Sunrise in Tokyo" – 5:47
9. "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" – 1:13
10. "If Heaven Is Hell" – 6:00
11. "Highway Passion" – 4:24
12. "Midnight Rendezvous" – 3:22
13. "Mean Streak" – 4:44
14. "Death on Main Street" – 4:38

Personnel

Tokyo Blade

• Alan Marsh – lead vocals
• Andy Boulton – guitar
• John Wiggins – guitar (except tracks 3, 10-13)
• Andy Robbins – bass guitar
• Steve Pierce – drums

Additional musicians

• Ray Dismore – guitar on tracks 3,10-13.

Production

• Kevin D. Nixon – producer
• Ralph Jezzard – engineer
• Tony Spath – mixing
• Andy Allen – producer, engineer and mixing of tracks 3, 10-13.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade . 2010-03-30 . Encyclopaedia Metallum.