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Devil Soldier
Devil Soldier
Studio album by Loudness
Released	July 21, 1982
Studio	Studio Birdman, Nippon Columbia Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	37:06
Language	Japanese
Label	Nippon Columbia
Producer	Loudness, Daiko Nagato
Loudness chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10^[2]

Devil Soldier (戦慄の奇蹟, Senritsu no kiseki) is the second studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness.^[3] It was released in 1982. The American Daniel McClendon (brother of Tommy McClendon) was called to engineer the sound of this album, because there was no Japanese technician experienced enough in heavy metal records at the time.^[4]^[5] The album won the award for Best Heavy Metal record of the year in Japan.^[6] The reissue in CD of 2005 contains two bonus tracks, coming from the second single of the band.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Minoru Niihara; all music is composed by Akira Takasaki

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lonely Player"	4:51
2.	"Angel Dust"	4:47
3.	"After Illusion"	5:59
4.	"Girl"	2:34

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hard Workin'"	3:30
2.	"Loving Maid"	4:55
3.	"Rock the Nation"	3:23
4.	"Devil Soldier"	7:08

2005 CD bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Geraldine"	4:00
10.	"Lonely Player" (Live)	5:02

Personnel

Loudness

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

Production

Daiko Nagato - producer
Daniel McClendon - engineer, mixing
Kenichi Kishi, Masao Nakajima - label executives
Keisuke Tsukimitsu - art direction

References

^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Loudness Devil Soldier review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 201. ISBN 978-1894959315.
^ "Loudness - Devil Soldier". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
^ Cahoon, Keith (2004-11-19). "Loudness Profile". Nippop.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
^ "Loudness Biography". Doom Radio.net. 2005. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
^ "Loudness Special" (in Italian). Musica Follia.com. 2004. Retrieved 2010-03-21.