Tokyo Blade (album)

Tokyo Blade
Original album cover
Studio album by Tokyo Blade
Released	1983
Recorded	Stable Studios, Wickham Studios, Rooster Studios, Cave Studios, Bristol, UK, 1983
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	43:52
Label	Powerstation Records
Producer	Kevin D. Nixon, Andy Allen
Tokyo Blade chronology
Tokyo Blade (1983) Midnight Rendezvous (1984)
Singles from Tokyo Blade
"Powergame" / "Death on Main Street" Released: 1983 "If Heaven Is Hell" / "Highway Passion" Released: 1983

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10[2]
Metal Forces	9/10[3]

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 tracks from the 1984 Midnight Rendezvous EP.^[4]

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
• Andy Robbins - bass guitar
• Steve Pierce - drums

Additional musicians

• Ray Dismore - guitar on track 3.

Production

• Kevin D. Nixon - producer
• Ralph Jezzard - engineer
• Tony Spath - mixing
• Andy Allen - producer, engineer and mixing of "If Heaven Is Hell"

References

1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Tokyo Blade Tokyo Blade review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
2. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1894959315.
3. Doe, Bernard (1983). "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Metal Forces (2). Retrieved 2012-07-01.
4. "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2010-03-30.