Biosphere (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Biosphere

| type = studio

| artist = Loudness

| cover = Loudness Biosphere.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 4, 2002

| recorded =

| venue =

| 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

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 =Maximum Metal

| rev1Score = (very favourable){{cite web |url=http://www.maximummetal.com/reviews/revresults.asp?ID=loudness_bio&idRev=16&idBand=16 |title=Full Reviews: Loudness- Biosphere |last=Compton |first=Eric |publisher=Maximum Metal.com |date=21 January 2003 |accessdate=2016-12-23 }}

| noprose = yes

}}

{{Nihongo|Biosphere|新世界|Shin sekai}} 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

;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

References