Tokyo Blade (album)

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.[4]

Tokyo Blade
Original album cover
Studio album by
Tokyo Blade
Released1983
RecordedWickham Studios, Rooster Studios, Cave Studios, Bristol, UK, 1983
GenreHeavy metal
Length43:52
LabelPowerstation Records
ProducerKevin D. Nixon, Andy Allen
Tokyo Blade chronology
Tokyo Blade
(1983)		 Midnight Rendezvous
(1984)
Singles from Tokyo Blade
  1. "Powergame" / "Death on Main Street"
    Released: 1983
  2. "If Heaven Is Hell" / "Highway Passion"
    Released: 1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[2]
Metal Forces9/10[3]

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
  1. "Killer City" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:47
  2. "Liar" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:37
  3. "Tonight" (Russ Ballard) - 4:02
  4. "Sunrise in Tokyo" (Boulton, Marsh) - 5:47
  5. "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

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

Production

References
  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Tokyo Blade Tokyo Blade review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  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 1 July 2012.
  4. "Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
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