Vow Wow (Jpn) - Beat Of Metal Motion (1984) [Full Album] (HQ+lyrics)

After they began to tour overseas in 1983 (a tour in the UK with Hanoï Rocks", Bow Wow understood that they could have more success.
Mitsuhiro Saito (guitars & vocals) left the band later that same year and Kyoji Yamamoto decided to play a more heavy metal FM style so he changed the band name to Vow Wow in 1984.
At this point, Genki Hitomi (vocals) and Rei Atsumi (keyboards, vocals) came in to complete the remaining Bow Wow members Kyoji Yamamoto (lead guitars, vocals), Kenji Sano (bass, vocals) and Toshihiro Niimi (drums).

The band quickly released his first full lenght "Beat of Metal Motion" that same year, which mix Deep Purple, Whitesnake, 80's Rainbow, 80's Kiss influences (among others) and plays a FM Heavy Metal style with some hars rock and progressive rock influences by moments.
This was the first serious experience of Hitomi and we can heard that he is not yet familiar enough with english, most of the lyrics are half english and half japanese plus his accent isn't really great though his vocal performance his very impressive, he has his own style even if this is not the best he did !
about the other musicians, Kyoji is always amazingly great on guitars for rythmics and leads, the drum & bass section plays it simple but just what it needs, the contributions of Keyboard brings a lot to the new musical directement took by the band, this is whitout a doubt a 80s album.
The production is cool, very Heavy and not too commercial at the time, Beat of Metal Motion remains probably the heaviest Vow Wow release, personnaly one of my favourites.
The only negative thing I could tell about this album: I think that "Break Down" shouldn't have been put as the first track, to me it lacks energy for an opening track.


Track Listing:

1) - Break Down
2) - Too Late to Turn Back
3) - Mask of Flesh (Masquerade)
4) - Diamond Night
5) - Feel Alright
6) - Baby It's Alright
7) - Lonely Fairy
8) - Sleeping in a Dream House
9) - Rock Me
10) - Beat of Metal Motion


Lineup:

Genki Hitomi: Vocals
Kyoji Yamamoto: Guitars & backing vocals
Kenji Sano: Bass & backing vocals
Rei Atsumi: Keyboards & backing vocals
Toshihiro Niimi: Drums


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