is the seventh full-length album by Japanese novelty heavy metal band

Animetal was a Japanese heavy metal band who specialized in metal covers of theme songs from classic and modern Japanese anime and tokusatsu television series. They were composed of several luminaries of the Japanese metal scene, most notably vocalist ...

, released through VAP on October 21, 2005. The album consists of a non-stop marathon of metal covers of various

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themes: the first three songs are from the newest

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series at the time of the album's recording, tracks 5-34 are tokusatsu ending themes, and tracks 35-41 are opening themes of solo tokusatsu and

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titles. The last track, "Jump in the Fire!", is a marathon of anime songs adapted from manga published in ''

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''. ''Animetal Marathon VII'' was also the band's final marathon album. The album peaked at No. 122 on

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's weekly albums chart.

Track listing

All tracks are arranged by Animetal.

Personnel

* - Lead vocals * Syu -

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*Masaki - Bass with *Katsuji - Drums

Charts

Footnotes

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Animetal Marathon 7 2005 albums Animetal albums Japanese-language albums Covers albums