''Engine'' is the fourteenth studio

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by Japanese heavy metal band

Loudness In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure. More formally, it is defined as, "That attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud". The relation of phys ...

. Released in 1999, it was the third and final album to feature the lineup of guitarist

Akira Takasaki is a Japanese musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and sole constant member of the heavy metal band Loudness. He is also the guitarist of the band Lazy, with which he first rose to prominence in the 1970s. Career He started his ...

, lead vocalist Masaki Yamada, bassist Naoto Shibata, and drummer Hirotsugu Homma before Takasaki reunited the original lineup in 2001.

Track listing

All music by

and all lyrics by Masaki Yamada, except "Ace in the Hole" with music by Hirotsugu Homma and lyrics by Kayla Ritt. #"Soul Tone" (instrumental) - 2:43 #"Bug Killer" - 5:04 #"Black Biohazard" - 3:55 #"Twist of Chain" - 3:40 #"Bad Date (Nothing I Can Do)" - 2:58 #"Apocalypse" - 4:11 #"Ace in the Hole" - 4:09 #"Sweet Dreams" - 4:37 #"Asylum" - 6:27 #"Burning Eye Balls" - 4:58 #"Junk His Head" - 5:51 #"2008 (Candra 月天)" (instrumental) - 2:47 #"Coming Home" - 6:07

Personnel

;Loudness * Masaki Yamada - vocals *

- guitars, producer *Naoto Shibata - bass *Hirotsugu Homma - drums ;Production *Daniel McClendon - engineer, mixing *Masayuki Aihara - engineer on track 1, mixing on tracks 1, 10, 12 *Fumiko Kunou - mastering *George Azuma - supervisor *Masao Nakajima - executive producer

References

1999 albums Loudness (band) albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub