Somewhere between Motley Crue and Judas Priest, there stood a metal band with the musical chops of its contemporaries but without the instant name recognition. That band was Japan's own Loudness. The ...

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOUDNESS! Yelling is loud! That fashionable guy on the train blasting music into his ears? His headphones are loud! Loudness sounds good and feels good, and unfortunately, it’s ...

Munetaka Higuchi, the leader of Loudness, which in the 1980s became Japan's first hard-rock band to break into the U.S. market, died of liver cancer at an Osaka hospital Sunday. He was 49. A drummer ...

Japanese metal band LOUDNESS was reportedly denied entry into the United States on the night of April 18 after arriving in Los Angeles to start a North American tour. The band has regularly toured the ...