2012 (Loudness album)

2012 (stylized 2ï½¥0ï½¥1ï½¥2) is the 25th studio album by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, released on August 22, 2012. "The Voice of Metal" is about and dedicated to the late Ronnie James Dio.

Track listing

Personnel

• Minoru Niihara – vocals
• Akira Takasaki – guitars, keyboards
• Masayoshi Yamashita – bass
• Masayuki Suzuki – drums

• Masatoshi Sakimoto – engineer, mixing
• Haruka Shinohara, Yuko Tanabe – assistant engineers
• Manfred Melchior – mastering at MM Sound, Steinhagen, Germany
• Hirose Shiraishi – supervisor
• Masahiro Shinoki, Keiichi Horiuchi – executive producers

References