For the four friends who met in St. Michael the Archangel High School marching band, forming the rock band Loudness War was a natural move. What started off as friends playing instrumental Beatles ...

Loudness War keeps a restless pace. Since 2014, the Baton Rouge band — guitarists and vocalists Stevie Spring and Matthew Urquhart, bassist Quinn Tull and drummer Ryan Welsh — has released three ...

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 ...

11 Oct – Witness Loudness' rise to glory as the Japanese heavy metal band returns to Malaysia for their third concert in the country. That's right, the band will be bringing their "Rise to Glory" tour ...

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 ...

Loudness, which was formed in Osaka by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi in 1981, is celebrating 45 years as a band this year, and marking the major milestone by going on a world ...

Munetaka Higuchi, the drummer and co-founder of the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, passed away on Sunday [November 30th] at about 10:00 a.m. in a hospital in Osaka, Japan. He was 49. Akira ...