Metal Mad

Metal Mad is the twenty-first studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It was released in 2008 only in Japan.^[1] It would be the last album before Munetaka Higuchi's death in November 2008.

Metal Mad
Studio album by Loudness
Released	February 20, 2008
Studio	R & C Studio
Genre	Heavy metal, progressive metal
Length	53:41
Label	Tokuma Japan
Producer	Loudness, Kiyomasa Shinoki
Loudness chronology
Breaking the Taboo (2006) Metal Mad (2008) The Everlasting (2009)

Track listing

Music by Akira Takasaki, lyrics by Minoru Niihara

1. "Fire of Spirit" (instrumental) - 2:58
2. "Metal Mad" - 4:11
3. "High Flyer" - 5:06
4. "Spellbound #9" - 5:45
5. "Crimson Paradox" - 4:34
6. "Black and White" - 4:44
7. "Whatsoever" - 5:06
8. "Call of the Reaper" - 4:06
9. "Can't Find My Way" - 7:02
10. "Gravity" - 5:21
11. "Transformation" - 4:48

Personnel

Loudness

• Minoru Niihara - vocals
• Akira Takasaki - guitars
• Masayoshi Yamashita - bass
• Munetaka Higuchi - drums

Production

• Masatoshi Sakimoto - engineer, mixing
• Yuki Mitome - assistant engineer
• Yasuji Yasuman Maeda - mastering
• Hirose Shiraishi - supervisor
• Kiyomasa Shinoki - executive producer
• Steve Johnstad, Takashi Kanazawa - lyrics translations