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Artist
Eizo Japan
12+ albums
heavy metaljapaneseJ-MetalAnime musicanime
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THE MAN WHO SHOUTS ANIMATION AND TOKUSATSU SONGS MOST VEHEMENTLY IN THE WORLD On October 22, 2006, ZEPP TOKYO at Odaiba, Tokyo was filled with hard-core ANIMETAL fans. It was the night of the very last concert of ANIMETAL. The weather turning to rain late afternoon had turned to a severe thunderstorm by the time the concert started. Up in the sky, thunder was drumming, and down on the earth, loud sound of ANIMETAL and screams and shouts of the fans filled the air. Eizo sang the last number, “Pegasus Fantasy”, with his best shout and raised his arms in V-shape. Total Victory’was the message dedicated to the ANIMETAL fans that were always with him all through the ten long years. ANIMETAL that rushed through the front line of anime song world closed the book of its glamorous history. When ANIMETAL was first heard with Eizo’s first shout at Club Quattro in Shibuya in 1996, who could have imagined the enthusiasm that would last for the next 10 years? And who could have forecast the reborn of anime songs that would sweep all over Japan with ANIMETAL as its starting point? The story began in the early 90s, when anime songs were becoming stealthily popular with frequent concert events of the singers of the original songs. However, anime songs carried negative image of ‘old TV cartoon songs’ or’ limited only for the maniacs’, and they were never considered main-stream in Japanese music scene. However, those who had keen sense of smell around music world started to notice somethin
