Year : 2019 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 110 mb
Bio:
Tora Tora is an American hard rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, in 1985. "Tora" means "tiger" in Japanese and the name is a play on the code name for attack used by the Japanese Imperial Navy during their attack on Pearl Harbor, "Tora, Tora, Tora". The actual origin of the band name was more likely a reference to the song of the same name recorded by Van Halen on their 1980 release Women and Children First.Tora Tora started out as a local garage band then eventually got studio time when they won a local Battle of the Bands contest. Following this, the band recorded To Rock To Roll as an independent EP. After its release the songs "Phantom Rider" and "Love's A Bitch" received extensive airplay on local radio station Rock 98. After signing with A&M Records, they recorded their debut album Surprise! Attack in 1989. This album peaked on Billboard's Top 200 at No. 47 and featured the singles "Walkin' Shoes" and "Guilty." The single "Dancing With a Gypsy" was on the soundtrack for the film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure later that year.In 1992, their second album, Wild America, was released. It only achieved No. 134 on the Billboard charts and it did not sell as well, but, it was a more mature step at songwriting.A third album, Revolution Day, was recorded in 1994, but it was never released due to label restructuring. After missing the due date, the band folded.In 2008, all four original band members reunited to do several performances. One was a sold out performance at Newby's, a local club in Memphis, to celebrate their 20th anniversary of receiving their recording contract. After the show, a record was sold to fans which included songs from their first two albums and material slated for their unreleased Revolution Day album. The album was titled The Warehouse... 20 Years Later. The second occurred during Rocklahoma 2008. The band played another reunion show at The New Daisy Theatre on March 7, 2009, in Memphis.At the end of 2009, Tora Tora signed with the Nashville, Tennessee based FNA Records and released three albums. Before & After, Bombs Away: The Unreleased Surprise Attack Recordings, and Miss B. Haven': The Unreleased Wild America Recordings.On February 28, 2011, FNA Records in conjunction with the band decided after 17 years since the completion of their third album, which was shelved indefinitely at the time due to label complications, to release their "lost album" Revolution Day. Anthony Corder stated about the Revolution Day Sessions:
Album:
Past year cult Memphis hard rockers TORA TORA were approached by Frontiers Music about recording a proper new studio album and they enthusiastically jumped at the opportunity. The resulting LP, "Bastards Of Beale" is set for release in Europe on February 22, and tomorrow this Japan Edition plus a bonus track.Tora Tora released two stupendous traditional hard rock records between the late '80s and the beginning of the Nineties. Always a far cry from their more glammy mainstream peers and more spiritually connected to blue collar hard rock, for "Bastards Of Beale" the band's return picks up where they left off, while not sounding even the slightest bit dated.The new album brings back the magic of the band's blues-rooted hard rock sound that gained them a loyal following upon their debut in the late '80s.Opener “Sons Of Zebedee” put things clear; Tora Tora rocking machine is intact, oiled, and with a slightly 'classic rock' feel, especially in the production sound.“Giants Fall” is typical of both their work of the past and this record more specifically, because it grooves, it is basically blues rock and it has a hook and a chorus that many of their peers never did.Looking back on those early records, actually, they were ahead of their time, because Tora Tora were racing somewhere different from the glam rockers.Now everyone is adding a bit of blues or 'classic rock elements' to the mix.The fact that all four original members are here doesn’t half help too. There is just a chemistry in the swagger of “Everbrite” Anthony Corder and Keith Douglas know instinctively when to trade licks and vocals.“Silence The Sirens” is one of the album highlights, injecting some real urgency. There’s some grit in the engine room of drummer John Patterson and a chug in the bass of Patrick Francis, while “Son Of A Prodigal Son” has a bit of a country flavor, American acoustic rock in fact, as the scales and vocals are bluesy based.“All Good Things” is essentially a party hard bluesy rockin' tunes, then “Rose Of Jericho” offers a little bit of a homage to rock n' roll itself. Almost as if they know they are standing on the shoulders of giants here. There's even a line at the bridge that says “rock n roll ain’t dead yet…”As if to prove that, the title track rocks like, well, a bastard frankly. The band takes its name from a Van Halen song and there is a bit of the carefree of Eddie’s lads here. “Jagger And Richards, Plant And Page, they were the ones that carried the flame, “ sings Corder, and he’s just the fan he always was, that much is clear.That’s why this works. Because on “Bastards Of Beale” Tora Tora are merely playing the music they love. And dare we say would be listening to, if they weren’t playing it themselves – and not a ballad is to be seen, either.Don’t worry about 25 years the band not releasing a new studio album. Don’t question what might have been. Just be grateful Tora Tora are back, the glorious bastards.
Line-Up:
Anthony Corder - Vocals / Acoustic Guitars
Keith Douglas - Lead & Rhythm Guitars / Acoustic Guitars
Patrick Francis - Bass
John Patterson - Drums / Percussion
Tracklist:
01. Sons Of Zebedee
02. Giants Fall
03. Everbright
04. Silence The Sirens
05. Son Of A Prodigal Son
06. Lights Up The River
07. Let Us Be One
08. All Good Things
09. Rose Of Jericho
10. Vertigo
11. Bastards Of Beale
12. Vertigo (Acoustic Version) (Japan Bonus Track)
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