Xanadu Act II / Anthem

Music: Xanadu Act II
Composition, Arrangement & Performance: Anthem
Vocal: Eizo Sakamoto | Guitar: Hiroya Fukuda | Bass: Naoto Shibata | Drums: Takamasa "Mad" Ohuchi
Album: Xanadu / Anthem (Vinyl Edition)
Playlist: • Xanadu / Anthem
Anthem is a J-Metal band that was formed during 1981 in Tokyo, and they are considered to be one of the earliest pioneering bands of Japanese Heavy Metal alongside Loudness and Earthshaker. They are credited as the first band to have a song used as promotion for a videogame in their single "Xanadu", released in December 1986 for promoting Nihon Falcom's computer RPG "Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu".
Copyright© Nihon Falcom Corporation / King Record Co., Ltd.

[@Margatroid]

The whole midsection of this track with the WHOOOAAAAOOOOOAAAAA and the guitar solo is about as good as this kind of music gets. The harmony in the solo especially.

[@thesubinion]

Babe wake up, peak fiction dropped

[@909crime]

This one was slightly harder to find for a while, glad you uploaded it !!

[@TimmyTantrum]

Was this song ever given a physical release after the original vinyl? At least Act I was re-released on CD on a couple of Falcom compilations. Such a great song.

[@FalcomMusicChannel]

This one stayed vinyl-only, unlike Act I.

[@TimmyTantrum]

@@FalcomMusicChannel Thanks for the reply! Hopefully Act II sees a re-release at some point, the original vinyl is tough to find.

[@FalcomMusicChannel]

That'd be great from a preservation standpoint, but I don't expect it to ever happen.

[@josejl1987]

I wonder how much this cost per minute