History Music / Loudness

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish -- Their English lyrics throughout 1985-1999 generally didn't have serious grammatical errors, although they did sometimes have help from native English speakers (and in 1989-1991 had an American singer).

Meanwhile, in 1998 and 1999, original drummer Munetaka Higuchi led a group of various Japanese heavy metal / hard rock musicians for two albums (one studio, one live) of cover songs, dedicated to recently-deceased Music/{{Rainbow}} drummer Cozy Powell; among this group were three of the four original members of Loudness (Yamashita being the only one not included). Then in 2000, the original lineup of Loudness officially reunited. Their next studio album (''Spiritual Canoe'', 2001) mostly returned to the musical style of the band's earliest era (albeit with more modern production values), with the notable exception of one {{rap metal}} song; it also marked a return to major labels (actually the same one that released their first album) and a return to entirely Japanese lyrics (except for the occasional pieces of GratuitousEnglish). This was followed by another studio album the same year, this time with a [[NuMetal newer musical style]]. (Also in 2001, Takasaki recorded music for the anime series ''Anime/{{Geneshaft}}'', which was also released on the album ''Geneshaft Original Soundtrack'' and the single ''Shaft Drive'', both of which were released in the US by Creator/{{Geneon}}'s ill-fated music division.)

* NiceHat: Music/TaijiSawada was in the band for a bit. The others and even he would occasionally go for the distinctly not NiceHat baseball cap, but other times, this trope was definitely in play. Also, in some performances, Akira Takasaki will wear one over either his shaved head or to contain his long hair, and Minoru Niihara has taken to wearing one to obscure his receding hairline.