Loudness, the most successful Japanese rock band of the 80 managed with the album Disillusion international breakthrough, although the songs are still partly sung in Japanese. It is also the last album with Japanese influence, before the band completely switched to English and later even emigrated to the United States. Loudness' guitarist Akira Takasaki was at the time named Metal Hammer the fastest guitarists in the genre in the German magazine and mentioned in the same breath as the reader favorites Angus Young, Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen, which in view of the then strong US and UK -dominierten metal scene was amazing. The album Disillusion contains among others the track Exploder, a pure guitar solo where Takasaki his skill shows thereafter in Dream Fantasy pass, the fastest song of the entire album. For fans is very interesting comparison with the live version of Exploder on the album Live Loud Alive where Takasaki incorporates a Japanese anthem in the song, but follows on the live album an instrumental ballad where Takasaki can equal shine forth with his virtuoso guitar playing ,
