Song: Open the Attack
Album: Open the Attack
Year: 1984
Label: Electric Lady Land
If the previously mentioned Zadkiel was Japan's answer to Motorhead, Sniper is definitely Japan's answer to Van Halen. Open the Attack "opens" with a strong guitar riff accompanied by fast drumming and basswork. For the rest of the song, the guitars and vocals battle it out for the spotlight, each trying to outshine the other. Japan's heavy metal bands have the fortune of consistently featuring some of the best guitarists ever recorded, but Sniper's Burny stands as the cream of the crop. For 1984, and coming from a country where their only exposure of rock and roll is from the west, Sniper really sets up the Eastern attack with this release.
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