DRAGON

Dragon is the thirteenth Loudness album, released by Rooms Records on 5 August 1998, the second by the line-up of Takasaki, Yamada, Shibata and Homma. It pushes further in the groove-led direction of Ghetto Machine, with "9 Miles High", "Dogshit" and "Crazy Go-Go" among its tracks. The three albums of this period were later gathered as the 2016 three-disc set Loudness Buddha Rock 1997-1999, for which official promotional videos of "Dogshit" and "Crazy Go-Go" were published. The album was a Japanese release, but in 1999 Dream Catcher in the UK put it into international distribution as a two-disc set paired with Ghetto Machine.