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Lightning is Japanese Heavy Metal band with notable a Neo-Classical Metal sound, with Hiroyas “Iron” Chino as a guitarist and backing vocalist. The band was founded in 2002 in Iron Chino’s own, self-titled, label. They recorded their first demo E.P “Soldier Force” in 2005.
They released their first album “Brave Heart” in 2007 and then their second album “Five Rings” in 2010. Recently (2011) they’ve re-recorded their past album “Brave Heart” from 2007 and released it as “Brave Heart Re-birth”. As he also is going his solo project IRON ATTACK! he’s been quite busy and not having much time left for this band, as his solo project has release enormous material/albums in a very short time, leaving him little choice. Also in 2011 their vocalist changed from Robert Waterman to Yuuma (ex. el-Ethnic Legist-) and they also released their 3rd full-length album “Justice Strike” during December the same year.
