To put it bluntly, this is a thoroughly mediocre heavy metal album. Messiah's Blessing is the debut album by Honjoh Misako, featuring members of Loudness. Given the reputation of her and the Loudness members, one could say they’ve managed to produce a somewhat listenable album, but that’s about as far as its merits go. There are a few moments where some striking riffs emerge, but they are fleeting and fail to elevate the overall composition of the songs. The larger structures of the tracks are not even worth discussing. Moreover, the album’s cover tracks—which make up 60% of the total content (though whether we can truly call them "covers" when they’re essentially Loudness songs, minus… More