Akira Takasaki
Soon after their return to Japan, Yamashita also left the band and was replaced by former X bassist, Taiji Sawada. This line-up produced the self-titled album "Loudness" in 1992, which charted in Japan at No. 2, becoming their highest charting album in Japan, and the 1993 live album "Once and for All". The sound and the music presented in those works is heavier and more aggressive than in the albums produced in America and marks the beginning of a new phase in the career of Akira Takasaki, main composer of the band.