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Japanese hard rock-band founded in 1981 by ex-Midnight Cruiser guitarist George Azuma and previous Oz vocalist Carmen Maki. With Kinta Moriyama (bass) and Jun Harada (drums) completing the line-up, they followed a method that incorporated components of Motörhead, Truck Halen and AC/DC, also veering towards thrash steel sometimes. By their third record, which noticed them adopt a somewhat changed name that provided their singer even more prominent billing, that they had shifted into mainstream rock and roll place, and it made an appearance that vocalist Carmen Maki was trying to be the Japanese exact carbon copy of Center’s Ann Wilson.