2012 (stylized 2･0･1･2) is the 25th studio album by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, released on August 22, 2012. "The Voice of Metal" is about and dedicated to the late Ronnie James Dio.
Personnel
Loudness
Minoru Niihara – vocals
Akira Takasaki – guitars, keyboards
Masayoshi Yamashita – bass
Masayuki Suzuki – drums
Production
Masatoshi Sakimoto – engineer, mixing
Haruka Shinohara, Yuko Tanabe – assistant engineers
Manfred Melchior – mastering at MM Sound, Steinhagen, Germany
Hirose Shiraishi – supervisor
Masahiro Shinoki, Keiichi Horiuchi – executive producers