celebrating anniversary GOLDEN RESURRECTION's Pray for Japan single

I'm late on this one!

Golden Resurrection (2008-?) was a Swedish melodic neoclassical power metal band featuring two important figures in power metal, Tommy Johansson (Majestica, Sabaton [(2016-2024]) and Christian Liljegren (Narnia). This particular song was a way of expressing their sorrow for the Japanese people, friends and fans in the face of the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster.

For Christian and Tommy, it was painfully personal. Christian has had a following in Japan since the late '90s with NARNIA. He grew up idolizing Swedish artists who were huge in Japan (like Yngwie Malmsteen and Europe), and his own dream came true when NARNIA signed with Pony Canyon in 1997. At the time of the disaster, GOLDEN RESURRECTION's debut album, Glory to My King, was high on the Japanese metal charts. Christian struggled to reach his contacts in Japan for days after the tsunami, and he heard about the confusion and damage in Tokyo and the Tōhoku region, he said a song grew in his heart. He shared the idea with Tommy, and they recorded and arranged the track very soon.

Golden Resurrection

Pray for Japan

Liljegren Records

April 3, 2011

1. Pray for Japan 04:28, 2. Pray for Japan (radio edit) 03:06. Total time 07:34

Stefan Käck (bass), Tommy Johansson (guitars, keyboards, vocals), Olov Andersson (keyboards, backing vocals), Christian Rivel (vocals), Rickard Gustafsson (drums).

THE CATASTROPHE in Japan, information from Wikipeda: On 11 March 2011 a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster". The earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful recorded in the world since modern seismography began in 1900. It triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 meters (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 700 km/h (435 mph) and up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes of warning, and more than a hundred evacuation sites were washed away. The snowfall which accompanied the tsunami and the freezing temperature hindered rescue works; for instance, in Ishinomaki, the city with the most deaths, the temperature was 0 °C (32 °F) as the tsunami hit.

Official figures released in 2021 reported 19,759 deaths, 6,242 injured, 284 firefighters dead from attempts to close preventative fire gates, and 2,553 people missing.

A report in 2015 found that 228,863 people were still living away from their home either temporarily or permanently. The tsunami caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, primarily the meltdowns of three of its reactors, the discharge of radioactive water in Fukushima and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents. Many electrical generators ran out of fuel. The loss of electrical power halted cooling systems, causing heat to build. Without ventilation, hydrogen gas accumulated within the upper refueling hall and exploded, forcefully ejecting the refueling hall's blast panels. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and a 10 km (6.2 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant were evacuated. Early estimates placed insured losses from the earthquake alone at US$14.5 to $34.6 billion. The Bank of Japan offered ¥15 trillion (US$183 billion) to the banking system on 14 March 2011 in an effort to normalize market conditions. The estimated economic damage amounted to over $300 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in history. According to a 2020 study, "the earthquake and its aftermaths resulted in a 0.47 percentage point decline in Japan's real GDP growth in the year following the disaster."

Golden Resurrection - Pray For Japan [HD]