After a short break the band began work on what was to become their 2nd CD "Taste of Heaven". With the excitement created from their 1st Cd "Eternal Faith" many fans eagerly awaited this new follow up 2nd release from Takara. Right before rehearsals began for "Taste of Heaven" Bassist Carl Demarco joined Takara. With this lineup together Neal,Jeff, Carl, and Bob set out to pick up where "Eternal Faith" left off, and produce an album that takes Takara fans to new heights. Takara once again had to not only come up with a great CD, but avoid the sophomore jinx that had so commonly plagued many other bands after a excellent debut CD. After a short break Takara returned to the studio to record their long awaited 2nd CD "Taste of Heaven". This time around the band had some very special surprises in store for their fans. This time around the band enlisted Bob Daisley on bass, from Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, etc. The band felt his guest performances on two songs, and his direction from all his years of experience would be important to the outcome of this new CD. Also, The band provided two acoustic bonus tracks, "Restless Heart" and "Your Love.". Once again Takara proved that it was here to stay. With songs like "When Darkness Falls ", "December", "Days of Dawn", "Your Love", and "Lonely Shade of Blue" who could deny this was a band to be reckoned with. "Taste of Heaven" was released in May of 1995. Magazine and radio play attention was quickly focusing their eyes on this new and exciting band that had emerged from nowhere creating one hit after another. Zero corporation (Japan) and Long Island records (Europe) released this standout CD and never looked back. Upon its release "Taste of Heaven" was selling so well that Long Island records brought Takara to Germany for a promo tour. After one week in Germany Takara returned home to find that their new CD had broken into the Billboard chart for Japan and hit #96! Quite an accomplishment for a non Japanese band. To help things along Takara had been given a feature article in BURRN that helped to really propel Takara’s career in Japan and elsewhere. In 1996 Saraya recordings a new U.S. label asked to release "Eternal Faith" and " Taste of Heaven" as its first releases. Now for the first time Takara had a U.S. label. The band felt that there was momentum starting to build and wasted no time in going back to work on it’s third release. In 1998 Takara released it’s third CD "Blind in Paradise". "Blind in Paradise" was released through Zero corp(Japan), Point Music (Europe), and Saraya recordings(US). With this release Takara added keyboardist Eric Ragno. Takara had been looking for quite sometime for a permanent keyboardist and Eric seemed to be their guy for this new CD. With this release, the combination of Jeff and Neal writing was really starting to mature. With songs like "Take You Down", "Your Love Tonight" "Don’t Wanna Be Alone", "Love is Gone", and "What Do You Want From Me" their certainly was no stopping Takara. The band by now had gotten a reputation of a band that always put out consistently put out great records.