Japanese rockers Crossfaith have announced their new album "AЯK". It arrives on June 26 via UNFD and Warner Music Japan, and marks the band's first album in six years. It is a welcome return for the band — after adjusting the global pandemic and a band hiatus, as well a membership change — and serves as quite a milestone.
The album's title AЯK is a message of saying goodbye to the past and hello to a new beginning, and their fresh sound and perspective is reflected in the new material. Crossfaith have also shared the visualizer for the brand new single "L.A.M.N" (Feat. Bobby Wolfgang).
It's a ferocious anthem, delivered in Crossfaith's signature metal x industrial hybrid style. It will incite mosh pits the world over, thanks to its vicious breakdowns and incendiary message. Punishing riffs and thunderous percussion will send the blood and adrenaline coursing through your veins.
The band comments, "This song is like an antithesis to phenomena like lookism and other political correctness going over the edge today. Through this song, the band conveys the message that it is alright to break down in this corrupted society. It is completely natural that everyone is different. It features Bobby Wolfgang, who is one of the artists we've always wanted to collaborate with, and he definitely brought that edge to this song"
This track follows the previously released single "ZERO". Additionally, the band recently announced Daiki Koide as its new guitarist.
ABOUT CROSSFAITH:
"Playing heavy music is how I feel alive," says singer Kenta Koie "We want Crossfaith to be the band making music that no one has ever heard before." Crossfaith formed in 2006 and released their debut album "The Artificial Theory for The Dramatic Beauty" in 2009, followed by "The Dream", "The Space" (2011), "Apocalyze" (2013), "Xeno" (2015), and "Ex Machina" (2018). Each one saw the band blend its love of punk rock, metal, and electronic music in daring new ways. "Good art is how I express myself to other people. It's hard to talk from the bottom of my heart, that's why I write these songs," Koie says. In keeping with their progressive musical journey, 2020's "SPECIES" EP saw the band continue to push their own sonic soundscape to new grounds.The band dropped the pandemic-penned single "Gimme Danger" in 2022.