New Beginning (Band-Maid album)
New Beginning is the second mini-album released by all-female Japanese hard rock band Band-Maid. It is the band's final release under Gump Records, as they joined Nippon Crown the following year. The album reached No. 64 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart.[1]
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| Released | November 18, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
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| Length | 32:47 | |||
| Language | Japanese, English | |||
| Label | Gump | |||
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| "Thrill" on YouTube "Real Existence" on YouTube "Don't Let Me Down" on YouTube | ||||
New Beginning has been described as hard rock,[2][3][4] heavy metal[4][5] and pop metal,[4] and the band's sound has been compared to the likes of Halestorm,[4] Disturbed,[3] Lenny Kravitz[3] and Skunk Anansie.[3] Music videos were produced for the songs "Thrill," "Real Existence," and "Don't Let Me Down."
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Thrill" | Kentaro Akutsu | Akutsu | 4:04 |
| 2. | "Freezer" | Daria Kawashima | Atsushi Yamaguchi | 3:15 |
| 3. | "Real Existence" | Miwa Sasaki | Koji Goto (ck 510) | 4:11 |
| 4. | "Price of Pride" | Shiniki Yamashita | Ososhi Izumida | 3:27 |
| 5. | "Arcadia Girl" | Yamashita | Masazumi Ozawa | 4:04 |
| 6. | "Don't Apply the Brake" | Kawashima | Yamaguchi | 3:19 |
| 7. | "Beauty and the Beast" | Kawashima | Hiroki Kawazoe | 3:03 |
| 8. | "Don't Let Me Down" | Akihito Tokunaga | Tokunaga | 3:19 |
| 9. | "Shake That!!" | Akutsu | Akutsu | 4:05 |
| Total length: | 32:47 | |||
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Real Existence" (music video) | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Don't Let Me Down" (music video) | 3:19 |
| Total length: | 7:31 | |
Personnel
- Band-Maid
- Saiki Atsumi – vocals (except track 7)
- Miku Kobato – guitar, vocals
- Kanami Tōno – guitar
- Misa – bass
- Akane Hirose – drums
- Production
- Minoru Toyoda – sound design and direction
- Daisuke Ikeda, Shun Sato – vocal direction
- Kentaro Akutsu – producer on tracks 1 and 9
- Koji Goto – producer on track 3
- Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Junichiro "ojjy" Ojima, Kimihiro Nakase, Yusuke Matsuda – engineers
- Ayaka Isa, Hideaki Kuramochi, Kazuya Kikkai, Takashi Nemoto – assistant engineers
- Satoshi Hosoi – mixing
- Kurid – mixing on tracks 2-8
- Masahiko Fukui – mixing on tracks 1 and 9
- Masahiro Shimada – mastering
References
- "Oricon: New Beginning". Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- "HXC - New Beginning".
- "FMW - New Beginning".
- "SM - New Beginning".
- "Jrock247 - New Beginning".
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