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]

New Beginning
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 18, 2015
Recorded2015
Studio
  • Studio Birdman West
  • Sound Crew Studio
  • Bungee Studio, Tokyo
  • Thomas Studio, Kyoto
Genre
Length32:47
LanguageJapanese, English
LabelGump
Band-Maid chronology
Maid in Japan
(2014)
New Beginning
(2015)
Brand New Maid
(2016)
Music video
"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.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Thrill"Kentaro AkutsuAkutsu4:04
2."Freezer"Daria KawashimaAtsushi Yamaguchi3:15
3."Real Existence"Miwa SasakiKoji Goto (ck 510)4:11
4."Price of Pride"Shiniki YamashitaOsoshi Izumida3:27
5."Arcadia Girl"YamashitaMasazumi Ozawa4:04
6."Don't Apply the Brake"KawashimaYamaguchi3:19
7."Beauty and the Beast"KawashimaHiroki Kawazoe3:03
8."Don't Let Me Down"Akihito TokunagaTokunaga3:19
9."Shake That!!"AkutsuAkutsu4:05
Total length:32:47
Bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
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


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