Stellar Into the World

On December 26, 2016, the group began a fundraising event through Makestar in order to finance their next album. The project reached its original goal on the first day before going on to achieve 1132% of its original target by its end in April 2017. This was the group's third Makestar project.[1]

Stellar Into the World was digitally released on June 27, 2017, through several music portals, including MelOn, and iTunes, for the global market.[2][3] The EP was expected to be released physically a day later, but due to production problems, was not released as a CD until July 13, 2017. The physical CD comes in two versions, a white "Tree of Sephiroth" version and a black "Tree of Qliphoth" version. Both versions contain a random photocard of one of the members for fans to collect.[4][5]

The group held their first "comeback stage" on SBS MTV's The Show on June 27, 2017, performing their title track.[6] They continued on MBC Music's Show Champion on June 28.[7] They went on to perform on all the major music shows as well as promoting on shows such as Pops in Seoul, Simply K-Pop, Fact In Star and Celuv TV.

Stellar Into the World debuted at number 19 on the Gaon Album Chart, on the chart issue dated July 9–15, 2017.[10] They later climbed to number 17. The EP also debuted and peaked at number 13 on the US World Albums chart, on the week ending July 15, 2017.[11]