- 8th album
- 12 tracks
- 2 guest features
- 2007 the year they formed
coldrain have released their eighth album, OPTIMIZE = OPTDEMISE, and it’s their first through Century Media Records. The Nagoya five-piece have been at it since 2007, selling out arenas at home and touring with ONE OK ROCK, Papa Roach and The Used, and they’ve just wrapped an Australian run supporting Electric Callboy alongside Ice Nine Kills.
What’s an OPTDEMISE?
The title is a made-up word mashing together opt, as in choice, with optimise and demise. The album is about technology and AI, and asks whether humanity keeps evolving or optimises itself into an ending. The band have framed it as a warning about “humanity’s growing confusion over what it means to be human”.
The Tracklist
The first five songs first appeared on last year’s OPTIMIZE EP, “EX-HUMANITY” followed in July, and the rest is new, including “Poison” with The Used’s Bert McCracken and closer “Savior” with Crossfaith’s Kenta Koie.
- OPTIMIZE
- CHASING SHADOWS
- DIGITOLL
- INCOMPLETE
- FREE FALL
- EX-HUMANITY
- BEST OF ME
- POISON (feat. Bert McCracken)
- G.I.A.I.G.
- SING
- PICTURE PERFECT HELL
- SAVIOR (feat. Kenta Koie)
Side Quest What Is Crossfaith?
Crossfaith formed in Osaka in 2006 and became known for mashing metalcore together with electronic and dance music. Vocalist Kenta Koie, who guests on “Savior”, also fronts the newer project Aftervoid.
If our HANABIE. coverage got you into Japanese heavy music, coldrain are a very good next stop.
Put it on, and maybe don’t ask your AI assistant what it thinks of the lyrics.
- Optimize Optdemise
- Mosh pit Singalong
Stay unruly.
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