coldrain are back with a new full-length album, their first since 2022’s ‘Nonnegative’, and expect plenty of devastating drama.
Titled ‘OPTIMIZE = OPTDEMISE’, it will be released on September 25 via Century Media Records.
The artwork looks like this:
And the tracklisting like this:
1. OPTIMIZE
2. CHASING SHADOWS
3. DIGITOLL
4. INCOMPLETE
5. FREE FALL
6. EX-HUMANITY
7. REST OF ME
8. POISON (feat. Bert McCracken)
9. G.I.A.I.G
10. SING
11. PICTURE PERFECT HELL
12. SAVIOR (feat. Kenta Koie)
You can check out a fresh taste of the album right now in the form of ‘EX-HUMANITY’, a sensationally catchy, brilliantly heavy and effortless vibrant piece of modern metal.
Vocalist Masato had this to say about the track:
“EX-HUMANITY is a song built on contrast. Musically, it’s energetic, powerful and alive. Lyrically, it’s intentionally simple, static and full of despair. That contrast reflects the tension between what it means to be human and what we could become if we lose the things that make us who we are. Is this song a cry for hope or a requiem for humanity. My hope is it will not be the latter.”
