While rock band
Good Morning America just officially went on hiatus towards the end of January, the members have wasted no time revealing their future plans. It was announced via a message on their
official website that bassist
Tanashin will mainly focus on creating content as
a YouTuber and
Koichi Watanabe will devote himself to activities as a guitarist. However, frontman
Shingo Kanehiro and drummer
Pegi have decided to stick together.
They have formed a new trio called
Asuralbert II, with
Yoshimitsu Yamazaki of
saji on bass. The band released a digital single titled
In principio erat Verbum today. The release features three tracks:
Everybody,
Tarirarira and
Jitter batter. Links to download and stream the single on various platforms can be found
here.
They have also announced their live debut. It will be the first date of their
In principio erat Verbum tour, which will be held at LIVE HOUSE Pangea in Osaka on March 21st.
In addition,
Kanehiro will continue performing acoustic solo shows.
Pegi also announced that he intends to be active as a freelance drummer from now on, taking part in various bands and units and doing support work when the opportunity arises.
A trailer for
In principio erat Verbum is available in the embedded Tweet below.