Steampunk metal band
FATE GEAR will release a new album on December 18th.
Kill the Shadow King comes six months after
The Vanguard Of Hades. Like its predecessor, the new album is a hybrid release, containing a mix of studio and live recordings.
The studio recordings include the album's title track, sung by touring vocalists
NANA and
Hime Hashimura, and a self-cover of
Awayuki no inori featuring
MISLIAR and ex-Asriel vocalist
KOKOMI.
The live portion of the album consists of seven songs recorded at a Belgian show on the European leg of
FATE GEAR's
Live In Blood 2024 world tour.
Kill the Shadow King will be available in two editions, with the Deluxe Edition also containing a DVD of the music video for
Kill the Shadow King (feat. NANA, Hime Hashimura).
In other news, on October 30th, singer and voice actress
Yoko Hikasa released the digital single
Rengoku no Gloria, composed and produced by
FATE GEAR guitarist
Captain Mina.
Hikasa sings in-character as
Vanessa from the anime series "Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?"
Rengoku no Gloria can be streamed in full below, followed by a trailer for
Kill the Shadow King and
You suffer, a three-second grindcore track
Mina contributed to
Coregula, the debut album from
GORE-GIRL PROJECT, an extreme metal project helmed by illustrator and lyricist yuki.
