August Burns Red will be hitting the road this fall to celebrate 10 years of their “Rescue + Restore”. The band will be playing the album in full along with other crowd favorites. Hitting the road with them will be some real heavy hitters in the form of Brand Of Sacrifice, Spite, and Crystal Lake….
What might reinvention mean for a band? Some bands entirely re-record early albums, such as Silent Planet’s 2020 redux of their debut The Night God Slept with improved production quality. Other times, bands may release direct sequels. One example from 2021 was Between the Buried and Me boldly titling their latest album Colors II as…
Crystal Lake vocalist Ryo Kinoshita has left the Japanese metalcore band due to what he says is adjustment disorder, as he explained in a recent post on social media. Adjustment disorder, in his case, has affected his sleep patterns and other important bodily functions. Kinoshita joined the band in 2012 and had performed on all…
Everything Japanese metalcore upstarts Crystal Lake do is done with the utmost conviction and dedication to excellence. Whether it’s the intense instrumentals that dot the band’s catalogue or the honestly mindblowing vocal abilities of Ryo Kinoshita (who’s clearly in demand for tons of bands as a guest vocalist), Crystal Lake are only recently beginning to…
