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Japanese heavy-rock giants Crystal Lake have announced plans to release their long awaited, fourth full-length album, True North, on Artery Recordings in North America on December 2nd.<\/p>\nJapanese heavy-rock giants Crystal Lake have announced plans to release their long awaited, fourth full-length album, True North, on Artery Recordings in North America on December 2nd.<\/p>\n
For nearly a decade and half, Crystal Lake has been cranking out some of Japan\u2019s most explosive heavy rock. Blending elements of metalcore, hardcore and hard rock, the band has created their most ambitious and dynamic album to date with True North. Their fourth record finds them working again with Artery Recordings in North America as well as new management with Good Charlotte vocalist Joel Madden\u2019s company MDDN.Already well known in their home country of Japan, global fandom continues to build for the band as they look to break mainstream ground in North America.<\/p>\n
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Over the last several years the band has toured with the likes of The Ghost Inside, Crossfaith, The Devil Wears Prada, Miss May I, We Came As Romans among others and a monumental performance at Knotfest Japan in 2014. They\u2019ve also achieved remarkable success with 3 fan-coveted albums, several EPs, singles and covers of Limp Bizkit\u2019s \u201cRollin\u2019\u201d and The Ghost Inside\u2019s \u201cWide Eyed.\u201d Fast forward to 2016 and the stage is set for a worldwide takeover with the impending release of True North!<\/p>\n
“Before we started writing this album, we all knew this record would define who we are, where we stand and where we are heading. No matter how things around us change, we are who we are and we’ve always headed the same direction and it never changes. As I have written in the lyrics of “True North,” this record shows how we live and how we die.\u201d – Ryo Kinoshita (vocals)<\/p>\n