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ENVY – “The Fallen Crimson” – 2xLP

This is a Pelagic Records release (2020)

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It’s hard to fathom what 25 years of being a band really means: if musicians keep playing together under the umbrella of the same band for that long, then their belief in their craft and the importance of their artistic expression must be stronger than individual egos, personal developments, members coming and going, and the odds of living off of music vs. career job and family reality. If a band can look back at 25 years of existence, it means that they are invincible.

When envy started out in 1995, the hardcore scene that they were born from was different from what it is today; people were buying 7“ records at shows and retrieving their information from fanzines; social media was not even in its infancy yet. Touring outside of Japan was a challenge for Japanese bands. „At that time, we were exhausted physically and mentally, but now I think it was a good experience that I couldn’t buy with money, and it has become a laughing story. At that time, we went on a journey believing in letters and faxes from people who we have never met before“, says Tetsu, envy‘s charismatic vocalist.

20 years after their inception, the band entered a stagnation period, when some original members left the band at the end of 2015. But once vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa came back 2 years later, the band was revived and invigorated with 3 new members, inaugurating the „Envy 2.0“ era. „The Fallen Crimson“ is the first album of this new era, and since the digital single „Alnair in August“ dropped about a year ago, expectations towards a full-length record were extremely high. „The Fallen Crimson“ does not only meet these expectations, it surpassed them in every imaginable way. This is envy at their very best: intense, overwhelming, beautiful and destructive, all at the same time, and wrapped into an incredibly raw and powerful sound of sheer immediacy.

Weight 0.585 kg
Dimensions 32 × 32 × 0.3 cm
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