Metamorphose, by Looprider

Metamorphose

by Looprider

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rettisawesome Bought this album on the strength of Epsilon, but the whole thing delivers. It's big and fuzzy and catchy as hell. When the music isn't driving the vocal melodies verge on haunting. Favorite track: Epsilon.

Ashton Richards The band's most diverse and interesting set of songs yet; nothing too unexpected, but catchy and well executed! Favorite track: Nightfall.

Colin M. Looprider's righteous mix of shoegaze, heavy fuzz and noise rock is as fresh and addicting now as when I first heard them. "Metamorphose" is an absolutely killer LP that has gotten better with each listen. Favorite track: Black Rain.

drudgeon Loop rider is all over the place with this album, and I love it. And oh man that tone! Favorite track: After The Flood.

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1.	After The Flood 07:00	buy track
2.	Black Rain 04:04	buy track
3.	Epsilon 04:02	buy track
4.	Sinking 07:24	buy track
5.	Cosmos 04:46	buy track
6.	Nightfall 07:28	buy track
7.	Red 04:27	buy track
8.	Mermaid 04:57	buy track

about

Tokyo-based rock band Looprider will release its new album, Metamorphose, on Friday, April 7, 2023 from Japanese label Call And Response Records. The release is the first album featuring new drummer Ryo7 and serves as the latest entry in the group’s ever-expanding “Looprider Multiverse,” with each previous album representing a corner of their signature sound, from shoegaze, doom metal, psychedelic rock, noise, and beyond. The band drops the first single from the album, the anime-induced cyber-stoner track “Epsilon,” today on all digital streaming platforms, alongside a new music video.

Recorded in 2021 and 2022, Metamorphose reimagines the band’s core influences and combines them in a multi-faceted prism, showcasing different sides of the Looprider sound in an eight-track package. The album features the heavy, grunge anthem “Red,” which was part of Adult Swim’s Japan Is Loud compilation, released last year and featuring other prominent acts from the Japanese underground, including Boris, Melt-Banana, DMBQ and Otoboke Beaver. Other tracks include the psychedelic, slow-burner “Nightfall,” the drone metal dirge “After The Flood,” and the shoegaze ballad “Mermaid. The album continues to showcase the group’s now-signature bass-less, three-piece instrumentation of drums and dual, tuned-down baritone guitars, powered by stacks of Orange and Hiwatt amplifiers.

The band once again has teamed up with Taka KUBO of Studio CHAOSK Inc., whose previous works include Self Deconstruction’s WOUNDS, BUTCHER ABC’s North of Hell, and GUEVNNA’s Heart of Evil, to record, mix and master the album.

Metamorphose will be released on all digital download and streaming formats and also as a limited 180g heavy black vinyl pressing, which will be available via Bandcamp.

credits

released April 7, 2023

Ryotaro: vocals, heavy guitars, noise
Haruka: vocals, fuzz guitars
Ryo7: drums

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Takanori Kubo at Studio Chaosk
August 2021 - April 2022

All songs and words by Looprider
Produced by Looprider and Takanori Kubo (Studio Chaosk)

3D artwork by Ryo7
Art direction and design by Ryotaro

Call And Response Records
Label Manager: Ian Martin

www.looprider.com

callandresponse.jimdofree.com

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Looprider Tokyo, Japan

Riff from the earth, noise from the sea

shows

Apr 28

Koenji High

Tokyo, Japan

discography

Metamorphose

Apr 2023
MOON

Dec 2020
Inside The Ouroboros

May 2020
Ouroboros

Oct 2019
Umi

Mar 2017
Ascension

May 2016
My Electric Fantasy

Aug 2015

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