Rise Of The Northstar announce new album: “We tried to surprise our audience while sticking to our DNA”

Rise Of The Northstar have just announced their new album, CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!!

The band say their aim going into the record was trying “to surprise our audience while sticking to our DNA, by bringing something new without crucifying the old. The era of Shogun No Shi is over, please welcome the super Mecha Falcon, symbol of modernisation of content and form, from the writing to the sound — Northstar is coming back!”

They’ve dropped the relentless, bouncy A.I.R. Max to coincide with the news, and ROTN’s Vithia says, “Attitude, Integrity, Respect… Taken to the max. That’s what my band is about, and that’s what we wanted to express in this track.

“ROTN have been around for over 15 years, and I’ve never changed my stance, never followed trends, never watered down our style to fit in. I respect my childhood dream: From the beginning, ROTN has been a mix of rap-metal-HxC with neo-Japanese imagery and it will stay that way. Radical since Tokyo Assault, everyone hands in the air: A.I.R! A.I.R!”

“While writing A.I.R. Max, I wanted to go back to our roots, back to the WelcAme era,” adds Eva-B. “Catchy, groovy riffs with a laid-back attitude. This track stands out from the first two that have already been released, and it's here to remind everyone that even though our sound is evolving, the DNA remains the same.”

Listen to A.I.R. Max below:

CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!! is due out on November 14

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