New Beginning (Band-Maid album)

New Beginning is the second mini-album released by all-female Japanese hard rock band Band-Maid. It is the band's final release under Gump Records, as they joined Nippon Crown the following year. The album reached No. 64 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart.[1]

New Beginning
Studio album by Band-Maid
Released	November 18, 2015
Recorded	2015
Studio	Studio Birdman West Sound Crew Studio Bungee Studio, Tokyo Thomas Studio, Kyoto
Genre	Hard rock heavy metal glam metal
Length	32:47
Language	Japanese, English
Label	Gump
Band-Maid chronology
Maid in Japan (2014) New Beginning (2015) Brand New Maid (2016)
Music video
"Thrill" on YouTube "Real Existence" on YouTube "Don't Let Me Down" on YouTube

New Beginning has been described as hard rock,[2][3][4] heavy metal[4][5] and pop metal,[4] and the band's sound has been compared to the likes of Halestorm,[4] Disturbed,[3] Lenny Kravitz[3] and Skunk Anansie.[3] Music videos were produced for the songs "Thrill," "Real Existence," and "Don't Let Me Down."

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Thrill"	Kentaro Akutsu	Akutsu	4:04
2.	"Freezer"	Daria Kawashima	Atsushi Yamaguchi	3:15
3.	"Real Existence"	Miwa Sasaki	Koji Goto (ck 510)	4:11
4.	"Price of Pride"	Shiniki Yamashita	Ososhi Izumida	3:27
5.	"Arcadia Girl"	Yamashita	Masazumi Ozawa	4:04
6.	"Don't Apply the Brake"	Kawashima	Yamaguchi	3:19
7.	"Beauty and the Beast"	Kawashima	Hiroki Kawazoe	3:03
8.	"Don't Let Me Down"	Akihito Tokunaga	Tokunaga	3:19
9.	"Shake That!!"	Akutsu	Akutsu	4:05
Total length:				32:47

Bonus DVD

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Real Existence" (music video)	4:12
2.	"Don't Let Me Down" (music video)	3:19
Total length:		7:31

Personnel

Band-Maid

• Saiki Atsumi – vocals (except track 7)
• Miku Kobato – guitar, vocals
• Kanami Tōno – guitar
• Misa – bass
• Akane Hirose – drums

Production

• Minoru Toyoda – sound design and direction
• Daisuke Ikeda, Shun Sato – vocal direction
• Kentaro Akutsu – producer on tracks 1 and 9
• Koji Goto – producer on track 3
• Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Junichiro "ojjy" Ojima, Kimihiro Nakase, Yusuke Matsuda – engineers
• Ayaka Isa, Hideaki Kuramochi, Kazuya Kikkai, Takashi Nemoto – assistant engineers
• Satoshi Hosoi – mixing
• Kurid – mixing on tracks 2-8
• Masahiko Fukui – mixing on tracks 1 and 9
• Masahiro Shimada – mastering

References

1. "Oricon: New Beginning". Retrieved 26 May 2018.
2. "HXC - New Beginning".
3. "FMW - New Beginning".
4. "SM - New Beginning".
5. "Jrock247 - New Beginning".