Epsilon

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. "Epsilon," an anime-induced cyber-stoner track, is the first single from the album,

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.