[ALEXANDROS] reveals new music video for 'KABUTO'
May 22, 2018 – [ALEXANDROS], which has announced headlining stadium show “VIP PARTY 2018” on Aug 16th and the release of new album in the fall, shares the music video for “KABUTO”.
The director of the video Masakazu Fukatsu describes the concept as cool and something unseen. The whole video was shot in 6K camera with various cinematography, part of the video being played reversed and 360-degree angle bringing out zero-gravity-feeling. From the beginning to the end, it captures cool performance scenes of the band.
Single includes the band's first collaboration track “Hanuta” and “Follow me”. Tokyo Metro TV campaign song “Hanauta” features emerging poet Tahi Saihate as a lyricist and renowned producer Takeshi Kobayashi as an arranger. “Follow me” is a classic [ALEXANDROS] track that expresses the belief of believing in yourself, which is used for International Professional University of Technology's ad.
Recently, the band has been announced to sing the theme song and featured song for summer blockbuster “BLEACH”.
“KABUTO” music video
https://youtu.be/m5A8Mz-D_74
Release info
Title:KABUTO
Release date:May 23rd, 2018
Limited Edition (CD+ Photo book) UPCH-7414 1,800 JPY (w/o tax)
Standard Edition UPCH-5941 1,200 JPY(w/o tax)
Track list:
1. KABUTO
2. Hanauta [ALEXANDROS]× Tahi Saihate *Featured for Tokyo Metro "Find my Tokyo." TV ad
3. Follow Me
Upcoming show
VIP PARTY 2018
http://[Alexandros].vip/
Time: Door 4pm/ Show 6pm
Venue: ZOZO Marine Stadium
About [Alexandros]
Officially in action since 2007.
[Alexandros] has released 6 albums to date and following those releases, all album tours have been completely SOLD
OUT. The band has supported various big names such as MUSE, Primal Scream, KASABIAN on their Japan tours.
They are actively performing abroad by participating in big international festivals like SXSW(US) and THE GREAT
ESCAPE(UK) as well as booking headlining shows in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea. Their field has always been
beyond Japan.
In their homeland of Japan, [Alexandros] held headlining show at prestigious Nippon Budokan in 2014 and 2015. The
tickets were SOLD OUT immediately after they went on sale. They have also done headlining slots at major festivals
around Japan.
With their new partnership deal with Universal Music, [Alexandros] kicked off 2015 with a release of a double A-side
single “Wataridori / Dracula La” followed by 5th Studio album “ALXD”, which debuted at No.3 on Oricon weekly album
chart. On Feb 2016, [Alexandros] received "New Artist of the Year" award at the 30th Japan GOLD DISC Awards as an
artist with the most sales who made a debut in 2015.
Highly anticipated 6th album “EXIST” was released Nov. 2016 and debuted at No.1 on Oricon Album Weekly Chart.
In this summer, the band is headlining a show at ZOZO Marine stadium and new album is expected in the fall.
This 4-piece band, [Alexandros], is one of the hottest rock bands in the current Japanese music scene.
