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 Crystal Lake is a metalcore band formed in Tokyo, Japan in 2002. Initially one of the many hardcore bands that emerged from Japan in the early 2000s, through perseverance, adapting to changes in the music scene, and good timing, they became one of the most popular metalcore bands in the late 2010’s and Japan's biggest export of the genre.The first lineup of Crystal Lake consisted of guitarists Yudai Miyamoto and Shinya Hori, vocalist Kentaro Nishimura, bassist Seiji Nagasawa, and drummer Yusuke Ishihara. With this lineup they released two demos, Freewill and One Word Changes Everything. They started touring Japan and Asia soon after, supporting other hardcore bands. They released their first split with fellow Japanese hardcore bands Loyal to the Grave and Extinguish the Fire called Blood of Judas. Crystal Lake would follow up with a second split called 3 Way Split with Risen and Unboy. Crystal Lake released their first full length album Dimension in 2006. Crystal Lake’s popularity would gradually build, doing direct support for international acts in Japan such as I Killed the Prom Queen and Hatebreed. Bassist Seiji Nagasawa would leave the band in 2007 and be replaced by Yasuyuki Kotaka. Their next album, Into the Great Beyond would drop in 2011 and as expected, Crystal Lake would do more domestic tours in support of the album. However, this would be their last release with founding vocalist Kentaro Nishimura and drummer Yusuke Ishihara.In April 2012 Crystal Lake announced their new vocalist, Ryo Kinoshita, and live drummer, Gaku Taura (ex-A Ghost of Flare) via Facebook. Their first release with Ryo was the EP Cubes. Crystal Lake also released a cover of Rollin’ which got quite a bit of traction on YouTube. In 2015 Crystal Lake announced they signed to Artery Recordings and they would distribute their third full length, The Sign in 2015. ‘’The Sign’’ saw the band changing up genres from a metallic hardcore sound to a modern metalcore sound that would alienate some fans but would bring them much more popularity. As expected, more tours would happen in Japan and Asia. In August 2015, bassist Yasuyuki Kotaka would leave the band due to failing health and Teruyuki Takahashi would replace him. Crystal Lake would follow up The Sign with their fourth studio album True North in 2015. Teruyuki Takahashi would leave the band in 2016 and was replaced by Mitsuru.Crystal Lake’s biggest growth in popularity would come when they released the video for their song “Apollo” in 2017. The video found itself on darn near every metalcore mix on Youtube and it allowed the band to finally start touring Europe in 2018. Crystal Lake would start hosting their own festival in 2017 titled “True North” which featured many local Japanese metalcore/deathcore bands as well as international acts. Crystal Lake would announce at the second True North festival that they signed to Sharptone Records and their fifth album, Helix, would release in 2018. Crystal Lake would do their first American tours in 2019 supporting August Burns Red in early 2019 and a second tour supporting Northlane and Erra that summer, in between doing summer festivals and Europe and many large domestic Japan tours. A followup to Helix is in the oven at time of writing this page, and as soon as they can Crystal Lake will be back on the road. Ryo has also confirmed in a podcast that they will re-record some of their early material. In July 2020, Yudai announced he is leaving the band due to personal issues. The band also announced a new album, The Voyages, which contains several re-recordings of their early material.In late 2021, Ryo Kinoshita was diagnosed with adjustment disorder, resulting in the band going on hiatus. Ultimately, in September 2022 Ryo Kinoshita left the band due to mental health issues. After a lengthy audition process, John Robert C. was announced as their new vocalist in March of 2023.Current members (founding members in Italics):
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