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.
New Beginning has been described as hard rock, heavy metal and pop metal, and the band's sound has been compared to the likes of Halestorm, Disturbed, Lenny Kravitz and Skunk Anansie. Music videos were produced for the songs "Thrill," "Real Existence," and "Don't Let Me Down."Track listing
Personnel
;Band-Maid
- Saiki Atsumi – vocals
- 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
