“We were really impressed when we heard True North, and everyone at MDDN is excited and proud to be a part of the Crystal Lake and their story.” - Joel Madden (MDDN / Manager / Good Charlotte)

 

“I flew 5000 miles just to see this band play, because they are THAT good.” - Shan Dan (Artery Recordings President)

 

 

Crystal Lake is a Japanese metalcore band from Tokyo, formed in 2002.

 

Crystal Lake performed at "Independence-D" (Most famous indie music festival in Japan) on February 2006. The 1st full length album "Dimension" was released on 5th July 2006! it is released by Imperium Recordings and features Eva (Gather), Iris (Firestone) and Mitome (Birthplace). There are 8 tracks (mostly new songs). We hope you will all listen and enjoy! Since the release of the album, they have done the "Dimension Tour", which was recieved well by kids from all over Japan who love to go wild to Crystal Lake savage technical breed of hardcore.

 

 

Crystal Lake performed at "Metal Presentation 2007 with I Killed The Prom Queen (Australia)" in February, "Hatebreed Japan Tour 2007" in March and "Rockstar taste of CHAOS Tour 2007 in Tokyo, Japan" in November.

 

Crystal Lake / Cleave split CD was released on 24th May 2008. Crystal Lake performed at "Rockstar Taste Of Chaos 2008 in Japan" on November.

 

January 2009 also saw Crystal Lake play 5 shows with Parkway Drive (AUS) & Shai Hulud (USA).

 

 

On Feb 21 - 23, they start the new tour called “Hyperspace Tour 2018” in Japan with ATTILA (USA). And they played at PULP SUMMER SLAM 2018 (Philippines). After that, they went to UK / Europe for their second headline tour. 10 countries (United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, and Italy), 18 shows and 8 festivals: TECH-FEST 2018 (United Kingdom), JERA ON AIR 2018 (Netherlands), ROCK DEN SEE 2018 (Austria), RESURRECTION FEST 2018 (Spain), FAJTFEST 2018 (Czech Republic), DISSONANCE FESTIVAL 2018 (Italy).

 

 

Also, they toured and shared the stage with ADEPT (Sweden), Awake The Dreamer (Sweden) and more bands. They announced their new single called “THE CIRCLE” on Aug 8 via Cube Records / JMS. It’s including featuring guests.

 

Track1 - “The Circle” feat. Masato (coldrain), Track2 - “Lost In Forever” feat. Daniel and Tyler (Gideon / USA), Track3 - “True North” remixed by Euphoric Wavism. They will organize “True North Festival” on Sep 16 at Studio Coast Tokyo.