Metal
Sable Hills have released “Labyrinth”, the last advance track from “Homura”, the album Arising Empire puts out on 13 November with eleven songs. The label’s statement says the track is about losing your bearings and finding the way back by reconnecting with your roots.
The title track features Fuki, the singer of Unlucky Morpheus. The other tracks are “Reignite”, “Scars”, “Namu”, “Godforsaken”, “Higanbana”, “Closure”, “Komorebi”, “Outspoken” and “Rain”. “The flame is still burning,” the label’s statement reads. “‘Homura’ remains.”
The band formed in Tokyo in 2015 and, seven years on, walked onto the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle stage and off it as the competition’s first Japanese winner; they were back at the festival the following year. Their third album, “Odyssey”, is from 2024, and the label points out that “Namu” passed three million streams on Spotify and 5.4 million on YouTube during 2025.
They run their own festival, the Frontline Festival, to bring together bands from the international metalcore circuit.
Text by Roger Estivill