2023 release. Four years after the world-wide released and critically acclaimed album Nucleus in 2019 (a re-recording of their classic hits with English lyrics), leading Japanese Heavy Metal band, Anthem have used the pandemic downtime wisely and are now ready to unleash their studio album called Crimson & Jet Black. All songs are once again performed in English, and the album will see a global release. Originally scheduled to be completed in the Spring of 2022, the band's leader Naoto Shibata, being the perfectionist that he is, decided to enrich the songs' quality even more and pushed back the recording schedule to Summer / Autumn, so that pure brilliance may unfold. Just like on past albums, Naoto is the main producer of the album, but this time renowned Swedish producer Jens Bogren, (known for his work with the likes of Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Dimmu Borgir and Opeth, to name but a few) who had previously mixed and mastered "Nucleus", is credited as a co-producer.