Crimson Glory will headline Keep It True in Japan, running from 11 to 14 November 2027 at Kawasaki Club Citta.
Omen, Sabbat, Void and Sex Machineguns are on the bill with more names to come, which puts the German festival's Japanese edition somewhere between a reunion of the eighties underground and a local showcase.
Two members gave two different reactions and both are accurate. “Super stoked, and actual bucket list of mine to play Japan,” said singer Travis Wills, who joined long after the band first went. Guitarist Ben Jackson, who was there, said simply that the band are excited to be returning.
The band's comeback album Chasing The Hydra is out now through BraveWords Records, their first in a very long time and the reason there is a touring schedule to talk about at all.
Keep It True has run in Germany since the late nineties as the festival for exactly this kind of band, the ones who made two or three records in the eighties and then went quiet. Taking the name to Kawasaki puts a Florida band on a Japanese stage through a German festival, which is roughly how the traditional metal circuit has worked for twenty years.