Three years from forming to a first album is quick by any measure. Mana Diagram release Aether Cross on 30 September through Avalon, on CD.
The nine tracks are Prologue, Requiem of Salvation, Aether Cross, Bulet of Fate, Cinderella Catharsis, Re: The Road Less Traveled, Found You, Make It Reach You. and The Timeless, several of them carrying Japanese titles alongside the English. The band came together in Tokyo in 2023 and play power metal in the melodic register the country has built its own tradition on, closer to the theatrical end than the speed one.
Avalon carries the record under catalogue number MICL-20016.