The Enemy Inside (Coldrain album)

2011 studio album by Coldrain

The Enemy Inside

Studio album by

Coldrain

Released

February 16, 2011 (2011-02-16)

Recorded

September – November 2010

Studio

Innig Recording Hostelry (Fujisawa, Japan)

Genre

Post-hardcore
punk rock
alternative rock
alternative metal
screamo

Length

37:03

Label

VAP

Producer

Masato Hayakawa
Ryo Yokochi

^[1]

Coldrain chronology

Nothing Lasts Forever
(2010)

The Enemy Inside
(2011)

Three Days of Adrenaline
(2011)

Singles from The Enemy Inside

"To Be Alive"
Released: February 2, 2011
"Rescue Me"
Released: March 10, 2011

The Enemy Inside is the second studio album by Japanese rock band Coldrain. Recorded at Innig Recording Hostelry in Fujisawa, Japan, which was self-produced by Masato Hayakawa and Ryo Yokochi, it was released on February 16, 2011, by VAP.^[2]^[3]

The Enemy Inside was exclusively released in Japan, along with their debut studio outing Final Destination, which was released two years prior. The Enemy Inside debuted at number 21 on the Oricon Albums Chart, charting for the following 5 weeks before dropping out of the charts completely.

The album would spawn singles such as the lead single, "To Be Alive", which would be released at the start of February, two weeks preceding the release of The Enemy Inside. "Rescue Me", the second and last single on the album was released on the 10th of the following month.

This would become the first release by the band to feature a different vocalist on one of their tracks for the first time. Manabu Taniguchi, known by his stage name Mah from Japanese ska-punk band SiM, would feature on "The Maze" on the record which would track a little over 37 minutes.

Musical style

The Enemy Inside has been stylistically described as being post-hardcore, punk rock, alternative rock, alternative metal and screamo.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Masato Hayakawa; all music is composed by Masato Hayakawa and Ryo Yokochi, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"To Be Alive"		3:19
2.	"New Fate"	Masato Hayakawa Kazuya Sugiyama	3:09
3.	"Rescue Me"		3:29
4.	"Adrenaline"		3:30
5.	"You"		4:32
6.	"The Maze" (featuring Mah of SiM)		3:24
7.	"Rise and Fall"	Hayakawa	3:26
8.	"Confession"	Hayakawa Sugiyama	4:17
9.	"A Tragic Instinct"		3:38
10.	"Hollow"	Hayakawa	4:19
Total length:			37:03

Personnel

Credits retrieved from album's liner notes.^[7]

Coldrain

Masato David Hayakawa (マサト, Masato) – lead vocals, producer
Ryo Yokochi (ヨコチ, Y.K.C.) – lead guitar, producer
Kazuya Sugiyama (スギ, Sugi) – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Ryo Shimizu (リョウ, RxYxO) – bass guitar, backing vocals
Katsuma Minatani (カツマ, Katsuma) – drums

Guest feature

Manabu Taniguchi (まぁ, Mah) of SiM – guest vocals on "The Maze"

Additional personnel

Satoshi Hosoi – recording engineer, mixing
Yoichi Imaizumi – assistant engineer
Hiromichi Takiguchi – mastering (Parasight Mastering, Tokyo)
Daichi Takahashi – instrument technician
Jun Yamada – instrument technician

Charts

Charts (2011)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[8]	21
Japanese Albums (Billboard)^[9]	22

References

^ "Coldrain biography". Retrieved 13 March 2020.
^ "COLDRAIN — THE ENEMY INSIDE". Metal Music Archives. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
^ Muraoka, Shunsuke (17 March 2011). "Coldrain 『The Enemy Inside』". Tower Records. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
^ "COLDRAIN "The Enemy Inside"". Zona Zero. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
^ "The Enemy Inside - Coldrain". Herb Music. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
^ "Coldrain –The Revelation [CD]". TPL Records. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
^ The Enemy Inside (booklet). VAP. 2011.
^ "coldrain" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
^ "Top Albums Sales [2011/02/23]" (in Japanese). Billboard. Retrieved 31 March 2021.