20 years after their inception, the band entered a stagnation period, when some original members left the band at the end of 2015. But once vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa came back 2 years later, the band was revived and invigorated with 3 new members, inaugurating the „Envy 2.0“ era. „The Fallen Crimson“ is the first album of this new era, and since the digital single „Alnair in August“ dropped about a year ago, expectations towards a full-length record were extremely high. „The Fallen Crimson“ does not only meet these expectations, it surpassed them in every imaginable way. This is envy at their very best: intense, overwhelming, beautiful and destructive, all at the same time, and wrapped into an incredibly raw and powerful sound of sheer immediacy.

„A new wind is blowing within us“, says Tetsu, „the band is in good condition. We really wanted to get the initial impulse out of the 6 of us. We didn’t care about what genre of music we were writing or if it was going to sell well, we just did what we felt was right“. The lucky crowd at HELLFEST 2019 could witness how right this is: envy annihilated the crowd and every other band who played that festival, and left nothing but smoke and debris.

With the release of „The Fallen Crimson“, envy have made themselves the best possible gift for their 25th birthday: and album to honor the past, embrace the present and celebrate the future!