Mugen Regina‘s had a tough run of things the last few months, losing first their (very talented) center, and then their leader (indefinitely), and then management decided that the fill-in leader from the defunct-going sister group wasn’t a good fit, and Ako and Arisa were stuck going it alone.
They’ve been performing, but it’s just not the same. Usually, what you see on their Twitter is indications of how hard they’re working:
新曲「新世界より」初披露しました🎉
アイドルの再定義を掲げ、今日からもっともっと進化していきます!
よろしくお願いいたします!!! pic.twitter.com/qAZWUT3xUG
— 夢幻レジーナ୨୧Mugen Regina (@MugenRegina) August 12, 2016
But they’ve been talking about a new song lately, and I guess they unveiled it tonight:
“From the New World,” it’s called, and it’s kind of interesting that it sounds a lot like their older stuff even after the harder edge of “from hell” last year.
**They also did this number, “panorama,” and it is very good if you’re into that melodic metal sound: