Kick Down the Wall

Kick Down the Wall is the original album ASTERISM number as their fourth full album. SME Records released it on 14 January 2026 in two forms on the same day, a digital album and a limited CD-plus-book edition (SECL-3285/3286, 4,500 yen) that pairs the disc with a 48-page special booklet; both hold the same eleven tracks. The A4 booklet carries designed portraits of the members, and no other CD edition was announced. The members gave the album a theme, growing up. Having played together since their early teens, they had come to see a wall within themselves, built from the way people looked at such young players and from complexes of their own, and they said they poured the conflicts and stress of recent years into the record. The announcement described hard instrumentals that return to the band's roots alongside aggressive vocal songs. Oricon's lyric data credits words to six songs: MIYU and HAL-CA wrote "BLACK CLOUDS", MIO "METAL SUPREME", and HAL-CA "You don't know anything about me", 「儚」, "stress" and "HOMESHIP", all with music by ASTERISM. At 9 minutes 34 seconds, "METAL SUPREME" is the longest track. The opener, "Blink of Ray", came out first as a digital single on 8 October 2025 and was used in an Apple Watch commercial; the band called it their most vicious metal song, pointing to its odd metres, its speed and chorus lines that drift out of step. The album was announced on 1 November 2025, and its track list, a teaser and the booklet cover followed on 28 December. Three days after the release the trio began a tour in Fukuoka, ASTERISM Live Tour 2026 "Untitled", deliberately not tied to any record; at its Tokyo final at Spotify O-WEST on 1 February they played five songs from this album and five from their first full album, IGNITION. A video for "HOMESHIP" appeared on 30 January.