THE DECISION (Live in Tokyo 23.11.2023)

THE DECISION (Live in Tokyo 23.11.2023) is the record ASTERISM list as their first live album. It was released on 8 March 2024 as a digital album only, and its recordings come from the last night of the tour the trio played in November 2023 for their third full album, DECIDE. That tour, billed as ASTERISM "DECIDE" Release Tour 2023 -THE DECISION-, opened on 4 November and went to Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and Tokyo; the final show, at Shibuya CYCLONE in Tokyo on 23 November, was sold out. The streaming services print the date in the title month first, as 11.23.2023. Seventeen tracks, each marked "- Live Version", run from "STARDOM" to "METAL". All eleven songs of DECIDE are among them, joined by "BLAZE", "Gunfire", "Light In The Darkness", "FULL THROTTLE" and a drum solo. The sixteenth track, "PEACE", was a new song first played on this tour. HAL-CA said it was the first time that songs with vocals had made up more than half of a set, and the members describe DECIDE as their album of vocal songs. MIO attended the mastering of the recording. On 9 March, the day after the release, a full-length video of the concert, talk between songs included, premiered on the band's official YouTube channel and stayed up for 24 hours. The same show also became the band's first live video, THE DECISION (Live in Tokyo 2023), which went on sale for purchase and rental on Apple TV and Amazon on 3 July 2024. The album's phonographic copyright line names Sony Music Labels Inc., and the band's discography offers it as a download and stream only.