After Rain

Released on September 24, 2025, After Rain is BLINDMAN’s twelfth full-length album, issued in the band’s thirtieth-anniversary year. It follows the OUTBURST mini-album by two years and is the group’s first full studio album in about five years, since EXPANSION. The record was made with original member Hitoshi Endo back on keyboards. Tatsuya Nakamura’s emotionally charged guitar work forms the core, with Ray’s vocals, a solid rhythm section, and the added depth of keyboards giving melodic hard rock a stronger spine. The sequence from opener “Spreading Out the Wings” through “Groove the Night” and “Soul Stealer” has real momentum, while the title track and “Love So Blue” leave a lasting mark through their shadowed, melodic contours. The title suggests more than the calm that arrives after a storm. By turning the weight of a long career into momentum—and sounding aggression and melancholy, polish and heat at once—the album shows that BLINDMAN is still in the midst of its evolution.