''Vena'' (stylised in
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) is the fourth studio album by Japanese
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Coldrain
are a Japanese Rock music, rock band from Nagoya, Japan, who were formed in 2007. The band combines melodic singing with screams typical of the post-hardcore genre. Although the band is Japanese, all of their songs are written in English. The l ...
. Recorded at the Trojan House and Madden Brothers Studio in
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,
California
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with producer
Brandon Paddock
Brandon Paddock is an American Pop and Rock musician and producer and member of Electronic Pop/Dance duo Fancy Cars.
Commercial success
Paddock has received two RIAA Platinum Records (awarded for the shipment of 1,000,000 units) for his work on ...
. It was released on October 21, 2015, in
Japan
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by
VAP and on October 23, 2015, worldwide by independent North American label
Hopeless Records
Hopeless Records is an American independent record label in Van Nuys, California.
History
Hopeless Records was founded in 1993 by Louis Posen. The label's artists are generally considered to fall under the genres of punk rock, pop punk, post-ha ...
.
''Vena'' is the second Coldrain album to be released by Hopeless Records, the first being ''
The Revelation'', and the fourth album by the band to be released in Japan by VAP. This would be the follow-up to 2013's ''The Revelation'', also to be the first album released worldwide in