Vena (album)

Vena
Studio album by Coldrain
Released	October 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)
Recorded	June – July 2015
Studio	Trojan House and Madden Brothers Studio (Los Angeles, California, US)
Genre	Post-hardcore metalcore alternative metal alternative rock hard rock pop
Length	38:27
Label	VAP Hopeless
Producer	Brandon Paddock
Coldrain chronology
Until the End (2014) Vena (2015) Vena II (2016)
Singles from Vena
"Words of the Youth" Released: August 28, 2015 "Gone" Released: September 16, 2015 "Wrong" Released: January 6, 2016 "The Story" Released: May 4, 2016 "Fire in the Sky" Released: July 27, 2016

Vena (stylised in all caps) is the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band Coldrain. Recorded at the Trojan House and Madden Brothers Studio in Los Angeles, California with producer Brandon Paddock. It was released on October 21, 2015, in Japan by VAP and on October 23, 2015, worldwide by independent North American label Hopeless Records.^[1][2]

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 2014. It would be their third highest-charting album on the Oricon Albums Chart, debuting and peaking at number 9, only behind Fateless which peaked at number 8 and The Revelation, which peaked at number 7.

The album spawned five singles, two of which that were released prior to the release of Vena. "Words of the Youth" in August and "Gone" the following month. The latter getting substantial air play on radio stations in the United Kingdom and the United States. The following three singles would all be released in 2016, with "Wrong" being released in January, "The Story" in May and the final single "Fire in the Sky", being released on July 27.

Like its predecessor The Revelation. Vena maintains alternative metal elements which were established in The Revelation, while continuing to further refine their sound and often swaying into a style that is known as metalcore in several songs such as "Wrong", "Words of the Youth", "Fire in the Sky" and "Runaway", that would end up featuring Jacoby Shaddix from the Grammy nominated rock band Papa Roach on the record that runs a little over 38 minutes long.^[3]