Japan’s No. 1 Hip-Hop stars Creepy Nuts drop wild new singles, “Mirage” and “Nemure”
Each songs double because the opening and shutting themes of Season 2 of the hit anime collection, “Name Of The Evening”
Style-upending Japanese hip-hop unit Creepy Nuts launch two model new singles: the Latin-infused “Mirage” and the high-energy “Nemure” — the opening and shutting themes of Season 2 of the hit supernatural anime “Yofukashi no Uta (Name Of The Evening)“.
The duo — battle rap champ R-shitei and DMC World DJ Championships hero DJ Matsunaga — have a wealthy historical past of lending their dynamic music to TV collection, and are additionally celebrating the discharge of their fourth album ‘LEGION‘, out now by way of Sony Music Japan / Arista Data.
The brand new songs seize Creepy Nuts’ placing expertise and musical breadth.
“Mirage” employs Spanish guitar and a syncopated beat whereas R-shitei unleashes vocals that evoke, in turns, Astrud Gilberto and Unhealthy Bunny.
The lyrics faucet into the groundbreaking vampire collection’ themes — fleeting moments, advanced feelings, questions of id, ardour, and the paranormal.
“Nemure” (“Sleep”), alternatively, mixes up chopped strings, jittery membership percussion, and flitting bits of melody for a tune that viscerally captures the sensation of not losing a second, and embracing life whereas the world slumbers: “Dance till the morning comes / Can’t hand over, till that point / I’ll hold all of it to myself, ah yeah / Just a bit extra… / Only one extra tune… / Only one extra… yeah.”
Illustrating the duo’s distinctive place in Japanese tradition, the unique 2019 “Yofukashi no Uta” manga was impressed by a Creepy Nuts tune of the identical title.
When the anime launched in 2022, the group supplied the opening and shutting themes for Season 1, too: “Daten” (“Fallen Angel”) and “Yofukashi no Uta”.
Season 2 of “Name Of The Evening” launches in the present day on HIDIVE.
In Could, Creepy Nuts took residence two awards on the ninth Crunchyroll Anime Awards — Finest Opening Sequence and Finest Anime Track for his or her authentic tune “Otonoke”, which doubled because the theme for the collection “Dan Da Dan”.
They have been up towards stiff competitors together with Yungblud, Ok-pop stars Tomorrow X Collectively, and, properly, themselves for his or her huge hit “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” (from “Mashle: Magic and Muscular tissues”), which in addition they performed dwell.
That very same month, Creepy Nuts made a historic sweep of the 2025 Music Awards Japan, successful 9 classes together with Finest Japanese Hip Hop/Rap Artist and Track of the 12 months (plus seven different trophies) for “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” — catch their efficiency HERE.
That tune has reached 800 million international streams up to now whereas “Otonoke” has racked up greater than 330 million of its personal.
Each tracks characteristic on ‘LEGION’ alongside the raucous single “doppelgänger” which can also be the theme for the live-action movie adaptation of “Underneath Ninja”.
Comply with alongside as Creepy Nuts proceed to unfold their wild, boundless music the world over.
“Mirage”:
“Nemure”:
