FIRST CONTACT Reveal New Band Photo and Tracklist for EARTH NATION
FIRST CONTACT, a new project produced by RYU of Blood Stain Child and featuring Sawa (Aldious), MaoMao and TanTan, have revealed a new official band photo ahead of the release of their second album EARTH NATION, due on 1 March 2026.
EARTH NATION’s full tracklist has also been announced. The album will feature nine tracks. While no audio previews have been released yet, RYU has promised that the album will be even more epic than the project’s already ambitious debut, PEACEMILLION.
FIRST CONTACT – EARTH NATION
- Prologue
- Mission to Galaxy
- EARTH NATION
- Erde Princess
- Bless The Nature
- Around The World
- Moment
- Back To The Stars
- Final Destination
Outside of Japan, EARTH NATION will be released digitally by JPU Records on 1 March 2026. A localised physical edition will follow at a later date and will include lore detailing the world FIRST CONTACT has created, printed in English for the first time.
While RYU describes FIRST CONTACT as a genre-free project, the debut album PEACEMILLION drew from a wide range of influences, including traditional Celtic music, cyber trance, metal, and video game and movie soundtracks.
With EARTH NATION, FIRST CONTACT continue to expand a universe where music, story and imagination collide, inviting listeners into a world that reaches far beyond genre, borders, and maybe even Earth itself.
