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 sequence, “Name Of The Night time”
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 Night time)“.
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 sequence, and are additionally celebrating the discharge of their fourth album ‘LEGION‘, out now through Sony Music Japan / Arista Data.
The brand new songs seize Creepy Nuts’ hanging 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 sequence’ themes — fleeting moments, advanced feelings, questions of identification, ardour, and the paranormal.
“Nemure” (“Sleep”), however, mixes up chopped strings, jittery membership percussion, and flitting bits of melody for a track that viscerally captures the sensation of not losing a second, and embracing life whereas the world slumbers: “Dance till the morning comes / Can’t surrender, till that point / I’ll preserve all of it to myself, ah yeah / Just a bit extra… / Only one extra track… / 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 track 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 Night time” launches at present on HIDIVE.
In Might, Creepy Nuts took dwelling two awards on the ninth Crunchyroll Anime Awards — Greatest Opening Sequence and Greatest Anime Track for his or her unique track “Otonoke”, which doubled because the theme for the sequence “Dan Da Dan”.
They have been up in opposition to stiff competitors together with Yungblud, Ok-pop stars Tomorrow X Collectively, and, effectively, themselves for his or her large hit “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” (from “Mashle: Magic and Muscle tissues”), which additionally they performed reside.
That very same month, Creepy Nuts made a historic sweep of the 2025 Music Awards Japan, profitable 9 classes together with Greatest 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 track has reached 800 million international streams up to now whereas “Otonoke” has racked up greater than 330 million of its personal.
Each tracks function on ‘LEGION’ alongside the raucous single “doppelgänger” which can be the theme for the live-action movie adaptation of “Beneath Ninja”.
Observe alongside as Creepy Nuts proceed to unfold their wild, boundless music the world over.
“Mirage”:
“Nemure”: