Who says you can't go home again? After breaking from what it knows best, the Hiatus is set to return to the live-house venues that it built itself on, following a nationwide tour that took it in a different direction.

The Afterglow Tour, which began in 2012, took the five-piece to eight different cities throughout Japan. Venues such as Orix Theater in Osaka and NHK Hall in Tokyo had assigned seating, not the sweaty crush of mosh pits typical of a Hiatus show. The band even collaborated with an orchestra, but coordinating 17 people on stage — though a great experience — had lead singer and guitarist Takeshi Hosomi yearning to return to rock venues.

"We received a good response from the tour and were even asked to do more of those types of shows, but that format requires way too much time to prepare," Hosomi tells The Japan Times. "So for now we're thinking about only playing smaller shows, and that way we can get close to our audience again."