When was the last time you found yourself "in hell"? For Adam Graham, frontman for Japanese rock act Joy Opposites, it was last year.
"The creation of this record was hell in a lot of ways," Graham says with a laugh. "Not in that it was a particularly difficult birth, but just in that we were in a really weird place with the business side of the band and that threatened to swallow everything whole."
The 38-year-old vocalist and guitarist, originally from Northwich, England, might be referring to Joy Opposites' departure from Ivy Records although he doesn't go into details. But he admits that, while a bit chaotic, the experience of "going through hell" resulted in an abundance of artistic inspiration.