Japanese Progressive Metal/Rock, AOR artist Tadashi Goto has unveiled official lyric video for the single “Through Shifting Time” taken from new album, “Dust Logic,” released on October 22, 2026 via Lion Music.
Watch the lyric video for “Through Shifting Time” via the YouTube player below:
— The Story Behind Dust Logic —
“Dust Logic” is built around two realities that gradually become one: an increasingly impersonal, mechanical and signal-saturated world, and my own private emotional world. The coldness of screens, algorithms, machines, data, noise and endless communication became a language for sadness, anger, emotional numbness, loss, isolation and despair.
For me, the social and the personal are not separate in this album. The more the outside world feels mechanical and overloaded, the more the inner voice becomes fragmented. At the same time, private grief can make the real world feel equally cold and unreal. That is why machine imagery and human pain repeatedly occupy the same space throughout the record.
The loss of my father became the deepest personal point in the story. The album moves through disconnection, self-criticism, fear, rage, identity loss, isolation and memory before arriving at “A Moment Between Worlds.” There, the machine imagery finally gives way to a direct human confession: regret, understanding, forgiveness, love and the realization that what is lost can still remain inside us.
The ending is therefore not pure despair. Dust Logic: Omega does not erase grief or pretend that everything has been repaired. It closes the album with the possibility of continuing to live with what has happened. The final meaning is hope: not a simple happy ending, but the strength to carry memory, love and identity forward.
—Why Some Lyrics and Images Repeat —
Certain lines and images deliberately echo one another across the album. Words such as machine, signal, static, silence, voice, walls, darkness, light, fear and broken/fractured return because the same emotional wounds are being viewed from different angles. The similarity is part of the structure of the record, not accidental duplication. The album is meant to feel as if the listener keeps encountering the same inner problems in different forms until the final tracks begin to transform them.
Signal Overload – Morse code and other signal-like sounds represent the overwhelming number of signals surrounding modern life: communication, information, machines, screens, warnings and noise. The listener is placed inside that overload rather than simply being told about it.
Tracklist:
01. Dust Logic: Alpha
02. Through Shifting Time
03. Fear of the Machine
04. Noctis Veil
05. Dust Logic: Voices
06. Code of Salvation
07. Null Identity
08. Hardcore Dystopia
09. Crimson Scars
10. Keyboard Xtreme
11. Demon Wall
12. Eternal Levin Paradox
13. Signal Overload
14. A Moment Between Worlds
I. Forgiving
II. A Father and His Son
15. Dust Logic: Omega
Lineup:
Tadashi Goto
With:
Aira & Zena / Vocals
James LoMenzo (Track 2), Randy George (Track 4), Joseph Patrick Moore (Track 5), Matt Bissonette (Tracks 6,11), Tony Levin (Track 12) / Bass