X ROOM

Before the full voyage begins on 17 April, Xdinary Heroes have unveiled their first transmission: "X room" — a vintage ballad that rewinds a fading relationship like an old film reel, delivering a quiet resolve that, in the end, everything will be all right. Written and composed by all six members, it is the quietest, most cinematic thing they have ever put their names to. And yet it contains everything that makes them extraordinary.

Official MV · 'X room' · Xdinary Heroes © JYP Entertainment

THE EXTRAORDINARY
HEROES

Xdinary Heroes — Gunil, Jungsu, Gaon, O.de, Jun Han, and Jooyeon — are JYP Entertainment's first rock band since DAY6, and they arrived in December 2021 with a debut single called Happy Death Day that sounded like nothing else on the K-pop landscape. Six musicians who write, compose, and perform every note themselves. No backing track as armour. Just instruments, intention, and an increasingly devoted global fandom called the Villains.

The name itself is the mission statement: Extra-ordinary Heroes. Abbreviated, collapsed, made theirs. Their music has been described as a "melting pot of genres" — pop-punk, alt-rock, progressive rock, tender ballad, hard riff — sometimes all within a single album. They are, quite simply, one of the most musically ambitious acts to emerge from Korea in the last decade.

In 2025 alone, they opened for Muse at their Seoul show, were awarded the Fan Power Award at the Rock Sound Awards, and appeared in the pages of the UK's most celebrated rock magazine. These are not incidental achievements. They are signals.

WHAT IS
DEAD AND?

The title is deliberately unfinished. DEAD AND — and what? The ellipsis is the album. Whatever comes after "dead" is the journey you are invited to take. The promotional imagery promises a mysterious atmosphere wound around powerful rock energy, a combination that has become the band's signature but which, judging by the pre-release track alone, they are pushing into entirely new emotional territory.

The title track is "Voyager" — and fittingly so, given the album's sense of departure and exploration. It was co-written by K-pop hit-maker Lee Woo-min "collapsedone", who previously helped craft some of the band's most beloved moments: PLUTO, Save me, Night before the end, and Beautiful Life. The fact that he returns for Voyager is, for long-time listeners, already something of a guarantee.

As always, every single member has contributed to every single track. Seven songs. Six writers on every credit. This is not a coincidence — it is a philosophy.

Full tracklist analysis and review to follow upon release on 17 April 2026.

WHY LONDON
IS WATCHING

VOYAGE LOG

Xdinary Heroes — DEAD AND (8th Mini Album) · Seven transmissions. All co-written and co-composed by all six members.

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