At the start of the year, the band completed a new album, with Alex Silva as the producer, who has worked with BrainStorm before, on the 2006 album “Four Shores”. The work on the new compositions took place in Berlin, at the legendary Hansa Studio. Traditionally, the first releases of their albums are always held in the mother country of the band - Latvia. And on 10 February 2015, the first single
“Ziemu apēst” from the Latvian version of the album named
“7 soļi svaiga gaisa” (“7 Steps of Fresh Air”)was released. The same day ticket sales for the summer tour of the band were launched. On 19 May, two versions of the new album were released simultaneously -
“7 soļi svaiga gaisa” for Latvia and
”7 Steps of Fresh Air” for Russia and the CIS. The Russian version of the album included ten songs, three of which were in Russian and one in the native language of the band - Latvian. The other songs of the album were in English. In Russia, the album was released on the
Warner Music Russia label. The very first track from the new record named Epoch, having stayed on the chart
“Чартова Дюжина” (“Chart’s Dozen") for almost five months, topped it twice during that period and, as a result, received the 2015 award “Chart Leader 2015”. The second track from the new album
“Пропуск” (“Pass")topped the chart
“Чартова Дюжина” in December 2015 and stayed on the top for over a month. BrainStorm
opened the summer season at the
"Нашествие" festival (Russia), where they performed as headliners on Saturday, 4 July. The musicians continued their summer concerts with a big
Latvian tour, gathering more than 100,000 spectators during their four concerts in Valmiera, Ventspils, Jelgava and Riga. On 26 October, prior to an autumn concert season, a documentary about the band was shown in Riga -
”BrainStorm: Between Shores” - the first autobiographic film about BrainStorm and their 25-year-long history. For the first time during the entire period of the band’s existence, its members told their life stories in a very sincere way, with all the available turns and twists. Following the Riga premiere, the film was shown in cinemas throughout Latvia, enjoying success. On the same day, it was announced that the album "7 Steps of Fresh Air" had entered the first round of the 58th GRAMMY award’s official list of candidates for the best POP album of the year. On 30 October, the band launched a series of concerts to support the release of their new album with their first European concert -
in London. On 11 November the musicians performed in Almaty. On 12 November, jointly with Ultra Production and “Наше радио”, BrainStorm
released their first vinyl album "7 Steps Of Fresh Air", which was presented in Moscow’s Duran Bar prior to the start of their Russian tour. On 14 November, for the first time, the musicians
presented their new programmeto Moscow spectators at Stadium Live, and already the next day BrainStorm went on their longest Russian tour of recent years. During a period of three weeks, the musicians visited
Kaliningrad,
Tomsk,
Krasnoyarsk,
Samara,
Kazan,
Ekaterinburg,
Chelyabinsk,
Voronezh,
Saint Petersburg and other cities. On 1 December,
BrainStorm’s new DVD “7 soļi svaiga gaisa” (“7 Steps of Fresh Air”), filmed during their Riga concert, was released. It is now available in DVD format and a digital HD version at www.ekase.lv! On the same day, the continuation of the 2016 local summer tour was announced and the date of the next concert - to be held on
20 August 2016 in Liepaja, at the Daugava Stadium.