Lead! Heat! Beat! (stylized as LEAD! HEAT! BEAT!) is the third studio album by the Japanese hip-hop group Lead. The album ranked No. 15 on Oricon and remained on the charts for four weeks. The album was released on August 10, 2005, nearly a year since their previous album, Brand New Era, and held three preceding singles: Tenohira wo Taiyou ni/Delighted, Atarashii Kisetsu e and Baby Running Wild.

Lead! Heat! Beat! is the third studio album by four-member Japanese hip-hop dance group Lead. The album took the No. 15 spot on the weekly Oricon Albums Charts and remained on the charts for four consecutive weeks.^[1] It was released a year after their previous album, Brand New Era, released at the end of August 2004. Before its release, the album garnered three singles: the double a-side Tenohira wo Taiyou ni/Delighted,^[2] the spring ballad Atarashii Kisetsu e^[3] and the summer pop song Baby Running Wild.^[4]

As with their previous albums, the album was only released as a standard CD, not carrying a CD+DVD counterpart.^[5] Instead, the music videos were later placed on their third compilation DVD Movies 3, which was released three years later on August 6, 2008.^[6] Unlike their previous albums, Lead! Heat! Beat! was not given a limited edition version.

It became their first album to contain both a prelude and an outro, which were different renditions of "Rock the House!!". Along with the new tracks on the album, it also included a remix of "Baby Running Wild" as track #15.

On December 7, 2005, they would release their second concert DVD, which corresponding with the album: Lead Live Tour Upturn 2005.