Was it a hoax? More importantly: Is it good?

>>126894791 (OP)
ching chong

>>126894791 (OP)
I was gonna say no but now that I think about it... definitely

It's bad but not a hoax.

>>126894791 (OP)
shitty fake

All music is meant to spook you somehow, this was just extra effort on the technical side of things

>>126894791 (OP)
>Was it a hoax
yes
>Is it good
meh
the fact that it's fake sours the experience

>>126894791 (OP)
they posted it to 4chan themselves

>>126894791 (OP)
The only reason you faggots obsess over it being a hoax is because your little 4chan secret got big with normies. No one is gonna drop an album on here in shitty quality FOUR YEARS before dropping the actual album.

>>126896165
anyone who's been alive for more than 15 years know people will lie about and do ANYTHING for even no reason. I want you to look at just the album cover, and with a straight face tell me some british faggots made it 25 years ago.

>>126896443
>I want you to look at just the album cover, and with a straight face tell me some british faggots made it 25 years ago.
People read manga 25 years ago. You could find manga at the local library in my rinky dinky European shithole village 25 years ago. It's not something that zoomers just started enjoying in the 2020s.

>>126894791 (OP)
Of course it's a hoax. They really fucked up with the album art with the 2010s aesthetics thinking no one would notice. Nothing looked even close to that in the 2000s and I'm sorry but a no name band "from" that era wouldn't be that forward thinking with their album art, it would have resembled the trends of the time

>>126896534
Yeah okay and which Manga is that from exactly? Looks too obscure from the time period that brought us dragon ball z and sailor moon

>>126896885
Anon, the internet existed in the year 2000, western manga fans where a lot more tuned in to Japanese otaku culture back then than they are now.

>>126896891
Okay well assuming they ripped the image online than explain the font type and the proto death grips imagery

>>126894791 (OP)
>Was it a hoax?
I dunno
>>126894791 (OP)
>Is it good?
Fuck no

>>126896863
>2010s aesthetic
>90s manga
Lmao. It's not even the first time a western band had manga cover art. Pic related came out in the year 2000. Let's not forget that Big Blacks Songs About Fucking (and a bunch of other Albini projects) straight up had hentai cover art.

>>126896964
The examples you give actually look accurate for their time though. Show me a single piece of media that uses similiar font to the panchinko larp

>>126896964
I'm NTA but neither example quite matches. I have no dog in this fight, but this particular design, alongside the text, is obviously extremely reminiscent of modern album covers/Youtube detritus. Your examples are decidedly not.

>>126896913
>font type and the proto death grips imagery
What? Fucking arial black? It's been around since the 80s anon. What the fuck are you talking about?

>>126896977
>>126896979
This shit was 1999.

>>126897066
Yeah and it looks like it. Are you really not seeing the distinction?

>>126897066
You seem to be focusing on "anything anime or manga being on covers" rather than the design of it.

>>126894791 (OP)
I think the band/music is real but the story is embellished to some extent to cash in on the vaporwave meme

>>126897075
>>126897085
This was 1995.

>>126897115
And let's not forget that Tatu did this in like 2003.

>>126897115
I'll repeat, I have no dog in this fight, but you don't seem to understand the design distinction. You're not posting stuff that's persuasive.

>>126897085
I dunno anon, when the only thing people use to ground it in the 2010s is "muh Death Grips" I can't really take them seriously. Especially since Death Grips are already aesthetically and musically derivative. Makes me think that it's just a bunch of kids who discovered "experimental" music through Death Grips in like the mid 2010s and never really dared to venture outside of that kinda music. The font choice and layout for Death Metal isn't some weird out there thing, it's very late 90s/early 2000s. The only thing setting it apart is that they ripped a picture from a late 90s manga.

>>126897140
>The font choice and layout for Death Metal isn't some weird out there thing, it's very late 90s/early 2000s
Again, I don't know what to think about this story, and don't really care either way, but this isn't the truth. People are not imagining something being decidedly modern about it. Even the original post, from what I recall, assumed it was going to be vaporwave.

Whoa, how did he know?

There's GOT to be some kind of brain disconnect happening here.

>>126897149
Pic related is from 1999. Vaporwave is deliberately meant to invoke nostalgia for a time gone by, plenty of vaporwave artists are specifically channeling the aesthetics of that whole 90s/2000s pre-Myspace era of the internet.

>>126897218
My man, I don't know what to say. Not a single example provided even comes close. I was there during the Myspace shit, I made some of the Myspace shit. You're not touching upon the nuance of the distinction, you're just posting covers with anime + plain font (occasionally).

>>126897233
>I was there during the Myspace shit
Pre-Myspace my zoom zoom.

>>126897246
I know, what I was saying is that I was quite alive and paying attention to music in the "pre-period", enough to be participating in the early 00s, and there is a difference in what I'm looking at with the Panchiko cover and the examples you've provided. I haven't seen every example in the world and all that, but I saw nothing quite like that before or during my time of playing along. But I repeat, I am on the fence and have no dog in this fight.

>>126897140
literally uses the exact same design motif (albeit mirrored) and essentially the exact same font (though slightly italicized) for "deathgrips/deathmetal". prior to panchiko coming out of nowhere you'd be hard pressed to find a single album or piece of media that resembled the exmilitary album cover. you strike me as a zoomer who wasn't even alive in the late 90s/early 2000s because had you been alive then i think it would be natural for red flags to be raised when looking at that panchiko cover. it just doesn't resemble a single trend from the era

What I don't get it is how these dudes were all able to drop their full-time jobs on a dime and start doing 30-40-date tours every year? don't they have kids and families to attend to, too?

>>126898731
Assuming everything is real and on the level, and assuming the story is real, they found themselves sleepwalking into lots of money. What would you put on hold for that?

>>126898474
Arial is literally one of the most common fonts around anon, what the fuck are you talking about?

>>126895750
It’s sad that a lot of zoomers are willing to look past the hoax if they enjoy the music. Just digging the vibes are more important to the modern music experience than honesty or self-respect.

>>126898847
I think the underlying point he's making is the formatting similarity. If you can show me any other example, I'd appreciate it.

>>126896443
>for even no reason
It’s always for clout and “engagement”

>>126896964
>>126896979
Anon’s example looks like it was made using the resources of its time. Panchiko cover looks like it was made in mspaint in 2016.

>>126898910
Yeah it does, though something extra. There's something about the arrangement of the text and the use of the image that is suspiciously modern. I've said a thousand times, I'm on the fence, but the album cover is undeniably odd. If it's on the level, it's arguably one of the most interesting album covers in history (retarded or hyperbolic as that sounds).

>>126898910
MSpaint has been around for decades, the Panchiko cover can easily be done with traditional photocopying rather than with a computer.

>>126898937
Correct, this album cover would have been possible in the early 00s. The only odd part to me is that I know of no example where it was. Other examples have a different design ethos that is suggestive of their time. This one fits so snugly into the 2010s that it would ignored in any other context.

>>126898474
>mixing vertical and horizontal text with a generic font was invented by Death Grips
There are a shitton of punk albums like that anon-kun.

>>126899033
Do you not see how this is different, other than the obvious?

>>126899076
>n-n-no one was into anime until the 2010s
>u-u-u-uh... they ripped of the font choice from Death Grips
>t-t-t-they ripped of the text layout of Death Grips
>a-a-a-actually the whole composition was ripped from Death Grips
Stop moving the goal posts. Having a text layout like that was common among punk stuff, people in the west already liked anime and manga in the 90s. Having a headshot with that generic text layout is not some weird sign of the 2010s.

>>126899144
I'm very familiar with punk and the layout, I'm not making a claim about Death Grips, and you're wound too tight cunt. I've said I'm on the fence here.
>Having a headshot with that generic text layout is not some weird sign of the 2010s.
Show me one from the 00s. The Bastard cover is the most persuasive example so far but not quite the same (and quite familiar to 90s punk covers). I would suspect the closest possible examples would be found in local scenes, especially in the 00s. But I've seen probably countless shitty local album covers, including from my own scene in the 00s, and there is a difference. I'm very open to being persuaded otherwise.

>>126899207
If there's anything that would hint at it being a 2010s project it's not the anime girl, the font choice or the layout, it's the fact that d>e>a>t>h>m>e>t>a>l is spelled with >'s in between each letter. That's the one aspect that feels more "modern" to me, everything else I've seen before in various combinations.

>>126899245
That design choice is definitely part of it