I like to pester HATEGLEAM from time to time about releasing more music; they got out an EP last year and are otherwise frustratingly quiet unless the topic is selling merch or the members playing Minecraft (using, no joke, a #HATECLAFT hashtag, damn it). I sometimes worry that the only outright band that I keep around might be too busy with other projects and video games to keep moving forward.
Well, at least for a minute, worry no longer!
本日はPVを撮影して来ました。
前回に引き続き、協力して下さった小泉監督、ありがとうございました！残りも宜しくお願い致します！1st「決起の咆哮」をEDテーマに使用していただいた小泉監督の映画は夏に公開予定です。そちらも是非！ pic.twitter.com/3QCEHm8Rw1
— HATEGLEAM (@HATEGLEAM) April 22, 2016
“But I don’t even know who HATEGLEAM is, Maniac. Why should I care?”
Because the word “idolcore” was basically invented for them:
Happy Friday.
They sound good!
(are they even idols though, or just a band?)
Honestly, I hinge my entire interpretation of their idolness on the fact that they’re so pointedly “anti-idol.” Okay, great, basically everybody who feels that way is, in fact, idol themselves, just Billie Idle-ing through it. Fantastic. But yeah, this is dangerously close to at least being a-band-with-idols more than idols-with-a-band, and might-be-a-band-period is possible.
Whatevs, I love them.