The mysterious and interesting story surrounding the album has caused people to become much more interested in it, going from its initial 30 CD copies to multiple vinyl reprints that are now instant sold-out, not counting the thousands of streams it receives daily on digital platforms. The audio files that were shared on 4chan, along with remastered versions of the original songs and other three songs that were originally in the band’s lost second EP from 2001 Kicking Cars, were added to the project’s digital re-release in February 2020.
It’s not a perfect record but something about it obviously spoke to a few people and that is an amazing thing.
It was like they had been on this journey to eventually get back to me (a little worse for wear), the genuinely positive responses were heartwarming. I mean, most creative people live in fear of their early work being exposed! So, I watched a few videos, giggled, I couldn’t really believe it. It took me a few minutes to even look it up and even more to press play. The group that had been hunting down the record on Discord filled me in. It was on a music page I had not updated for years. Album DEATHMETAL Panchiko Released JDEATHMETAL Tracklist 1 DEATHMETAL Lyrics 40.4K 2 Stabilisers For Big Boys Lyrics 17.5K 3 Laputa Lyrics 19.9K 4 The Eyes. I woke up one Tuesday morning to a strange message on social media asking me if I was the singer from Panchiko. In an interview with Corduroy Threads he said: The young, nave spirit in me that begs to believe there was actually an EP called D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L released in 2000 (on exactly one CD, to exactly one record store in Nottingham, U.K) is fighting with my adult inclination that viral marketing campaigns for new music can very realistically reach this absurd level in 2020. Over time, the number of people interested on knowing the background of the EP grew exponientally until, eventually, in early 2020 a person managed to contact OWAIN, the lead singer of the band. On July 21st, 2016, a user on 4chan’s /mu/ board posted a photo of a CD they’d found at a record store in Nottingham, UK: a rough-worn demo titled D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L, purportedly released in 2000 by four musicians: Owain, Andy, Shaun, and John.
It was not until 16 years later, that in July 2016 an anonymous user of the imageboard website 4chan made a post in the music section with a photograph of the physical CD cover art, asking for more information about it and, later on, also uploading the audio files ripped from the CD with a peculiar sound due to disc rot. Tickets on sale Thursday, May 5th at 10am. With only 30 physical copies, the album was originally released as a four song EP in June 2000, and it went completely unnoticed. With dark lyrics, a distorted and deep sound, and a unique story, British rock band Panchiko presents their debut album D˃E˃A˃T˃H˃M˃E˃T˃A˃L.
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