Unfortunately, the band members chose to shy away from the spotlight - although they remastered the album in 2020 and uploaded it to Spotify. The members of Panchiko confirmed that the album was released in the year 2000, but that was not enough for the intrigued corners of the internet - they wanted further information. With this new access to the band, years of questions could now be answered. Believing their music had fallen into complete obscurity, they were surprised to receive these questions. Within a couple weeks of that first message, ex-band members Shaun and Andy also began to receive emails. According to Bandcamp, Panchiko member Owain eventually received a message from a random individual asking if he was involved with the band. Nearly six years after the original post, we finally got the answers we had been looking for. With only the first names of the four band members - Owain, Andy, John and Shaun - and the band name “Panchiko” on the cover, the internet began to search for answers. With relatively little information available, many skeptics began to question if this was all some sort of scheme to market the album. The fact that the CD was plagued with disc rot - aging of a CD that typically deforms the sound produced - only further fueled the interest that this album was attracting online. The record features many flowery and light vocals and plays heavily on the theme and sound of nostalgia. The music itself is extremely impressive, especially for an album produced by an unknown band. For years, online communities have worked together to discover more about the band behind this mysterious CD, leading to what would eventually become the internet’s greatest musical mystery.ĭ>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L was bizarre for two reasons: only one known copy of the original record existed, and the band that produced the record was unknown. He uploaded the cover and the audio of the album to 4chan and asked if anyone knew about its origins, but no one who stumbled on the post had any information to offer him. The author of the original post had found a CD with a simplistic album cover of Japanese manga in a used music shop. Shrouded in mysterious origins, the indie-rock record was posted to 4chan at some point in the 2010s. The album D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L by the British indie band Panchiko encapsulates this exact sentiment. It is an even taller order to maintain interest over a prolonged period of time. Capturing someone’s interest is a tall order to fulfill. I’m constantly falling in and out of love with people, ideas and interests. Falling out of love is the worst feeling in the world.