Mahadeva

... or, in other words, post in which the lemming once again fangirls until run dry.

So in (I can't remember, but I think it probably was) October, I discover a new-ish Jrock band called Deluhi. For much too long a time - by the standards of a person who has the attention span of a, well, lemming. I swear I'm probably the most difficult fan out there, ever - I had to make do with a mini-album and a single, which was all I could get my hands on.

But recently, oh, recently... I got their entire discography to date. The effect was disastruous (on my mother's ears. The poor dear still has to share a house with me, and she has yet to forsake her dignity enough to run to the neighbours' whenever my speakers start blaring) and orgasmic (on mine).

Short digression:
I actually recall doing a last.fm meme and being asked what my fondest memory of Deluhi was. I answered "making my mother fall off the couch when I first listened to Yomi no yuzuri ha cranked up to full blast." ^__^

I can't begin to express the shivers that go up and down my ribcage (I don't get the spine variety of shivers, never have.) when I hear the guitar and the drums. When I fail to hear the bass, but feel it holding the song together on a below-sound level (or whatamacallit). Of course, my greatest frustration is that I can't understand what they're saying, but that time will come on day. *Ties "tatakai" sign to forehead*

As for Juri's voice, it's been leaving me speechless from the very beginning. Deep, versatile, engulfing, raking, angry, not angry powerful, more level than any other Jrocker's I've heard so far (I'm refering to the young generation only. Legends are excluded.) So, so goddamn beautiful (and the really lol bit is when you see Juri and Leda from the neck up for the first time and instantly label them as Oshare-kei. And then they start singing *__*)

The most pleassant surprise of all, however, came today, when I saw their first PV (I'm not expressing properly. When I first saw one of their PVs. There.) and, better still, a live. No way, they sound soooo good live! And they seem to be in this dingy club, no bigger than a Suburbia or whatever, with a foot of space between Juri and the fans, with a rather disreputable sound system (though what is disreputable in Japan is probably state-of-the-art for us, but they still sound indie)and their stage movement is, um, static :)), but the energy they impress upon the viewer is so out there, it's amazing!

I'm happy to have gotten a new source of strength and swoon (lol), and I'll be stalking them faithfully from now on, as I am also doing with Matenrou Opera, Versailles, SID and heidi.

Oh, the joys of being a fangirl! I think I've finally found a reason /not/ to wish I were a guy. (although, if I could have taken my pick, I would have been a gay guy, so that's ok ^__^).

Um. Yeah. I proudly give you DELUHI.