Release Date July 10th, 2026
Format Full-Length Album
Genre Brutal Death Metal
Origin China
Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship emerged from China as an anime-obsessed brutal death metal band, releasing the debut EP “Μ’Sick” in 2016. The name came from a 2012 incident in Shanghai involving a fan kneeling before a train covered with “Love Live!” characters, an image ridiculous enough to define the project’s early direction. “The Divine Union Of Serrated Flesh” followed in 2018, with “Otakuslam♡Animecide” arriving five years later. During that decade, Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship developed from an internet curiosity into a touring band, appearing across China, Japan and Europe alongside major death metal and deathcore acts.
Anime imagery remains central to the presentation, although the subject matter has expanded far beyond gore, parody and provocation. Kiryu Zhang handles vocals and much of the visual direction, joined by Xenochrist on guitar, Zen on
bass, Shiru on drums and Khezk as composer. “二次元コンプレックス 2D Complex” marks the band’s tenth anniversary and places otaku culture, social withdrawal and emotional collapse at the centre of its nine-song, half-hour assault.
“二次元コンプレックス 2D Complex” throws downtuned riffs, rapid blast beats, guttural vocals and breakdowns against J-pop melodies, blackgaze haze, Japanese folk colours, electronic glitches and anime samples. Produced by Izurus and Khezk, then mixed and mastered by Hiatus Records, the album has enough separation for its violent low end and sudden melodic turns to register.
The production can become overloaded when vocal guests, samples, keyboards and tempo changes arrive within a short span. Several transitions make the contrast vicious; others come across as fragments attached for surprise, leaving the songwriting secondary to the collision of styles. The anime material has more substance once the lyrics address hikikomori anxiety, obsessive fandom, and rejection of reality, addiction and suicidal thoughts, using fictional worlds as shelter from an intolerable daily existence.
That bleak core gives the release an emotional dimension absent from disposable meme metal, although the kawaii presentation occasionally weakens the despair beneath it. The short running time helps, since the constant switching and guest-heavy vocal rotation would become numbing across a longer album. Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship offers a distinctive and often ferocious release, though its crowded construction and relentless genre-hopping leave several ideas underdeveloped.
|7.0
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