What's Up People?! (Death Note OP2)

Maximum the Hormone arrive to Death Note like a structural derangement — "What's Up People?!" is intentionally unhinged, a song that sounds like it was assembled from the components of four different genres simultaneously detonating. Yusuke's guitar work is thrash-adjacent but melodically warped, the riffs lurching in directions that feel purposely wrong before locking back in with mechanical precision. Daisuke and Nao trade vocal duties in a way that weaponizes contrast: clean melodic passages shredding into screamed vocals without transition or apology, the production refusing to cushion the impact. The song is a critique wearing the costume of a celebration — its hysterical energy mirrors the particular madness of watching someone intelligent enough to justify anything convince themselves they're righteous. That layer of irony is what separates it from straightforward metalcore; it is performing excess while commenting on excess simultaneously. It belongs to a specific moment in mid-2000s Japanese heavy music when bands were aggressively dismantling genre boundaries, and MtH were the most committed demolitionists of the scene. Play this at maximum volume in a car going somewhere fast, or put it on when you need to metabolize something that has made you furious.