Destroy All Lines presents
Anamanaguchi Australian Tour
The Brightside (Fortitude Valley, QLD)
Sunday, 11 October 2026 7:00 pm
Anamanaguchi will bring with them their latest record, Anyway, which came about from the
same uncertainty they faced in their 2019 album [USA], a record that turned the band’s digital
language toward the physical world: American dread, internet overload, national identity, and the
strange and terrifying feeling of living inside systems too big to see. With digital textures, glitched
production and vast EDM landscapes, Anamanaguchi portrayed a world that no longer felt
human but showed the joy, excitement and emotion that could still overflow from those
constraints.
The digital rock band formed mostly in New York City had always called the internet their
"hometown", but they no longer saw that as a badge of honor. Anyway is a band-first album: the
sound of four friends living inside an inhuman war machine, believing in each other and reaching
to the outside world. It also happens to rock.
Since their starting days on online forums, Anamanaguchi have been pushing the limits of what
"counts" as a band: programming music on video game consoles, releasing free EPs through
netlabels, headlining festivals in Minecraft, collaborating with Hatsune Miku, Rocket League,
and the wider culture of games, platforms, and screens. But on Anyway they decided to go to the
opposite end of their online upbringing: taking on the forgotten annals of emo, punk, and indie
music to make something that could only be made by friends in a room: fuzzy guitars, strained
vocals, group harmonies, explosive drums, and melodies that feel less like escapism than
survival. The result is the band’s most direct and human record yet. Their hypermelodic style
takes a backseat to simplicity believing that even inside the machine, something real can still
happen. They are currently preparing ANYWAY FOR REAL, a version of Anyway where the
aliens of the digital world invade their analog island fortress.
Don't miss the chance to experience one of music most inventive bands live for the very first time
in Australia.
same uncertainty they faced in their 2019 album [USA], a record that turned the band’s digital
language toward the physical world: American dread, internet overload, national identity, and the
strange and terrifying feeling of living inside systems too big to see. With digital textures, glitched
production and vast EDM landscapes, Anamanaguchi portrayed a world that no longer felt
human but showed the joy, excitement and emotion that could still overflow from those
constraints.
The digital rock band formed mostly in New York City had always called the internet their
"hometown", but they no longer saw that as a badge of honor. Anyway is a band-first album: the
sound of four friends living inside an inhuman war machine, believing in each other and reaching
to the outside world. It also happens to rock.
Since their starting days on online forums, Anamanaguchi have been pushing the limits of what
"counts" as a band: programming music on video game consoles, releasing free EPs through
netlabels, headlining festivals in Minecraft, collaborating with Hatsune Miku, Rocket League,
and the wider culture of games, platforms, and screens. But on Anyway they decided to go to the
opposite end of their online upbringing: taking on the forgotten annals of emo, punk, and indie
music to make something that could only be made by friends in a room: fuzzy guitars, strained
vocals, group harmonies, explosive drums, and melodies that feel less like escapism than
survival. The result is the band’s most direct and human record yet. Their hypermelodic style
takes a backseat to simplicity believing that even inside the machine, something real can still
happen. They are currently preparing ANYWAY FOR REAL, a version of Anyway where the
aliens of the digital world invade their analog island fortress.
Don't miss the chance to experience one of music most inventive bands live for the very first time
in Australia.