Goodbye illusion peace

The north end, a Japanese post-hardcore band that has been active since 2001 and has influenced the domestic post-hardcore/emo scene, finally released their second album "Goodbye illusion peace" in 2008.

The band members were working at WARP in Kichijoji at the time, where they were introduced to reggae music, which they had not listened to much before.
Not only did they come to enjoy listening to reggae music, but they were also inspired by its roots and the Rastafari movement that was the driving force behind it.

What is kindness?
Is it for our fellow neighbors, or is it something we can hold for people in faraway lands we have yet to see?
Is it something we can hold for those who lived before we were born and those who will live after we die - those who transcend time and space?

What is it to protect?
What is it to fight?
The other shore is burning. We who stand on the sidelines.

The lyric of "SCENE57" was drawn with the image of making a movie.
An attempt to create a story rather than write lyrics.
Cutscenes were made up to 82, and scenes excerpted from them were used as lyrics. Naturally, it took a hell of a long time.

It was a time when I found a driving force other than my initial impulse and was searching for how to express it as the north end.

The work is filled with the nakedness of the sensations of those days when the world was expanding all at once.