I just went to MUCC's two day live "MUCC 2018 ～復活の夜～ The WALL-CRIMEorDESTROY-" at Zepp Tokyo. The concert was pretty great and they played a good mix of new and old songs.
When I entered the hall there was a big curtain hanging in front of the stage and they were projecting a wall on it. The whole scenery was pretty flower power, there was bright sunlight and an old car in front of the wall, having graffiti sprayed all over it. As time went by, the wall got darker and it became night. In the middle of the wall, behind some plants, ome could the the MUCC logo. Before the show startet it became day again, but this time it wasn't as bright and at the end only the wall with the logo was left.
When the concert started, there was a "real" wall with the logo on it on stage, behind the band.
I am very bad at remembering setlists, but I was very happy about NIRVANA, Mr. Liar and Libra being played.
After a few songs Tatsurou started talking a bit. Amongst other things he talked about this show being the first live after their break besides the one at the hide Memorial Live. He also said that during their "break" (I actually don't concider three months a real break) they still made five new songs, two which where composed only by Miya abd three by the band. (I think they announced the three month as a break because so the two lives today and tomorrow can be seen as a fresh start after their 20th anniversary last year.)
They played all five new songs. The first one reminded me of T.R.E.N.D.Y because of its overall sound. The words "Free", "Sky", "Live" and "Death" appeared a few times on the wall and where partbof the chorus. The second one had electro elements in it and the performance was pretty cool! The stage was all black and the spotlights covered the members in yellow, lila and green lights. The third one was a rock ballad with strings. I don't know how to describe the fourth one, but it was a mix of a lot of different genres. I had to smile a bit because it felt pretty MUCC with all of the genres being thrown together. The fifth one was pretty hard rock/metal, the kanji 死 for death appeared on the wall a few times and during most of the performance there was 自己嫌悪 (self-hatred) written on the wall.
During the encore they talked again briefly about hide and Satochi imitated Yoshikis pose on his drum set, standind on the chair and making the X mark with his arms. Sadly the reaction from the audience wasn't as crazy as I had hoped it would be. lol I guess I was the only one appreciating the X mark and his imitation. lol
When the encore was over there was a lot of smoke and Satochi and his whole drum set were sliding to the front of the stage. I was pretty confused at first. Then, when the members had left, there was a very loud sounds and suddenly the wall began to fall apart. At the end there were only a few bricks at both sides left, the other bricks were all over the stage. Where the wall with the logo had been there was a new logo. Still the samw shape, but it now reminded me of a snake and was all grey/silver, was a big red eye in the middle, that was starting to glow.
I thought this was a very nice ending for a concert representing a new start. =) Even though taking photos wasn't allowed, I hastly took one of the logo, it isn't that good but in case anyone is interested, I can upload it.
Overall I was very very statisfied with the whole concert. Good song choice, members being energetic and definitely having fun and Tatsurous vocals being on point! Also I found Tatsurou's whole outfit and styling pretty sexy.
