History Music / MaximumTheHormone

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Daisuke-han and Nao are founding members, but when Sugi and Key left the band in 1999, Ryo-kun and Ue-chan joined them in the same year.

* SelfTitledAlbum: Or to be accurate, Self-Titled Song. The eponymous song "Maximum the Hormone" was first released in their "Greatest the Hits" EP in 2011, before being in the "Yoshu Fukushu" album in 2013. The band would eventually release a direct sequel to the song in 2018, albeit with a subtitle.

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Maximum the Hormone is a Japanese band which derives influence from PunkRock, {{Funk}}, [[RockAndRoll Rock]], Pop, [[HeavyMetal Metal]], {{Anime}}, {{Manga}} and Japanese popular culture with lashings of [[AllMenArePerverts sex]].

They are not a "comedy" band, but many of their songs, like "Bikini Sports Ponchin", "[=ChuChu=] Lovely [=MuniMuni=] [=MuraMura=] [=PrinPrin=] Boron Nururu Rero Rero" and "(Cutter Knife Dosu Kiri) Honjou Hasami" have [[CrossesTheLineTwice pretty damn funny lyrics]] when contrasted with the upbeat tunes of the songs.

They are not a "comedy" band, but many of their songs, like "Bikini Sports Ponchin", "Chuu Chuu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Purin Purin Boron Nururu Rero Rero" and "(Cutter Knife Dosu Kiri) Honjou Hasami" have [[CrossesTheLineTwice pretty damn funny lyrics]] when contrasted with the upbeat tunes of the songs.

The band are probably best known for their songs [[ExpositoryThemeTune "What's Up, People?!" and "Zetsubou Billy"]], which are the second opening and closing themes of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime, and are generally harder-edged and less hilariously perverted than most of their material ("A kindergartener is fine, too."). It's worth noting that they're also pretty successful in their home country, their latest album being in the top 20 best selling albums of 2013 in Japan. Not bad for a metal band.

!! Their music contains examples of

* LongTitle: They have garnered quite a few over the years, "Rei Rei Rei Rei Rei Rei Rei Rei Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma" and "Chuu Chuu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Purin Purin Boron Nururu Rero Rero" in particular being major offenders.

* LyricalDissonance: "Chuu Chuu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Purin Purin Boron Nururu Rero Rero".

* NuMetal: Cite Music/{{Korn}} as an influence and mix clean, [[HarshVocals harsh]] and rapped vocals. Not your typical NuMetal band, though, it's safe to say.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with "Chiisana Kimi no Te" (Your Little Hand), a sacharine pop rock song that plays at the begining of "Maximum the Hormone" music video. The song seems to end abruptly in middle of second verse, after which Ryo is seen vomiting on TV screen that showed the video for previous song. He subsequently starts playing the actual song, "Maximum the Hormone".

* FunkMetal: Driving slap bass taken UpToEleven just sounds like {{Funk}}, especially in the hands of their bassist.

* FilkSong:
** ''"F"''. It's about ''Manga/DragonBall's'' Freeza (and was later heard by original author Creator/AkiraToriyama, inspiring him to write the film ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', which even used the song).
** Done in a weird way with the song "Unbelievable!: Suwomintsu Hokereiro Mifueho" off ''Yoshuu Fukushuu''. The lyrics are about old school video gaming back in the Famicom days (mentioning how back then most gamers had to rely on passwords instead of saving), and the second half of the song name is a password from ''Konami VideoGame/WaiWaiWorld''.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: They combine and cross genres more-or-less when they feel like it. Few other J-rock bands have achieved the same level of GenreBusting, the notable examples being Music/DirEnGrey and Music/MeltBanana.

* ContemptibleCover: Aside from their ''Kusoban'' EP (noted below), there's also the cover art for ''Rokkinpo Goroshi''. Be careful who [[https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/ar0/0b95c2ecda3fa6dbda5287f961059c1c.jpg you call impotent]].

** ''"F"''. It's about ''Manga/DragonBall's'' Freeza (and was later heard by original author Creator/AkiraToriyama, inspiring him to write the film ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'').

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Ranges from 6 to 10, but they can go as low as 2 to as high as 11. [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly It's impossible to tell, though]]
** MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: They're all over the scale...

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "What's Up, People?!"'s includes the repeated line, "HEY HEY! Ningen sanka ai nige ningen fuan ka?"[[note]]"Hey hey! Human paean. Do humans worry when love escapes?" The official translation is "Hey hey! A hymn to humanity. Love has gone. People, are you worried?"[[/note]] The line is pronounced almost identically to the "intended" line, "HEY HEY! NINGEN SUCKER! AH NINGEN NINGEN FUCKER!!"[[note]]Ningen is Japanese for "human"[[/note]].
** Which, ironically, is the most well-known translation by Death Note fansubbers and fans.
** Subverted in the final verse, when they actually sing that line, swears and all.

* While he very rarely sings lead, Ue-chan nearly always contributes backing vocals. In live performances especially, he frequently fills in for harmony parts, whenever Ryo-kun or Nao would have overdubbed their own backing vocals on the album. (see SelfBackingVocalist)

* While he very rarely sings lead, Ue-chan nearly always contributes backing vocals. In live performances especially, he frequently fills in for harmony parts, whenever Ryo-kun or Nao would have overdubbed their own backing vocals. (see SelfBackingVocalist)

* VocalTagTeam: A big part of their sound is the constant alternating between Daisuke's rap/screamed vocals, Ryo-kun's cleaner vocals (although he does scream quite a bit as well) and Nao's clean, pop singing style.
* VulgarHumor: Pretty much their schtick most of the time. For example, on would think their album ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusoban Kusoban]]''[[note]]Literally "Shit Number"[[/note]] and its opening track "Koi no Sweet Kuso Meriken" [[note]]"Sweet Yankee Feces of Love"[[/note]] would be a red flag for this.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[-From left to right: Ue-chan[[note]]bassist, backing vocalist[[/note]], Daisuke-han[[note]]screaming vocalist, rapper[[/note]], Nao[[note]]drummer, vocalist[[/note]] and Ryo-kun[[note]]guitar, clean vocalist[[/note]].-] ]]

* IconicOutfit[=/=]IconicItem: Ryo's toilet sandals of VIC, which he wears almost all the time. It influenced the track ''Benjo Sandal Dance'', which is about his habit of wearing those sandals.

* JapaneseDelinquents: Mentioned in "Chu 2 the Beam" ("8th Grader Beam" in English). Mentions how gradeschooler punks are known to hang around the mini amusement park areas on the rooftops of stores that are somewhat common in Japan.

** "My Girl" from the ''Greatest the Hits'' EP is a (mostly) upbeat Nu-metal track (with shades of 80s glam rock/metal). If you didn't know Japanese, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a light-hearted song about a relationship. [[spoiler: It's actually incredibly dirty and about how much they love pussy.]]