You don't have to be angry, you can smile,! Heavy metal don't have to be a bunch of angry men trying to be tough. You can have fun and enjoy and be danceable. Really this makes it the jondra it is
They are playing tag and hide & seek with a demon. The demon's voice is saying "Are you ready?" and girls respond "No, not yet." Keep in mind that demons in Japan are not always evil.
@@javersongoulartfilho9439 I believe it's assumed to be a demon due to the use of the phrase "Oni-san". Oni being demons (Or at least demon adjacent) in japanese lore. Plus I'm pretty sure that's part of the culture of their version of tag. You aren't "it", you're "The Oni", hunting little children.
@@gjunky1513 a good representation of demons in Japan in no face in spirited away, he wasn’t a bad spirit but in the bath house he was a demon and did a lot of harm. However he was also a friend, as well it’s a good representation of how they see demons.
There's an anime movie called KakuRenbo where kids are running through an abandoned part of a city at night, wearing fox masks, trying to outrun demons. As they're picked off, one by one, the city starts coming to life, and in the end its revealed that the city is powered by the souls of children. The last kid standing is then possessed by the fox spirit and goes around recruiting more kids to play the game.
your reaction seems typical the first time people see/hear Babymetal. As stated, they have been around since 2010, just released their fourth studio album and have a library of about 60 songs. The performers are Su-Metal (Song/Dance), Moa Metal (Scream/Dance) and Yui Metal (Sceam Dance. Scream/Dance thing of cheerleaders. They do add harmonies to some of the songs and have four songs they due as a duo, but mostly are there to get the crowd into the song. Su is currently 25. Moa and Yui are 23, though Yui left the group in 2018 citing health issues and was just recently replaced by 20 year old Momo Metal. This particular song is about playing a game of hide and seek/tag with an Oni (ogre). It;s based on Japanese lore. All of there songs are different. One may be power metal, one is rap/hip hop, the next may sound like it's out of a Bollywood movie. To mirror others here, if you wish to continue your journey down the fox hole I;d suggest Road if Resistance (Live in Japan), Ijime, Dame Zettai from Sonisphere (a show which put them on the international map), Headbanger (Legend 1997 the day after Su turned 16). BTW, if you didnt notice early on, they werent doing the "traditional" Devils Horns associated with metal shows, it's a shadow Fox (Kitsune) all of their lore and directions come down from "The Fox God"
I don’t know what is more sad. You having that useless information readily available or that you’d admit to it. Considering where you’re at. Sadness is your life.
You're definitely over sharing here, but it is a fact that Baby Metal has been around for quite a while. Feels disingenuous to react to them in surprise at this point, but even if this a first time listen it's like... ok, but you've had well over a decade. Uploader has likely heard them many times, and if they haven't, it's a case of not paying attention at all.
Everybody gangsta until those girls come out. I've seen them once in NYC, and they are even smaller than they look. 5'0" is smaller than I expected, but they're also like 90 pounds, if that, so it makes them look even smaller. I'm about to see them a second time for the Babyklok tour with Dethklok, which is a dream match for me. If you'd like to keep going, and I hope you do, Headbangerrrrr live at Legend 1997 is a great performance, as well as Ijime Dame Zettai live at Sonisphere 2014. Babymetal are the perfect example of something that can only come out of Japan.
Best reaction I have ever seen! Yes, BABYMETAL always brings a smile to your face. ALL their songs are positive. They fixed my half-year pet loss (of a 18 year old dog) and now I have 16 live Blu-rays, changed out my entire audio system just to see their performances. My first live was in Japan this January, and people around me were either smiling and jumping, or were in tears throughout the performance. That is what they do.
"Best reaction I have ever seen!" ....Nah..not really..cmon...Dont even notice the 7string base ..No noticable reaction in her eyes is a tell..(and as a drummer..pls snap yr fingers and nod yr head in tempo pls) But , Aight , I understand so no hard feelings.Cudos 4 the reaction nevertheless..
Nice, I get how a band can do that. For me it was King's X, getting me through severe depression. Glad you found yours! I totally understand, this band is amazing in its own unique and special way.
I'm Japanese. Thank for your nice reaction. Babymetal's members belong to the biggest entertainment company in Japan and are famous star (acting in TV. CM. etc) from when a child.😀 And, Suzuka Nakamoto (The lead singer of Babymetal) is a very famous singer. There are many videos of her singing from when she was in elementary school on UA-cam.😀
Great first reaction and welcome to the BABYMETAL Foxhole.🦊 'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek I've ever heard. It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni 👹(a sort of Japanese ogre popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children ... which amuses me probably more than it should). The growling vocals (they are on a backing track) are the Oni👹 asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance.🏃♀🏃♀🏃♀👹 This was a compilation video with clips from 10 different concerts from 2013 through to 2017. There is a video from the live performance at Budokan , Black Night 2014 that has subtitles if you want to watch that as well. The Kami Band are the instrumentalists supporting BABYMETAL - in this they were just doing one of their intros - its only fair they get their chance to show off during the shows and there are two or three other songs where they would do an instrumental intro like this. In order of solos in this video they were - Mikio Fujioka (RIP January 2018), Takayoshi Ohmura, BOH on the bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums. You already have good suggestions for more songs - I will add a vote for the Legend 1997 live 'Headbanger' ... you can find that on Gans Tomas or abr metal channels.
Wow this was some deep lore. tnx. I am not really into Baby Metal but this might make me want to get into it. I remember discovering Masa Works Design and just jumping deep into the lyrical Japanese folk lore whole.
BABYMETAL TIME HELL YEAH! Welcome to the Foxhole 🦊🤘 BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock idol group called Sakura Gakuin, they were 11 and 12 years old when they first started. They created their own genre called kawaii-metal, mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. They became independent artists in their own right after 2013. They are: SuMetal (Suzuka Nakamoto, lead vocals). MoaMetal (Moa Kichuki, scream and dance) YuiMetal (Yui Mizuno, scream and dance, 2010 - 2018) Yui left the band due to health issues in 2018. MomoMetal (Momoko Okazaki, scream and dance, member since 2023) Catch Me if You Can was released in 2013 - at the time Moa and Yui were 14 and Su was 15. They have since gone on to release four studio albums, the latest of which, The Other One, was released this month. Their sound has matured and grown as they have aged and I urge you to check out some of their later stuff.
I've only just discovered these guys too and always imagine that meme with the hispanic dude throwing salt but it's the Slayer, Cannibal Corpse and Cradle Of Filth logos with the Demonslayer logo thrown in haha These guys are THE SHIT!!!
It's always a joy to see someone discover Babymetal - I've been a fan since the "Doki Doki Midnight" video came out (I think it was on about 3.5k views when I was introduced).
The first BabyMetal album is just pure unadulterated glorious WTF that never stops plastering a massive grin over your face. Seriously, it was amazing when that came out.
I've see them live. AWESOME show. The whole band has so much energy. If my info is correct this started out as a school project or something like that and it took off.......third hand info so I could be wrong.
I love watching people discover BABYMETAL. I'm always in tears because I'm getting to see them through new eyes every time and it's goddamned beautiful.
Just today announced a huge U.S. tour for late summer fall all over the USA. God tier live performances. Got tickets already for St Louis to see them for the 4th time.
A tour with _Dethklok,_ of all bands. I now want to see anime versions of the Babymetal girls on stage with the animated Metalocalypse version of Dethklok.
Got my ticket for the NY show. My first time too. Missed out on an opportunity to see them many years back and just missed getting tix before they sold out. I wasn't making that mistake again. lol. 😀
⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃♀👹 So this cute song is about playing a game that is like hide-and-go-seek, tag or blind-man's-bluff. Pursued by an "Oni" which is a kind of Japanese Ogre. : ) While Megitsune is still my favorite, I think this is one of their their best early choreographies. If much of their charm is in the blending of the cute and the brutal, this song is a great example. They're all turned up to 11. They performed this song quite a bit in 2017, but not since. The last time I saw this one was in Chula Vista, California when they were on tour opening for Korn on the Serenity Of Summer tour. Here's 'Rondo of Nightmare', a solo song from their lead singer Su-metal (Suzuka Nakamoto, or just "Su") with a short instrumental lead-in by their live Kami Band: ua-cam.com/video/8WBDiLMNZcE/v-deo.html This Budokan Black Night performance from 2014 is a classic. Or look for a live version of 'Megitsune'. So many great songs. And yeah, this is a group that will create new synapses in your brain. : )
My all time favorite group. I was obsessed with Babymetal for several years. They are all grown now but the videos are ageless. There are hours and hours of video.
@@mikepowers9486 Importantly and very sadly Mikio is also gone and with the Kamis (Eastern or Western) hidden behind masks some of the fun is also gone. I can see Amuse wanting to make the fans focus entirely on BM and make it possible to switch out the musicians without any drama, but I think it was ill conceived.
@@vault29a The musicians except for 1 of the guitarists who died are ALL still playing with BABYMETAL. They just don't play every show. They have a set of American musicians too.
@@vault29a if so, so what? BM is Su n Moa. Yui is gone. Good enough for me. The band was never ever a set group of musicians. Lead guitar players came n went. Miko died. They still get the best musicians for their shows. How many of any band from last century are still all originals. Enjoy. Or enjoy not. If you're not happy watching them go watch somebody else's videos. And try not to ruin it for others.
Welcome to the Foxhole and BabyMetal journey 🦊🤘🔥 They're the best thing that could ever happen in your life. I already saw Grington300 and Rick Wagner giving you some great info and suggestion about this amazing group. I'm gonna left my own suggestion so you can enjoy the best way to experience your journey into BM world. Hopefully you will hear some more songs from them so you can have the chance to meet them live when going on tour in the US and many more countries around the world, maybe you won't have some of these older songs but trust me they got more than 60 songs in their catalogue and none of them are bad. Have fun and see you next time 🦊🤘❤️
We know Amuse is very hard to deal with copyright blocked issues, fortunately we got a way to go around with *(gonna write the place in my next comment) YT place, you'll get full original clips of their best live performance with watermarked logo safe to react, look for "Future Plans" vid, follow instructions and you'll get all of them, upload the one with the logo for us and you can watch without it, don't worry for us we already saw all of them. You'll find some watermarked clips in the channel also with the description and where to get the non-logo version. If you want you can watch the original clean version and pause whenever you like to say your comment and after that you can put a logo provided in the same place so you can enjoy a clean version from the beginning. You can also put some heavy opacity and translucent effect to avoid those issues if necessary. However there are some safe clips to react like those from Legend 1997 or some of Budokan 2014 or previous to this year and Festivals that is out of reach from Amuse hands. By all means AVOID live compilations at least for first time watching, not saying all of them are bad but chances are you'll end up facing the bad ones bad edited, very confusing, switching costumes and distracting you from the performance and meaning of the song. Also avoid Glastonbury Festival performance, the sound is bad and the crowd isn't the usual fans. Here's some examples of safe to react live performances: - "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!" live at Legend 1997 (2013, you can find this a "Gans Tomas" or "abr metal") or live at Legend I (2012). - "Rondo Of Nightmare" with Mischiefs Of Gods Intro live at Budokan 2014, this one normally is safe to react without any filters. ("Kawaii Metal" got this) - "Catch Me If You Can", you got live at Budokan 2014 with subtitles version at GuilhermeCait. - "Ijime Dame Zettai" live at Sonisphere Festival 2014 (lately hasn't been so safe, so careful) - "Karate" live at Download Festival 2016 ("kitsune6001" got this one) - Distortion, live at Download Festival 2018 or Rock Am Ring 2018, official got the Download version and is safe to react. If you follow this step by step you won't have blocked issues the majority of times, but sometimes there has been issues with certain songs so if you got those try to put opacity, blur or translucent effect, that might help a little bit. Thanks for sharing your BabyMetal reactions and reading this humble recommendation. 🦊🤘
GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE!!! THIS YOUNG LADY IS A STAR. HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YOUR GREAT COMMENTS GETTING THROUGH TO EVERYONE. THIS COMMUNITY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HANDICAPPED PEOPLE TOO OLD TO GO TO MUSIC CLUBS OR EVEN TO COFFEE HOUSES WITH COOL MUSIC. KEEP SPREADING THE WORD.🤘🤘🤘
Great reaction! As an old 70's headbanger...this group is the real deal. Extremely talented and hardworking, and best live. From your commentary afterwards, I think you would really enjoy BabyMetal 'Death' live...not much singing but a very good musical theatrical show. 🤘🦊🤘
I was watching some Rammstein, Prodigy, and the like over the weekend and I kept seeing this Babymetal in the suggestions. I finally clicked and pretty much lived your reaction to the 'T'. Next thing I knew it was four hours later.
Ok i have heard these ladies before and their band is all that! They make great muic even if i cant understand the words?lol I stopped the video at 0:40 to comment i bet your gonna be shocked and delighted! LOL
This is most weird & confusing while catchy & addicting song at the same time, genius compossed music. And their dance is so adorable especially on after the breakdown & chorus. Good choice for the first time watching BabyMetal. If you enjoy their energy, try Headbanger & Pa Pa Ya live performance.
Great first reaction! 🤘🦊🤘Thank you for giving BABYMETAL a chance!!! BABYMETAL started back in 2010 and since then have performed with, toured with, or opened for Metallica, Korn, Sabaton, Bring Me The Horizon, Dragonforce, Guns N' Roses, Lady Gaga, Rob Halford of Judas Priest (there's a great youtube video of their performance with Rob at a metal award show), and Red Hot Chili Peppers (there is a youtube video of them performing Gimme Chocolate with RHCP, as well as with Korn, and DragonForce), to name a few of many. They have performed at large metal events/concerts in front of 65,000+ skeptical metalheads in Europe (Glastonbury, Download, Sonisphere, etc), US, and Asia. They are the first Japanese band to perform at Wembley arena in the UK. 20+ awards have been given to them. They have 60+ songs and each one is different from the other, so I hope you give the other songs a try. By the way, they have some really great heavy songs too, and I hope you like guitar solos, as well as bass and drum solos, like I do, because they have them too.🤘🦊🤘
Not sure if it was already said. But the handsign isn't ye old Western Devil Horns. It's the Kitsune. A foxes head. Similar to the horns but the tips of the two fingers and thumb touch and are away from the hand instead of the usual place. Funny that that is what you thought it was because when Babymetal first came out to the West THEY thought we were throwing up kitsunes not devil horns. The band is the Kami band. They rip and tear like no other. The song is a metal version of hide and seek basically. Hince the part about red shoes. Edit to add that the genre is called Kawaii (cute) Metal. J pop Idol group backed by the heaviest of metal.
The entire band is amazing, the lead singer Su-Metal is one of the best vocalists ever, the more you listen to their catalog and watch the performances the more you realize how crazy good she is. And they do a huge range of styles and songs all with a metal backing.
I've watch your reaction five times....cuz when you catch yourself in shock when they first come out. is priceless and fun to see. These Ladies energy and fucking awesome band has made me a fan. Im a 48 yr old skool Hip-hopper....lol.
This was my first Babymetal song as well... Totally blew me away and i have not stopped listening since... I need a daily dose of these girls st least three times a day.. See you!
I'm sure you know by now (July) that Babymetal "is" the girls. The band is the backup they are that part of BM not the focus. What they bring and what BM brings seem like a clash but as you can see, like many at first, it j ust works; they are excellent, professional, pleasing, and fun to watch.
My first encounter with Baby Metal was Gimmie Chocolate. I am used to listening to bands like Behemoth, Vader, Lamb of God, etc, etc. That one took me soooo much by surprise I fell in love with BM. ;D
I've seen literally over 1000 concerts, as I've toured on summer tours and seen more shows than I can ever remember, but I went in to Babymetal blind as a laugh to be a good friend to a guy from Ukraine I know, thinking it would just be a novelty. I came out thinking it was already in my top 5 ever, and settled on it being like #2 or #3. They're insane, and I never miss the chance to see them.
I went down the Foxhole and am a proud member of "The One" for three years and running. Whenever I need a pick-me-up, i watch BabyMetal videos. I really like first-time reactions like yours because everyone feels the same way.... WTH am I watching, I think I like this, totally hooked
The are monstrously huge - First Japanese Band to perform in Wembley Arena, London; in 2019 performed at the LA Forum sold-out and sold-out the Tokyo Dome 2 nights running, different show each night, Dome capacity 55,000. They will be on tour in the US this year. NEXT - "Monochrome", Lyric version and The First Take piano version. May need a hankie for the piano ver.
Your reaction is the same as mine when I first saw them on YT (Gimme Chocolate). I was like seriously WTF did I just watch!? 6 months later and I have tickets to see them headline on their world tour here in Melbourne this June. They are freakin' awesome. I've gone full-on down the foxhole 🤘🏻🦊
Hi. When you said this was a total blind reaction I literally did this 🫣 lol. I’m happy you like them! Hey, when you need a coffee and don’t want to wait, just throw on a Babymetal song. It will help you move twice as fast at everything 🤣
Welcome to the BABYMETAL Galaxy or now Kingdom. Welcome to my favorite band. Welcome to the most unique, talented, humble, cute, and badass band out there. Enjoy the journey if you continue down the Fox hole. 🤘🦊🤘
the cutest metal singers I ever seen.... they are magic..... backed by a metal band alpha,,,, happy meets doom with eye candy outfits ,,,,,, yin and yang,,,,, a 21st century band
Babymetal is really an amazing concept and they have such crazy shows ! Opposite to this cuty song, you can watch their dark one 'babymetal death', a must have seen.🤟🤟
You're face when you girls started singing lmao so good. I loooove how the music is all down and dirty metal and then you have the cute little "UWU singers" 😂
You will see so many gatekeepers talk shit about Baby Metal, but when legends like Rob Halford and Rob Zombie give them props it shuts the haters down.
Let's just call it 'The Babymetal Effect'!! Always positive, surprising, energetic and quite simply a joy to watch. What a band!!! Love Babymetal!! Kitsune up!!😂🦊🤟🎉❤
I still remember what i was doing when i found "give me chocolate". I was searching for Japanese metal bands (bandmaid is a pretty solid band btw.) At first i had no idea what i stumbled onto, i intended to keep looking around for more bands, but i just kept repeating that one song, hours went by, before i knew it i had repayed that one song constantly for days, and weeks, until i finally got burnt out with it, and decided to check out their other songs, and oh my god, i replayed those too, not as much as the give me chocolate, but pretty close. Just something about the heavy instrumentation and their squeaky upbeat kid voices that was just oh so good. Give me chocolate will always have a special place in my heart. Give it to the Japanese to come up with something like jpop and metal, and it's good.
Nice reaction. Babymetal making folks happy for over 10 years now. Many reactors ask how, do their pop vocals and dance work so well with the metal influenced music. For them it's easy. It's Babymetal magic. Start with Su the lead singer and add in her two kawaii angels Yui and Moa. Then add in the metal mixed with whatever other genre or genres of music they want to add in. Say the magic words. Double Double toil and trouble. Fire burn cauldron bubble. And poof. But this is just the start. You have to do this live. When done live you must add in the stage band known as the Kamiband. Some of the best session players in Japan. If their busy you get the East Kamiband. Also, very talented folks. This is how Babymetal rolls. A bundle of pure performance fun and happiness. They're coming to the USA to tour from late August to about mid-October. Tickets are on sale now. As you can see, they put on a great show. And even won awards for it. This is the best song ever about a version of hide and seek. But they do it with an Ogre. Because Babymetal is cool like that. When they started Babymetal were the troublemakers of metal. Metalhead gate keeper were shocked. and said things like how dare three little Japanese kawaii girls have the audacity to do metal. This can't be real. Just a gimmick. Over 10 years later. Some keep telling themselves that. They're not ready for happiness in their metal. But when Babymetal started out one of the things they wanted was to make a good starting point for those who just adventuring into metal. Especially young ladies like themselves at the time. A big part of mixing in the other genres of music. This way there's something for everyone to grab onto. Over the years it's not just the music they mixed. Their dance style is a mix of different types of dances as well. and vocally their lead singer is hard to beat. Strong is she in the way of singing. and has repeatedly been in the top ten metal vocalists for the last 5 years. Some metal heads say well she doesn't growl or screech. When you can sing like Su-metal you A don't have to, and B why would you want her to do that when she can sing the way she does? I hope you continue to react to more Babymetal. This is the way.
i watch so many babymetal reactions that i dont need to have my notifications on, i just know whenever any of them is uploading a new reaction video of them.
You don't have to be angry, you can smile,! Heavy metal don't have to be a bunch of angry men trying to be tough. You can have fun and enjoy and be danceable. Really this makes it the jondra it is
Everyones first time hearing BABYMETAL: what....the....eff....is thisssss....oh wait THIS ROCKSSSSS
According to the results of a poll conducted by Metal Hammer, Babymetal has been voted into the Top 10 Greatest Metal Bands Ever.
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@@jhorse6968 keep crying, little boi
@asyncasync uh my favorite band is in top 10. What's there to cry about?
@@jhorse6968 🤣🤡
They are playing tag and hide & seek with a demon. The demon's voice is saying "Are you ready?" and girls respond "No, not yet." Keep in mind that demons in Japan are not always evil.
I really need to look up their lyrics - I love stuff like that
Hi! Why is it assumed to be a demon? I don't know their culture and meaning behind songs, would like to know more.
@@javersongoulartfilho9439 I believe it's assumed to be a demon due to the use of the phrase "Oni-san". Oni being demons (Or at least demon adjacent) in japanese lore. Plus I'm pretty sure that's part of the culture of their version of tag. You aren't "it", you're "The Oni", hunting little children.
@@gjunky1513 a good representation of demons in Japan in no face in spirited away, he wasn’t a bad spirit but in the bath house he was a demon and did a lot of harm. However he was also a friend, as well it’s a good representation of how they see demons.
Kami band is one of the most talented all star band of all time. RIP Mikio Fujioka ❤
There's an anime movie called KakuRenbo where kids are running through an abandoned part of a city at night, wearing fox masks, trying to outrun demons. As they're picked off, one by one, the city starts coming to life, and in the end its revealed that the city is powered by the souls of children. The last kid standing is then possessed by the fox spirit and goes around recruiting more kids to play the game.
How am I just seeing this for the first time????? That is AMAZING. They're culture hacking and it's awsome!
BABYMETAL!!! More BABYMETAL ❤❤
your reaction seems typical the first time people see/hear Babymetal. As stated, they have been around since 2010, just released their fourth studio album and have a library of about 60 songs. The performers are Su-Metal (Song/Dance), Moa Metal (Scream/Dance) and Yui Metal (Sceam Dance. Scream/Dance thing of cheerleaders. They do add harmonies to some of the songs and have four songs they due as a duo, but mostly are there to get the crowd into the song. Su is currently 25. Moa and Yui are 23, though Yui left the group in 2018 citing health issues and was just recently replaced by 20 year old Momo Metal. This particular song is about playing a game of hide and seek/tag with an Oni (ogre). It;s based on Japanese lore. All of there songs are different. One may be power metal, one is rap/hip hop, the next may sound like it's out of a Bollywood movie. To mirror others here, if you wish to continue your journey down the fox hole I;d suggest Road if Resistance (Live in Japan), Ijime, Dame Zettai from Sonisphere (a show which put them on the international map), Headbanger (Legend 1997 the day after Su turned 16). BTW, if you didnt notice early on, they werent doing the "traditional" Devils Horns associated with metal shows, it's a shadow Fox (Kitsune) all of their lore and directions come down from "The Fox God"
Your comment seems typical of a certain sort of person too.
I don’t know what is more sad. You having that useless information readily available or that you’d admit to it. Considering where you’re at. Sadness is your life.
You're definitely over sharing here, but it is a fact that Baby Metal has been around for quite a while. Feels disingenuous to react to them in surprise at this point, but even if this a first time listen it's like... ok, but you've had well over a decade. Uploader has likely heard them many times, and if they haven't, it's a case of not paying attention at all.
Nah, I appreciate the lesson on the Church of Baby Metal. Well written thank you fellow Kitsune.
Everybody gangsta until those girls come out. I've seen them once in NYC, and they are even smaller than they look. 5'0" is smaller than I expected, but they're also like 90 pounds, if that, so it makes them look even smaller. I'm about to see them a second time for the Babyklok tour with Dethklok, which is a dream match for me. If you'd like to keep going, and I hope you do, Headbangerrrrr live at Legend 1997 is a great performance, as well as Ijime Dame Zettai live at Sonisphere 2014. Babymetal are the perfect example of something that can only come out of Japan.
Best reaction I have ever seen! Yes, BABYMETAL always brings a smile to your face. ALL their songs are positive. They fixed my half-year pet loss (of a 18 year old dog) and now I have 16 live Blu-rays, changed out my entire audio system just to see their performances. My first live was in Japan this January, and people around me were either smiling and jumping, or were in tears throughout the performance. That is what they do.
"Best reaction I have ever seen!" ....Nah..not really..cmon...Dont even notice the 7string base ..No noticable reaction in her eyes is a tell..(and as a drummer..pls snap yr fingers and nod yr head in tempo pls) But , Aight , I understand so no hard feelings.Cudos 4 the reaction nevertheless..
U need to listen some real music
Nice, I get how a band can do that. For me it was King's X, getting me through severe depression. Glad you found yours! I totally understand, this band is amazing in its own unique and special way.
@@lazbrother7474 it was easily one of the best reactions i've ever seen, she came in cold and had a what the fuck is actually happening experience
They are such a ridiculous mish-mash of things that absolutely should not go together... but they do.
That's the same look we have the 1st time see the AWESOME BABYMETAL.
I'm Japanese. Thank for your nice reaction.
Babymetal's members belong to the biggest entertainment company in Japan and are famous star (acting in TV. CM. etc) from when a child.😀
And, Suzuka Nakamoto (The lead singer of Babymetal) is a very famous singer. There are many videos of her singing from when she was in elementary school on UA-cam.😀
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Great first reaction and welcome to the BABYMETAL Foxhole.🦊 'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek I've ever heard. It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni 👹(a sort of Japanese ogre popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children ... which amuses me probably more than it should).
The growling vocals (they are on a backing track) are the Oni👹 asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance.🏃♀🏃♀🏃♀👹
This was a compilation video with clips from 10 different concerts from 2013 through to 2017.
There is a video from the live performance at Budokan , Black Night 2014 that has subtitles if you want to watch that as well.
The Kami Band are the instrumentalists supporting BABYMETAL - in this they were just doing one of their intros - its only fair they get their chance to show off during the shows and there are two or three other songs where they would do an instrumental intro like this. In order of solos in this video they were - Mikio Fujioka (RIP January 2018), Takayoshi Ohmura, BOH on the bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums.
You already have good suggestions for more songs - I will add a vote for the Legend 1997 live 'Headbanger' ... you can find that on Gans Tomas or abr metal channels.
Thank you disciple of the FoxGod
Babymetal 💕 🤟
Wow this was some deep lore. tnx. I am not really into Baby Metal but this might make me want to get into it. I remember discovering Masa Works Design and just jumping deep into the lyrical Japanese folk lore whole.
BABYMETAL TIME HELL YEAH!
Welcome to the Foxhole 🦊🤘
BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock idol group called Sakura Gakuin, they were 11 and 12 years old when they first started. They created their own genre called kawaii-metal, mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. They became independent artists in their own right after 2013. They are:
SuMetal (Suzuka Nakamoto, lead vocals).
MoaMetal (Moa Kichuki, scream and dance)
YuiMetal (Yui Mizuno, scream and dance, 2010 - 2018) Yui left the band due to health issues in 2018.
MomoMetal (Momoko Okazaki, scream and dance, member since 2023)
Catch Me if You Can was released in 2013 - at the time Moa and Yui were 14 and Su was 15.
They have since gone on to release four studio albums, the latest of which, The Other One, was released this month. Their sound has matured and grown as they have aged and I urge you to check out some of their later stuff.
And RIP the little master. Gone but not forgotten.
Love how they've toured with bands like Sabaton and Dragonforce and performed with Rob Halford and everyone of them love the girls and support them =)
Liked and subbed for getting to experience your amazing first go at BABY METAL!
I've only just discovered these guys too and always imagine that meme with the hispanic dude throwing salt but it's the Slayer, Cannibal Corpse and Cradle Of Filth logos with the Demonslayer logo thrown in haha These guys are THE SHIT!!!
Time for the babymetal hype train. Can't wait for you to react to more of these amazing girls
It's always a joy to see someone discover Babymetal - I've been a fan since the "Doki Doki Midnight" video came out (I think it was on about 3.5k views when I was introduced).
The first BabyMetal album is just pure unadulterated glorious WTF that never stops plastering a massive grin over your face. Seriously, it was amazing when that came out.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Only, could have ever come from Japan.
That album really separated the metal snobs from the rest of the fan base.
The entire soundtrack of that album were banger
Great review, I’ve been a fan since before seeing them in 2015. It’s so fun
I've see them live. AWESOME show. The whole band has so much energy.
If my info is correct this started out as a school project or something like that and it took off.......third hand info so I could be wrong.
Playing hide and seek with a flesh eating demon that’s just metal ASF.
I love watching people discover BABYMETAL. I'm always in tears because I'm getting to see them through new eyes every time and it's goddamned beautiful.
Just today announced a huge U.S. tour for late summer fall all over the USA. God tier live performances. Got tickets already for St Louis to see them for the 4th time.
A tour with _Dethklok,_ of all bands. I now want to see anime versions of the Babymetal girls on stage with the animated Metalocalypse version of Dethklok.
Lol. This was announced weeks ago.
@@SirGreenDay not via Babymetal it was not.
Just got my tickets for them in Minnesota September 25th. Soo Excited ❤
Got my ticket for the NY show. My first time too. Missed out on an opportunity to see them many years back and just missed getting tix before they sold out. I wasn't making that mistake again. lol. 😀
Just bought my tickets today for their September show in St. Louis co-headlining with Dethklok!
⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃♀👹
So this cute song is about playing a game that is like hide-and-go-seek, tag or blind-man's-bluff.
Pursued by an "Oni" which is a kind of Japanese Ogre. : )
While Megitsune is still my favorite, I think this is one of their their best early choreographies.
If much of their charm is in the blending of the cute and the brutal, this song is a great example.
They're all turned up to 11.
They performed this song quite a bit in 2017, but not since.
The last time I saw this one was in Chula Vista, California when they were on tour opening for Korn on the Serenity Of Summer tour.
Here's 'Rondo of Nightmare', a solo song from their lead singer Su-metal (Suzuka Nakamoto, or just "Su") with a short instrumental lead-in by their live Kami Band: ua-cam.com/video/8WBDiLMNZcE/v-deo.html
This Budokan Black Night performance from 2014 is a classic.
Or look for a live version of 'Megitsune'. So many great songs.
And yeah, this is a group that will create new synapses in your brain. : )
budokan was 9 years ago, nobody cares anymore.
@@vault29a maybe YOU don't care :)
I love the absurdity of baby metal
There’s a video out there with them and Rob Hanford doing Painkiller that’s pretty good.
My all time favorite group. I was obsessed with Babymetal for several years. They are all grown now but the videos are ageless. There are hours and hours of video.
i mean none of these people besides su and moa are not in the band anymore.
@@vault29a No. The Kami band is still there. If the eastern Kami's are busy they have the western Kami band play. Only Yui is gone.
@@mikepowers9486 Importantly and very sadly Mikio is also gone and with the Kamis (Eastern or Western) hidden behind masks some of the fun is also gone. I can see Amuse wanting to make the fans focus entirely on BM and make it possible to switch out the musicians without any drama, but I think it was ill conceived.
@@vault29a The musicians except for 1 of the guitarists who died are ALL still playing with BABYMETAL. They just don't play every show. They have a set of American musicians too.
@@vault29a if so, so what? BM is Su n Moa. Yui is gone. Good enough for me.
The band was never ever a set group of musicians. Lead guitar players came n went. Miko died.
They still get the best musicians for their shows.
How many of any band from last century are still all originals.
Enjoy. Or enjoy not.
If you're not happy watching them go watch somebody else's videos. And try not to ruin it for others.
Welcome to the Foxhole and BabyMetal journey 🦊🤘🔥
They're the best thing that could ever happen in your life. I already saw Grington300 and Rick Wagner giving you some great info and suggestion about this amazing group.
I'm gonna left my own suggestion so you can enjoy the best way to experience your journey into BM world.
Hopefully you will hear some more songs from them so you can have the chance to meet them live when going on tour in the US and many more countries around the world, maybe you won't have some of these older songs but trust me they got more than 60 songs in their catalogue and none of them are bad.
Have fun and see you next time 🦊🤘❤️
We know Amuse is very hard to deal with copyright blocked issues, fortunately we got a way to go around with *(gonna write the place in my next comment) YT place, you'll get full original clips of their best live performance with watermarked logo safe to react, look for "Future Plans" vid, follow instructions and you'll get all of them, upload the one with the logo for us and you can watch without it, don't worry for us we already saw all of them. You'll find some watermarked clips in the channel also with the description and where to get the non-logo version. If you want you can watch the original clean version and pause whenever you like to say your comment and after that you can put a logo provided in the same place so you can enjoy a clean version from the beginning.
You can also put some heavy opacity and translucent effect to avoid those issues if necessary.
However there are some safe clips to react like those from Legend 1997 or some of Budokan 2014 or previous to this year and Festivals that is out of reach from Amuse hands.
By all means AVOID live compilations at least for first time watching, not saying all of them are bad but chances are you'll end up facing the bad ones bad edited, very confusing, switching costumes and distracting you from the performance and meaning of the song. Also avoid Glastonbury Festival performance, the sound is bad and the crowd isn't the usual fans.
Here's some examples of safe to react live performances:
- "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!" live at Legend 1997 (2013, you can find this a "Gans Tomas" or "abr metal") or live at Legend I (2012).
- "Rondo Of Nightmare" with Mischiefs Of Gods Intro live at Budokan 2014, this one normally is safe to react without any filters. ("Kawaii Metal" got this)
- "Catch Me If You Can", you got live at Budokan 2014 with subtitles version at GuilhermeCait.
- "Ijime Dame Zettai" live at Sonisphere Festival 2014 (lately hasn't been so safe, so careful)
- "Karate" live at Download Festival 2016 ("kitsune6001" got this one)
- Distortion, live at Download Festival 2018 or Rock Am Ring 2018, official got the Download version and is safe to react.
If you follow this step by step you won't have blocked issues the majority of times, but sometimes there has been issues with certain songs so if you got those try to put opacity, blur or translucent effect, that might help a little bit.
Thanks for sharing your BabyMetal reactions and reading this humble recommendation. 🦊🤘
*Babymetal Reactor Resource 👍
GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE!!! THIS YOUNG LADY IS A STAR. HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YOUR GREAT COMMENTS GETTING THROUGH TO EVERYONE. THIS COMMUNITY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HANDICAPPED PEOPLE TOO OLD TO GO TO MUSIC CLUBS OR EVEN TO COFFEE HOUSES WITH COOL MUSIC. KEEP SPREADING THE WORD.🤘🤘🤘
I literally found this group by accident like 6 months ago and instantly became a fan.
Bro that crowd. Holy sheeet. Might have to try and see them live
Make sure to catch their collaboration with BMTH on "Kingslayer" :D
My daughter made me see them last night .. so awesome live.. big fan now..
Great reaction! As an old 70's headbanger...this group is the real deal. Extremely talented and hardworking, and best live. From your commentary afterwards, I think you would really enjoy BabyMetal 'Death' live...not much singing but a very good musical theatrical show. 🤘🦊🤘
Welcome! Next songs, in no particular order - Road to Resistance, Gimme Chocolate, Megitsune, Karate. I LOVE this band.
I was watching some Rammstein, Prodigy, and the like over the weekend and I kept seeing this Babymetal in the suggestions. I finally clicked and pretty much lived your reaction to the 'T'. Next thing I knew it was four hours later.
For some of us before we knew it we were watching Babymetal reaction videos each days for five years maybe more...😂😂😂
Everyone smiles and loves it because it is so so so so good!
Ok i have heard these ladies before and their band is all that! They make great muic even if i cant understand the words?lol I stopped the video at 0:40 to comment i bet your gonna be shocked and delighted! LOL
Soo.. Babymetal songs to react to: ANYONE!
They literally have not a single bad song. xD
The musicians are insane good.
This is most weird & confusing while catchy & addicting song at the same time, genius compossed music. And their dance is so adorable especially on after the breakdown & chorus. Good choice for the first time watching BabyMetal.
If you enjoy their energy, try Headbanger & Pa Pa Ya live performance.
Great first reaction! 🤘🦊🤘Thank you for giving BABYMETAL a chance!!! BABYMETAL started back in 2010 and since then have performed with, toured with, or opened for Metallica, Korn, Sabaton, Bring Me The Horizon, Dragonforce, Guns N' Roses, Lady Gaga, Rob Halford of Judas Priest (there's a great youtube video of their performance with Rob at a metal award show), and Red Hot Chili Peppers (there is a youtube video of them performing Gimme Chocolate with RHCP, as well as with Korn, and DragonForce), to name a few of many. They have performed at large metal events/concerts in front of 65,000+ skeptical metalheads in Europe (Glastonbury, Download, Sonisphere, etc), US, and Asia. They are the first Japanese band to perform at Wembley arena in the UK. 20+ awards have been given to them. They have 60+ songs and each one is different from the other, so I hope you give the other songs a try. By the way, they have some really great heavy songs too, and I hope you like guitar solos, as well as bass and drum solos, like I do, because they have them too.🤘🦊🤘
You are a disciple from the FoxGod sent to spread the word of babymetal
Babymetal 💕 🤟
I love to watch the WTF-face of someone running the first time in a Baby Metal video.
Wow, I didn't know I needed this.
the whole blend of metal and japanese idol culture is so unique, but it just WORKS.
You MUST experience their epic performance on "Road of Resistance" Live in Japan. You will be blown away!
1st discoveries of BabyMetal is always awesome to see.
your ears have been blessed by the fox god
Not sure if it was already said. But the handsign isn't ye old Western Devil Horns. It's the Kitsune. A foxes head. Similar to the horns but the tips of the two fingers and thumb touch and are away from the hand instead of the usual place.
Funny that that is what you thought it was because when Babymetal first came out to the West THEY thought we were throwing up kitsunes not devil horns.
The band is the Kami band. They rip and tear like no other.
The song is a metal version of hide and seek basically. Hince the part about red shoes.
Edit to add that the genre is called Kawaii (cute) Metal. J pop Idol group backed by the heaviest of metal.
Now you gotta watch Pa Pa Ya, In The Name Of and BMC... Babymetal is sooooo cool. 🤘
The entire band is amazing, the lead singer Su-Metal is one of the best vocalists ever, the more you listen to their catalog and watch the performances the more you realize how crazy good she is. And they do a huge range of styles and songs all with a metal backing.
Yep she started this gig as a teenager, and she's thoroughly grown up into the role. The **VOICE** on that young lady, wow.
I've watch your reaction five times....cuz when you catch yourself in shock when they first come out. is priceless and fun to see. These Ladies energy and fucking awesome band has made me a fan. Im a 48 yr old skool Hip-hopper....lol.
Excited to see them in philly September 12th😊
This was my first Babymetal song as well... Totally blew me away and i have not stopped listening since... I need a daily dose of these girls st least three times a day.. See you!
I'm sure you know by now (July) that Babymetal "is" the girls. The band is the backup they are that part of BM not the focus. What they bring and what BM brings seem like a clash but as you can see, like many at first, it j ust works; they are excellent, professional, pleasing, and fun to watch.
You never knew Metal could be so damn cute. The girls bring out the smiles.
babymetal is something else
they have some awesome stuff
My first encounter with Baby Metal was Gimmie Chocolate. I am used to listening to bands like Behemoth, Vader, Lamb of God, etc, etc. That one took me soooo much by surprise I fell in love with BM. ;D
I've seen literally over 1000 concerts, as I've toured on summer tours and seen more shows than I can ever remember, but I went in to Babymetal blind as a laugh to be a good friend to a guy from Ukraine I know, thinking it would just be a novelty. I came out thinking it was already in my top 5 ever, and settled on it being like #2 or #3. They're insane, and I never miss the chance to see them.
What would you say is you're #1 concert ever then out of curiosity
I went down the Foxhole and am a proud member of "The One" for three years and running. Whenever I need a pick-me-up, i watch BabyMetal videos. I really like first-time reactions like yours because everyone feels the same way.... WTH am I watching, I think I like this, totally hooked
Saw them in Cardiff supporting Sabaton. They were awesome. Infectiously good!
The are monstrously huge - First Japanese Band to perform in Wembley Arena, London; in 2019 performed at the LA Forum sold-out and sold-out the Tokyo Dome 2 nights running, different show each night, Dome capacity 55,000. They will be on tour in the US this year.
NEXT - "Monochrome", Lyric version and The First Take piano version. May need a hankie for the piano ver.
One of the best Metal songs ever :)
Catch Me If You Can is my first Baby Metal, and it will always be my favorite
Your reaction is the same as mine when I first saw them on YT (Gimme Chocolate). I was like seriously WTF did I just watch!?
6 months later and I have tickets to see them headline on their world tour here in Melbourne this June.
They are freakin' awesome.
I've gone full-on down the foxhole 🤘🏻🦊
Pretty sure that's the "Little" guitarist that passed away. 😞 Damn good guitarist
Hi. When you said this was a total blind reaction I literally did this 🫣 lol. I’m happy you like them! Hey, when you need a coffee and don’t want to wait, just throw on a Babymetal song. It will help you move twice as fast at everything 🤣
Welcome to the BABYMETAL Galaxy or now Kingdom. Welcome to my favorite band. Welcome to the most unique, talented, humble, cute, and badass band out there.
Enjoy the journey if you continue down the Fox hole. 🤘🦊🤘
i was not expecting this... no 1 ever is lol great reaction =]
the cutest metal singers I ever seen.... they are magic..... backed by a metal band alpha,,,, happy meets doom with eye candy outfits ,,,,,, yin and yang,,,,, a 21st century band
Babymetal is really an amazing concept and they have such crazy shows ! Opposite to this cuty song, you can watch their dark one 'babymetal death', a must have seen.🤟🤟
You should try "Doki Doki Morning" or "How Nice," next!
waiting for you to react to the girls was the best thing ever! i had a similar reaction
You're face when you girls started singing lmao so good. I loooove how the music is all down and dirty metal and then you have the cute little "UWU singers" 😂
Brutally adorable!
You will see so many gatekeepers talk shit about Baby Metal, but when legends like Rob Halford and Rob Zombie give them props it shuts the haters down.
No first time watcher expects babymetal.
They're kinda lika a cat that decides to adopt you, one day, they're just there
Let's just call it 'The Babymetal Effect'!! Always positive, surprising, energetic and quite simply a joy to watch. What a band!!! Love Babymetal!! Kitsune up!!😂🦊🤟🎉❤
BABYMETAL has another song called "chocolate" that is super catchy and probably their most iconic.
Nobody is ever ready for their first encounter with Baby Metal 😅
I still remember what i was doing when i found "give me chocolate". I was searching for Japanese metal bands (bandmaid is a pretty solid band btw.) At first i had no idea what i stumbled onto, i intended to keep looking around for more bands, but i just kept repeating that one song, hours went by, before i knew it i had repayed that one song constantly for days, and weeks, until i finally got burnt out with it, and decided to check out their other songs, and oh my god, i replayed those too, not as much as the give me chocolate, but pretty close. Just something about the heavy instrumentation and their squeaky upbeat kid voices that was just oh so good.
Give me chocolate will always have a special place in my heart. Give it to the Japanese to come up with something like jpop and metal, and it's good.
This song is about them playing a version of hide and seek with an Oni. aka A Demon.
Gonna be seeing them in October here in Los Angeles , and I can't wait....it's going to be awesome.
Baby Metal is like Lays potato chips: you can't watch just one. You immediately google for hours.
go to see them in October in Vancouver Canada for the first time ! 🤘🤘😎😎
See these guys this weekend with Sabaton, can’t wait
Got my ticket for Atlanta. Finally gonna see them live and knock #1 off my bucket list lol
This is the first time I've seen them showcase the band so much in one of their videos.
Love this reaction. The look of shock on your face was priceless. So glad to hear Babymetal is back.
You should take a look at " Band Maid" Domination Live .
Also much fun and Energy .
I saw them in 2019 in AZ And I will say I have never been to a more "crowd interactive" show in my life! The atmosphere was insane!!
Nice reaction. Babymetal making folks happy for over 10 years now. Many reactors ask how, do their pop vocals and dance work so well with the metal influenced music. For them it's easy. It's Babymetal magic. Start with Su the lead singer and add in her two kawaii angels Yui and Moa. Then add in the metal mixed with whatever other genre or genres of music they want to add in. Say the magic words. Double Double toil and trouble. Fire burn cauldron bubble. And poof. But this is just the start. You have to do this live. When done live you must add in the stage band known as the Kamiband. Some of the best session players in Japan. If their busy you get the East Kamiband. Also, very talented folks. This is how Babymetal rolls. A bundle of pure performance fun and happiness. They're coming to the USA to tour from late August to about mid-October. Tickets are on sale now. As you can see, they put on a great show. And even won awards for it. This is the best song ever about a version of hide and seek. But they do it with an Ogre. Because Babymetal is cool like that. When they started Babymetal were the troublemakers of metal. Metalhead gate keeper were shocked. and said things like how dare three little Japanese kawaii girls have the audacity to do metal. This can't be real. Just a gimmick. Over 10 years later. Some keep telling themselves that. They're not ready for happiness in their metal. But when Babymetal started out one of the things they wanted was to make a good starting point for those who just adventuring into metal. Especially young ladies like themselves at the time. A big part of mixing in the other genres of music. This way there's something for everyone to grab onto. Over the years it's not just the music they mixed. Their dance style is a mix of different types of dances as well. and vocally their lead singer is hard to beat. Strong is she in the way of singing. and has repeatedly been in the top ten metal vocalists for the last 5 years. Some metal heads say well she doesn't growl or screech. When you can sing like Su-metal you A don't have to, and B why would you want her to do that when she can sing the way she does? I hope you continue to react to more Babymetal. This is the way.
Should definitley check out one of their new tracks Mirror Mirror
Never heard Baby Metal before? Check out their live crucifixion they did some time ago. Definitely slaps 'the big four' in their face:)
i watch so many babymetal reactions that i dont need to have my notifications on, i just know whenever any of them is uploading a new reaction video of them.
i'm not a metal fan but this band made me appreciate it a bit
Yes, they're bonkers - but in a GOOD way! 👍😎😊
Did you notice that was edited from, I think, four different performances, from the outfit variations?
Nothing like your first Babymetal experience!
More of the ladies, please