And this is why SU-METAL is called "the Queen". She's also a metal goddess so you don't ask her to marry you :) This one was performed on March 2nd 2014 at the Nippon Budokan in Chiyoda City, Tokyo. Suzuka was 16 years old back then. This is what we call a "Su's solo" (no Yui and Moa this time) and my favorite song. It combines several of my favorite things: double bass drumming, dueling and harmonizing guitar solos and, of course, the clear and powerful voice of Suzuka. Actually this is my standard for perfection. Well, welcome to the Fox Hole! And I really appreciate you've played the guitar! See you next time!
@@Dragon-Believer I didn't mean that. I was talking about her "goddess" status, and all was rhetorical, of course. Su can marry whoever she wants. Don't take it so seriously.
@@road-runner Su doesnt need a man. She's doing okay by herself. Turning 23 this december and I cant wait to see what else she's gonna do in the upcoming years after this covid shit ends.
@@adamazri928 I never mentioned the word "man". Anyway, I really don't care about her private life (not my business) and actually, we will never know about it. And I'm okay with that. IDK what will happen after the pandemic, I hope all will back to normal but I have the feeling that's not gonna happen (and I'm talking about concerts and massive crowds)... we'll see.
Good reaction. Budokan is a martial arts centre built for the 1964 Olympics and has also become a very prestigious music venue. The Beatles were the first band to play there. This was March 2014 and BABYMETAL became the the youngest ever female headline act with Su (yes she is the lead singer and the whole idea for BABYMETAL was based and developed around her talents) just turned 16, Yui and Moa still 14 ... and they sold it out two nights running (Red Night and Black Night). The Kami Band here (Kami means God or Spirit, so they are the Gods of guitar, bass and drums and wear the traditional burial robes and corpse face paint to play their part) were Leda Cygnus (black flying V), Takayoshi Ohmura (pink glittery guitar), BOH (6 string bass) and Hideki Aoyama (drums).
Loved the reaction, and yes, Su-metal is the lead singer, and in fact Babymetal was built around her when she was 12. Their producer recognized her talent even before that and was the driving force for the "experiment" he wanted to do with mixing J-Pop and metal. The Kami Band is a collection of the top musicians Japan has to offer, and do projects outside of Babymetal as well.
to me all the young ladies are very talented and all can sing but su has the strongest voice out of them all, but they do sound the best as a trio. i love black baby metal songs as well and hope they can build on moa's voice also being yui left because of health problems and do hope one day she can return to do at least one show with the band for the fans who miss her
Su started doing songs for Anime when she was 8, was in 2-3 J-Pop bands, attended an Academy for Music and Acting and had various vocal coaches. She is a super pro...
Budokan is the famous venue, Black Night is the second of two sold out nights. Su-metal is the lead singer and it's the reason Babymetal exists. Her talent is is at the center. The Kami band (Kami means god, gods of metal: god of bass, etc.) are amazing musicians. Nobody rocks a pink guitar like Ohmura !
⚡ / 🔴 🌙 "Going over thousands (of) nights, some love shall survive. So, until my body perishes, until my life disappears, I shall keep on cherishing this love. Dye crimson! Dye bloody crimson!" - Akatsuki It might not seem like it, but 'Akatsuki' had its live debut over a year before 'Gimme Chocolate!!'. This group has always been about contrasts. Hard to imagine the genius of BABYMETAL producer Koba. He became aware of lead singer Suzuka Nakamoto (Su) in the Amuse Inc. Kid's division, when she was 10 or 11 and a member of the JPop trio Karen Girl's. And decided she should be the lead in a metal group. So he built one around her. At the time of this performance, she was 16.
This concert is from 2014, the youngest artist to ever headline the legendary Budokan. I believe Su was 16 at the time. You should hear her sing this song today with her matured voice. The band is known as the "Kami Band", which means "God Band". Each member is labeled as the god of their instrument. "God of Drums", God of Bass", and "God of Guitar." At this point in time, the guitar players were usually Mikio Fujioka (known as the little god) and Takayoshi Ohmura (big god). However, at this show, it was Leda Cygnus (Black ESP Arrow) and Ohmura (Pink-Chan ESP) with Boh (God of Bass) and Hideki Aoyama (God of Drums). Each member of the Kami band are among the best musicians Japan has to offer and each is well known individually as session musicians. Search for them individually will send you down a rabbit hole of a multitude of different bands and solo performances. Mikio (little god) died in an accident in 2018. The Kami band came together and have performed a series of concerts and released albums indvidually to support Mikio's family, from his wife to his children to his parents, to make sure they are never "in need" and have the money for his kids to attend college (they are still very young). Here is one of those concerts from last year with Ohmura playing Mikio's guitar (al of Mikio's equipment was given to Ohmura). It's hard to watch as Ohmura is obviously emotional distraught. However, it is an opportunity to see the Kami Band unmasked. ua-cam.com/video/KDMH51PU4Ao/v-deo.html. The second "ghost" guitar and image is Mikio. To this day, Ohmura performs with a Cigerette (Mikio's brand) attached to the back of his guitar under the tuning knobs as an invite for Mikio to come back and perform with him.
Gimme Chocolate and Akatsuki are both from their debut self-titled album. It just shows the contrasting sounds in their albums. There's some serious songs like this one, and there's other catchy and fun tracks in that album like Gimme Chocolate. That's how they do it. It's also rare to find two Babymetal songs that sound alike. You should check out 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' live at Sonisphere UK. It's one of their heavier, fast paced songs, and it's got plenty of shredding for you.
A silly detail probably but in an interview Su-metal said she performed 3 times. First Red Night, she was nervous. (it was after all the venue she always wanted to perform at). Then she dreamed the full show at night as a sort of preparation and did a perfect performance the next day at Black Night. :-) I doubt anyone could notice anything wrong at Red Night with Su-Metal's performance but clearly she thought it wasn't perfect.
@@papa_xan Yeah, Moa fell while running, the girls were exhausted and had jitters, big deal for them. But OMGD from our view point it looked like Yui did a stage dive but there was no audience there and everyone freaked out, but what happened is she completely fell off the same type alley way that Moa slipped on .The stages were super dark. Both girls were hurt and upset but, in true metal form , they forged on and were great!
@@Paminjapan In the DVD's you can't see anything except her just not being there, and the looks on Su and Moa's faces when she did't come back for the end of Headbanger.
Dye Crimson! Dye Bloody Crimson! Ahhh! So yay! I finally caught up! Su's solos really just cater to my own personal taste in music! Absolutely love all of them, but Akatsuki is my 2nd fav (Rondo of Nightmare will always be the first!). Her songs are the darker/sadder toned songs from the first 2 albums, with the exception of maybe Amore which is a bit happier. And, as you said, it takes major breath capacity and control to be able to sing with such clarity and power live, especially while dancing and running around! Su is just one of those people who kill it live! Really been enjoying your reactions to BABYMETAL and look forward to more! Gonna recommend my current fav Awadama Fever (grindy music and super cute vocals and choreo). Its said that this was the response to haters that called their music "bubblegum pop" and "nOt ReAl MeTaL DuRp". So, of course, BABYMETAL clapped back by making a song about a mint flavored bubblegum time machine that can grant your dreams! Gotta love it! And also my fav Su solo, Rondo of Nightmare with Mischiefs of God intro live at Budokan (venue) Black Night (concert title). This song is possibly their darkest songs. Its about a girl running from an unknown IT in a recurring nightmare. She tries to hide but IT always finds her. Realizing that she cannot escape, she pleads for IT to show itself to her. Then finally she falls to the darkness! Soooo dark! So metal!!! Love! And the intro showcases the insane god like skills of the appropriately named Kamiband! It will melt your face and blow your mind! And speaking of that Bass, the Mischiefs of God intro will display exactly how baddass he really is and how he stole allll my love of the electric guitar for himself! Lol! Speaking of guitar, fekking awesome outro! That was impressive! Kitsune up! \m/
What makes Babymetal special is that the girls represent the kawaii idol genre and that's they are showing what they are (they are originally from the idol group Sakura Gakuin) they don't copy a typical metal band's sound....they rock!
This performance was only a year after Gimme Chocolate was released and Su did a great version of this song at the same concert that Gimme was filmed at so her voice probably hadn't matured too much in the meantime - she was always amazing! :) But the Kami Band (translation: God Band) had become a permanent fixture by this time - oh, their costume is a corpse shroud and their make up is...well, that's a corpse look too! I've been enjoying Metal since I saw Sabbath live in 1976 and got lucky enough to get tickets to see Babymetal live this february, before Earth closed down and I think that, in the 44 years between those 2 gigs and the huge amount of bands I've seen play live during that time, Babymetal are the most refreshing band I've witnessed. I've subscribed as I enjoyed your reaction and you clearly appreciate Su's vocal skills (soprano with a C4 to G#5 range) as well as the Kami Band's Metal talents so I'm hoping you'll be exploring their impressive and immense back catalogue further - or falling down the Fox Hole as we say. There is another great song from this same Black Night concert that you might just enjoy - a Metal AF number about playing Hide and Seek (only with Babymetal as other Metal bands haven't quite developed the gonads to take on the subjects that Babymetal deal with daily - chocolate, hide and seek, bullying, mint-flavoured time travelling chewing gum amongst other things) that features a solo from both guitarists, the bassist and the drummer before all 3 girls come on and kick ass with a great song and tightAF choreo. Oh, and this version has English subs too! Catch Me If You Can at Black Night Legend ua-cam.com/video/ng8U_j0gpLI/v-deo.html Enjoy!
J-Metal is one side i have never explored and I'm loving it 🔥 and the fact that they are kawai-ly badass🔥 PS : I'm an Anime Otaku and a fan of Japanese culture in general
Suzuka Nakamoto aka Sumetal is a lead Singer, this year the band turns 10, it is 23 the other vocalist is called Moametal she is 21 years old and Yuimetal the other vocalist left in 2017, the band is called KAMI BAND or Banda dos Deuses
Nice reaction!! The birthdays of the three princesses are SU: 12/1997, YUI: 06/1999 and MOA: 07/1999. SU was 17 years old at the time of this Budokan concert(2014). Akatsuki is so fun to follow just this one song because SU's singing style and voice changes with age. I especially like about 15-7 years old. But of course I like the voice and the way he sings now. I also recommend these areas on UA-cam. - BABYMETAL - AKATSUKI「紅月アカツキ」LEGEND 1999 ⇒SU:15, the year she turned 16. - BABYMETAL - 新 AKATSUKI「ダークサイド Darkside」Live compilation ⇒SU:21 akatsuki is written as 紅月. The meaning is the red moon. 紅(aka) = Bright red. 月(tsuki)= moon The Japanese lyrics are made up of just a few old words, so the nuances may be a little off if translated directly into English. All of BABYMETAL's songs are very different. I hope you enjoy the variety of songs (all of them if possible). All of the songs are great, but if I had to recommend them, the following songs might be a good place to start. I hope this will help you choose other people's requests. BABYMETAL - Road of Resistance - Live in Japan (OFFICIAL) BABYMETAL - Ijime,Dame,Zettai - Live at Sonisphere 2014,UK (OFFICIAL) BABYMETAL - メギツネ - MEGITSUNE (OFFICIAL) BABYMETAL - Rondo of Nightmare Live @ Budokan Black Night BABYMETAL - HEADBANGER LIVE AT BUDOKAN BLACK NIGHT 2014 Full HD BABYMETAL - KARATE (OFFICIAL) BABYMETAL - いいね！- Iine! (OFFICIAL) I hope you continue to enjoy your BABYMETAL. Put your Kitsune🦊 up! from Japan. (Translation by DeepL)
Loving this group! So glad you reacted to them so I know about them and can listen to them now. This is my kind of music... heavy, good singing. And yes the guitars are awesome. Loved your guitar playing at the end. You need to play electric more often for us!
The Queen and Goddess as called by us the fans and this is example Why . Her stage presences is off the scale even at 16 . Think you will enjoy your journey down the foxhole i think your thank you for request said it all . 🤘🦊🤘
Funny that you say that, because it's really the other way around. _Akatsuki_ was originally debuted earlier. Don't worry, you get used to it after a while. :D Akatsuki: 1/9/2012 (live), 6/29/2013 (studio, as the b-side track on the _Megitsune_ single), 3/2/2014 (Budokan Black Night performance) Gimme Chocolate: 12/21/2013 (live), 2/26/2014 (studio, on the first BabyMetal album) 10 of the 13 songs on the first album had already debuted live, and/or as singles before _Gimme Chocolate._
im not following them like the others but Baby metal is so amazing and unique for me, my sister introduce their song and i be like, its must going worldwide, i mean theyre so good till i really want more people to listen them
I'm telling you, people are sleeping on this band. They are really amazing, all of them, the girls and the band, crazy! If you really wanna watch the band go nuts, you should do Rondo of Nightmare Live at Budokan Black Night (make sure the video it's 7 minutes long). Amazing reaction man! Im really looking up to new Babymetal reactions. They do not have any bad song, or bad performance. 🦊🖤
Great reaction Brother!!!!! Hideki is a super beast on drums. The rest of the Kami band are extremely gifted. The Goddess Su-Metal delivers a super amazing vocal performance. Love your reactions and keep on Shredding brother.
wow, the guitar dudes seemed like Nuno Bettencourt and his twin brother hahahaha, I don't know why the Japanese playing guitar are Top, it seems like they born with the guitars in their hands ... Excellent song and reaction ... and yeaaaaahhhh Ang, what you are sexy playing the electric guitar 🤘💜💜💜
Love your reaction, for me Babymetal is not just a regular band ,their songs are just like a living thing. They can change their melody or rhythm of the song as they want. This part they want to trash, so they trash, next one they shifted up to the black metal rhythm and just end by power metal to smash it. their creativity is the best. u will get surprise more and more and more. keep rollin in the foxhole!
There are quite a few Japanese bands that do heavy stuff. Ningen Isu is one of them. Try their track Heartless Scat as a great comprehensive introduction. And if you would like something a bit more jazzy or R&B influenced in your metal but still total bad-ass shredding, try the instrumental trio Asterism.
Nice reaction & thanks from Japan 有難う💛。You are now on the verge of the Fox hole. I am waiting for you somewhere in the hole. (I do not know if there is the bottom).
This was filmed in 2014, so the girls have grown up into beautiful ladies now and their performance has matured, and yet very energetic as before. Their activities are worldwide. Since June last year until March this year, they performed 20 times in USA, 19 in EU/UK/Russia and 1 in Taiwan in addition to 15 in Japan (total : 49 their own concerts + 6 appearance in festivals). Many more were planned but cancelled due to the pandemic.
Good call. I saw Wishbone Ash too probably same year. Great dual guitar. but let's not forget Judas Priest, K.K. Downing & Glen Tipton, Gibson flying V and Gibson SG.
Excelente! Good analysis very agree. BabyMetal 10 years Hedobangeeer. Please Check Rondo of Nightmare with intro mischief of god. Another Masterpiece SuMetal solo!
Need to try BabyMetal Catch Me If You Can, live at Black Night Legend Doomsday show Super hard, super fun, 3 guitar solos, drum solo, Alot of fun Monster riffs, BabyMetals hardest most Fun song, Headbanging with a smile!!!!!
Haha, whoever gets to date or marry Suzuka is the luckiest guy on the planet but id hate to be him if he didn't treat her right. People all over the world would be tracking him down. 🤣🤣
This is why it's good Babymetal has no public personal life. :-) (for a bunch of reasons: one being people shouldn't get killed, it's an overreaction. An other is: everyone should be able to make mistakes in their personal lives and not have it be public, etc.)
Bienvenido to the Foxhole .... The Best live Band in the world period.... Sis Anger it's the next move once You listen to a SuMetal solo .... Saludos from México
If you like this song, this is also recommended BABYMETAL -- Amore ua-cam.com/video/wby2_cWuTNs/v-deo.html The same type of song as akatsuki This song also has great drums! from japan
Make no mistake, Gimme Chocolate is a fantastic song, it's just a bit weird to the ears for first-timers and many people just listen to Gimme Chocolate then think they've sized up BABYMETAL when in fact they couldn't be more wrong. Also, don't get used to "one" specific sound coming from them. They LOVE experimenting and jumping genres. Their albums are literally like boxes of chocolates with different shapes and flavours. They love going bold with their style-mixing and genre-mixing. There's one thing that is consistent with BABYMETAL though : they are better live. They did not win several international awards for "Best Live Act" for nothing. They are tailor-made for live. Their albums are just little teasers. I've lost count of the number of songs that I heard the studio version first and wasn't particularly into it and then seen/heard it live and was blown away. My Spotify playlist with BABYMETAL is literally only High Quality ripped-audios from their live concerts. It is THAT good. You've got a lot to learn still about BABYMETAL. I can tell you're confused with the girls and the band but all that will slowly start to make sense. Just remember that the OG girls are Su (the lead singer here) - Moa & Yui (the two smaller girls that at first glance look like twins for newcomers). This song is solo'd by Su while the two other girls are taking a rest. They too have "duet" songs that they perform live and it's Su's turn to take a break. The Kamis are literally Godlike musicians and they also get their moments to shine (as you could tell during this song performance). Going to a BABYMETAL concert truly is a life-changing experience. Oh, and trust me, you ain't seen nothing yet. You clearly need to check out "BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL DEATH At Legend 97" next. If only for you to check out the two obvious homages to Metallica that I'm sure a fan like you will pick up on in no time. Cheers ;).
I think it's worth pointing out that this is actually from the same album as Gimme Chocolate. This band is very, very versatile, and it will take a while before you have the full picture. And at the end of your Babymetal journey, you will probably have found a new appreciation for songs like Gimme Chocolate as well.
tereko Haha, I saw that k-pop fans showed a lot of their PCs proudly. Their record company & fans have multiple YT accounts. When we see just number of views of k-pop, we misunderstand k-music is very very huge. But in fact, K-music's sales is far less than J-music's.
@@yukicoco434 Babymetal is unique and respects metal bands around the world. The skills of Japanese girl bands such as "BAND-MAID"&"WAGACKI-BAND & "LOVEBITES" are wonderful. I'm not interested in KPOP because it has no individuality.
@@yukicoco434 the company behind BTS encouraged the fans to download an app and then keep watching there new songs but the app registers as different viewers . The fans encouraged other fans to stay awake during night and keep playing the video giving them fake numbers of times the videos where watched .
Great reaction and the first time I've heard a Cradle of Filth reference when it comes to BABYMETAL, that cracked me up a bit (in a good way). Don't know why nobody (I've seen) suggested Rondo of Nightmare with the instrumental intro "Mischief of Gods". It's usually one of the first songs for "Metalheads" and people who love the band: ua-cam.com/video/8WBDiLMNZcE/v-deo.html . It's also a Su solo song, but these are the songs on the first two albums that are more serious and all around most metal in my opinion. Another great one is Ijime Dame Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival UK 2014. Their first performance in front of a bigger crowd outside of Japan: ua-cam.com/video/Ro-_cbfdrYE/v-deo.html
Budokan is a place in Japan....Black night is for the all male audience and Red night is for the girl's night out...Akatsuki is part of the self titled album Babymetal if you wanna what's the album great reaction brother👍
Aww I love Babymetal. They are so cute & put on an amazing live show. You should check out Band-Maid (Not a request - more of a recommendation). Love your reactions. "You nice. Keep going." 💜
Simply The Queen 👑. Great reaction and channel man. You have a new subscriber. Please, react to Black Babymetal Sís Anger live! Yui mas Moa are absolutely amazing and perfects 🤟🏻🦊
I never said it did obviously the name made me think of naruto 🤷♀️ that's all, but if you want to get arsy on the Internet like a know it all crack on 😘😘
I don't know if you watch your back-date comments, but I just want to say: "the man has some skills". Great guitar work at the end. Do you have a band? I would enjoy seeing anything you have here on UA-cam. This was a great reaction, keep the good work up.
What were you doing when you were 16? I know I wasn’t doing anything like this... and never will. It’s amazing even without the age aspect...Su... crazy good. And you’re sure right about the kamis not being generic. It’s another crazy aspect of BABYMETAL that so many talented people work towards a common goal... a team in other words. edit: loved the breakdown at the end!
When I was 16, I was in high school working as a dishwasher on the weekends making $3.25 per hour (It was the 80's) and spending that money on comics. LOL!
07:55 Everyone pauses on that drop, if you do, I think you should rewind 5 or 10 seconds instead of just pressing play where you left off. Kinda lessens the impact.
Bien, parcero. Si te piensas quedar, hazlo de corazón. The one no sentimos celos de alguien que diga que ama a Suzuka con toda su alma, o que la sonrisa de Moa es la más bella del universo.... pero sentimos ganas de diseccionar a quien no se las tome en serio o quiera minimizar su obra comparándolas con la basura que se oye actualmente. Las bebés serán por siempre lo más grandioso y especial que ha llegado de oriente. Bienvenido.
And this is why SU-METAL is called "the Queen". She's also a metal goddess so you don't ask her to marry you :)
This one was performed on March 2nd 2014 at the Nippon Budokan in Chiyoda City, Tokyo. Suzuka was 16 years old back then. This is what we call a "Su's solo" (no Yui and Moa this time) and my favorite song. It combines several of my favorite things: double bass drumming, dueling and harmonizing guitar solos and, of course, the clear and powerful voice of Suzuka. Actually this is my standard for perfection.
Well, welcome to the Fox Hole! And I really appreciate you've played the guitar!
See you next time!
I don't think Su would agree with that. My daughter is 15 she's been boy crazy for a few years now. Su's nearly 23.
@@Dragon-Believer I didn't mean that. I was talking about her "goddess" status, and all was rhetorical, of course. Su can marry whoever she wants. Don't take it so seriously.
@@road-runner - I wasn't taking it seriously.
@@road-runner Su doesnt need a man. She's doing okay by herself. Turning 23 this december and I cant wait to see what else she's gonna do in the upcoming years after this covid shit ends.
@@adamazri928 I never mentioned the word "man". Anyway, I really don't care about her private life (not my business) and actually, we will never know about it. And I'm okay with that. IDK what will happen after the pandemic, I hope all will back to normal but I have the feeling that's not gonna happen (and I'm talking about concerts and massive crowds)... we'll see.
Good reaction. Budokan is a martial arts centre built for the 1964 Olympics and has also become a very prestigious music venue. The Beatles were the first band to play there. This was March 2014 and BABYMETAL became the the youngest ever female headline act with Su (yes she is the lead singer and the whole idea for BABYMETAL was based and developed around her talents) just turned 16, Yui and Moa still 14 ... and they sold it out two nights running (Red Night and Black Night).
The Kami Band here (Kami means God or Spirit, so they are the Gods of guitar, bass and drums and wear the traditional burial robes and corpse face paint to play their part) were Leda Cygnus (black flying V), Takayoshi Ohmura (pink glittery guitar), BOH (6 string bass) and Hideki Aoyama (drums).
Loved the reaction, and yes, Su-metal is the lead singer, and in fact Babymetal was built around her when she was 12. Their producer recognized her talent even before that and was the driving force for the "experiment" he wanted to do with mixing J-Pop and metal. The Kami Band is a collection of the top musicians Japan has to offer, and do projects outside of Babymetal as well.
to me all the young ladies are very talented and all can sing but su has the strongest voice out of them all, but they do sound the best as a trio. i love black baby metal songs as well and hope they can build on moa's voice also being yui left because of health problems and do hope one day she can return to do at least one show with the band for the fans who miss her
The band is extremely talented in addition particularly thier lead and rhythm guitarists.
Su started doing songs for Anime when she was 8, was in 2-3 J-Pop bands, attended an Academy for Music and Acting and had various vocal coaches. She is a super pro...
Budokan is the famous venue, Black Night is the second of two sold out nights.
Su-metal is the lead singer and it's the reason Babymetal exists. Her talent is is at the center.
The Kami band (Kami means god, gods of metal: god of bass, etc.) are amazing musicians. Nobody rocks a pink guitar like Ohmura !
next time babymetal - rondo of nightmare live at budokan too with intro mischief of gods.
YES!! Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/8WBDiLMNZcE/v-deo.html
Indeed! Subbed!
he realy need to hear rondo of nightmare..with the intro its a must hear for musik lovers 👌
agreed with all, if he's liking them. He needs to be introduced to the Kami Band.
Yes, if you like this then the (Mischief of Gods Intro) of Rondo of Nightmare Live at Budokan will blow your mind!!!
スウメタルの高音域は最高ですね！
全然息苦しさを感じさせないで、キーキー声にも
ならず、かすれもしないしボリュームも有る。
安心して聞いていられます。
⚡ / 🔴 🌙
"Going over thousands (of) nights, some love shall survive.
So, until my body perishes, until my life disappears,
I shall keep on cherishing this love.
Dye crimson! Dye bloody crimson!"
- Akatsuki
It might not seem like it, but 'Akatsuki' had its live debut over a year before 'Gimme Chocolate!!'.
This group has always been about contrasts.
Hard to imagine the genius of BABYMETAL producer Koba.
He became aware of lead singer Suzuka Nakamoto (Su) in the Amuse Inc. Kid's division, when she was 10 or 11 and a member of the JPop trio Karen Girl's.
And decided she should be the lead in a metal group.
So he built one around her. At the time of this performance, she was 16.
This concert is from 2014, the youngest artist to ever headline the legendary Budokan. I believe Su was 16 at the time. You should hear her sing this song today with her matured voice. The band is known as the "Kami Band", which means "God Band". Each member is labeled as the god of their instrument. "God of Drums", God of Bass", and "God of Guitar." At this point in time, the guitar players were usually Mikio Fujioka (known as the little god) and Takayoshi Ohmura (big god). However, at this show, it was Leda Cygnus (Black ESP Arrow) and Ohmura (Pink-Chan ESP) with Boh (God of Bass) and Hideki Aoyama (God of Drums). Each member of the Kami band are among the best musicians Japan has to offer and each is well known individually as session musicians. Search for them individually will send you down a rabbit hole of a multitude of different bands and solo performances. Mikio (little god) died in an accident in 2018. The Kami band came together and have performed a series of concerts and released albums indvidually to support Mikio's family, from his wife to his children to his parents, to make sure they are never "in need" and have the money for his kids to attend college (they are still very young). Here is one of those concerts from last year with Ohmura playing Mikio's guitar (al of Mikio's equipment was given to Ohmura). It's hard to watch as Ohmura is obviously emotional distraught. However, it is an opportunity to see the Kami Band unmasked. ua-cam.com/video/KDMH51PU4Ao/v-deo.html. The second "ghost" guitar and image is Mikio. To this day, Ohmura performs with a Cigerette (Mikio's brand) attached to the back of his guitar under the tuning knobs as an invite for Mikio to come back and perform with him.
Gimme Chocolate and Akatsuki are both from their debut self-titled album. It just shows the contrasting sounds in their albums. There's some serious songs like this one, and there's other catchy and fun tracks in that album like Gimme Chocolate. That's how they do it. It's also rare to find two Babymetal songs that sound alike.
You should check out 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' live at Sonisphere UK. It's one of their heavier, fast paced songs, and it's got plenty of shredding for you.
Didn't expect you go straight to akatsuki.
This is one of my fave song from them
did you catch Su-Metal look at the end of the song ? that look what we call " Su-Metal Death Stare " , a powerful stare that can change your life.
That’s when I fell in love
Find it more in "Headbanger", live version of course
I was there on 'Red Night" . They put on one hell of a show!!
That's the show where Yui fell off the stage and Moa got hurt as well, right?
A silly detail probably but in an interview Su-metal said she performed 3 times. First Red Night, she was nervous. (it was after all the venue she always wanted to perform at). Then she dreamed the full show at night as a sort of preparation and did a perfect performance the next day at Black Night. :-) I doubt anyone could notice anything wrong at Red Night with Su-Metal's performance but clearly she thought it wasn't perfect.
i'm jealous in a good way
@@papa_xan Yeah, Moa fell while running, the girls were exhausted and had jitters, big deal for them. But OMGD from our view point it looked like Yui did a stage dive but there was no audience there and everyone freaked out, but what happened is she completely fell off the same type alley way that Moa slipped on .The stages were super dark. Both girls were hurt and upset but, in true metal form , they forged on and were great!
@@Paminjapan In the DVD's you can't see anything except her just not being there, and the looks on Su and Moa's faces when she did't come back for the end of Headbanger.
Dye Crimson! Dye Bloody Crimson! Ahhh! So yay! I finally caught up! Su's solos really just cater to my own personal taste in music! Absolutely love all of them, but Akatsuki is my 2nd fav (Rondo of Nightmare will always be the first!). Her songs are the darker/sadder toned songs from the first 2 albums, with the exception of maybe Amore which is a bit happier. And, as you said, it takes major breath capacity and control to be able to sing with such clarity and power live, especially while dancing and running around! Su is just one of those people who kill it live!
Really been enjoying your reactions to BABYMETAL and look forward to more!
Gonna recommend my current fav Awadama Fever (grindy music and super cute vocals and choreo). Its said that this was the response to haters that called their music "bubblegum pop" and "nOt ReAl MeTaL DuRp". So, of course, BABYMETAL clapped back by making a song about a mint flavored bubblegum time machine that can grant your dreams! Gotta love it!
And also my fav Su solo, Rondo of Nightmare with Mischiefs of God intro live at Budokan (venue) Black Night (concert title). This song is possibly their darkest songs. Its about a girl running from an unknown IT in a recurring nightmare. She tries to hide but IT always finds her. Realizing that she cannot escape, she pleads for IT to show itself to her. Then finally she falls to the darkness! Soooo dark! So metal!!! Love! And the intro showcases the insane god like skills of the appropriately named Kamiband! It will melt your face and blow your mind! And speaking of that Bass, the Mischiefs of God intro will display exactly how baddass he really is and how he stole allll my love of the electric guitar for himself! Lol!
Speaking of guitar, fekking awesome outro! That was impressive!
Kitsune up! \m/
What makes Babymetal special is that the girls represent the kawaii idol genre and that's they are showing what they are (they are originally from the idol group Sakura Gakuin) they don't copy a typical metal band's sound....they rock!
Backing band players (kami band) are top Japanese musicians！
thank you for enjoying babymetal
from japan(japanese)
This performance was only a year after Gimme Chocolate was released and Su did a great version of this song at the same concert that Gimme was filmed at so her voice probably hadn't matured too much in the meantime - she was always amazing! :) But the Kami Band (translation: God Band) had become a permanent fixture by this time - oh, their costume is a corpse shroud and their make up is...well, that's a corpse look too! I've been enjoying Metal since I saw Sabbath live in 1976 and got lucky enough to get tickets to see Babymetal live this february, before Earth closed down and I think that, in the 44 years between those 2 gigs and the huge amount of bands I've seen play live during that time, Babymetal are the most refreshing band I've witnessed. I've subscribed as I enjoyed your reaction and you clearly appreciate Su's vocal skills (soprano with a C4 to G#5 range) as well as the Kami Band's Metal talents so I'm hoping you'll be exploring their impressive and immense back catalogue further - or falling down the Fox Hole as we say. There is another great song from this same Black Night concert that you might just enjoy - a Metal AF number about playing Hide and Seek (only with Babymetal as other Metal bands haven't quite developed the gonads to take on the subjects that Babymetal deal with daily - chocolate, hide and seek, bullying, mint-flavoured time travelling chewing gum amongst other things) that features a solo from both guitarists, the bassist and the drummer before all 3 girls come on and kick ass with a great song and tightAF choreo. Oh, and this version has English subs too! Catch Me If You Can at Black Night Legend ua-cam.com/video/ng8U_j0gpLI/v-deo.html Enjoy!
J-Metal is one side i have never explored and I'm loving it 🔥 and the fact that they are kawai-ly badass🔥
PS : I'm an Anime Otaku and a fan of Japanese culture in general
Suzuka Nakamoto aka Sumetal is a lead Singer, this year the band turns 10, it is 23 the other vocalist is called Moametal she is 21 years old and Yuimetal the other vocalist left in 2017, the band is called KAMI BAND or Banda dos Deuses
Saw them a couple of times live....
And these young women are awesome!!!!!
You will love Road of Resistance, Headbanger and Rondo of Nightmare (among several others, both those are a nice introduction). Badass band.
Nice reaction!! The birthdays of the three princesses are SU: 12/1997, YUI: 06/1999 and MOA: 07/1999. SU was 17 years old at the time of this Budokan concert(2014). Akatsuki is so fun to follow just this one song because SU's singing style and voice changes with age.
I especially like about 15-7 years old. But of course I like the voice and the way he sings now. I also recommend these areas on UA-cam.
- BABYMETAL - AKATSUKI「紅月アカツキ」LEGEND 1999 ⇒SU:15, the year she turned 16.
- BABYMETAL - 新 AKATSUKI「ダークサイド Darkside」Live compilation ⇒SU:21
akatsuki is written as 紅月. The meaning is the red moon.
紅(aka) = Bright red.
月(tsuki)= moon
The Japanese lyrics are made up of just a few old words, so the nuances may be a little off if translated directly into English.
All of BABYMETAL's songs are very different. I hope you enjoy the variety of songs (all of them if possible). All of the songs are great, but if I had to recommend them, the following songs might be a good place to start. I hope this will help you choose other people's requests.
BABYMETAL - Road of Resistance - Live in Japan (OFFICIAL)
BABYMETAL - Ijime,Dame,Zettai - Live at Sonisphere 2014,UK (OFFICIAL)
BABYMETAL - メギツネ - MEGITSUNE (OFFICIAL)
BABYMETAL - Rondo of Nightmare Live @ Budokan Black Night
BABYMETAL - HEADBANGER LIVE AT BUDOKAN BLACK NIGHT 2014 Full HD
BABYMETAL - KARATE (OFFICIAL)
BABYMETAL - いいね！- Iine! (OFFICIAL)
I hope you continue to enjoy your BABYMETAL.
Put your Kitsune🦊 up!
from Japan. (Translation by DeepL)
Loving this group! So glad you reacted to them so I know about them and can listen to them now. This is my kind of music... heavy, good singing. And yes the guitars are awesome.
Loved your guitar playing at the end. You need to play electric more often for us!
The Queen and Goddess as called by us the fans and this is example
Why . Her stage presences is off the scale even at 16 . Think you will enjoy your journey down the foxhole i think your thank you for request said it all . 🤘🦊🤘
Guitar performance in the middle part of "No rain, No rainbow" is also gorgeous!
Rondo Of Nightmare with Mischiefs Of Gods intro next. Another masterpiece of a song and performance
Funny that you say that, because it's really the other way around. _Akatsuki_ was originally debuted earlier. Don't worry, you get used to it after a while. :D
Akatsuki: 1/9/2012 (live), 6/29/2013 (studio, as the b-side track on the _Megitsune_ single), 3/2/2014 (Budokan Black Night performance)
Gimme Chocolate: 12/21/2013 (live), 2/26/2014 (studio, on the first BabyMetal album)
10 of the 13 songs on the first album had already debuted live, and/or as singles before _Gimme Chocolate._
im not following them like the others but Baby metal is so amazing and unique for me, my sister introduce their song and i be like, its must going worldwide, i mean theyre so good till i really want more people to listen them
If there is no babymetal, I would not listen to so many metal songs.
Your reaction very very good.
Epic guitar outro! 🎸🤘
Thank you 🔥
I was expecting the full drums and all the parts near the end of your solo😁 just like jared dines on his videos ahah
Great reaction as always👍
My tears drop when I hear this song by BABYMETAL
Headbanger Legend 1997 🤟🏻🐗🤟🏻
I'm telling you, people are sleeping on this band. They are really amazing, all of them, the girls and the band, crazy! If you really wanna watch the band go nuts, you should do Rondo of Nightmare Live at Budokan Black Night (make sure the video it's 7 minutes long). Amazing reaction man! Im really looking up to new Babymetal reactions. They do not have any bad song, or bad performance. 🦊🖤
Su-metal=shocker!!! thank you upload🍅🍅🍅
Great reaction Brother!!!!! Hideki is a super beast on drums. The rest of the Kami band are extremely gifted. The Goddess Su-Metal delivers a super amazing vocal performance. Love your reactions and keep on Shredding brother.
Great reaction!! It was really fun to watch.
Nice reaction....and sick outro! Looking forward to more Babymetal reactions....yes, they are legit!
Thank you for listening to Babymetal
Great reaction🤘
"Can you marry me?" "Never, never, never!"
wow, the guitar dudes seemed like Nuno Bettencourt and his twin brother hahahaha, I don't know why the Japanese playing guitar are Top, it seems like they born with the guitars in their hands ... Excellent song and reaction ... and yeaaaaahhhh Ang, what you are sexy playing the electric guitar 🤘💜💜💜
Love your reaction, for me Babymetal is not just a regular band ,their songs are just like a living thing. They can change their melody or rhythm of the song as they want. This part they want to trash, so they trash, next one they shifted up to the black metal rhythm and just end by power metal to smash it. their creativity is the best. u will get surprise more and more and more. keep rollin in the foxhole!
안녕
Great reaction 👏👏
They are really nice, I just started knowing them by your videos. Thanks for sharing. Love from Portugal 💜🇵🇹
There are quite a few Japanese bands that do heavy stuff. Ningen Isu is one of them. Try their track Heartless Scat as a great comprehensive introduction.
And if you would like something a bit more jazzy or R&B influenced in your metal but still total bad-ass shredding, try the instrumental trio Asterism.
Still my favorite song by them, and my favorite performance of it. The Red Night and Black Night concerts were legendary.
welcome to the world of Babymetal
Noooiicceeee. Great reaction.
Nice reaction & thanks from Japan 有難う💛。You are now on the verge of the Fox hole. I am waiting for you somewhere in the hole. (I do not know if there is the bottom).
This was filmed in 2014, so the girls have grown up into beautiful ladies now and their performance has matured, and yet very energetic as before. Their activities are worldwide. Since June last year until March this year, they performed 20 times in USA, 19 in EU/UK/Russia and 1 in Taiwan in addition to 15 in Japan (total : 49 their own concerts + 6 appearance in festivals). Many more were planned but cancelled due to the pandemic.
"man they can shred"
Actually the guitarist in pink custom strat was playing with marty friedman and herman li in case u dont know
It's only just begun...Welcome!
For more Babymetal shredding. Amore, Rondo of Nightmare are 2 other great examples. There's much more.
Love Babymetal, unfortunatly it's not a Gibson flying V, have you heard Wishbone Ash, saw them in 1981. Yes I'm an oldster.
No I haven’t heard of them but I’ll def check em out
Good call. I saw Wishbone Ash too probably same year. Great dual guitar. but let's not forget Judas Priest, K.K. Downing & Glen Tipton, Gibson flying V and Gibson SG.
It is, however, what ESP started making after Gibson told them they weren't allowed to copy the Flying V anymore. ;)
紅月アカツキに込められた、「幾千もの夜を超えて生き続ける愛がある」この情念を16才の少女が歌い上げる様には誰もが度肝を抜かれ感銘を味わう！スーさんが女王になった瞬間でもある。
Excelente! Good analysis very agree. BabyMetal 10 years Hedobangeeer. Please Check Rondo of Nightmare with intro mischief of god. Another Masterpiece SuMetal solo!
And now as always next one you should do is Rondo of nightmare live at budokan with intro mischief of gods ! ! !
BABYMETAL Amore reaction please
Need to try BabyMetal
Catch Me If You Can, live at
Black Night Legend Doomsday show
Super hard, super fun,
3 guitar solos, drum solo, Alot of fun
Monster riffs, BabyMetals hardest most Fun song, Headbanging with a smile!!!!!
Haha, whoever gets to date or marry Suzuka is the luckiest guy on the planet but id hate to be him if he didn't treat her right. People all over the world would be tracking him down. 🤣🤣
This is why it's good Babymetal has no public personal life. :-)
(for a bunch of reasons: one being people shouldn't get killed, it's an overreaction. An other is: everyone should be able to make mistakes in their personal lives and not have it be public, etc.)
I have to believe Moa would kill whomever might try to marry Su.
@@papa_xan Yes, I agree!
@@papa_xan HAHAHA I totally agree with that!!
Any significant other treating her wrong would get the Queen’s death stare and be instantly vaporized
Bienvenido to the Foxhole .... The Best live Band in the world period.... Sis Anger it's the next move once You listen to a SuMetal solo .... Saludos from México
If you like this song, this is also recommended
BABYMETAL -- Amore
ua-cam.com/video/wby2_cWuTNs/v-deo.html
The same type of song as akatsuki
This song also has great drums!
from japan
absolutely amazing and wonderful song thanks for this reaction please 🥺💞🌺🥺💞💞🥺💞❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
Make no mistake, Gimme Chocolate is a fantastic song, it's just a bit weird to the ears for first-timers and many people just listen to Gimme Chocolate then think they've sized up BABYMETAL when in fact they couldn't be more wrong. Also, don't get used to "one" specific sound coming from them. They LOVE experimenting and jumping genres. Their albums are literally like boxes of chocolates with different shapes and flavours. They love going bold with their style-mixing and genre-mixing. There's one thing that is consistent with BABYMETAL though : they are better live. They did not win several international awards for "Best Live Act" for nothing. They are tailor-made for live. Their albums are just little teasers. I've lost count of the number of songs that I heard the studio version first and wasn't particularly into it and then seen/heard it live and was blown away.
My Spotify playlist with BABYMETAL is literally only High Quality ripped-audios from their live concerts. It is THAT good.
You've got a lot to learn still about BABYMETAL. I can tell you're confused with the girls and the band but all that will slowly start to make sense. Just remember that the OG girls are Su (the lead singer here) - Moa & Yui (the two smaller girls that at first glance look like twins for newcomers). This song is solo'd by Su while the two other girls are taking a rest. They too have "duet" songs that they perform live and it's Su's turn to take a break.
The Kamis are literally Godlike musicians and they also get their moments to shine (as you could tell during this song performance). Going to a BABYMETAL concert truly is a life-changing experience.
Oh, and trust me, you ain't seen nothing yet. You clearly need to check out "BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL DEATH At Legend 97" next. If only for you to check out the two obvious homages to Metallica that I'm sure a fan like you will pick up on in no time. Cheers ;).
I think it's worth pointing out that this is actually from the same album as Gimme Chocolate. This band is very, very versatile, and it will take a while before you have the full picture. And at the end of your Babymetal journey, you will probably have found a new appreciation for songs like Gimme Chocolate as well.
Good reaction!
A friend of mine heard BABYMETAL and dumped BTS in the trash
tereko Haha, I saw that k-pop fans showed a lot of their PCs proudly. Their record company & fans have multiple YT accounts.
When we see just number of views of k-pop, we misunderstand k-music is very very huge.
But in fact, K-music's sales is far less than J-music's.
@@yukicoco434 Babymetal is unique and respects metal bands around the world.
The skills of Japanese girl bands such as "BAND-MAID"&"WAGACKI-BAND & "LOVEBITES" are wonderful. I'm not interested in KPOP because it has no individuality.
@@yukicoco434 the company behind BTS encouraged the fans to download an app and then keep watching there new songs but the app registers as different viewers .
The fans encouraged other fans to stay awake during night and keep playing the video giving them fake numbers of times the videos where watched .
That gay boy band?
Great reaction and the first time I've heard a Cradle of Filth reference when it comes to BABYMETAL, that cracked me up a bit (in a good way).
Don't know why nobody (I've seen) suggested Rondo of Nightmare with the instrumental intro "Mischief of Gods". It's usually one of the first songs for "Metalheads" and people who love the band: ua-cam.com/video/8WBDiLMNZcE/v-deo.html . It's also a Su solo song, but these are the songs on the first two albums that are more serious and all around most metal in my opinion.
Another great one is Ijime Dame Zettai live at Sonisphere Festival UK 2014. Their first performance in front of a bigger crowd outside of Japan: ua-cam.com/video/Ro-_cbfdrYE/v-deo.html
The Mannel made the connection during one of his reactions. He only did 3 to Babymetal before getting out of doing reactions, but they cracked me up.
Budokan is a place in Japan....Black night is for the all male audience and Red night is for the girl's night out...Akatsuki is part of the self titled album Babymetal if you wanna what's the album great reaction brother👍
Aww I love Babymetal. They are so cute & put on an amazing live show.
You should check out Band-Maid (Not a request - more of a recommendation).
Love your reactions. "You nice. Keep going."
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Thank you 💜💜💜
Simply The Queen 👑. Great reaction and channel man. You have a new subscriber. Please, react to Black Babymetal Sís Anger live! Yui mas Moa are absolutely amazing and perfects 🤟🏻🦊
I have itachi uchias headband.. Always down for naruto, good track, 💜💜
This song has nothing to do with Naruto though.
I never said it did obviously the name made me think of naruto 🤷♀️ that's all, but if you want to get arsy on the Internet like a know it all crack on 😘😘
please babymetal - ijime,Dame,Zettai - Live at Sonisphere 2014,UK
(official)
The Fox God welcomes everyone! 🦊🤘
Next react "rondo of nightmare" live in budokan...🤘🤘🤘
Great reaction! Oh boy, you've seen nothing yet. Keep them Babymetal reactions coming!
I don't know if you watch your back-date comments, but I just want to say: "the man has some skills". Great guitar work at the end.
Do you have a band? I would enjoy seeing anything you have here on UA-cam.
This was a great reaction, keep the good work up.
I do, and thank you so much.. you can hear our music here ua-cam.com/video/HPdjdiuspsM/v-deo.html
One does not propose to a Queen. You just bend the knee. Hail Queen Su.🤘🦊🤘🤣
React to Sis. Anger by Babymetal. It's their heaviest song!
wow you play sick man respect
good choice,good reaction
I like your guitar outro!
Budokan is the arena, you need to be invited to play there.
Darker side? --Babymetal Death!
Guys , I would like to know your reaction about Iranian music
Have you ever listened to Iranian music?
I await your reaction to Babymetal Death, Road of Resistance & Headbanger (live) with much anticipation heh heh heh...
La Belle Dame Sans Merci desu!
if you want dark, try rondo of nightmare..
Love your shredfest!!
What were you doing when you were 16? I know I wasn’t doing anything like this... and never will. It’s amazing even without the age aspect...Su... crazy good. And you’re sure right about the kamis not being generic. It’s another crazy aspect of BABYMETAL that so many talented people work towards a common goal... a team in other words. edit: loved the breakdown at the end!
When I was 16, I was in high school working as a dishwasher on the weekends making $3.25 per hour (It was the 80's) and spending that money on comics. LOL!
E MB I’d like to say at least that I was a chef, but no I was a cook at Chili’s.
Great reaction☆
FYI budokan....bu=warrior do=way and kan=hall/stadium 武道館
yoh also check out (WagakkiBand & Amy Lee collab)
Su -metal ,Love babymetal 😍🤩
07:55 Everyone pauses on that drop, if you do, I think you should rewind 5 or 10 seconds instead of just pressing play where you left off. Kinda lessens the impact.
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brandon rogers
Rondo of nightmare by Babymetal
Bien, parcero. Si te piensas quedar, hazlo de corazón. The one no sentimos celos de alguien que diga que ama a Suzuka con toda su alma, o que la sonrisa de Moa es la más bella del universo.... pero sentimos ganas de diseccionar a quien no se las tome en serio o quiera minimizar su obra comparándolas con la basura que se oye actualmente. Las bebés serán por siempre lo más grandioso y especial que ha llegado de oriente. Bienvenido.
Babymetal karate
"can you marry me?" but sorry man you cannot married The God.
I really like your reaction ♥ please react X-JAPAN you will like it
Dunno how a doctor would help you if you're dead.
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But I get your point lol 🤣
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