All 5 of them wore the cloak and hoods. Journey To The Other Side I highly Recommend. It's a very personal song written for and dedicated to Miho's dad after he died suddenly at 49. You will see Miho get very emotional during the performance.
After LOVEBITES announced that they were back in action and would be auditioning bassists, hundreds of applications were received from all over the world. From among them, they finally chose FAMI, who was only a 20-year-old college student at the time and had little experience playing in a band. Some fans were apprehensive about her selection, so they decided to let the new LOVEBITES be judged on the performance of the album they were making, and titled the album “Judgement Day”. In case you are wondering, the titles of their full/mini-albums are basically arranged in alphabetical order.
This song is my all-time favorite song by my all-time favorite band for many reasons. The solo run is amazing, a triple solo because the bass is so involved. Miyako & Midori are my favorite dual leads ever, and Fami slides in and does her rhythm section thing being in lockstep with Haruna, yet, she also joins in with M&M. Lovebites are the riff masters in metal. Great reaction.
Fantasy? You want more? Try these: THE CRUSADE (Live, with their walk-on music; ASAMI is phenomenal in this early performance) - ua-cam.com/video/nQhL3RmIH5Y/v-deo.htmlsi=XLayzFCa9bwXbd7Y WHEN DESTINIES ALINGN (OMV) SWAN SONG [+ Chopin intro]
This self-explanatory musical performance is one of a kind - once successfully "lovebitten" everyone is getting addicted for the rest of his/her/their life . . .
Personality is at its highest in the music video version of "Stand And Deliver (Shoot 'em Down)" its a very fun video of them in street clothes in the studio and outside with instrument swapping & showing their goofy sides.
As I mentioned in the OG video comments, Fami and Haruna deliver a powermetal rhythm section _masterclass_ on this one, with both their individual parts AND the many subtle ways in which they intertwine driving the song relentlessly. Elite tier...
＜From an interview with Asami-san in a music magazine project＞ The remaining members overcame many difficulties from the hiatus to the release of the album "⚖️JUDGEMENT DAY". LOVEBITES never compromises on their initial beliefs. This is the title song of the album, which expresses their desire for everyone to judge that "what we have been doing up until now has not been wrong" and "we are making real metal music" through the album that they released after overcoming the hurdles they set for themselves. We also asked ourselves, "Is this right?" "Even if you overcome evil, you will repeat it again" "Even if you overcome difficulties, you will be given new challenges" (End) In the video, Asami is chased by something and crawls on the ground, enduring it, when she sees a ray of light, she holds up her sword of justice to the sky, stands up, is "⚖️judged", and overcomes it, but new difficulties arise and she is chased again, which I think expresses the infinite loop.🤔🤗
LOVEBITES - Judgement Day lyrics & credits: Never lived Never died Never end No way to go Every night Everywhere Everything Arriving of darkness What is “right” What is “wrong” What is “sin” Who’s to decide? Hide and seek Truth or dare Playing tag Chased by the evil Another back and forth of gaining and losing Running out of my time Each tick of the clock’s taking down piece of my life again Who’s ally Who’s against Who’s to pick All in your hand Up and down, in and out, left or right, answers turn around What do you see in this world full of insanity? When the rain come to end, what’s waiting us Don’t look away This is the truth RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY! Life - Given the “foreverness” RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY! Life - Leaving name in history Tragedy in the past find salvation Now with the great will, the path lay in front of me Starting here, this is the day! SOLO: midori / miyako /midori /miyako / both Never lived Never died Never end No way to go Every night Everywhere Everything Arriving of darkness What do you see in this world full of insanity? When do we come to ask what's awaiting us, don't look away! This is the truth! RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY! Life - Given the “foreverness” RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY! Life - Leaving name in history Tragedy in the past, find salvation Now with the great will, the path lay in front of me Starting here, this is the day! Judgement day! Judgement day! Judgement day! JUDGEMENT DAY! ----- lyrics: asami music: asami & Mao arrangement: Mao & LOVEBITES album: "Judgement Day" 02/22/2023 -----
"Winds of Transylvania" is a song they created as the opening theme song for the anime titled Vladlove, which is a comedy/story based around Vampires. It is probably their wildest song and the music video contains clips from the anime itself. That's probably as close as you'll get to another "fantasy" music video from Lovebites. ua-cam.com/video/HsE4Ub_Pjh8/v-deo.html
If you want personal MV from Lovebites than you have the "Stand and deliver" video, its fun, in particular when you know the girls a bit. You also have all the live studio videos from "The Abyss", their rehearsal studio.
They don't have a regular fantasy theme going on, if that is what you want to know; there are other Japanese bands who do that (Galneryus, Unlucky Morpheus), but Lovebites are not really a fantasy-themed band, with one or two exceptions. However: this song is not one of those. Since, as another commenter mentioned, fantasy is a standard part of metal, Asami the singer/lyricist does use a fantasy story as a metaphor in this song, but it is being used to send a message. When you've read some Lovebites lyrics, you'll see that many of Asami's lyrics are about overcoming depression and darkness within yourself, face your daily challenges and make the best of yourself. The video is an extended metaphor on that theme: we all have light and dark parts (the band members show up dressed in white and in black); you should not run from the darkness but fight it (Asami grabs the sword after first running away); you must not enshrine your darkness like in a picture frame and put it up like beside your bed and dwell on it, but instead you must smash that picture of your dark side. "Judgement Day" means a struggle within yourself. Don't try to read too much into the lyrics of "Holy War", they're just a bit of glorious nonsense that is supposed to sound metal. Someone mentioned Glory To The World and Winds Of Transylvania. Glory To The World follows roughly the same theme as Judgement Day: overcoming darkness; only in this case, the darkness was the pandemic, and the song uses some metaphors borrowed from Christianity. Winds of Transylvania does qualify as a pure fantasy-themed song, but it is a collab with an anime studio (their only one to date) who asked them to write a title track for a vampire comedy. Clips from that are in the video. Then there's M.D.O., which is about another anime, but is mainly a thrashing song to get the audience going. Most of their lyrics are either about overcoming darkness or breaking walls within yourself, or anthems about rock'n'roll and their fans, or piss-off songs to former lovers, or songs about classical composers (they have a song about Beethoven going deaf, for example, Dystopia Symphony). They have at least one song about Hiroshima (The Apocalypse).
Here are some MV that are kind of fantasy * Glory to the world - kind of religious vibes - to be brave in covid times * When destinies align - samurai warriors * Winds of Transylvania - I think this is for an anime
Soul Defender , Set the World on Fire , Swan Song , The Crusade , Nameless Warrior , The Apocalypse , Wicked Witch , SPELLBOUND & Pledge of the Saviour
For Christians, Jews, and Muslims around the world, "Judgment Day" may be an image of the "final judgment" that will come only once when the world comes to an end. However, the theme of this song is probably different. I think it is an image of the courage to make the right judgment in the everyday conflict between "goodwill" and "badwill" that we experience many times in our lives. The outro of this song shows the "repetition" that leads to the intro. It shows the "judgment that we experience repeatedly while we are alive. (In that sense, this may be a way of thinking that is close to Buddhist values) There are other songs by LOVEBITES that have religious images (for example, GLORY TO THE WORLD, THE CRUSADE, HOLY WAR, etc.). However, although some people seem to misunderstand, it should be understood that LOVEBITES is a band that has almost no religious background. For them, religious images are a world that expresses "fantasy". ---------- from Nippon *Text using Google Translate. I hope that the intention is conveyed correctly.
Here is a fan upload of both "Paranoia > Dystopia Symphony" as on the CD release. ua-cam.com/video/yu0NwiC18y0/v-deo.html Time-lapse 'mood' visuals & [cc] lyrics. Haruna slightly boosted in the mix. I consider these to be 2 of their most "prog" songs. They have announced that all songs not yet performed LIVE will be included in “ETERNAL PHENOMENON TOUR” beginning January 26, 2025 So, hopefully, later in the year we will get a new Blu-ray that includes these two LIVE! I hope they play them consecutively, as that is how I always listened to them. 🐺 dreg👁
@@mmcpa The tour announcement on t w i t t e r dated 8:20PM Oct 4, 2024 includes, "The tour will feature a special setlist that includes tracks from our latest 'LOVEBITES EP II', as well as our killer tunes, and even some songs that have never been played live." Although this does not specifically state it as I did, they really only have a few songs that have not been performed LIVE, recorded & Officially released. "Puppet On Strings" & "Paranoia" for sure, and although "Dystopia Symphony" was performed last 2021 show in Osaka in place of "Spellbound" no LIVE recordings or video have been released. "Wicked Witch" & "Victim Of Time" still remain from 'Judgement Day' album. When/if I find the post where they indicated inclusion of all remaining songs not released LIVE, I will share it. 🐺 dreg👁
Hi from France: In Japan, "Judgement day" does not correspond to the Christian "Last Judgment", this moment when you give an account before leaving for the Beyond, but rather this day when you decide what you are going to do with your life: either you become (remain?) bad, or you make the decision to do what is necessary for your future... It is a moment of choice and beginning, and not that of the end of life... The connotation is rather positive...
For another MV with a bit of "fantasy" I suggest When Destinies Align MV ua-cam.com/video/hLFelI93VkM/v-deo.html. It's a damn good song as well. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Hello from France! I think this is their best music video. The other song made at the same time "Stand and Deliver (Shout 'em down)" is also interesting because we see them in a relaxed way having fun while preparing the song in the recording studio ! ua-cam.com/video/4ImGA7cPyrs/v-deo.html I also think that the day you decide to react to their song "Swan Song", you should choose the live version with the Chopin intro from 2020, which is also, in my opinion, the best : ua-cam.com/video/dcMVtrvpJpk/v-deo.html This will show you much better the virtuosity of Miyako on the piano. And for fun, their audio version of the song "Painkiller" by Judas Priest : ua-cam.com/video/cN5mMEnCNuA/v-deo.html Enjoy !!!
I would like to suggest this other upload of the same performance of ''Swan Song'' with Chopin intro, ua-cam.com/video/WBhtqgiXEA4/v-deo.html This is in 1080p and has accurate [cc] lyric subtitles. The link ending "Jpk" is 720p & has two errors in the embedded subtitles. I appreciate Harry's efforts, but he is unable to correct the embedded lyrics. 🐺 dreg👁
@@robert.llaneza for the curious, the significant error in lyrics exchanges is, "It is not the LENGTH, but depth of life that counts" is correct (emphasis added) with "It is not the WORTH, but depth of life that counts" incorrect (emphasis added) dreg👁
Having the subtitles on is distracting away from the players, you do a lyric breakdown at the end anyways so just sit back and enjoy the music & song first maybe. 🤷♂️✌
Good to see you guys enjoying this song, it is one of my favorites from LOVEBITES. They have a lot more, enjoy and rock out! 🤘🐺🤘
Metal queens forever! Loooove them all!🐺🐺🐺🤘🤘🤘
None of the Lovebites songs are bad. from first to last. of course i have my favorites but i'm happy with any song i hear.
I always say they have no bad songs. Just songs you like more than others.
All 5 of them wore the cloak and hoods. Journey To The Other Side I highly Recommend. It's a very personal song written for and dedicated to Miho's dad after he died suddenly at 49. You will see Miho get very emotional during the performance.
ladies n gentlemens of the jury..have we reach the verdicts?YES!! YOUR HONOR!!
After LOVEBITES announced that they were back in action and would be auditioning bassists, hundreds of applications were received from all over the world.
From among them, they finally chose FAMI, who was only a 20-year-old college student at the time and had little experience playing in a band.
Some fans were apprehensive about her selection, so they decided to let the new LOVEBITES be judged on the performance of the album they were making, and titled the album “Judgement Day”.
In case you are wondering, the titles of their full/mini-albums are basically arranged in alphabetical order.
This song is my all-time favorite song by my all-time favorite band for many reasons. The solo run is amazing, a triple solo because the bass is so involved. Miyako & Midori are my favorite dual leads ever, and Fami slides in and does her rhythm section thing being in lockstep with Haruna, yet, she also joins in with M&M. Lovebites are the riff masters in metal. Great reaction.
Elite musicianship.
Lovebites IS perfection !
very well broken down gentlemen. they are the best metal band in the world now!!! have a great day. they never get boring.
LOVEBITTEN !!! Welcome to the wolfpack of Lovebites fans.
Welcome back to Lovebites and great reaction to the titular track from their latest album "Judgement Day"
🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
Fantasy? You want more? Try these:
THE CRUSADE (Live, with their walk-on music; ASAMI is phenomenal in this early performance) - ua-cam.com/video/nQhL3RmIH5Y/v-deo.htmlsi=XLayzFCa9bwXbd7Y
WHEN DESTINIES ALINGN (OMV)
SWAN SONG [+ Chopin intro]
This self-explanatory musical performance is one of a kind - once successfully "lovebitten" everyone is getting addicted for the rest of his/her/their life . . .
If you like the back-and-forth beteween the guitarists, "Scream for me" is definitely your song from Lovebites!
Thank you, you saved me the trouble 😀🤘🏻🤘🏻😀
@@one42chrispno problem, bro! 🤘
Personality is at its highest in the music video version of "Stand And Deliver (Shoot 'em Down)" its a very fun video of them in street clothes in the studio and outside with instrument swapping & showing their goofy sides.
As I mentioned in the OG video comments, Fami and Haruna deliver a powermetal rhythm section _masterclass_ on this one, with both their individual parts AND the many subtle ways in which they intertwine driving the song relentlessly. Elite tier...
＜From an interview with Asami-san in a music magazine project＞
The remaining members overcame many difficulties from the hiatus to the release of the album "⚖️JUDGEMENT DAY".
LOVEBITES never compromises on their initial beliefs.
This is the title song of the album, which expresses their desire for everyone to judge that "what we have been doing up until now has not been wrong" and "we are making real metal music" through the album that they released after overcoming the hurdles they set for themselves.
We also asked ourselves, "Is this right?"
"Even if you overcome evil, you will repeat it again"
"Even if you overcome difficulties, you will be given new challenges"
(End)
In the video, Asami is chased by something and crawls on the ground, enduring it, when she sees a ray of light, she holds up her sword of justice to the sky, stands up, is "⚖️judged", and overcomes it, but new difficulties arise and she is chased again, which I think expresses the infinite loop.🤔🤗
The "Fantasy" genre they are playing here is called Power Metal and Lovebites is top tier in that genre.
🤘🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🤘
LOVEBITES - Judgement Day lyrics & credits:
Never lived Never died Never end No way to go
Every night Everywhere Everything Arriving of darkness
What is “right” What is “wrong” What is “sin” Who’s to decide?
Hide and seek Truth or dare Playing tag Chased by the evil
Another back and forth of gaining and losing
Running out of my time
Each tick of the clock’s taking down piece of my life again
Who’s ally Who’s against Who’s to pick All in your hand
Up and down, in and out, left or right, answers turn around
What do you see in this world full of insanity?
When the rain come to end, what’s waiting us Don’t look away
This is the truth
RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY!
Life - Given the “foreverness”
RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY!
Life - Leaving name in history
Tragedy in the past find salvation
Now with the great will, the path lay in front of me
Starting here, this is the day!
SOLO: midori / miyako /midori /miyako / both
Never lived Never died Never end No way to go
Every night Everywhere Everything Arriving of darkness
What do you see in this world full of insanity?
When do we come to ask what's awaiting us, don't look away!
This is the truth!
RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY!
Life - Given the “foreverness”
RISE! THIS IS JUDGEMENT DAY!
Life - Leaving name in history
Tragedy in the past, find salvation
Now with the great will, the path lay in front of me
Starting here, this is the day!
Judgement day!
Judgement day!
Judgement day!
JUDGEMENT DAY!
-----
lyrics: asami
music: asami & Mao
arrangement: Mao & LOVEBITES
album: "Judgement Day" 02/22/2023
-----
"Winds of Transylvania" is a song they created as the opening theme song for the anime titled Vladlove, which is a comedy/story based around Vampires. It is probably their wildest song and the music video contains clips from the anime itself. That's probably as close as you'll get to another "fantasy" music video from Lovebites. ua-cam.com/video/HsE4Ub_Pjh8/v-deo.html
yeah agree🤘Lovebites
Yes - a must for a reaction. Controlled Chaos personified.
nice reaction 🤘Lovebites
Fantasy is part of metal world. You could react to Winds of Transylvania (Vladlove version) for more Fantasy ^^
^^^Absolutely reaction worthy - all Lovebites songs are.
Fami Fami Fami !!!!!
If you want personal MV from Lovebites than you have the "Stand and deliver" video, its fun, in particular when you know the girls a bit. You also have all the live studio videos from "The Abyss", their rehearsal studio.
Midori💚💚💚💚💚
Nice reaction ❤.Then,”Glory to the world”might be a good choice. 👍❤😇🪽
fami❤❤❤❤
🤟🏻🔥🔥🐺🔥🔥🤘🏻
They don't have a regular fantasy theme going on, if that is what you want to know; there are other Japanese bands who do that (Galneryus, Unlucky Morpheus), but Lovebites are not really a fantasy-themed band, with one or two exceptions.
However: this song is not one of those. Since, as another commenter mentioned, fantasy is a standard part of metal, Asami the singer/lyricist does use a fantasy story as a metaphor in this song, but it is being used to send a message. When you've read some Lovebites lyrics, you'll see that many of Asami's lyrics are about overcoming depression and darkness within yourself, face your daily challenges and make the best of yourself. The video is an extended metaphor on that theme: we all have light and dark parts (the band members show up dressed in white and in black); you should not run from the darkness but fight it (Asami grabs the sword after first running away); you must not enshrine your darkness like in a picture frame and put it up like beside your bed and dwell on it, but instead you must smash that picture of your dark side. "Judgement Day" means a struggle within yourself.
Don't try to read too much into the lyrics of "Holy War", they're just a bit of glorious nonsense that is supposed to sound metal.
Someone mentioned Glory To The World and Winds Of Transylvania. Glory To The World follows roughly the same theme as Judgement Day: overcoming darkness; only in this case, the darkness was the pandemic, and the song uses some metaphors borrowed from Christianity. Winds of Transylvania does qualify as a pure fantasy-themed song, but it is a collab with an anime studio (their only one to date) who asked them to write a title track for a vampire comedy. Clips from that are in the video. Then there's M.D.O., which is about another anime, but is mainly a thrashing song to get the audience going.
Most of their lyrics are either about overcoming darkness or breaking walls within yourself, or anthems about rock'n'roll and their fans, or piss-off songs to former lovers, or songs about classical composers (they have a song about Beethoven going deaf, for example, Dystopia Symphony). They have at least one song about Hiroshima (The Apocalypse).
Here are some MV that are kind of fantasy
* Glory to the world - kind of religious vibes - to be brave in covid times
* When destinies align - samurai warriors
* Winds of Transylvania - I think this is for an anime
Soul Defender , Set the World on Fire , Swan Song , The Crusade , Nameless Warrior , The Apocalypse , Wicked Witch , SPELLBOUND & Pledge of the Saviour
For Christians, Jews, and Muslims around the world, "Judgment Day" may be an image of the "final judgment" that will come only once when the world comes to an end. However, the theme of this song is probably different. I think it is an image of the courage to make the right judgment in the everyday conflict between "goodwill" and "badwill" that we experience many times in our lives. The outro of this song shows the "repetition" that leads to the intro. It shows the "judgment that we experience repeatedly while we are alive. (In that sense, this may be a way of thinking that is close to Buddhist values)
There are other songs by LOVEBITES that have religious images (for example, GLORY TO THE WORLD, THE CRUSADE, HOLY WAR, etc.). However, although some people seem to misunderstand, it should be understood that LOVEBITES is a band that has almost no religious background. For them, religious images are a world that expresses "fantasy".
----------
from Nippon
*Text using Google Translate. I hope that the intention is conveyed correctly.
Or Swan Song with the Chopin Intro
Co co cool
Dystopia Symphony - an audio only masterpiece: ua-cam.com/video/YkiRGfw572U/v-deo.htmlsi=-Ucj0OPPVHl6uSX2
This song and "Paranoia"!!!
Here is a fan upload of both "Paranoia > Dystopia Symphony" as on the CD release.
ua-cam.com/video/yu0NwiC18y0/v-deo.html
Time-lapse 'mood' visuals & [cc] lyrics. Haruna slightly boosted in the mix.
I consider these to be 2 of their most "prog" songs.
They have announced that all songs not yet performed LIVE will be included in
“ETERNAL PHENOMENON TOUR” beginning January 26, 2025
So, hopefully, later in the year we will get a new Blu-ray that includes these two LIVE!
I hope they play them consecutively, as that is how I always listened to them.
🐺 dreg👁
@@dregeye I did not see that announcement.
@@mmcpa The tour announcement on t w i t t e r dated 8:20PM Oct 4, 2024 includes,
"The tour will feature a special setlist that includes tracks from our latest 'LOVEBITES EP II', as well as our killer tunes, and even some songs that have never been played live."
Although this does not specifically state it as I did, they really only have a few songs that have not been performed LIVE, recorded & Officially released.
"Puppet On Strings" & "Paranoia" for sure, and although "Dystopia Symphony" was performed last 2021 show in Osaka in place of "Spellbound" no LIVE recordings or video have been released.
"Wicked Witch" & "Victim Of Time" still remain from 'Judgement Day' album.
When/if I find the post where they indicated inclusion of all remaining songs not released LIVE, I will share it.
🐺 dreg👁
@@mmcpa did you see my reply?
I don’t know what the thinking was behind the video but my take was that it is the dark and light inside everyone….a constant battle
Good reaction, if you want another video with fantasy images, maybe this one with samurai images should be: ua-cam.com/video/hLFelI93VkM/v-deo.html
Rock and Roll never died. It's just played by little Japanese women now.
Hi from France:
In Japan, "Judgement day" does not correspond to the Christian "Last Judgment", this moment when you give an account before leaving for the Beyond, but rather this day when you decide what you are going to do with your life: either you become (remain?) bad, or you make the decision to do what is necessary for your future... It is a moment of choice and beginning, and not that of the end of life... The connotation is rather positive...
Check out their song shadow maker, pretty bad ass
For another MV with a bit of "fantasy" I suggest When Destinies Align MV ua-cam.com/video/hLFelI93VkM/v-deo.html. It's a damn good song as well. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Hello from France!
I think this is their best music video. The other song made at the same time "Stand and Deliver (Shout 'em down)" is also interesting because we see them in a relaxed way having fun while preparing the song in the recording studio !
ua-cam.com/video/4ImGA7cPyrs/v-deo.html
I also think that the day you decide to react to their song "Swan Song", you should choose the live version with the Chopin intro from 2020, which is also, in my opinion, the best :
ua-cam.com/video/dcMVtrvpJpk/v-deo.html
This will show you much better the virtuosity of Miyako on the piano.
And for fun, their audio version of the song "Painkiller" by Judas Priest :
ua-cam.com/video/cN5mMEnCNuA/v-deo.html
Enjoy !!!
I would like to suggest this other upload of the same performance of ''Swan Song'' with Chopin intro, ua-cam.com/video/WBhtqgiXEA4/v-deo.html
This is in 1080p and has accurate [cc] lyric subtitles. The link ending "Jpk" is 720p & has two errors in the embedded subtitles.
I appreciate Harry's efforts, but he is unable to correct the embedded lyrics.
🐺 dreg👁
@@dregeye Yes, indeed I think you are right!
@@robert.llaneza for the curious, the significant error in lyrics exchanges is,
"It is not the LENGTH, but depth of life that counts" is correct (emphasis added)
with "It is not the WORTH, but depth of life that counts" incorrect (emphasis added)
dreg👁
Having the subtitles on is distracting away from the players, you do a lyric breakdown at the end anyways so just sit back and enjoy the music & song first maybe. 🤷♂️✌
Guys..check also NEMOPHILA live songs ZEN, AMA TE RAS, Seize The Fate, Rise, Revive, Dissension,
HANABIE songs MV We Love Sweets...
Not at all!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys..check also NEMOPHILA live songs ZEN, AMA TE RAS, Seize The Fate, Rise, Revive, Dissension,
HANABIE songs MV We Love Sweets...
Not at all!!!!!!!!!!