They're not only incredible musicians, they're also super nice. I've seen them live already two times (actually, they were the last live band I've seen last year before we went into corona lockdown). The first time the venue was basically empty with only 20-30 people in the audience, but they still played like there's no tomorrow. When they finished, we tried to cheer for an encore, not expecting much, but the bass player really came back on stage and asked "I'm really sorry, we already played our whole set of songs, is it OK if we play Gou Ni Moyu again?" - And so they did. And here's Gou Ni Moyu for you to react: ua-cam.com/video/Nl4Z5f4QwEY/v-deo.html
That sounds incredibly awesome. I wonder if they could have played a cover song for an encore though, since they also do a lot of those on their youtube channel.
Maybe they hadn't those well rehearsed? From personal experience, after learning a cover it takes less than a week to forget it if you don't keep at it 😅
@@akaalexanderking That's not only true for covers, if we didn't rehearse our own songs, we also forgot bits and pieces of them :D. So I'm pretty sure that they didn't have any other songs "stage ready". Oh, and Sokoninaru just dropped a new video earlier today, which is a complete outlier to their regular style. In case you want to check out another side of them, here it is: ua-cam.com/video/IftMhG5ck6Q/v-deo.html
Finally Sokoninaru get some love. The way i called them is "Organized Chaos" Because when you hear it first it seem very chaotic but when you analyst it, they are very well organized. I recommend to check their more, next is "Sokoninaru - Go ni Mouyu"
Right now I'm addicted to bands from Japan because? when I started playing guitar the songs were made with feeling and love and especially with a lot of study in the instruments, and the musicians had to be animals on each instrument, now in this principle of century the songs have become very boring, with 4 chords with an acoustic guitar and are killing the distortion, I like to see and hear people who play much better that I play and I always learn. Listening to Japanese music without realizing what they are saying I get the feeling of joy and happiness.
Welcome to the geniuses that are Sokoninaru! Your face throughout is basically what mind-blown looks like. I have been listening to them since last summer and still feel that way haha Check out Gou Ni Moyu and Lament Moment next please.
Thanks for this! Sokoninaru were one of my happy discoveries this last year - just love their mix of heavy/soft, melody/noise though agree, it's not for everyone. There are solo play-throughs of each member for the song "kyokugen ha setsuna" - worth checking out to see each part "up close", particularly the drummer who's an absolute monster.
I'm so happy you finally did these guys, feels like forever since I put the request in 😂😂. Just joking, but I absolutely love them and so glad you checked them out. You should do Gou Ni Moyu next, but they don't do bad music, so you can't really go wrong. Great stuff my dude, keep it up!
Fastest click of my life. Been hoping you would do Sokoninaru for a while. My favorite band right now, I love how unique and fresh their whole sound is. Good observation about how amazing their tones and harmonies are, which are things I think a lot of people overlook given how overwhelming their playing can be on a first listen. While they're A Lot to take in at first, what I really love about them is that as you get used to their explosive style, you start to appreciate just how beautiful their music is. While you're re-listening to this one, I recommend putting on the English subs with the CC button, because the lyrics are amazing too. For other songs of theirs to check out, Gou Ni Moyu, Lament Moment, Complicated System, and Re:Program are all fantastic. You really can't go wrong, all their songs are great. They have individual instrument playthroughs of most of their singles, with walkthroughs of how to play them and what pedal settings they use for some of them. Shiyu's drum playthrough of Gou Ni Moyu is just unreal. The also have tons of covers on their channel (recording from their homes through the lockdown) which are great both for finding other amazing J-Rock bands and for seeing them just having fun, since their own songs are mostly fairly serious.
I dont think i ever heard something quite like this, such huge and sudden changes, pretty crazy stuff! I could feel my brain struggling to keep up. Great skills and tone choices overall! Pretty cool.
Really buddy? I've been suggesting them to many reactors but yeah. Reminded me to early Lovebites where not many would react to them. Check another one of their song called Gou Ni Moyu
@@arathasena6871 I promise i will check it out!😄 Im struggling to keep up, i just discovered HANABIE and HAGANE in the last few days, and i've had A Frozen Serenade on repeat all the time too... addicted to that song!
@@arathasena6871 GD is the only EP i dont have and is not on Spotify either... Asami voice so beautiful on Puppet! "Metalin" so far my favorite, bass player is crazy good! weird tapping technique but it works well.
Yes! The wait was worth it! This band needs a little more light, I think they have a very interesting concept and sound, and solid vocal harmonization. This song is a good introduction to them, since perhaps for many they can be very "chaotic" without so much structure, but the band has a wide repertoire of songs that are worth exploring and they continued improving their sound over the years. Thanks GG for the reaction and the analysis, and it is true that it is difficult to do this in just one listen, but it improves with each listen, I assure you!
I love finding reactions to "difficult" bands like Sokoninaru, I'm still researching their music, but the four or five tracks I've been able to listen to I've liked and I'm looking forward to dive deep into them ;) What I have looked for is information about them and it turns out that both Suzuki and Misaki formed the band because of the influence of "Ling Tosite Sigure", another Japanese band I do know and also with the guitar/bass/drums formation, in fact Sokoninaru started doing covers of Ling Tosite Sigure's songs and apparently, the bass player Misaki originally played the guitar, but changed it for the bass because she was impressed by the style of "345", the bass player of Ling Tosite Sigure. In case you feel like listening to the band that inspired Sokoninaru, here's a link to the first video I saw of Ling Tosite Sigure's "Telecastic Fake Show", I think I must have seen it when it came out back in 2008 and it blew me away, but I didn't really look into them until a few months ago. The song itself still seems brutal to me, just like the band and as it usually happens with all the Japanese bands I've been discovering, they are tremendous when it comes to playing their instruments ;) ua-cam.com/video/lqYCMxhgeSU/v-deo.html "Telecastic Fake Show". On the other hand, TK, the guitarist and singer, I think he is also the "brain" of the group, has also his solo career with the curious name of "TK fom Ling Tosite Sigure" and he does wonderful things like this ;) ua-cam.com/video/GsLsBs4oW30/v-deo.html 『unravel』 (acoustic version in The First Take with piano violin and cello) ua-cam.com/video/Fve_lHIPa-I/v-deo.html 『unravel』 (original video with the original electric version) What usually happens to me with everything I've heard from TK as a soloist is the great emotional charge that his interpretations transmit to me, I'm not able to define it in any other way ;) Greetings from Spain ;) (Translated to English automatically)
@@akaalexanderking You're welcome, I saw you so impressed by Sokoninaru that I thought it would be interesting for you to meet Ling Tosite Sigure and thank you for your answer ;)
Yes, at least someone has reacted to Sokoninaru! Everyday, I'm looking for a reaction video to this band and my man GG appears to be the hero of the day 🤘🏻 Sokoninaru is one of my favorite japanese rock band. All the three members are great even if the drummer Shiyu is not officialy part of the band. Juko Suzuki is an amazing guitar player and he plays on a Momose Jazzmaster (japanese handmade guitar). Misaki Fujiwara is in my top 3 japanese bassist with MISA (BAND-MAID) and Koga (Gacharic Spin, DOLL$BOXX). She plays on a Mayones Jabba Classic 4 (handmade bass from Poland). On their UA-cam Channel, they show how to play their songs. It's only in japanese but it's fascinating: Juko on guitar: ua-cam.com/video/WzUXB4bo7d4/v-deo.html Misaki on bass: ua-cam.com/video/RN5F9aeXtPc/v-deo.html Shiyu on drums: ua-cam.com/video/9zf2OWEaa2o/v-deo.html Next song by them: "kyokugen wa setsuna" Thank you 🙏🏻
@@akaalexanderking They have released a bunch of EPs these last years and finally in 2020, they signed to JPU Records and released their first full length album. It was my favorite album of the year along Code Orange's "Underneath" and Orbit Culture's "Nija". It's not metal but it's amazing. And they do have a kind of metalish song called "Metalin'" from their EP of the same name. Anyway, they have a lot of crazy songs, you can pick any of them
Code Orange and Orbit Culture, the future of western heavy metal. And I'll add Jinjer to the list even if I've only heard a couple of songs so far ahahaha
@@akaalexanderking completely agree. Power Trip was there too for me, even if it’s more classic Crossover Thrash, but unfortunately their singer died last year. I also like Baroness, Mutoid Man and Kvelertak too 😀 And if you like hardcore, Knocked Loose and Turnstile are awesome. I know, there’s a lot of bands. But like you, I love music so much 😄
This band is also pretty new to me too - and I added them to my play list straight away. I am also caught out just wanting them to extend some of the passages a little longer. I am thinking I need to listen to an album all the way through to figure out how much I like them!
If you love this Japanese math rock type band with crazy falsetto vocals, try Ling Tosite Sigure and Co Shu Nie, ignore their weird band names, those bands and Sokoninaru are like siblings musically
Nice, I also like Sokoninaru. The best mathcore /rock band I've ever heard from Japan. They also have Live videos too, they really can play as I can tell.. By the way, can I suggest an alternative idol band to you, it has autotune though.. Please do check out PassCode - Taking you out. Thanks, I'll be back✌️
@@akaalexanderking I don't like all PassCode's songs but "Taking Me Out" is definitely a banger. Try the official live if it's possible. Because I know some reactors got blocked but others don't. That song worth the try 👍🏻
@@akaalexanderking seconding PassCode, the girls are awesome. I'm not the biggest fan of vocal effects too, but they fit their electronic-heavy style of music really well. And it's mostly vocoder that they are using, not autotune.
BAND MAID's latest songs "Black Hole" and "Giovanni" also have songs that repeat violent rhythm changes and quiet melodies. In Japan, such a song is becoming one of the trends. A representative group is "LING TOSITE SIGURE".
@@akaalexanderkingMaybe you would enjoy Elephant Gym. More in the side of math/prog rock. Here they play live: ua-cam.com/video/saccx5dTmKU/v-deo.html. Don't need to do a reaction if you have to much work in progress. But for your own pleasure.
Glad to see one of my favorite bands getting their proper due. I've seen people recommend Gou Ni Myo and Re:program. So, I'll add Complicated System and Zettaiteki Sanpunkan in case you're interested in hearing a different side of them.
I think in the old days to write something like this you'd record a bunch of separate longer parts, then cut the tape into pieces and stick it back together. I'm sure the digital cut and paste method would be similar, and more precise. Adding parts, removing parts, until you have a "finished" song and rerecording parts to make it more cohesive. ... Phenomenonal band tho. Insane ability. Your reaction may not have been the analysis you wanted it to be, but watching you just have your mind blown away was 100% worth it. ... I have something unusual. Similar feeling of throwing genres in a blender but perhaps slightly more developing of the ideas. Still challenging to grasp on a first listen, but loads of fun. And really a totally different band. ... The band is 0.1g no gosan and I have no idea what the song is called, but it has a lot of creativity and general Japanese "wtf did I just listen to" in it. ua-cam.com/video/4JkyovYZihk/v-deo.html This is a little independent band, and off the beaten track, but music is music and finding stuff that is creative and taking risks is worth it regardless of having a thousand people request it or not.
Thank you for responding to my request. I was very happy to hear your impressions of the band, as there is no other band in Japan that is as original. If possible, I'd be happy if you take up other songs again.I think "gou ni moyu" or "re:program" would be good, since they came out after this song.
@@akaalexanderking There is a band called JUPITER whose style is a little different from sokoninaru, symphonic power metal like LOVEBITES or UNLUCKY MORPHEUS, and their song "Arcadia" is a masterpiece that some people call guitar paradise. The combination of guitars created by the two guitarists, TERU and HIZAKI, has produced many masterpieces.
Finally 10 out of 10. Their song that is closest to the "normal song" is "Metalin" and the most similar to this one, is probably "re: program". Everything else is somewhere in the middle. There are a lot of covers done on their channel, my favorite is "LUNA SEA - ROSIER". For our outside of Japan, this band is like from another planet. However in Japan there are a lot of similar bands like Ling tosite sigure, THE ORAL CIGARETTES and Hello Sleepwalkers. Our brains are not calibrated for Japanese music. An attempt to soak up the whole song with one listen is doomed, as is an attempt to collect all the water falling from Niagara Falls with one glass. Web Radio MusicEldorado-Japan: eu2-centova.serverse.com:2199/tunein/wmaiqhed.asx (in test phase)
I think that even though there was a lot going on from moment to moment, overall this is a fairly conventional song, which keeps the listener from getting too lost. The time signature is 4/4 and never changes, the measures are in groups of 4 like most pop songs, the tempo doesn't change, and it stayed in one key and used familiar chords. So even though you can't predict what will happen in the next second, you can kind of predict what will happen in 90 seconds. It's chaotic on a small scale, but on a larger scale it's not. Most of the Sokoninaru songs that I've heard are like that.
They both were influenced by Ling Tosite Sigure and both of them bought their whole albums ua-cam.com/video/49H4qDj4OUg/v-deo.html and 9mm Parabellum Bullet ua-cam.com/video/uY-QrSbVRW8/v-deo.html
You might also like UVERworld - Impact they are similar to Sokoninaru with this Song but they go easier on you when it comes switch ups within the Song xD
Guess I'm just too old for this kind of music. It's just too chaotic for me and I'm having a hard time enjoying it. But I can tell that the musicians in this band must have a tremendous amount of skills to be creating such a song. Nice reaction as always, GG. And I missed the premiere twice!! You change the premiere time one hour earlier?
It's definitely not for everyone man. No worries, today I released the video without the premiere. Moving on I'll probably do this for new bands on the channel and have premieres for the ones we already know ;) But always 2PM GMT 🤘🏻
@@akaalexanderking yeah I guess it's not indeed. I was as mind blown as you to be thinking how they can come up with ideas of songs such as this hahaha. Yes it's a good idea of sorting out which songs/bands that can you react to with a premiere and which cannot. And please react to FATE GEAR (MEGABULLETS or Headless Goddess) and Vision Divine (Angel of Revenge). Thanks man!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I think you should revisit them with their song "Metalin". Also take a look at Broken by the scream with "逆転の鐘は鳴る" which is another example how crazy the japanese music scene is. It`s brutal stuff. But we and they enjoy it so much.
Thanks for the video, Gent! This was really fun to watch! One can almost see on your face how many times you wanted to pause the song to catch some air... haha By now you should know that this is their usual writing style. They have some songs that have a more established structure, but the music is always quite busy and changing. In that regard, "zettaiteki sanpunkan" could be a little bit gentler... I might be wrong... haha By the way, in case you're interested, you can see the play-through videos for this song (Tenohira...) on their channel. They explain each section for each instrument, so I'll be dropping the link for the guitar one in case you wanna try playing it..!! haha ua-cam.com/video/WzUXB4bo7d4/v-deo.html
If you’re up for a Marty Friedman approved child guitar prodigy who’s also jammed together with the likes of Kiko Loureiro, check out “Li-sa-X Band- One More Chance is Enough” The stuff she’s doing here sounds so badass. As a musician, you’d probably be able to appreciate it more. I actually found this recently too and been playing it on repeat wondering why does this sound so freakin good?! So it’d be amazing if a pro like you can look at it and possibly figure out what she’s doing. The 2nd guitarist Haxuki is also a member of Nemophila so this whole thing is pretty much an alliance of monster musicians, teaming up strategically to blow our minds 😅
More japanese bands for your list^^: Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - "Crossover" or "Let me hear" Crossfaith - "Monolith" from Download Festival 2014 Shonen Knife - "Jump into the New World" X Japan - "Endless Rain" - ua-cam.com/video/7rwJIeN1M7o/v-deo.html (Live) KEEP YOUR HANDs OFF MY GIRL - "stand by you" abstracts - "Nocturne" The Gazette - "DEUX" (LIVE) Worldwide: Bloodywood - Machi Bhasad (India) SITAR METAL - When Time Stands Still (India) ALIEN WEAPONRY - Kai Tangata (New Zealand) NORWALD - RUINS OF A KINGDOM (Spain) A short list. :)
I couldnt imagine writing something like this. So many change ups. Brilliant musicians! I appreciate it but not something i could listen to a lot. Too many changes and switches for me.
I love this band, they are incredible, but I prefer them live, the studio versions are a bit overproduced and artificial for my taste (I hate those vacuum outerspace silences at the breaks) , live they sound as fast and accurate, but with a powerful rawness.
They're not only incredible musicians, they're also super nice. I've seen them live already two times (actually, they were the last live band I've seen last year before we went into corona lockdown). The first time the venue was basically empty with only 20-30 people in the audience, but they still played like there's no tomorrow. When they finished, we tried to cheer for an encore, not expecting much, but the bass player really came back on stage and asked "I'm really sorry, we already played our whole set of songs, is it OK if we play Gou Ni Moyu again?" - And so they did. And here's Gou Ni Moyu for you to react: ua-cam.com/video/Nl4Z5f4QwEY/v-deo.html
That's fantastic, thanks for sharing! Love when bands do these things
That sounds incredibly awesome. I wonder if they could have played a cover song for an encore though, since they also do a lot of those on their youtube channel.
Maybe they hadn't those well rehearsed? From personal experience, after learning a cover it takes less than a week to forget it if you don't keep at it 😅
@@akaalexanderking That's not only true for covers, if we didn't rehearse our own songs, we also forgot bits and pieces of them :D. So I'm pretty sure that they didn't have any other songs "stage ready". Oh, and Sokoninaru just dropped a new video earlier today, which is a complete outlier to their regular style. In case you want to check out another side of them, here it is: ua-cam.com/video/IftMhG5ck6Q/v-deo.html
Thanks a million for the link ;)
Finally Sokoninaru get some love. The way i called them is "Organized Chaos" Because when you hear it first it seem very chaotic but when you analyst it, they are very well organized. I recommend to check their more, next is "Sokoninaru - Go ni Mouyu"
It is extremely organized, absolutely. And what a muscle memory they must have to perform such songs!
The funniest thing that is one of the most "normal" songs of them
That's true. :)
Oh boy, what am I in for 😂 so, what should come next?
Next,re:program.
Right now I'm addicted to bands from Japan because? when I started playing guitar the songs were made with feeling and love and especially with a lot of study in the instruments, and the musicians had to be animals on each instrument, now in this principle of century the songs have become very boring, with 4 chords with an acoustic guitar and are killing the distortion, I like to see and hear people who play much better that I play and I always learn. Listening to Japanese music without realizing what they are saying I get the feeling of joy and happiness.
True, they are a source of inspiration!
Depends on what genre you're listening to. Check out the band Hour of Penance.
Very well said man!! I feel exactly the same
Welcome to the geniuses that are Sokoninaru! Your face throughout is basically what mind-blown looks like. I have been listening to them since last summer and still feel that way haha Check out Gou Ni Moyu and Lament Moment next please.
They are crazy! Thanks for the recommendations, added to the list ;)
Thanks for this! Sokoninaru were one of my happy discoveries this last year - just love their mix of heavy/soft, melody/noise though agree, it's not for everyone. There are solo play-throughs of each member for the song "kyokugen ha setsuna" - worth checking out to see each part "up close", particularly the drummer who's an absolute monster.
Thanks, very curious to check those out now 😁
I'm so happy you finally did these guys, feels like forever since I put the request in 😂😂. Just joking, but I absolutely love them and so glad you checked them out. You should do Gou Ni Moyu next, but they don't do bad music, so you can't really go wrong. Great stuff my dude, keep it up!
Thanks Mark, glad I finally got to them as well 😁
Fastest click of my life. Been hoping you would do Sokoninaru for a while. My favorite band right now, I love how unique and fresh their whole sound is. Good observation about how amazing their tones and harmonies are, which are things I think a lot of people overlook given how overwhelming their playing can be on a first listen. While they're A Lot to take in at first, what I really love about them is that as you get used to their explosive style, you start to appreciate just how beautiful their music is. While you're re-listening to this one, I recommend putting on the English subs with the CC button, because the lyrics are amazing too.
For other songs of theirs to check out, Gou Ni Moyu, Lament Moment, Complicated System, and Re:Program are all fantastic. You really can't go wrong, all their songs are great. They have individual instrument playthroughs of most of their singles, with walkthroughs of how to play them and what pedal settings they use for some of them. Shiyu's drum playthrough of Gou Ni Moyu is just unreal. The also have tons of covers on their channel (recording from their homes through the lockdown) which are great both for finding other amazing J-Rock bands and for seeing them just having fun, since their own songs are mostly fairly serious.
Don't know why this comment ended up in spam. Thanks a lot for sharing that, noted them down :)
I dont think i ever heard something quite like this, such huge and sudden changes, pretty crazy stuff! I could feel my brain struggling to keep up.
Great skills and tone choices overall! Pretty cool.
Really buddy? I've been suggesting them to many reactors but yeah. Reminded me to early Lovebites where not many would react to them. Check another one of their song called Gou Ni Moyu
Agreed 🤘🏻
@@arathasena6871 I promise i will check it out!😄 Im struggling to keep up, i just discovered HANABIE and HAGANE in the last few days, and i've had A Frozen Serenade on repeat all the time too... addicted to that song!
@@JFrancoDrums Since I uploaded Puppet on String, I've been on loop mode
@@arathasena6871 GD is the only EP i dont have and is not on Spotify either... Asami voice so beautiful on Puppet!
"Metalin" so far my favorite, bass player is crazy good! weird tapping technique but it works well.
Yes! The wait was worth it! This band needs a little more light, I think they have a very interesting concept and sound, and solid vocal harmonization. This song is a good introduction to them, since perhaps for many they can be very "chaotic" without so much structure, but the band has a wide repertoire of songs that are worth exploring and they continued improving their sound over the years. Thanks GG for the reaction and the analysis, and it is true that it is difficult to do this in just one listen, but it improves with each listen, I assure you!
I'm sure about that, I'm now at 3-4 listens and I can get my head around it a bit better already ;)
I love finding reactions to "difficult" bands like Sokoninaru, I'm still researching their music, but the four or five tracks I've been able to listen to I've liked and I'm looking forward to dive deep into them ;) What I have looked for is information about them and it turns out that both Suzuki and Misaki formed the band because of the influence of "Ling Tosite Sigure", another Japanese band I do know and also with the guitar/bass/drums formation, in fact Sokoninaru started doing covers of Ling Tosite Sigure's songs and apparently, the bass player Misaki originally played the guitar, but changed it for the bass because she was impressed by the style of "345", the bass player of Ling Tosite Sigure.
In case you feel like listening to the band that inspired Sokoninaru, here's a link to the first video I saw of Ling Tosite Sigure's "Telecastic Fake Show", I think I must have seen it when it came out back in 2008 and it blew me away, but I didn't really look into them until a few months ago. The song itself still seems brutal to me, just like the band and as it usually happens with all the Japanese bands I've been discovering, they are tremendous when it comes to playing their instruments ;)
ua-cam.com/video/lqYCMxhgeSU/v-deo.html "Telecastic Fake Show".
On the other hand, TK, the guitarist and singer, I think he is also the "brain" of the group, has also his solo career with the curious name of "TK fom Ling Tosite Sigure" and he does wonderful things like this ;)
ua-cam.com/video/GsLsBs4oW30/v-deo.html 『unravel』 (acoustic version in The First Take with piano violin and cello)
ua-cam.com/video/Fve_lHIPa-I/v-deo.html 『unravel』 (original video with the original electric version)
What usually happens to me with everything I've heard from TK as a soloist is the great emotional charge that his interpretations transmit to me, I'm not able to define it in any other way ;)
Greetings from Spain ;) (Translated to English automatically)
Thanks a million for all the information Antonio, deeply appreciated. Gracias amigo 😁
@@akaalexanderking You're welcome, I saw you so impressed by Sokoninaru that I thought it would be interesting for you to meet Ling Tosite Sigure and thank you for your answer ;)
Thank you for great reaction! Love from Japan!
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed. Cheers from Ireland!
Yes, at least someone has reacted to Sokoninaru! Everyday, I'm looking for a reaction video to this band and my man GG appears to be the hero of the day 🤘🏻
Sokoninaru is one of my favorite japanese rock band. All the three members are great even if the drummer Shiyu is not officialy part of the band. Juko Suzuki is an amazing guitar player and he plays on a Momose Jazzmaster (japanese handmade guitar). Misaki Fujiwara is in my top 3 japanese bassist with MISA (BAND-MAID) and Koga (Gacharic Spin, DOLL$BOXX). She plays on a Mayones Jabba Classic 4 (handmade bass from Poland).
On their UA-cam Channel, they show how to play their songs. It's only in japanese but it's fascinating:
Juko on guitar: ua-cam.com/video/WzUXB4bo7d4/v-deo.html
Misaki on bass: ua-cam.com/video/RN5F9aeXtPc/v-deo.html
Shiyu on drums: ua-cam.com/video/9zf2OWEaa2o/v-deo.html
Next song by them: "kyokugen wa setsuna"
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks man! Good to have a big fan of the band as a guide through this 😁
@@akaalexanderking They have released a bunch of EPs these last years and finally in 2020, they signed to JPU Records and released their first full length album. It was my favorite album of the year along Code Orange's "Underneath" and Orbit Culture's "Nija". It's not metal but it's amazing. And they do have a kind of metalish song called "Metalin'" from their EP of the same name.
Anyway, they have a lot of crazy songs, you can pick any of them
Code Orange and Orbit Culture, the future of western heavy metal. And I'll add Jinjer to the list even if I've only heard a couple of songs so far ahahaha
@@akaalexanderking completely agree. Power Trip was there too for me, even if it’s more classic Crossover Thrash, but unfortunately their singer died last year.
I also like Baroness, Mutoid Man and Kvelertak too 😀
And if you like hardcore, Knocked Loose and Turnstile are awesome.
I know, there’s a lot of bands. But like you, I love music so much 😄
I like the bass playthrough video being timestamped at showing Pompompurin on Misaki's pedal board.
This band is also pretty new to me too - and I added them to my play list straight away. I am also caught out just wanting them to extend some of the passages a little longer. I am thinking I need to listen to an album all the way through to figure out how much I like them!
Exactly, that will be a nice test I feel 👍🏻
@@akaalexanderking Sokoninaru new MV "white for" 5 hours ago, much different tempo
Thanks Paul ;)
If you love this Japanese math rock type band with crazy falsetto vocals, try Ling Tosite Sigure and Co Shu Nie, ignore their weird band names, those bands and Sokoninaru are like siblings musically
Adding to the list, thanks!
Ling Tosite Sigure are the inspiration for Sokoninaru.
Enigmatic feeling it's great!!! From Ling Tosite Sigure
CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe]
SiM [Killing Me]
COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow]
CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle]
More Sokoninaru. Those music is interesting
Agreed! Which song should I go for next? :)
GuitarGent そこに鳴る - Metalin
I wonder why your Japanese pronunciation is so good. Amazing.
Is it really? Ahahaha thanks! I just try to replicate the overall sounds that I hear when I watch Japanese movies and anime. Happy if it's working!
@@akaalexanderking Especially the intonation is good, which is exceptional for a non-native speaker.
Thanks for the kind words, I hope that will help when I'll finally get to visit your country 🙏🏻
Nice, I also like Sokoninaru. The best mathcore /rock band I've ever heard from Japan. They also have Live videos too, they really can play as I can tell.. By the way, can I suggest an alternative idol band to you, it has autotune though.. Please do check out PassCode - Taking you out.
Thanks, I'll be back✌️
Thanks Christopher, I'll try to check them out but I'm not a big fan of auto tune 😅
@@akaalexanderking No worries, it's not their strength but they do bend genres like Fear Loathing in Las Vegas and Maximum the Hormone.
@@akaalexanderking I don't like all PassCode's songs but "Taking Me Out" is definitely a banger. Try the official live if it's possible. Because I know some reactors got blocked but others don't. That song worth the try 👍🏻
@@akaalexanderking seconding PassCode, the girls are awesome. I'm not the biggest fan of vocal effects too, but they fit their electronic-heavy style of music really well. And it's mostly vocoder that they are using, not autotune.
GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove]
GRAUPEL [Bereavement]
DAZZLE VISION [Second]
YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma]
BAND MAID's latest songs "Black Hole" and "Giovanni" also have songs that repeat violent rhythm changes and quiet melodies. In Japan, such a song is becoming one of the trends. A representative group is "LING TOSITE SIGURE".
Thanks Toshi, curious to check them out as well :)
Nice!. You did it. Next generation comes energized. Very talented band.
They surely are, crazy musicianship here
@@akaalexanderkingMaybe you would enjoy Elephant Gym. More in the side of math/prog rock. Here they play live: ua-cam.com/video/saccx5dTmKU/v-deo.html. Don't need to do a reaction if you have to much work in progress. But for your own pleasure.
Thanks!
@@JuanSan66 That is a really good choice, wonderful to watch and listen.
I heard this kind of genre of music for the first time.
Crazy, isn't it? 🤯
Glad to see one of my favorite bands getting their proper due. I've seen people recommend Gou Ni Myo and Re:program. So, I'll add Complicated System and Zettaiteki Sanpunkan in case you're interested in hearing a different side of them.
Thanks! Glad I discovered them :)
Two words, Organized Chaos
ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome]
HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer]
TELECiDE [Tied up Memories]
NEKO [Ghost on a Record]
More Sokoninaru, please! And check out other math rock group Co Shu Nie and Tricot!
Thanks Kit, will do :)
Laughing and smiling. That’s when you know it’s working
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I think in the old days to write something like this you'd record a bunch of separate longer parts, then cut the tape into pieces and stick it back together.
I'm sure the digital cut and paste method would be similar, and more precise. Adding parts, removing parts, until you have a "finished" song and rerecording parts to make it more cohesive.
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Phenomenonal band tho. Insane ability. Your reaction may not have been the analysis you wanted it to be, but watching you just have your mind blown away was 100% worth it.
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I have something unusual. Similar feeling of throwing genres in a blender but perhaps slightly more developing of the ideas. Still challenging to grasp on a first listen, but loads of fun. And really a totally different band.
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The band is 0.1g no gosan and I have no idea what the song is called, but it has a lot of creativity and general Japanese "wtf did I just listen to" in it.
ua-cam.com/video/4JkyovYZihk/v-deo.html
This is a little independent band, and off the beaten track, but music is music and finding stuff that is creative and taking risks is worth it regardless of having a thousand people request it or not.
Music is music, couldn't agree more. Added to my list ;)
This is a fantastic band!
Undoubtedly so
My #2 favourite band ... Misaki ❤️❤️❤️
Try Gou Ni Moyu next
Thanks Aratha! Looking forward to that
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu]
DEVILOOF [Escape]
DADAROMA [Lucid Dream]
SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate]
Thank you for your honest and thoughtful reaction. Great job!! By the way, they do the same thing in live concerts - mind blowing.
That'd be impressive to say the least, can't wait to check that out 🙏🏻
Thank you for responding to my request.
I was very happy to hear your impressions of the band, as there is no other band in Japan that is as original.
If possible, I'd be happy if you take up other songs again.I think "gou ni moyu" or "re:program" would be good, since they came out after this song.
Sure thing, very curious to hear more. Thanks for recommending them in the first place :)
@@akaalexanderking There is a band called JUPITER whose style is a little different from sokoninaru, symphonic power metal like LOVEBITES or UNLUCKY MORPHEUS, and their song "Arcadia" is a masterpiece that some people call guitar paradise. The combination of guitars created by the two guitarists, TERU and HIZAKI, has produced many masterpieces.
You should check out ultimate hype song by Wagakki Band - "Kishikaisei". It's great!
Adding this one as well 😁
That's a hell of a ride, isn't it? :-)
Crazy! 🤯
ALDIOUS [Dominator]
BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark]
CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny]
MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette]
Finally 10 out of 10. Their song that is closest to the "normal song" is "Metalin" and the most similar to this one, is probably "re: program". Everything else is somewhere in the middle. There are a lot of covers done on their channel, my favorite is "LUNA SEA - ROSIER". For our outside of Japan, this band is like from another planet. However in Japan there are a lot of similar bands like Ling tosite sigure, THE ORAL CIGARETTES and Hello Sleepwalkers. Our brains are not calibrated for Japanese music. An attempt to soak up the whole song with one listen is doomed, as is an attempt to collect all the water falling from Niagara Falls with one glass.
Web Radio MusicEldorado-Japan: eu2-centova.serverse.com:2199/tunein/wmaiqhed.asx (in test phase)
Thanks for all the info!
NEMOPHILA [Dissension]
GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation]
JUPITER [My Enemy]
LYNCH [Devil]
Thanks! Nemophila is already up on the channel ;)
I think that even though there was a lot going on from moment to moment, overall this is a fairly conventional song, which keeps the listener from getting too lost. The time signature is 4/4 and never changes, the measures are in groups of 4 like most pop songs, the tempo doesn't change, and it stayed in one key and used familiar chords. So even though you can't predict what will happen in the next second, you can kind of predict what will happen in 90 seconds. It's chaotic on a small scale, but on a larger scale it's not. Most of the Sokoninaru songs that I've heard are like that.
Very valid point David, that's true 👍🏻
That's too much for me ✨✨✨
In a good or not so good way Izzy?
@@akaalexanderking in a good way! This song is an obsession now! I love it ✨✨✨
They both were influenced by Ling Tosite Sigure and both of them bought their whole albums ua-cam.com/video/49H4qDj4OUg/v-deo.html
and 9mm Parabellum Bullet ua-cam.com/video/uY-QrSbVRW8/v-deo.html
You might also like UVERworld - Impact they are similar to Sokoninaru with this Song but they go easier on you when it comes switch ups within the Song xD
That could help ahahah, thanks David :)
Jambinai:Time of extinction. Another level of crazy music...but I like it :) It's a good reactions GG. I had same face when I heard this first :)
Thanks Gábor, noted :)
Guess I'm just too old for this kind of music. It's just too chaotic for me and I'm having a hard time enjoying it. But I can tell that the musicians in this band must have a tremendous amount of skills to be creating such a song.
Nice reaction as always, GG. And I missed the premiere twice!! You change the premiere time one hour earlier?
It's definitely not for everyone man. No worries, today I released the video without the premiere. Moving on I'll probably do this for new bands on the channel and have premieres for the ones we already know ;)
But always 2PM GMT 🤘🏻
@@akaalexanderking yeah I guess it's not indeed. I was as mind blown as you to be thinking how they can come up with ideas of songs such as this hahaha.
Yes it's a good idea of sorting out which songs/bands that can you react to with a premiere and which cannot. And please react to FATE GEAR (MEGABULLETS or Headless Goddess) and Vision Divine (Angel of Revenge). Thanks man!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I hope to get to them next week ;)
@@akaalexanderking thank you very much!! Any time is okay with me as long as you add them to your list 👍🏼
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I think you should revisit them with their song "Metalin". Also take a look at Broken by the scream with
"逆転の鐘は鳴る" which is another example how crazy the japanese music scene is. It`s brutal stuff. But we and they enjoy it so much.
I like the sound of that 😁
This is next.
我儘ラキア - SURVIVE - Official Music Video
(Wagamama Rakia/SURVIVE)
I think it's time you checked it out.
Thanks Hiro :)
Thanks for the video, Gent!
This was really fun to watch! One can almost see on your face how many times you wanted to pause the song to catch some air... haha
By now you should know that this is their usual writing style. They have some songs that have a more established structure, but the music is always quite busy and changing. In that regard, "zettaiteki sanpunkan" could be a little bit gentler... I might be wrong... haha
By the way, in case you're interested, you can see the play-through videos for this song (Tenohira...) on their channel. They explain each section for each instrument, so I'll be dropping the link for the guitar one in case you wanna try playing it..!! haha
ua-cam.com/video/WzUXB4bo7d4/v-deo.html
Thanks a lot Sebastián! I don't know if I'll ever play this but I'm curious to see them explaining it 😂
ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah]
DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu]
X JAPAN [Kurenai]
BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol]
If you’re up for a Marty Friedman approved child guitar prodigy who’s also jammed together with the likes of Kiko Loureiro, check out “Li-sa-X Band- One More Chance is Enough” The stuff she’s doing here sounds so badass. As a musician, you’d probably be able to appreciate it more.
I actually found this recently too and been playing it on repeat wondering why does this sound so freakin good?! So it’d be amazing if a pro like you can look at it and possibly figure out what she’s doing. The 2nd guitarist Haxuki is also a member of Nemophila so this whole thing is pretty much an alliance of monster musicians, teaming up strategically to blow our minds 😅
She's on my list, hope to get to them by next week ;)
More japanese bands for your list^^:
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - "Crossover" or "Let me hear"
Crossfaith - "Monolith" from Download Festival 2014
Shonen Knife - "Jump into the New World"
X Japan - "Endless Rain" - ua-cam.com/video/7rwJIeN1M7o/v-deo.html (Live)
KEEP YOUR HANDs OFF MY GIRL - "stand by you"
abstracts - "Nocturne"
The Gazette - "DEUX" (LIVE)
Worldwide:
Bloodywood - Machi Bhasad (India)
SITAR METAL - When Time Stands Still (India)
ALIEN WEAPONRY - Kai Tangata (New Zealand)
NORWALD - RUINS OF A KINGDOM (Spain)
A short list. :)
Yay, thanks a lot man! Only know X Japan out of these
Strange in a good way🤔 My ears feel like they’re just done a full work out, never to be found in the “EASY LISTENING “ section🤣😂
Pretty much! 😁
I couldnt imagine writing something like this. So many change ups. Brilliant musicians! I appreciate it but not something i could listen to a lot. Too many changes and switches for me.
Definitely not something you'd hear on the radio 😂
I love this band, they are incredible, but I prefer them live, the studio versions are a bit overproduced and artificial for my taste (I hate those vacuum outerspace silences at the breaks) , live they sound as fast and accurate, but with a powerful rawness.
I like that, probably the transition would less abrupt as well 👍🏻
It would be nice and interesting to be able to see the video. It's too washed out.
so I'm out. Goodbye.
Copyright my dear Greg