Imagine being 15-16 years old and getting bumped up from a small side tent (expecting just a couple thousand to show) to the main stage in front of 65,000+ skeptical metalheads BUT 95+% of them never heard of you, some came to hate on you (based on their videos up to this point like "Gimme Chocolate" which had gone viral a few months before and many thought they were a joke or gimmick), and these people are known to throw bottles at the acts if they don't like them! But by the end of their 30-ish minute set, the crowd is chanting "We want more! We want more!" which you can hear at the end of this video because this was their closing song. They had the largest pits and wall of death's, as well as sold the most merch out of all the acts performing at that event (Metallica, Iron Maiden, etc). This show was the start of them blowing up outside of Japan and is considered a major moment in BABYMETAL history. I have seen some people refer to this moment in BABYMETAL history, as the miracle at Sonisphere. This is why this show is my favorite of all their shows! Great video and reaction! Keep up the great work! 🦊🤘

Legend of BABYMETAL and Sonisphere 2014 , the day they win over 60K+ crowds in early morning.

Really important concert in the band's history. It was their first UK performance and they were scheduled to just play a small side stage at this festival. The organizers decided to have them open the main stage instead, and they ended up with a huge crowd. They really didn't know how the crowd was going to take them, and they were warned to plan for the worst, boos, and thrown bottles for anyone who dared to make metal cute in the UK. Scary stuff for young girls. They clearly totally won the crowd over and subsequently sold out a London show later that year. Huge confidence boost for the band. I sort of see this performance as the day when they went from being a Japanese idol band who played metal to seeing themselves as a proper internationally viable metal band.

It is the symbol of the Fox God. Back when the girls were learning about metal music they mistook the rock devil horns for a fox symbol. Kobametal then designed the Fox God myth to fit.

The hand sign is indeed the sign of the Fox God to which the girls get their divine metal power from....

Very interesting metal. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of this group. Pretty wild stamina from those girls. Love the band. 🙌🏼🤟🏼

This was their international breakout, understand there were no Japanese international bands at the time. There is a video of a Japanese journalist who attended Sonisphere, and the publisher of Japan's top metal magazine with a presenter discussing Babymetal and their sudden international fame. The journalist said that Su, Moa and Yui are the most famous Japanese high school students in the world. As to their physical fitness, it is at the Olympic pentathlon athletes level. The very front of the audience were fans, but behind them most had no idea who they were.Think about it, hardcore metal fans coming to see bands made up of hairy men screaming at them with a bands that is more loud than good. Then a very professional band begins to play and 3 adorably cute teenagers come out and actually sing, plus OMG dance. those metal-heads didn't know what hit them.

Great reaction. You are right about the hand sign (the kitsune or fox) - legend has it (i don't know if it is true but it is a good story) they were being shown the devil horns and mistook it for the shadow play fox - Koba (their producer) ran with it and the lore around their being summoned by the Fox God to lead the metal resistance was all developed from there. This was their very first major event outside of Asia. Su was 16, Yui and Moa had only just had their 15th birthdays (Moa's was the day before) and they spoke hardly a word of English. They were originally booked to play a small side stage or tent in front of maybe a couple of thousand people, but the video for 'Gimme Chocolate' went viral and there was a lot of interest in them (and some controversy among some elitists calling them a joke or gimmick and not real metal). A couple of months before the event they were moved to open the main stage on the Saturday morning - some of the elitists on social media said they didn't belong at the festival, never mind on the main stage and threatened to turn up with bottles to throw. They were given no time for a sound check so the Kami band did their sound checks and they cut the set by one song. Before going on stage the girls couldn't see the crowd and were worried what to do if nobody was there to see them. They walked out to see over 50,000 faces - most of them looking puzzled as they didn't know them or what to expect. At that point Su is reported as thinking 'this will be fun'. As they started Moa's head set failed so she missed the cue to start the choreo - she caught up when she heard the drums. You spotted Yui's skirt catching on her studded wrist band and tearing - she untangled it and didn't miss a beat. Su had some of the crowd singing along with her in Japanese in the second song ('Gimme Chocolate') and as you heard at the end here - this was the last of the 5 songs they did, they had the crowd calling for 'more' and 'one more song'. This was an historic performance for BABYMETAL and established them as a touring band - they have since toured the world (or parts of it) every year and are the most successful band to come out of Japan of all time (nowhere near the biggest inside of Japan of course). 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' is an anti-bullying song, the title translates roughly as Bullying, No More, Forever or Absolutely, which was why that was on the title card at the end - the lyrics are a lot deeper than the 'Gimme Chocolate' lyrics.

The best Metal song ever about stopping bullying forever (which is what IDZ means - Bullying, No More, Forever)! I saw Sabbath live in 1976, hundreds of Metal bands in the 44 years since and then I got to see Babymetal in Feb this year. Babymetal are the most refreshing thing I've seen in Metal for a couple of decades, probably since Slipknot came along and freshened up the tired old copies I'd been seeing through the 90's. Babymetal are a lot prettier than Slipknot though and make me smile with joy a lot more. 4:30 Yep, that's the Kitsune sign (kitsune=fox) to denote our allegiance to the Fox God and his ninja angels Yui and Moa and our Queen of Metal, Su. #NotaCult

The most amazing thing about this performance is that this was not even a crowd of BABYMETAL fans. Most of them had probably never heard of them before. Watch Su after the last "We are" as she shakes her hand, you can literally see the weight falling off her shoulders. It makes my heart smile to see that.

this show put Babymetal on the map. this is their first big show outside of Japan. they were scheduled to be on a side stage but after Gimmie Chocolate came out and went viral supposedly the promoter bumped them to main stage. the girls actually thought there would be only about 5000 people to see them. they did not know how many til they went out on stage. if you watch the whole five songs they did you can see some fear in their faces but by the second song , gimmie chocolate, Su knew she had them in her hand. she got to the part in the song that she actually got the crowd to sing in Japanese with them. how confident do you have to be to have a foreign crowd to sing with them? and for the next three days their merch outsold everybody else. keep it up with the reactions. you will not be disappointed. every song is different and they do so many different genre of metal and make it their own.

This is one of their most iconic performance 👍

I watched a full concert before. They are not even out of breath after its done. Lol

This was their introduction to the world stage, their first metal festival outside Japan. They didn't have a record contract inb the EU or US yet, and 95% of the crowd had never heard their music before this set. But they won them over. Their presence of mind to stay in character with Yui's skirt coming apart; they're 15-16 here, but they are such mature performers. A lot of people just see the cuteness, but they are tyough little ladies.

From this day forward the metal world would never be the same!

At this time on this state, su-metal was16 years old yui metal and moa metal were 15years old. Before they were played ,they were scared. Can you believe this performance? How courageous are they? They can do it because they are so trained while a child but it was their first time to play in front of 5～60,000 people! Please praise them!!! sorry,I can not write english very much. from japan(japanese)

Su-Metal. Small body, BIG soul.

Great reaction! It was a hell of a crowd there for sure. Most had never heard of Babymetal before that day, but they were sure to know who they were afterwards. You should check out something from their Tokyo Dome shows (although almost everything from those shows get blocked), as that was a solo show for them, and they sold out 55,000 seats two nights in a row! It also had the coolest stage setup I've ever seen in any show.

Remember that these girls hand never even heard of Heavy Metal prior to joining this group and when explaining the rock hands to the girls, they kept messing up and making the Happy Llama hand gesture (Happy Llama, Sad Llama was a world wide 'meme' at the time that almost every child knew), so they decided to work it into the Babymetal "Lore" as the "Kitsune" (shadow puppet gesture for a Fox -Kitsune literally translates to "Fox"). Add a Shinto Deity to the mix, "Inari Okami", or 'The Fox God' and it all fits together. Put your Kitsune UP!! Po!

This video is soooo awesome👍 🤘🦊🤘

This is the very show that has me stuck at the bottom of the Fox Hole. Try to watch the entire BABYMETAL live at Sonisphere performance and you'd see what I meant....

> "So this [sign] may represent the fox god." Exactly! *IJIME, DAME, ZETTAI* (Bullying, No, Absolutely) [Rururu...] [Ah.] Dreaming, I couldn't have even it. Between the light and the darkness, I stayed alone. Those who got hurt were not only I myself, but also those who kept on watching me. It was you. Confidence, [Have it!] I couldn't have. [Don't be beaten!] I kept on hiding [I dislike to be found!] until yesterday. [Yesterday is gone!] But good-bye to yesterdays' myself. [Bye-bye!] Bullying. [No!] Bullying. [No!] It's disgraceful. [No! No! No! No!] Sometimes you get hurt, sometimes you hurt someone, and we all get badly hurt. Fox, [Fly!] Fox, [Fly!] I'm sure you can fly. [Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!] Let your pain and sadness all go outside! It's OK because I'll protect you. I didn't show my tears, and in the night I was about to cry, in a room deep inside my heart, I stayed alone. Those who hurt me were not only someone else, but also those who pretended not to notice. It was my friend. Nothing [Nothing!] could I say. [Say nothing!?] I was about to give up [No easy throwing out!] until yesterday. [Yesterday is gone!] But good-bye to yesterdays' myself. [Bye-bye!] Bullying. [No!] Bullying. [No!] It's disgraceful. [No! No! No! No!] Sometimes you get hurt, sometimes you hurt someone, and we all get badly hurt. Fox, [Fly!] Fox, [Fly!] I'm sure you can fly. [Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!] Let your pain and sadness all go outside! It's OK because I'll protect you. Pain... Aching... All the while... Alone... Your heart... Pretending not to notice... Anymore... I'll never get away. Bullying, No, Absolutely. Full of dearest-ness, it's pressuring but also encouraging. Anymore, anymore your... I don't want to see anymore your tearful face. Bullying. [No!] Bullying. [No!] It's disgraceful. [No! No! No! No!] Sometimes you get hurt, sometimes you hurt someone, and we all get badly hurt. Fox, [Fly!] Fox, [Fly!] I'm sure you can fly. Let your pain and sadness all go outside! It's OK because I'll protect you. Bullying, No, absolutely. [No! No! No! No!] Bullying, No, forever. Bullying, No, absolutely. [No! No! No! No!] Bullying, No, never. Translation by DU-METAL

The hand sign is called the "kitsune" (keet-soo-nay), the fox, or fox sign. The Fox God and foxes in generally feature VERY prominently in the band lore/mythology.

We are BabyMetal making Metal history !!!

Well, people already gave you all the details, so i will just say that LVT`s face showed that she was basically internally screaming "THEY ARE SO CUUUUTE! CAN I HUG THEM? PLZ PLZ PLZ!" hahaha

One of the best metal bands of the world. BABYMETAL RULEZ lml

My fav performance from them by far!! SO much significance.. tough crowd.. other side of the world.. performing in their own language.. SOOOOO YOUNG!!! and they friggin killed it!!! The whole festival came to see them!! and they sold more merch than just about anyone except Metallica (their first major festival outside of Japan). Seeing the crowd reaction at the end.. 'we want more'.. is just amazingly kickarse!! Awesome song btw.. just perfect!!

Am I the only one who tried to install those updates? Clicked on it 4 times!

Su-Metal is known for her DEATH STARE...

BABYMETAL Rules!!!! BABYMETAL Forever!!!!! We love BABYMETAL from Malaysia!

That Kami Band...WOW!!!!👍

In the video they were teenage girls Su-Metal 5'-2" Yui-Metal 5'-1" Moa-Metal 5'-0" Very small Asian girls commanding large crowd of metalheads It is quite amazing

More POWER in Su-Metal's note at 4:53 than can be generated by any 100 growler vocalists combined! 👑👸🦊

The live that ppl got into the babymetal, and they prove their value into metal and music in general community, because they were to show in the big stage before the sonisphere names... Metalheads were even warn that gonna throw bottles etc etc the rest is history 🦊

They used to end every show with that cute move that I call "the 'See You' Strut." It was the cutest way to leave the stage. They even did it in their appearance on Colbert's Late Show, after performing just Gimme Choco. The girls thought the metal horns looked like a shadow puppet version of a fox, so they went with it and came up with the Fox God.

This performance is legendary. It is said that senior fans get emotional in many ways when they see this.

"about to murder someone face" LOL Yep, fans call it the 'Su-metal Death Stare' :-) Also mentioned Babymetal's first festival appearance outside of Japan the band was actually doing the sound check themselves because of language barrier/confusion. This is what got the crowd interesting/impressed even more before they even got started. This was also their biggest crowd at that time. They went from performing in front of maybe 15 000 people at the most to performing in front of 50 000 or something like that. The biggest surge of people who came to see a band this early on the day ever said the festival organizer. I do think a part of the crowd came to see them fail. Really curious what Babymetal would be like. These were definitely not just fans. But pretty certain they made many, many fans that day. This show had a lot of international music press which really got the ball rolling.

The moment BABYMETAL took over the world ;)

Yesss.... Always love from Indonesia 🇲🇨🇲🇨 to Babymetal 🦊🦊🦊

TThe Legendary Miracle of SONISPHERE2014 😍😎 Kitsunes UP🦊

As others have said, the hand gesture is in reference to the Fox God. You may hear them scream it at a concert ,...Kitsunes up!

They came to perform in unknown crowd eventual they won the crowd and later the world.

Another great reaction guys! This is one of the best versions, if not the best. Keep em comin🦊🤘

Say what you will about these girls, they put the work in, the sweat, the tears and maybe bloody shoes for sure. They earned their spot on that stage.

The hand symbol is a Fox or Kitsune it is a legend in Japan. Basically the kitsune or fox can change into human or women for love, makeshift or other reasons. The more tails the more magical. Aka the 9 tail kitsune is like a God. I the song Megisune, that is lady fox or vixen. It’s a real legend in Japan.

is the reason, they are so cute.. cute metal, they did it, a new sub gr for the actual "rock metal". is part of the line for the music. LEGENDS....

Damn, this is THE SONG that made me love Babymetal

Great reaction again! One of my favorite performance of Babymetal. Please reac to Black Babymetal Sís Anger live is absolutely amazing! Moa and Yui are perfects!! See you in the next video 🤟🏻 🦊 🖤

The guitars!

YUI PLEASE COME BACK!!! just please. thanks!

Girls power! They are so nice, so talented.

yeah babymetal! love this band :)

Quote from our QUEEN… “I am so honored that we are confirmed to play Sonisphere Festival UK,” declares SU-METAL. “There are so many different types of artists playing this festival but I hope to deliver a one and only, unique style metal - BABYMETAL - even to those who will see us for the very first time. This will be our very first time in the UK, which makes us nervous, yet excited just imagining what type of people will come and see us, what sort of show it will end up being, and whether the audience will enjoy our show. We’ll hopefully get to see Metallica-san’s performance again after witnessing them at Summer Sonic festival in Japan which we are very excited about.” This is where history was made that day for BABYMETAL the way they won over the crowd. To hear the crowd chanting WE WANT MORE at the end must of made them very happy. And YUI-CHAN still rocking it live with a torn outfit, classic.

Yes the hand gesture is the fox god they always use it still

If you look at the translation of the lyrics, the song is about overcoming bullying.

I'm on a mission to upvote everything BabyMetal related. You've been recruted now to join me on that mission.

KITSUNES UP!!!!🤘🦊

Partial lore behind the band - They were blessed by the fox god with the power of metal. The band uses fox references a lot. The hand symbol is a centuries old symbol of a fox. The lyrics to many of their songs (including this one) contains references to Kitsune and/or Megitsune (which is japanese for fox and vixen). Conserts have included fox statues, music videos include kitsune masks and much more

I remember watching this on yt when it came out fer the first time. Felt super hyped even through the screen. The crowd really responded to them and it was awesome

Yes, it represents the "fox god" but originally it happened because when they were younger they didn't know how to throw up the horns so they did that and they just ran with it and made it part of the mythology.

good choice,good reaction. I love your reaction of Babymetal.

A major turning point for the girls.

Great reaction again & thanks from Japan 有難う💛。 "Dame Zettai (= No absolutely)" part of this title is originated from police campaign against illegal drugs which had started in 1960s. So this song implies that "Ijime (= bullying)" is considered as harmful and addictive thing as illegal drugs. Although we have unfortunately not been able to eliminate "Ijime" from our society yet , we have to continue our efforts at home and in school. In this video we see many mosh pits that are good signs to welcome bands. But I love more to see that the excited crowd gradually turned into enthusiastic audience. And when three girls started to speak some words in the interlude, loud cheers quickly subsided and the audience even tried to listen to what they were saying despite that the people could not understand our language. I am emotionally moved whenever I see that scene. After the performance, people in the crowd became happy, so did Kami band, and I am sure that the three girls fell asleep very happily that night.

NIice reaction👍

Yeah, it means Fox God. It is what the band used to protect the girls from uncomfortable questions and situations from creeps and weirdos. "Only the Fox God knows"

I really like hearing LVT's comments/observations of BABYMETAL and the videos because she understands how it is to be a female metal performer.

You will be down the fox hole before you know it! This performance was a special moment in the BabyMetal, story. Other comments give you the details. BabyMetal Death, is a song that was regularly used as the opening song. The lyrics consist of Moa, Su and Yui, saying their names, followed by the word desu, which sounds like the English word death. In this epic performance for Su's sixteenth birthday, it was the closing song for the show. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLN0hMqcmbHSn4k.html

please babymetal - Rondo of Nightmare Live @ budokan Black Night react

You guys should do Rondo of Nightmare Live at Budokan Black Night (make sure the video it's 7 minutes long). There's a little 'surprise' in the intro. 🦊🖤

please check it out , 影絵、キツネ（kage-e, kitune ）

great review - totally enjoyable

I went to their Tokyo Dome shows both Red Night and Black Night in 2016 , sorry but was fucking awesome .

Babymetal is a legacy of human beings.

Time to just go for the throat. Most people still get hung up on Gimme Chocolate that they don't see how metal these girls, let alone the band are. time to show you what they can really do. React to the following, and in this order: Rondo of Nightmare (with Mischief of the Metal Gods Intro), live at Budokan Black Night: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/br1yd8x9srS-k3k.html Headbanger, live at Legend 1997: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9Cair2hy8XOg6c.html Then you're ready for Death. Babymetal DEATH, live at Legend 1997: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLiTbMeTzM-mgH0.html After that, you'll be ready for Black Babymetal. That's when you get to the heavy stuff. Enjoy the ride down the Fox Hole!

They came to the Sonisphere to eat chocolate and kick ass and they were all out of chocolate

⚡ 💀 💕 / 🚫 Yep, that's a kitsune, or fox sign. BABYMETAL are inspired by, and receive guidance from the Fox God. Sonisphere can be a tough crowd if they don't like you. Most folks were there to see groups like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Mastodon and Anthrax. Once they got started, Su had many in that crowd of UK metalheads singing along with 'Gimme Chocolate!!'. In Japanese. The story has been a little embellished. They weren't actually sent to a different stage at the last minute. Sometime after they were first booked, and before this July 5th performance, their video for 'Gimme Chocolate!!' started to go viral worldwide. The organizers decided to reschedule them for a bigger stage. It's still impressive what they were able to do at 15 and 16 years old. They played a headlining show at the Forum in London two days later. Earlier in the week, to celebrate their 15th birthdays, Yui took over the lead for the song 'Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!' in Paris on July 1st, 2014. Moa took over in Cologne, Germany on July 3rd, 2014.

It’s so interesting seeing your early Babymetal reactions. There is no way you would do a cut video now. I know how much you love these girls. I love to see your emotional change towards these videos over time. I think the same thing happened to everyone it just so happens yours was recorded. Could you tell me the very first Babymetal video you reacted to. Great show guys.

Next death, rondo of nightmare or bxmxc

FYI Ijime=bullying, Dame(no good/don't do it), Zettai(definitely; absolutely; unconditionally) so it could be read as absolutely NO bullying...Forever.

Can you also do a reaction vid to Homura - Wagakki Band. Their music is one of a kind too. 🙏🏻🔥

Fun Fact: Yui's costume was self-destructing during the song. What a pro to keep going despite a wardrobe malfunction. Also, like Grington 300 300 said, Moa's headset was DOA. What could have been a disaster turned into their major debut success. Frankly, the girls were terrified about the gig.

Yep.. the fox sign...or kitsune

Check out rondo of nightmare with michiefs of God intro band gets to show their talent

what i heard is that Yui could not do the Devil horns right and kept doing that hand sign. so they adopted it as their hand sign as their own and incorporated it into their lore

I think that finger sign it means "fox" in Japan and it is very common here everybody knows what that sign like everybody knows about Mc'donalds. And think it's similar sign when people act in metal scene so they chose that sign and background story is "fox god" for babymetal to show metal resistance and also wish peace in the world by showing thier act in deferent categoly of thier background, in my opinion. I mean fusion.

I'm one of the middle age metal heads I first heard of babymetal when Rob Halford sang pain killer and breaking the law with Sue metal. When that metal God endorsed them by doing a duet to 2 of his pinnacle songs I was hooked I love the music complexity and meshing. I've always loved the metal feminine voice mix (nightwish ect) and they command without a video it's amazing

its Fox sign if you play on shadow

This song has convinced me to stop bullying lil' timmy.

ijime dame zettai - no more bullying or no to bullying forever basically song name

Thats was a fox sign,if someone said put ur kitsune up or kitsune dao u need to throw ur hand ups in the air and do the sign 🤟🦊🤟

Only the fox god knows

ありがとう😭🧀🍅🍚🍼🤘🏻🇯🇵😋👍👍👍👍🙏

Plus the kami band has included guitarists from JapanX and DragonForce and the drummer is the most under rated ever I swear he has 6 arms and 4 feet stomping double kickers at times stunning

Pls react to Road of Resistance live in Japan , PA PA YA , Headbanger live Legend 1997 next🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Tiny is it Su is 5-2 I think and Yui and Moa are smaller

Love BM. From Philippines

"See you!" That's how you leave the stage with 55,000 hard core metal fans wanting more....

Nice Reaction!! I may not be able to explain it well in English, but I'll try to write about Sonisphere. The BM was originally scheduled to perform at the sub-stage(few Thousands of audience), but due to many requests, it was moved to the main stage in a hurry. Audience of main stage estimates range from 55,000 to 60,000. Most of the crowd had only heard BM's name to some extent and the actual fans were only a few hundred in front of the stage. I think it was a battle itself for the teenage girls, as this is a big, full-blown metal festival overseas, and if they don't like it, a lot of plastic bottles are thrown to stage. Here's what SUMETAL has to say about this Sonisphere festival. ------ Maybe it was because I was trying to look at the audience at an angle, but there were no people in the audience at all, and I was talking like, "What am I going to do?". But that was just because I couldn't see the audience from the angle, and when I went out on stage, the audience was there. "There are people here!" And then it got interesting. The audience in front of me had their jaws dropped to the floor in plain sight. They're like, "What? What? What???" they looked like. I saw that and said, "Okay, let's do it!" I thought. I think this festival has given us the confidence to tour abroad. We believe that our music is one-of-a-kind, and because it's one-of-a-kind, it can bring the world together. ------ With each song, the crowd's cheering circle grew wider and wider. If you look at the crowd's reaction after the song was over, you can feel their Kawaii METAL that makes you smile and feel happy and brings the world together! I'm sure you all will comment on the content of the song, so I'll just say a few things. This song is a message song for those who is bullying someone and People being bullied. This is the dialogue section in the middle. いたみ(itami) = pain 感じて(kanjite) = aching ずっと(zutto) = all whe whileg ひとり(hitori) = alone 心(kokoro) = heart 気づかない(kizukanai) = pretending not to notice もう(mou) = anymore 逃げない(nigenai) = I'll never get away いじめ(ijime) = bullying だめ(dame) = no 絶対(zettai) = absolutely I hope you continue to enjoy your BABYMETAL. Put your Kitsune🦊 up! from Japan. (Translation by DeepL)

The back story to this show is legend. Their breakthrough show. I'm sure lots of ppl will comment to tell u. :)

this song is about bullying.. never would have guess.