A large part of Babymetal fandom is grown up adults who suffered for fresh air in the Metal world.

One thing reactors usually miss, and I feel sad for them, is watching that whole concert in one sitting ... their 2014 Red Night/Black Night concerts are even better when you watch them perform the full shows .. incredible.

Fun fact: Their manager/producer Key Kobayashi aka Kobametal (whom the girls call their "Dad") was the man behind the vision. He's an avid metalhead but also a fan of Jpop. He worked in the agency's Kid's Division where she discovered Su-metal at a young age. When he worked with Sakura Gakuin, the group where Su, Yui, and Moa came from, he thought of a heavy music club to be formed within the multiple sub-units in Sakura Gakuin. So, he basically formed BABYMETAL using the three, and from then on, everything was history.

8:00 The famous scene of Moa pro. She stops the rolling microphone.

great reaction!! please react to Babymetal - Ijime Dame Zettai live in Sonisphere 2014! that was the show that put them on the map of Europe, America and the rest of the world!!

Really glad you guys caught the Babymetal bug. With the big studio backing they put out amazing videos like Karate, Headbanger, Distortion, and Starlight. Then you see them crush these huge venues like the Tokyo Dome, Budokan, Sonisphere, and other festivals with fans losing it by the thousands. It's mind blowing that these are teenagers on the stage, and now they are young ladies with 9 years of experience in the game. They are only going to get better with time.

Great reaction you guys!! I love this song!! I love watching you guys falling for Babymetal. Keep em coming! 🤘🦊🤘

🤘🦊🤘BABYMETAL - Rondo Of Nightmare (With Mischiefs of God Intro) Live Budokan Black Night 2014 🤘🦊🤘

You guys are a scream. So glad I found your channel. Can't wait to see you in BM red and black outfits doing a kawaii metal dance routine...😁

Great reaction guys! I'll just add a little to what others have said: Kobametal was blown away by how powerful Su's voice was for anyone, much less a little girl. He knew it would cut through the instruments, and that was the beginning. Her two best friends from Sakura Gakuin were Moa and Yui, and he added them. First they played to a backing track, singing live to recorded music. Then, actors were hired to mime playing the instruments at the shows. They dressed in skeleton costumes and you can see them in some early live videos. They are not playing. The girls are really singing, but the band "Babybones" is not playing. Then The Kami Band was put together. Kami Band means God Band, and they are the gods of their instruments, who are "manifested" on stage by the Fox God when Babymetal performs. They used to wear traditional white Japanese burial shrouds and corpse paint, and began doing the encores at the shows, following Babybones. Eventually, they took over completely and have been part of Babymetal ever since. They are exclusive to Babymetal, you will not see Kami Band playing any shows on their own. There is a video of them playing in a small venue together in regular clothes, but it was Takayoshi Ohmura's (one of the Kami guitarists) other band playing, the other guys from Kami Band (BOH the bass player, Mikio Fujioka (RIP), the other guitar player and Hideki Aoyama, the drummer) were there, and he brought them up on stage for a song. Tragically, Mikio Fujioka (RIP) had a terrible accident on New Years, 2017, and died in the hospital a week later. They now wear black robes. They still wear the corpse paint. They did a few shows recently wearing masks, but it was in homage to Slipknot's 20th anniversary. (They do that alot, give nods to different bands they like. Ask about the neckbrace when you see it!) Some people were worried that the masks were a new thing with the band, but I have already seen pictures of them onstage since then without them. The band itself is made up of the best musicians in Japan (actually the world if you ask me). They are all highly sought after studio and session musicians, and they occasionally have obligations elsewhere, so they rotate. When Koba put Babymetal together, the girls had never heard heavy metal! When Koba put the Kami Band together, he told them "Don't hold back because they are girls! Don't hold back because they are idols!"

You had a producer working at their company who was working with bands, he's a metal head. The company says: we need you to work at the kids division we need more people working on that. He basically knows nothing about working with these J-Pop 'idols'. But he's used to looking for talents and finding ways to bring out those talents. So he heard about this one girl who could sing really well and the existing project would end.He noticed she has talent, but her style is unusual, she always sings loud. So along the way he figured, what if this loud singing girl could fit with the loud music I like.. now no company would fund such a project, so Babymetal was started as part of a bigger project. And Babymetal kept growing and growing even without risky investing of the company and became it's own thing and got international attention and went viral a couple of times, and also bigger each time. The producer is called Kobametal now. And that singer is the lead vocalist, Su-metal.

Your background image is interesting, that's former member Yui taking lead vocals on this song for her 15th birthday show. Love your reactions, keep em coming!

Hey Brian and Stan! Awesome reaction! So how BabyMetal came about is kind of a long story. The girls were part of the school themed pop idol group Sakura Gakuin (Cherry Blossom Academy) managed by the Amuse Inc. talent agency. Sakura Gakuin often makes "sub units" kind of like school clubs, like baton twirlers, or newspaper, or cooking, etc. One of Amuse's producers, Kei Kobayashi (KobaMetal or Koba), is an old school metal head and saw talent in Suzuka Nakamoto (lead singer). Koba wanted to make a Heavy Music Club sub unit designed around Su's pop vocals. Members in Sakura Gakuin are supposed to leave the group when they "graduate" in keeping with the school theme. I don't think anyone expected BabyMetal to get this big, as even after all the members "graduated" Sakura Gakuin they kept going with BabyMetal and it is the only sub unit to have split off.

BABYMETAL!!!! BABYMETAL!!! You are guys great!

Really enjoy your vibe. You remind me of a lot of the musicians I hang with. Babymetal is my favorite music project, by far...

Another great reaction, I love 'Headbanger' it's such a good song. icebalm has given you a (very) condensed version of how this all came about and whose vision it all was. What he hasn't said is that Kei Kobayashi (Kobametal) saw Suzuka Nakamoto singing with her previous pop trio Karen Girl's at their farewell concert (they sang songs for an anime and it was coming to an end so her trio was also ending) when she was about 10 or 11 (before she joined Sakura Gakuin). He had this idea for fusing pop and metal with a view to using the pop world to introduce more people in Japan to metal which was getting less and less air play or publicity, being forced more and more underground and stagnating with a shrinking audience. Kobametal saw the potential in little Suzuka, already an Idol with a couple of hit songs, with her unusually loud singing style (for a J-pop singer) and extraordinary stage presence to front this band. So when he was given the chance to put his idea into practice through the sub-unit clubs of Sakura Gakuin that was what he did, building and developing the whole thing around Su with her good (and tiny) friends Yui and Moa to provide backing vocals and to "dance around her like a pair of little angels". Nobody thought it would work, the talent agency Amuse provided virtually no extra funding for Babymetal (unlike the other SG sub-units who did get more backing), but they allowed Kobametal to have his pet project within the confines of SG. Against all the odds Babymetal gained a lot of attention and notoriety when their first couple of videos (especially Gimme Chocolate) went viral - so much so that Amuse had Kobametal write a business plan and proposal - and when Su graduated from SG in 2013 at the age of 15 Babymetal left SG with her to become a separate entity and a band in its own right. As a side effect of Babymetal becoming known around the world that aim of Kobametal to introduce more people in Japan to metal has actually worked, the classic metal bands and new Japanese bands are being discovered by a new generation - and a lot of Japanese bands are being found by metal and rock fans in the west whose first introduction to what Japan has to offer came through seeing Babymetal videos. You say you have one more Babymetal song to react to ... I (and I'm sure many others) would love to see you react to a whole lot more of their songs and performances.

I love you guys' reactions. So pure and legit. If you want to see the amazing vocal talent of Su-Metal, check Babymetal's AKATSUKI BLACK NIGHT. It is an incredible Solo performance by Su.

⚡ 💀 💕 / 🤘 'Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!!! ' was one of their early hit songs. Even though the song is about a fifteen year old girl attending her first heavy concert, Su was only fourteen when the song was recorded. It's not biographical, but it is a song she could relate to. At that age she was performing on stage, rather than attending concerts. Both Yui and Moa got to take over on lead vocals for this song on shows that were close to their fifteenth birthdays. Those were also their first two European concerts. More recently, for both Su and Moa's 20th Birthdays, they've performed this one, with a small change in the lyrics from "15" to "20". Once again, for the two Birthday concerts in her home prefecture earlier this month, Moa took over lead vocals.

Yes ! Babymetal is the sonic and visual assault of the brain, some fans have called it shock & awww. :-)

This is what you call Happy Metal. : ) No matter how confused you are, it'll always bring a smile to your face.

You took the pill! Welcome to The One! Bow before your Queen! I see many of her minions have suggested _Rondo of Nightmare_ with the Intro at Budokan.... I second that, a great choice... On the other hand, now that you're one of us in The One, it doesn't matter what you choose.... For instance, for a blast from the past, you could watch their very first video ever, when they were 13 and 12 .... i.e. _Doki Doki ☆ Morning_

My favorite song. Hell yes Babymetal!!!!

KobaMetal is behind this band. He is a big fan of X Japan and his real name is Kobayashi.

Now you know some of Babymetal mythology, you should also react to their Headbanger performance on the other night at Budokan, RED NIGHT concert, on which Yuy desappears in the middle of the music and don´t return until it´s end. And if you want to go all the way through this emotional journey, watch in sequence the next song in the same concert, Ijime Dame Zentai (their last song of the night), in which Yuy returns imaculate and light, Su stands as a pillar at the public relations management, and Moa is torn in tears. A real milestone moment and prenounce of things to come in their history.

Got to see them live!!! A life changing experience!!!!

Always more BabyMetal forever!

The best song about headbanging ever! Su's voice is superb as always and, at 5:30, it's amazing how she just stops dancing energetically and just goes straight into that sweet vocal. In the Red night at Budokan version, Yui fell off the stage but they carried on without her and without missing a beat - damn pro's, these ladies.

Key Kobayashi had the vision. Koba saw Metallica in 90/91 and fell in love with metal, and is probably encyclopedic on all things metal today. Anyway, he saw Su in a pop group call Karen Girl's ~2008, and thought the power in her voice was wasted on pop, and thought up Babymetal. It took a while after the concept that he found himself working with Su, and he added Yui and Moa and he was able to get a single out of Babymetal. And the rest is history. Metal was not mainstream at all in Japan, and Koba once said he could not get metal done, but he could do Babymetal. Interestingly, the girls have a lot of input on the dance moves and the mix of the music.

That's how you put on a show! They're the best..

You see the handrails on the catwalk look too rough? This is the second night in two days concert in Budokan, Tokyo, 2014 (they were 16, 14, 14 yo). In the first night, one of the three girls accidentally fell down from catwalk (luckily, not injured). So the rude looking handrails were built before the second night.

Distortion, live at Downloads from the 2018 tour is a little more recent and shows another side to the group, after their lead guitarist passing and Yui absent due to health reasons. It shows the resiliency that this act has. Have a look and see how it transitions into this years tour and upcoming album. I find it quite interesting due to the similarities of other great rock bands in the past.

BABYMETAL is and was the vision of Koba Metal! Koba Metal, a metalhead from Japan, recognized the powerful voice of Suzuka Nakamoto at a rather young age. When Amuse Inc decided to form an age limited group of idols they formed Sakura Gakuin. From SG came BABYMETAL! Moa Kikuchi and Yui Mizuno at that time had just transferred into SG and were instant friends with each other. Because of their audition song (one done by Su and two others, a group called Karen Girls) YuiMetal and MoaMetal were created for SuMetal. They took off so fast! After graduating from SG, BABYMETAL was seen to be a cash cow! And here we are now!

Kobametal (A producer at Amuse Inc who usually did j-rock and j-metal bands) had the idea of taking an Idol group and combining it with a metal band. That was basically it.

If I am not mistaken, When Suzuka was 14 years old (2 years before this live) when she perform this song live for the first time, you can saw her struggling. short of breath when sing and dance intensely at the same time. So it took her about 2 years of training to do this perfectly. and now at 21 she sound better and can do this for 1.30 hours with short 1-2 minute break. You may think the Backup Band is amazing skill. But 3 front members also work hard too. They are pretty strong almost like Iron man athlete. Koba found +a Great singer +bring 2 cute girls scream and dance around +team up with Mikiko who design the dance move for Legendary Electro Jpop idol name Perfume. + gathering the Kami band, the most skillful musician around japan to joint their live consert. + not only mashed and experiment every genre with metel (hip hop/jass/power metel/ballamd/trash etc.) + their lyric is deep meaning, rebelion and quesion their society (talk about bullying , too much diet so give me choco, acting cute to get the money from the fanclub (song: IDZ, gimme chocolate, onedari daisakusen)). In Summary: you got The Band that can sing and dance live. intense music and at the same time dark joke and enjoyable. combine with secreat, ritual and santanic prodution. Super!

You guys should react to BABYMETAL - Rondo of Nightmare with the Mischief of gods intro live

The night before, the "Red" one at Budokan, Yui fell from stage while performing this very song. Since it's the performance recorded in the album, you can hear the very moment her mic turned off. Being tougher than a nail, she got back on stage and closed the setlist 🤘🦊⚡ That's why they installed those protections all around the stage.

A interesting side note to some of the comments made below, but when BABYMETAL was essentially conceived, none of the the girls really knew much about metal music at all...Clearly, the embraced that genre and in a way, have now made it their own in such an amazing way.

Watching BABYMETAL is like getting punched in the face by three kawaii Asian girls, and you know what I'm ok with that. Its times like this when you realize three kawaii Asian girls are more METAL than you. SU-METAL is our GODDESS QUEEN and an IDOL LEGEND. When all is said and done these girls along with the avengers will go down in history as some of the greatest IDOL LEGENDS alongside the first generation of girls from the IDOL GROUP AKB48. STAY BABYMETAL STRONG, AND MAY THE FOX GOD BE WITH YU...

I can get behind that next-level-theory! The world is still not quite ready, you might come across some Metal elitists who are going to downvote your reaction and flame you with comments about how they are destroying Metal. Some people don't want to smile while listening to Metal, the only emotions allowed in Metal are anger and aggression. It's sad, really. But that doesn't keep us from having fun, and I wonder who will be better off in the end? :-) I have two more recommendations for you: The first is a performance you should watch if you'd like to see the most epic stage presentation ever. It's their intro song from 2018 called "In the Name of". Unfortunately, a reaction video with full audio and video would definitely get blocked. So you'd either have to heavily edit it or use a Link&Sync approach. But even if you don't do a video, you DO want to watch this, believe me! :-) www.dailymotion.com/video/x6h5yo6 In case you are interested about their origin, the second recommendation would be a song called "Doki Doki Morning". It was their very first song they started with when they were still a sub-group of Sakura Gakuin (as has been explained in the comments). It's very far on the poppy side, so it would be interesting to see what you think about it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mc-im7RpzrLIkqs.html

Head-o-Bang till you drop that’s what happened! 🤣🤣

Babymetal marathon by The International House of B&S!

some lyrics: WITH RAVEN HAIR, TANGLED EVERYWHERE. LEGENDARY, GORGEOUSLY. THIS FLOWER SOON DISAPPEARS FROM ME. FRUITLESS, BLOOMING CRAZILY. IT'S LEAVING ME, WONT COME BACK AGAIN. SUDDENLY IT'S VANISHING. BUT I WON'T FORGET, ETCHED IN MY HEART. THIS SPECIAL NIGHT, MY FIFTEENTH. I'M JUMPING, DANCING IN THE AIR. HEADBANGEEERRR!!

Ah, Black Night. You can tell because of the railings... and also because they don’t lose Yui halfway through and accidentally preview 2018.

There are other guys who can give a more detailed story but basically the girls are employed by an entertainment company and have appeared in commercials and girl idol groups. One group Karen's Girls performed the song for an anime serious

Dont cry tokyo 92 You could be mine Chicago 92 Welcome to the jungle st louis 91

なぜに背景がYuibangerなのか😍

Great reaction👏👏👏👏👏👏

This was the 2nd of 2 sold out nights at the Budokan Arena. The 1st night, during this song, Yui fell off one of the catwalks during the crowd participation segment. She fell about 7 feet and Suzuka and Moa had to finish the song without her. Yui returned to finish the show only minutes later in time for the next song! That’s a badass 14 year old! (Yui is the one with the chubby cheeks).💪🏻🤘🏻

Yes‼︎ ヘドバンギャー!!🤘

okay .... somebody it's info/history time how BABYMETAL was born to this world , let them know Who , What , Why , When and Where about Babymetal. one dance routine of BM for daily workout really can make you healthy :)

Japanese metal is so good and so different. 2 other Japanese bands which I like even more are Dir en grey ("Vinushka") and Maximum the hormone ("What's up people"). Maybe you can react to them? I am really curious of your reaction...

I like your reaction....exciting and heartful

BabyMetal ❤️

How good was that. WOW.

OH Steeler Nation!! my favorites：BigBen JuJu Smith-Schuster TJWatt ect... from Japn

the style og Babymetal is called Kawaii-metal...

I heard you guys were going to the show in Atlanta I am as well and was trying to see about doing a fan meetup and/or afterparty would you guys be interested

To answer Stan, this was all the vision of a man named Kobayashi, or "Koba-Metal." He's a music producer in Japan. He heard Su sing and decided that her voice was too powerful for any music other than metal. She would drown out the instruments of any other genre.

Headbanger (eng below) Densetsu no kuro-kami wo Karei ni midashi Kurui zaku kono hanawa Hakanaku kieru Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Pan pan pan pan Saa toki wa kita Mo o mayowa-nai Nigiri-shimeta no Juuhachi-kippu Higashi e nishi e Minami e kita e Kyoo mo do-sen ni totsugeki Kamite. Koi ya! Shimote. Koi ya! Chokuritsu-fudoo nokezori Gyaku-dai. Kara no! Saku-dai. Kara no! Koro-dai. Kara no! Oritatami Ichigo no yoru o Wasure wa shi-nai Naki mushi na yasu wa Koko kara kie-usero Densetsu no kuro-kami wo Karei ni midashi Kurui zaku kono hanawa Hakanaku kieru Moo nidoto modore-nai Wazukana toki wo Kono mune ni kizamunda Ichigo no yoru o Hirari chuu ni mau Hedobangyaaa! Hedobang Hedobang… Ichigo no yoru o Wasure wa shi-nai Naki mushi na yasu wa Koko kara ki-e-ro Ichigo no yoru o Wasure wa shi-nai Jama o suru yatsu wa Sokuzani kie-usero Densetsu no kuro-kami wo Karei ni midashi Kurui zaku kono hanawa Hakanaku kieru Moo nidoto modore-nai Wazukana toki wo Kono mune ni kizamunda Ichigo no yoru o Densetsu no kuro-kami wo Karei ni midashi Kurui zaku kono hanawa Hakanaku kieru Moo nidoto modore-nai Wazukana toki wo Kono mune ni kizamunda Ichigo no yoru o Hirari chuu ni mau Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Hedobang Pan pan pan pan Hedobangyaaa! Hedobang Hedobang… [English:] With the legendary black long hair disordered around and gorgeously blooming crazy, this flower will soon disappear fruitlessly Headbang, headbang! Headbang, headbang! Headbang, headbang! Kon kon kon kon! Now the time has come I no longer hesitate I hold tightly the discount railway tickets To the east, to the west to the south, to the north today too I rush to the very front of the stage center On the left side, (Come on!) on the right side, (Come on!) standing up still, leaning back, jumping toward the stage, (And then!) leaning over the fence, (And then!) rolling over the mob, (And then!) and then all deeply headbanging. This special night of my fifteen, I’ll never forget. All the crybabies, get out of here! With the legendary black long hair disordered around and gorgeously, blooming crazy, this flower will soon disappear fruitlessly. It’ll never come back again and it’s so short period. I etch in my heart this special night of my fifteen. I jump lightly and dance in the air. Headbanger! Headbang, headbang… This special night of my fifteen, I’ll never forget. All the crybabies, from here, dis-ap-pear! This special night of my fifteen, I’ll never forget. All that disturb us, right now get out of here! With the legendary black long hair disordered around and gorgeously, blooming crazy, this flower will soon disappear fruitlessly. It’ll never come back again and it’s so short period. I etch in my heart this special night of my fifteen. With the legendary black long hair disordered around and gorgeously, blooming crazy, this flower will soon disappear fruitlessly. I can never come back again to it and it’s so short period. I etch in my memory this special night of my fifteen. I jump lightly and dance in the air. Headbang, headbang! Headbang, headbang! Headbang, headbang! Kon kon ko kon! Headbanger! Headbang, headbang…

5:48 - You look confused - WTF happened Listen to the song "iine!" for more WTF moment :) For that song, I recommend you look at the video first and then the live version : - BABYMETAL- Iine! _(official video)_ : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7yUdaWA1bnTfmg.html - BABYMETAL - Iine! _(Live at Wembley Arena in the UK)_ : www.dailymotion.com/video/x5keo1z

Babymetal .Live Makuhary messe. The end song show. Ijime,dame,zettai ( no more bullying) ... Nipon perfeccion!

When i first heard them you know what come to mind? When the cute animals in South Park wanted to summon Satan. That's the feeling i have listening to them.

I don't know if you guys already knew it or not but, That background is only once in a lifetime moment for Yui-metal taking lead vocal part in her 15th birthday :) here's the fancam of it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idyKgLum0MzUl2w.html Wish she's doing well with a good health now. She's amazing.

Babymetal - DEATH! (The Legend 1997 version)

Deberías reaccionar a Momobanger es increíble

I am sure your question of "whose vision is this" has been answered elsewhere, but just in case. The man's name is Key Kobayashi. He has more aliases than someone in the mafia. Kobametal and Profit of the Fox God, chief among them. He is the producer, manager, song writer in chief, and master mind of it all. It's his brain child, his vision. He picked the girls. He picked the musicians. He picked the lighting guy, the choreographer, sound guys, production managers, and probably the dude handing out towels in the bathroom. His peers have used the "genius" word in describing him. He's known to be militantly protective of the girls. They call him "Dad" and he's commented he views them like daughters. More than one third party has identified that his number 1 priority is the girls. All that said, the fandom has a love/hate relationship with the guy... with the "hate" part mostly undeserved.

If you like BABYMETAL, you own it to yourself to check out Band-Maid .... Another Japanese group, all female hard rock band who play their own instruments; the Guitar, Bass, and Drummer all are multi instrumentalists with music degrees. The singer is amazing, and the back up singer/rhythm guitar and founder of the band does awesome harmonies and writes most of the lyrics. Here's a live performance that will give you an idea of their songs and how damn good they are ... these girls have not written a bad song yet, and there's nothing like them in any country on this planet .. the only problem with this band is having 50 favorite Band-Maid songs. Band-Maid 'Don't You Tell Me' Live: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNWheNWTqt2UZaM.html

Babymetal began as heavy metal music club Babymetal, a sub unit of the idol group Sakura Gakuin. I’d love a react to the song “ song for smiling” by Sakura Gakuin. It’ll be fun to see you trying to pick out the Babymetal girls. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frWlppqprbydpHk.html

The background in this video looks like Yui singing.

I would like to introduce clips of dimash Kazakhstan .. You will reach in his ability, we will wait and see him in your channel.🙏🙏🙏😍😍😍

this song sounds like an anime intro

Baby metal is def metal, im not really a fan though.. theyre good and entertaining and their live performances from what ive seen on youtube are next level... the pop infused metal isn't really my thing though. That being said if i was trying to explain to someone what heavy metal is, or tried getting them into heavy metal.. this would probably be the last thing id use on the list. Id use thrash or some early 80's heavy metal to explain it.

Couldn't see the crowd interaction with this video You should do another reaction to the official music video

Get some better audio for when you play music for us

try ijime dame zettai live.

While this is good I prefer the Makuhari Messi 1997 apocalypse, live version. Just the energy ,the crowd , stage showand the way everything was done I just found a way better

React to Pa Pa Ya!

React don't cry (Guns N' Roses) official video or sweet dreams(Marilyn Manson)

I'm under the impression that those young girls have been negatively reinforced to fill those positions in this highly produced show.

Lol u are just late ;)

Contrast!

Careful, gentlemen..Babymetal s the gateway drug to J-metal.. Once you are caught up, you will find yourself needing a new fix to carry you through to e next album.. Harder stuff like Maximum the Hormone ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9OWiNyqurKUZ3U.html ) , doll$boxx ( 'toy soldier ' -kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kL16npigqruwlmw.html ) and Ningen Isu / Human Chair ("Heartless Scat" - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ech5apyWms--e6c.html ). Oh and Band Maid, of course