I agree with that 1000%

GARY!!!!!!!!!!!! They should have been directed to do the Live version

He'll ya they want Metal Band Maid they'll get it with those songs don't think they are ready for blackhole yet

Where's "DOMINATION" official live?!!!!!😫

100% agree

PLS😁

@@npmushead6543 Here is the rest of the file. Band Maid was started in 2013 by Miku Kobato. At the time she had just left the Idol Group, Lil Cumin and she didn't like the type of music she had been performing. She approached her management agency with the idea of making an actual band playing rock music but dressed as maids. She had worked in a Maid Cafe and thought the image of maids playing rockin music would create what she called "The Gap" between what you see and what you hear. The Management company was like Ok, go ahead. Miku then looked around and found Kanami a singer/songwriter who was posting her own videos on the internet. Miku had her agency contact her and Kanami thought the idea was cool and agreed to join. Miku then asked if Kanami knew a drummer who might be interested. Kanami had worked with Akane in the past and there is 2 versions of this, the first is, Kanami literally walked over to Akane's apartment and asked her, the second is Kanami called Akane and asked her. (Akane has said in 2 different interviews that 1: Kanami called her and asked if she could come over and 2: in a second interview Kanami just came over) Akane was actually hesitant as she had worked in an "All Girl Group" before and didn't enjoy it as it wasn't the type of music she wanted to play. After hearing a Demo, Akane was like ok, but was still slightly hesitant because of the "Maid Outfits", but she agreed to give it a try. Akane was asked if she knew a bass player and she had gone to Tokyo School of Music with MISA and had worked a couple of jobs with her. So Misa was contacted and after she heard a demo she was like I like the music, but she also was hesitant about the "Maid Outfits", but she relented and joined in as she really wanted to play the kind of music she heard in the demo. The 3 of them then "Auditioned" for the record company and passed the audition. Now we have the "Core" members. The 4 members worked out some songs provided for them by the record company, and a setlist and they had performed 3 times with just Miku on main vocals. Miku after those performances felt that her voice wasn't powerful enough to really perform the songs she wanted. So she approached her management company again and asked if they had any singers who weren't in other projects. They then auditioned several singers. Miku heard Saiki rehearsing in a room across the hall and asked if she could be auditioned, the record company then had Saiki audition. Saiki was signed to the same management company and had done some work as a backup singer and dancer and was asked if she would be interested in auditioning for this new group which currently had 4 members and she would be the fifth. She had been a member of a group with 8 other people as a backup singer and dancer, and HATED it. So she listened to the demo and thought "Cool" because she liked the music. Now we come to the tricky part. Miku KNEW that if Saiki was told about the "Maid Outfits" she would say NO WAY!, so they didn't tell her. They told her they would have "Cool/cute Clothes"(I've read it translated either way), and she never met Miku until a few days before they had a contracted performance. She wasn't told about the "Maid Outfits" until the day before the performance, and she had considered backing out, but she had signed the contract. (Saiki also had NEVER met Miku until then as well) So the Ladies, went and did the performance and Saiki really, REALLY liked the crowds reaction and the music they were performing. She DIDN'T like the apron she wore so it got ditched after the first performance. And you now have the beginnings of the BEST LIVE HARD ROCK BAND in the WORLD! ALL HAIL BAND MAID!!!!! Now that we have the Full band, it was felt that there needed to be a second guitar. Saiki was like, "Not Me, No Way." So Miku said, "I'll do it.", at first that was literally all she did, was hold the guitar and mime playing it, until Akane said, if you are going to hold it, you NEED to learn to play it. And Miku said, "Ok.", and Kanami started to teach Miku how to play. The Ladies released their first album in 2014 "Maid in Japan" which failed to chart, but later after "Thrill" it was reissued and charted to #26 in Japan. Then in 2015 they released "New Beginning" On New Beginning was the song that changed Band Maid's entire existence. "Thrill"... The band was getting ready to release their first music video and the choice was between "Love, Passion, Matador" and "Thrill" and the ladies chose Thrill. (Little known fact, Miku helped with the lyrics on Thrill but did not get credited) This became the seminal moment of Band Maid. Because their second album charted at #64, the record company was seriously considering disbanding the Ladies and switching them to other projects. (In fact they had Kanami and Akane work with Mochi to Cheese thinking that when Band Maid cratered they could use them in another band. MISA had also just started working with Mochi to Cheese as well). However about 6 months after the video's release, a Facebook page "JRock Radio" posted the video to their timeline. And the video went viral. Having over a million views in just a few short weeks. The Ladies Twitter page got so many hits they thought their page had been hacked. Their KZfaq channel also started getting more and more subscribers and views to Thrill. Now the ladies knew where their fans wanted them to go. Harder Rock, less pop. And history was Maid.

I agree! I like the MV as well and I feel is a pretty good starting place. It appears Domination live has been many peoples recommendation as an intro to Band-Maid which is a track that in my opinion not their best but good enough to get an idea what they generally sound like. Sometimes it's hard to choose a good introduction track for ones first-time being exposed to Band-Maid. I was fortunate to have Moritorium (Live) as my first exposure to this incredibly great band. Needless to say It hooked me immediately and the rest is history.

Well Metal by dictionary terms is a sub-genre of Rock... But when I say that Band-Maid actually plays a bit of Metal, I'm talking traditional heavy metal in the sense Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are considered Metal, as you know they established the popularity of Heavy Metal... But somewhere down the line people only associate the extreme Metal that has become popular in the last few decades as Metal and traditional heavy metal is often confused with Hard Rock.

​@@roygillotti4615 The line between hard/heavy Rock and metal/heavy metal is a fine one. I can only speak from my experience at the time (in the UK). Bands such as Cream, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin for example we called both Prog Rock and Heavy Rock, Sabbath and Purple have been described as metal in retrospect, that term was not applied to them at the time (late 60's/early 70's) and I still regard them as prog/heavy rock bands. From all I have read the term heavy metal first appeared in the early 70's first as a derogatory term to describe turgid unmelodic,over distorted rock and not as a genre per se. I believe Humble Pie's first album got that description. I can't even remember when I first heard a band being described as a heavy metal band but I'd guess it would have been after 1975 and probably applied to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden or even AC/DC or Nazareth.

Hey, you stole my commentary ........😁😁😁 I totally agree💯

Official music video

should've or should have not should of

I think about every other comment has been telling us to watch live, we definitely get the message 😂!