Band members call their fans “Masters and Princesses”. We BAND-MAID fans calls ourselves “Maidiacs”, most of the time. The band founder Miku Kobato, is written as “小鳩ミク” in Japanese kanji and katakana characters, where “小” means “small” and “鳩” means “pigeon”, thus Miku refers herself as a “small pigeon”. And the way pigeon sings is expressed as “Po” or “Kurrupo” in Japanese, where Miku adds the expression at end of sentence when she speaks most of the time.

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Many fans seem to be dismissive of the song, but I absolutely love the song. It's actuality packed with ideas and different from their other anime songs. You hear the traditional instrument sound in the mini breakdown after the first chorus that continues into the 2nd verse behind the busy instruments, and the way Saiki does the ascending vocal run reminds me of what I hear often in Indian or middle-eastern music. Admittedly I like ethnic folk songs a lot. I have quite a few on my playlist, too along with metal, grunge, prog, classical, jazz, fusion, punk, etc. I love the multi-cultural aspect of this song. Catchy and experimental. I'm sure people will gradually appreciate this song more, as it happened to start over.

Hate? is an amazing song by Band Maid

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The top 3 Japanese bands are Babymetal. Band Maid. and Lovebites both Band Maid and Lovebites are all females and all play instruments with extreme precision In Lovebites M&M Midori and Miyako are the best guitar duo in 30 years and Haruna is like Akane on drums and is also a beast on double bass In 2016 former Destrose members bassist Miho and drummer Haruna formed the band Lovebites Miho;s idol is Steve Harris of Iron Maiden and Haruna loves Helloween Miho recruited guitarists Midori (Influenced by Nuno Bettencourt and Yngwie Malmsteen) and Miyako (Influenced by Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Gary Moore also she's classically trained since age 3 on piano. Asami was recruited to learn heavy metal since she came from an R&B background. Her operatic singing style makes sound like the female version of Iron Maidens Bruce Dickinson. in 2018 Lovebites won the Metal Hammer's metal god award for best new band awarded in London.from 2017-2021 Lovebites produced Lovebites EP (Bravehearted Japanese version on EP) Awakening from the Abyss album with all 4 songs from Lovebites EP added and Bravehearted translated to english by Asami. Battle Against Damnation EP, Clockwork Immortality 2nd album 2020 Electric Pentagon 3rd album 2021 Glory, Glory to the world EP they also had the live albums Daughters of the dawn,Five of a kind, Awake Again from the Abyss live studio of 1st album plus a cover of Helloween's Eagle Fly Free. Ride for Vengeance tour produced the live album Heavy Metal Never Dies and in August Miho left band due to personal reasons and told her fans to support the band no animosity Lovebites shocked by the departure of their founder and co song writer went on a year hiatus before returning in the summer of 2022 to hold bassist auditions in October it was announced Fami had won. She also had a KZfaq following of over 650,000 being a musical Genius already. in 4 months she had added the bass parts and Lovebites released their 4rth album Judgement Day and highest charting album 5 months after joining Lovebites she played her 1st live concerts that became Knocking at heaven's Gate part I and II with many of Lovebites older songs so she was learning them quickly. for Lovebites it not only was the 1st live with Fami it was the 1st live since 2021 and 1st live without Miho. Asami as the 1st song started proclaimed to the crowd "We Are Back" as they started the show with a song from the 1st album called Hammer of Wrath with Fami aboard this was a golden chance to shine with some great bass moments in the song and she was all smiles and her prescence seemed to uplift the band as if she shot the band full of adrenoline. Here's that song Lovebites Hammer of Wrath Live Knocking at Heaven's Gate kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq6iirWFlbDJkZc.html

Miku is a Pigeon. Pigeons say "Po!" Do you understand, Po? 🕊️

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This song might be the least appreciated new release since "Start Over" or "Dragon Cries" (both very good songs). That might tell you something of the high standard of the rest of their catalogue.