Band Maid is a great band that you can enjoy no matter who you focus on! No one is mediocre. They are really special musicians!

I think Blooming is the ideal song for introducing BAND-MAID to those who have not yet listened to their songs. Their incredible musical structure, the intensity from beginning to end, the amazing skills of each members and above all, the pure joy of musical experience when listening to their songs. These elements are all in this one song.

They are playing live in VR on the 25th. Look it up. 2 day vr music festival with dozens of bands live in vr

BAND-MAID, more voltage than Frankenstein's monster & they don't go around killing people. And they're just waaay better at everything too :)

That's what living legends do none better the greatest band to date

Also fun fact. This was the first song Kanami gave all the members homework for. And had everyone throw their own ideas into the song. So really all of them wrote this song.

Now you know why this is my favourite song !

Band Maid doing Band Maid things... Thank you for the reaction. 🔥🖤

Moratorium (Live) is going to blow your mind...

Love this older Band Maid! Thank you for reacting to this video.

Sweats and chills...brother, you got the Band-Maid fever. Take a couple more videos followed by more Band-Maid videos and years from now you might be cured and a full Maidiac.

These five people are so important in terms of rock and music in general. A aspects of the music they produce is crafted with the listener in mind. Nothing is left to chance.

This song is dangerous. One of these days someone will break a neck on that post-solo transition into the bridge. 😂 Another great reaction!

One of most layered of Band Maid songs, especially in the 2nd half. There's a guitar solo with layered vocals going on at the same time and it all works! You should check out their song: *Bubble*

Full disclosure, this is my favorite BAND-MAID song and I'm thrilled to see you enjoying it so much 🖤 Rock on Po! 🕊️🖤🤘

That quiet vocal bit is so nice. It feels like pushing off of shore on something like a rowboat onto a still quiet lake, only seeing and hearing the ripples around you as you drift out. (And then, I dunno, pull-starting an engine as the energy rushes back into the song?) No wonder the concept of Sirens exists, these ladies would have captured/shipwrecked all the sailors.

In a not too distant future. When religions and governments have collapsed. When climate has decimated the World ecology. People will walk to collection points where they will gather and listen and watch Band Maid songs. There will be no need to argue or want as there will be nothing left to argue about. We will all just listen and enjoy the complexities of Band Maid and the World, or what is left of it, will be saved. Band Maid would have saved the World.

There is so much quality music made by these women in such a short period of time. Since the release of Alone just about everything is all them. They took the ball and ran with it. I haven't counted but since the release of Alone there are around 65 Kobato-Tono songs in about five years. Has anyone else done that in this millennium? I don't think so. Prince use to proclaim he was making the "new" music. I think Band-Maid has the far better claim "making the new sound for the unseen world". These ladies are on a mission. Sacramento loves Band-Maid.

Aw yeah, I love Blooming. Those half timey switches are just filthy and then the bridge melody layering over Kanami's outro solo is just, ugh, so good.

I enjoyed watching you react to this song! I literally had the same feels when I first heard of Blooming. More BANDMAID reactions to come!

Opening comments..100% right on. We understand the feeling exactly. 🤜🤛

*SENSORY OVERLOAD!!* Yea this one is my favorite song of BAND-MAID it has everything. 👉 Akane: wicked drumming thru out the song. 👉 Kanami: insane guitar solo. 👉 Saiki / Miku: Vocal harmonizing. 👉 MISA: Bass breakdown. 👉 Breakdown section at the end. Overall a Masterpiece! *Blooming the gateway drug of BAND-MAID!!!*

I have a feeling that Chief will hear and love every song on Band-Maid. I met this band last year at the beginning of the pandemic and since then I've been surprised with every song I heard. I guarantee you Chief, there are still many amazing songs from these girls for you to know

Blooming is the track with which I introduce new folks to BAND-MAID! \m/ BONUS: three Mincho solos!

I love this song. Perfect song. Beautiful chorus. Fantastic!😍

I have never seen another band where every member is doing something interesting. Every member takes the attention away from each other without being distracting or annoying. No one writes hooks and choruses better than Band Maid. This is probably my favorite Saiki and Miku vocal performance. Every time I watch a Band Maid video it is my favorite song at the time. No matter what song it is or how many times I have heard it.

5:05 Like TheChampofMedium has said, Band-Maid takes ideas that could have spawned 4 other song and say ya know what screw it we're gonna make this song the very best it can be, because we know we can make more just as good.

You have got to compare "Secret My Lips" by Band-Maid and "Secret Maiko Lips" by Band-Maiko video, now if you didn't know Band-Maiko is an April fools joke from Band-Maid, but what they gave us is an absolute gem, and I don't want to say much more and spoil the surprise, just listen to them one after the other and enjoy.

Again, Band-Maid doing Band-Maid things! Fantastic song, really shows each person's abilities! This is the homework song, as Kanami asked each member to come up with a part for this song and send it to her, then Mincho blended it together to form this masterpiece!

There's no way out now mate. "Choose"Me live.

Akane is AMAZING in this!!!!

Rock goddesses in full bloom! 😁 🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂

4:45 go on!! You go right on back! No worries man we wanna hear it again too!...even though I've heard this song, no joke, probably very close to 100+- times lol

Mincho LOVE

MISA in the back just going ham the whole way through...👏

What else to say? They are a once in a lifetime band... PERIOD! Have a great weekend in advance, bro :) P.S.: I don´t hear any other metal/rock band... B-M are the only one, sometimes i hear old punksongs and mainly DnB like Pendulum, Subfocus, Koven etc. Band-Maid is different, unique and the best band IMO out right now, so many checkpoints they pass, no weak point, songwriting, lyrics... Could go on FOREVER!

For Blooming, Kanami is using the Industrial Die-Grinder distortion setting.😊💪🏻🤘🏻 And the sweet drop out into Vocal Harmony Heaven, post solo, is courtesy of Miku. Blooming was a collaborative effort between all the members and that slow bit was her contribution.💪🏻🤘🏻

7: 15 - The inlay on Kanami's guitar neck is indeed birds. It's a marque of PRS guitars, which supply her guitars. She has been supported by the company for years as she is obviously a damn fine advert for their gear and there's a really excellent video of Kanami trying out a bunch of their new models (including the £25,000 Dragon model, where the neck is inlaid along its length with a dragon design and is basically coolAF) as part of the company's 35th anniversary celebrations - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e56UnpOgtpzIe5s.html . 🎸🤘 I was listening to a song of Band-Maid's called 'Rinne' the other day and thought of how much you're going to love it. I was going to recommend it and then I realised that your list of Band-Maid songs-to-react-to probably just consists of something like " 1. Their entire back catalogue, live and MV's, 2. All future songs." 🤣 Love your reactions because you don't hide your enjoyment, awe, happiness, appreciation (and occasional tear) at the songs these ridiculously talented musicians/singers/ladies/Rock goddesses put out. There's nothing better from our viewpoint than seeing someone reflect the feelings we all had the first time we saw a particular MV or live performance or listened to a track for the first time. I am also finding myself wanting to tell some other reactors to watch how you do your thing - get blown away by some part of the song, rewind it back by 15 seconds so you have the all important lead in and then enjoy the piece again. Keep doing what you're doing the way you're doing it, Chief! 🤘🎸🦊🤘

"Blooming" was one the early releases off the Conqueror album. This song floored me too, the 1st time I heard it. All vocals and instruments are next level in terms of sheer excellence. Great reaction ! FYI, Kanami plays PRS guitars known for the bird inlays on the fretboard.

More BAND-MAID... what can possibly go wrong. Love it!

9:41 how did I never pay attention to the feedback affects they put in there? You listen to their songs literally 100 times and still pick up on something new.

Can't positively say if it makes my top 5 list of BAND-MAID songs but it definitely makes my top 10.

Akane and misa are the best tag team in the business!!!!!😍😍😍❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍

And if you notice, Band-Maid never copy and pastes a verse, chorus, bridge, whatever. There is always a change in each one.

Band-Maid doing Band-Maid things. There are no bad songs. :) Kanami just going nuts the whole song and those harmonies. If your head is not bouncing to this song, something's wrong with you :)

Hey you happened to catch me on a sleepless night so I saw this pretty much as soon as it came up. For some background on this song, it was apparently very close to what happenes when the whole band designs the song. Kanami apparently gave them all 'homework' to write a portion of the song themselves, and then she took all the submissions and put them together into this whole. MISA reportedly said she regretted some of the bass parts she wrote, because she did it while she was drunk and made it too difficult. This song is really strong overall, in particular from the second verse onwards. The parts of play, stop, play, stop creates a good groove. And the solo section is really incredible with the break down at the end. Not to mention the vocal layering toward the end. And as usual Akane being an insane beast on the drums. She really drives the song. I know you have the full list of Band-Maid songs as recommendations at this point, so I will only reiterate my recommendation to compare "Secret My Lips" to "Secret Maiko Lips" and see a new side to them.

The composition of the song is perfect. Plus a beautiful chorus.😍😍😍

My favorite trait of band maid has to be the transitions. when the band drops to halftime and Saiki speeds up doing the "rap" part.

2:27 that effect was harmonics from Kanami. Into a 2 or 3 part precorus depending how you wanna look at it. Then. chorus.

Five dislikes? Shouldn't let Justin Bieber check in that many times. 😅

The night I found BAND-MAID, I listened to this song and the live version of "Play" and "Domination." I was hooked.

Great reaction! Love it!

Their second verse are always amazing...i think PRS gave one of the guitars from their 35th anniversary guitars ( the red custom 24; correct me if i'm wrong Maidiacs ) to Mincho ( i lost the link to Mincho's presentation to that 6 PRS guitars☹️sorry🙏🏿 )...Band Maid is Blooming around the world 😊 thank you Chief 🙏🏿👍🏻 Stay safe n stay healthy everyone

You've just scratching the surface with this band my friend.. I've yet to find anything from them that I don't love from them!

Band-Maid! Blooming! Brilliant! Thx, Chief.

Alright--crack on mate!! "I didn't see that comin'"--yesss indeed ha ha! So nice that I found this on the very day you reacted Chief! I saw you were doing "Blooming" and got that Band Maid smile again, oh yeah he's gonna be blown away again! Now here's the crazy part--I hadn't heard it in awhile and I got completely gobsmacked AGAIN myself! I mean this song has got it all-the compositional and arranging skill that Kanami and the rest of the band too, has on this is otherworldly. The transitions, as you mentioned, are just fantastic, constantly surprising the listener. This is one of their best songs, everyone in the band shines so white hot, almost simultaneously at times! Akane is just a powerhouse on this, her skill on every part of the kit is mindblowing. It's as if she's basically playing a series of different drum solos at times, and they always groove. Incredible. I'm sure you as a drummer love that! And MIsa providing the bass...man, all of those brilliant melodic phrases just kicking ass. One complaint-too many pauses...just kidding! Saiki is just so powerful, putting everything she has into it, with the seamless harmony vocals by MIku. And she cranks her power chords throughout.. Is that sublime harmony after Kanami's solo not as gorgeous as it gets? (sigh...) As us guitarists always say, Kanami is always just such a pleasure to listen to and to revere, just the solos themselves here...unreal. Hits us in the face with that wah, then blows by with the incendiary wailing riffage...into some of the most beautiful tapping I've ever heard. The way she phrases them, along with the very subtle rests in between is something. Then Misa MIsa's beautiful badass bass coming in! It's nonstop. And Chief you described how the song made you feel so superbly, it IS perfect! Then after all of that, Kanami has to hit us again with another amazing solo--I truly don't know how she continues to create these but wow---the nice slow, almost bluesy intro into her open string stuff, then the majestic ascending line....it's crazy! And then the song goes into the end------perfect as usual. Do you wonder like I do how much time it takes them to put together a song like this? Another masterpiece. PS-I'd forgotten this is the song where Kanami gave everyone some homework to come up with a section on their own. Amazing! PPS-I think it's time to react to their brilliant instrumental "onset"! Thanks again mate for another spot on, entertaining reaction to what these ladies are capable of. You made my day---Cheers!

This song and Daydreaming are what kept me from losing my shit during lockdown. It also has my favorite Kanami solo.

🐦 *PIGEON **-SURGEON-** GENERAL’S WARNING:* 🐦 _BAND-MAID Can Become Very Addictive._ _BAND-MAID Causes Happiness, Tapping Feet_ _Watch sparingly if you start getting dizzy stop immediately._ _If the smile on your face last more than 4 days watch more BAND-MAID_

I like the cheeky back-skips while talking. Treat yourself! Shoutout to the bass drop after the first tapping part because why not have that in there as well!

Fun fact: the outro is the intro played backwards.

They are master songwriters. The best I can tell you is that you might find a few songs that are good. The rest are ranging from great to exceptional. When I discuss bands I don't include them because they are in a class all by themselves. I love a lot of Japanese metal bands but they are not metal. They are just musicians who happen to have that hit song formula in their DNA.

Mate, I'm really happy I came across your channel. Just been binging all your BandMaid reactions and I've loved watching you journey into their music. They really can't make a bad song, and the vocal part in this hit me the same.. I think I re listened to it about 27 times lol If 'Yolo' and 'Puzzle' aren't on your list of songs to do by them, I'd definitely recommend them! Keep up the awesome work and great vibes man!

BAND-MAID: the best hard rock band for the last 40 years or so, LOVEBITES: the saviours of heavy metal and BABYMETAL: They really ARE the Fox God!

MISA!!! MISA!!!! MISA!!! 🥃🥃🥃 🌹🌺⚘

One of your best B-M reactions yet Chief ! Keep them coming !

One other reactor pointed out that Domination and Secret My Lips have almost the same solo and the rythm is similar at parts. I guess that's the closest Band-Maid will ever be to misstep in music, but not really for me. I guess Kanami either wanted to try the same sound in different songs or she just forgot (and geniuses never forget). I feel you bro, I'm on my way to discover the first bad B-M song but there's really none. They are always blooming like sakura flowers on spring 🤘🕊️

I love your energy dude🤘

glad you are exploring the MAIDS catalog extensively as they have so much to offer. and the variety of styles is endless maybe other than power metal. you are going to want to react to 'the non fiction days'. from 2016 and one of their most kick ass videos. hey chief - time to lose the mask. we want to see your face ! here's the video:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9qJgZCjzpeygKc.html

my fav song of theirs.

This came off of Conqueror ... some people says this album was a "let down" ... I don't see how.

There are literally only like two songs where I'm kinda meh. Out of what five albums once they got their say in it. Also their KZfaq channel has a playlist for Domination cd and Unseen World cd if you want to listen to songs outside of mvs. Honestly all the albums front to back are amazing and some of my favorites are not their singles.

Best female band hand down

Ya gotta do Band Maid MV "Rinne" next, it rocks hard and of course its totally unique as always!! You may need a neck brace when your done though, you would have to consciously try NOT to head bang to this song once it starts!

YOOOOOOOOO

*Chief Reacts!* Just to let you know that *BAND-MAID* just dropped a video the other day *BAND-MAID / カタルシス "Catharsis" Acoustic Ver* _(The video Limited Time Release so please react to it)_

日本の新幹線に乗ってくれてありがとう。

I saw this and said to myself, Chief is going to like this. You did not let me down. A brilliant reaction! You have done a lot of Band-Maid, but there are some others I would like you to hear. I recommend these two: Play kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abKoi8KlmdzLZ4k.html (Live) Choose Me kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8B5fZWnq97ZaY0.html (MV)

That solo though lol..MISA soloing under Kanami. Like nope you ain't just gonna show off without me. And Akane's off beat fills.

MISA MISA MISA!

Moratorium - www.bilibili.com/video/BV15E411g7wY?from=search&seid=7120914782118686419 Play - www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Gt4y1179f?from=search&seid=11368038698836918283

They are truly genius musicianship.👏👏👏..❤️👍 I can't imagine band members should remember whole note sequence with a different tempo in one song only. Do you ever playing Dream Theater songs, for me this is the worst.😨

First :)

The virtue signal is strong in this one