Good job. Glad you're continuing with Band-Maid. This shows you some of their diversity. The pigeon hole is deep. After Domination which shows you the quintessential Band-Maid try the MV-Warning (a very hot song and video) or ONSET-Live (an instrumental that rocks the house and showcases the 4 instrumentalists). No other band can match the consistency and magnitude of great music over the last 8 years as BAND-MAID. They are Awesome. Peace.

Now that BAND-MAID are international film stars as well as world class musicians, it's about time they have their own Rockumentary. Directed by me :)

Thanks for checking out Band-Maid, they are fantastic!! You might enjoy "Real Existence Live", one of my favorite live videos... unfortunately many of there older videos are no longer on KZfaq, but you can find them elsewhere.

Another great reaction. Yes, Akane (ah-KAH-neh) is manic, as are the rest of the band. Band founder, rhythm guitarist, backup vocalist Miku is the one who writes the lyrics. I'm convinced that Manners is her subtle middle finger to the skeptics who said that her concept for the band would never work, thus the Ahahahahahahaha. Don't overlook their slower songs such as Daydreaming MV, About Us live, and their acoustic performances.

Miku writes the lyrics for all the songs and Kanami the music

Another good reaction Sir! You are learning their names...My favourite is Miku. ... her story and her drive is astonishing...(I'm sure someone will write up the band's history for you lol) and I will keep hyping them up as one of or if not, the most important band right now! They write intricate song structures but is very accessible to the masses. You don't really need suggestions for Band Maid...Go to their KZfaq page and in my opinion, start from the top....you will see their progression when you get to the earlier videos.....

Band Maid doing Band Maid things...🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂

They are by far the most versatile band i know and thats one factor of many i am adoring this band! Great reaction, you will have a lot of joy during the discovery of this band, always something fresh, new and especially live always doing extra miles like new intros, outros, solos etc., just to keep it fresh. Kanami´s creativity is just beyond brilliant. Greetings from Germany

If you really wanna hear MISA play check out their song: No God ;)

Black Hole is a mind f. It's a "hold my sake" / "just because we can" song. A flex.

That was fun! You'll notice Kanami's solos aren't overly long but always very fitting for the song - there's no problem, but if you find yourself speaking over one of her solos you might find a "Shut Up! Kanami Speaking" in the comments. 😉

Misa, the barefoot assassin on bass just crushes the bass. This is the only band you will find that EVERY member is known and loved. You do a deep dive down the pigeon hole, you will know why.

THE best live Rock band in existence. Subscribed. Domination is in front of a live audience whereas this is from a streamed concert and you'll see them shine even brighter in front of a crowd. Look forward to more reactions. Babymetal live is something you'll love too.

Glad you're enjoying this! Did you notice the bottle of whiskey on the amp behind Misa? She's known to have a drink in between songs 🤘😊🤘

Producer: can you play prog, metal, experimental rock? Band Maid: no problem! They can do anything they want to do because they are such good musicians and love what they do. BAND MAID!!!!

Glad you went for these two tracks - Manners catches their classic rock vibe, while Black Hole hits the thrash/speed metal button. The Band-Maid rabbit hole is deep and wide at the same time. Domination is a good next stop, but I think you’d like Rinne and Onset (instrumental), oh, and Play is another great track. All live cuts and show the band to the max. Get in there! Lots more to see with Band-Maid!!!

I have no idea why people tell you that Blooming isn’t representative of band-maid. It’s one of the top 3 most commonly voted songs for “favorite band-maid song”. It’s absolutely representative of them and the band absolutely love to perform it live as well.

I'm from Indonesia,, good job 👍👍

In Black Hole, Nao's influence on Akane is obvious. Akane said that discovering MTH's drummer was a woman made her realize nothing was impossible for a female drummer and it gave her confidence. On another side, I think that the fact Nao has two childrens now, without stopping her career (ecxept during pregnancy of course) may be a very positive influence on some other drummers like Tamu (Nemophila) and Yuri (Gacharic Spin) who recently gave birth and resumed their activity - untill recently, most young japanese women were stopping their professionnal activity once they became mothers. So Nao is really a very important role model! "Domination" live is a perfect choice!

Nice nice. I love seeing getting excited for Band-Maid! Next i recommend Warning. I like the official video actually. There aren't many songs I prefer the studio version. Or Play (live) to see them just have a blast on stage. Their energy is amazing in front of a crowd as you are about to see w Domination!

You need to see these girls live in front of an audience. This was a stream with nobody there. Domination live, Freedom live, Play live is done on their World Domination tour. Totally different. The pigeon hole is deep brother.

BAND MAID fans can overthink things too much sometimes lol Blooming was a fine choice to start with.

Nice pickup on the overall message of Manners. Manners is a very special song for the band. So special in fact that on their special edition 2 CD set of Unseen World, this is the only song that appears on both CDs. Miku (Rhythm Guitar and Backup vocals, lyricist) stated in an interview that the lyrics for this song is about their band. For context from the very beginning of this band, they had the goal of World Domination through their music. They had a difficult beginning, not being taken seriously or even ridiculed for having such dreams. The lyrics talks about the difficult beginning, but making progress through courage and the band's evolution, beyond expectations, breaking through the limits. Their mission of taking over the world is still unfinished but they are going to make their sounds roar until its in their grasp. The backup vocals towards the ends calls out to Masters and Princess (what the band calls their fans) to join them in their continued quest and into the unseen world.

MISA is a goddess in every way. Fantastic musician and performer and she loves whisky! Imho BAND-MAID is the greatest hard rock band around or for the last 30-40 years or so. They are more than fantastic! When Jimmy Page demanded to meet Akane because he was so impressed by her, says a lot!

I quite like the official video for Manners, actually. The artistic aspects of it are really well done with the lighting and themes and the way the shots are set up. Same with Daydreaming. The video for Warning is a lot of fun, too. Also, here's a little crash course in Japanese pronunciation for you. It starts with the vowels: a = 'ah' i = 'ee' u = 'ooh' e = 'eh' o = 'oh' In English and a lot of other languages, the pronunciation of some vowels changes depending on context, but not in Japanese. No silent vowels, either. They will always be the same no matter where you see them. So Akane will be Ah-KAH-neh. From there you can extrapolate most of the other sounds. Ka Ki Ku Ke Ko, Ma Mi Mu Me Mo, and so on. There are a couple of inconsistencies, ( ex. Ta Chi Tsu Te To) but these aren't really gonna be relevant when you're just reading the names of people and places. Anyway, hope this helps!

Miku is the one up front with the red rose in her hair. And Kanami is the lead guitarist.

Fuck yeah brother! Great reaction, great song, best live rock band In the world, being a fan of Band Maid= being good people in my book!

I can see you were listening to the songs more intently this time around, which is a positive sign. After Domination, you can go check their instrumental, either onset or without holding back, then check out some more of you are interested. One thing I can agree with you though... I love maximum the hormone, too. They are my second favorite band so far. And so does Akane. I think MTH inspired her to pick up the drum sticks. She was practicing on her own in the highschool music room or something for a couple of hours a week because she didn't have a drumset. She loved the Nintendo game called drum no tatsujin (The master of drums) and was so good at it that she was somehow convinced that she could become a professional drummer. At that time she was kind of feeling invincible but then she went to a proper music school and took up real lessons and it turned out she was the only one with basic techniques. Well, she must've practiced real hard as I think she's become one of the bests. And yes Nao taught Akane how to use double bass drum pedal.

A real Misa show is No God. Play, and Freedom from Feb 14th, 2020 are great, live, also! Mv's? Warning, Afterlife, Dice, Choose Me, Yolo, for starters. Another Mv that is meaningful is Alone, the bands first self written song allowed onto an album. Miku writes the lyrics, Kanami does the main song composition, then gets input from Misa and Akane (Ah-con-neh) for their parts, and Saiki is qc, a collaborative effort from these amazing ladies! Enjoy the ride!

You didn't hear MISA's bass in "Blooming" because she was one with Akane's kick pedal, keep listening, you'll hear it. Watch the "Manners" music video to this one, it's a great production, Saiki was groovin' big time in it. She did the "Saiki Shuffle" in one spot.....Lol! Akane (Ah-kah-nee) (Gorilla)- Drums MISA (Mee-sah) (The Barefoot Assassin)- Bass Kanami (Kah-nah-me) (Mincho)- Lead Guitar/Songwriter Saiki (Sy-kee) (The Princess)- Lead Vocals Miku (Mee-koo) (Little Pigeon)- Rhythm Guitar/ Back-up/Lead Vocals/ Band Founder /Lyricist / Nice React...Thanks!!

Jimmy Page from Zepp said that Akane is one of the best drummers he had ever heard. He said she was a reincarnation of John Bonham.

Band Maid ... BEST Rock band on the Planet! :) Oh as an aside they are in the movie Kate on Netflix. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNh-ird63bK9XYU.html

Great!

Now you are free to watch the official music video for Manners, it lets you hear Kanami better but MISA is lower in the mix. Domination will let you see what they can do in front of a crowd. For song #5, I'll suggest Onset (live).

The more you listen to them, more enjoy you'll be. I have a request, underdog japan band compare to the big one, 3 piece Prog Mathcore band "Sokoninaru - Tenohira de Odoru". You'll enjoy some prog here

MISA MISA MISA!

Great reaction and two Band-Maid songs is always better than one and these two offer two different sides of the band, groove and chaos, but like a infinitely faceted crystal, they have offer music in many genres, which has been called "Band-Maid doing Band-Maid things" (C)Chase

Every song is different. Watch Freedom live as it shows the interplay between them much more. They have fun. Try Gacharic Spin, Mary's Blood and Aldious for all female bands that are really good.

Manners(groove song)Black Hole(hard speed crazyness)220bpm is fast by any measure. also to point out miku tends to do the lyrics and kanami the composition

As far as i know, Akane got interested in drums because of SCANDAL's drummer RINA. SCANDAL is the essence of all Japanese girls bands. As said, RINA took inspiration from Maximum The Hormone drummer as well. "if not RINA i wouldn't even start drumming" Akane said in a interwiev.

A belated MISA!!! MISA!!! MISA!!! 🥃🥃🥃 AH AH AH Ah Ah Ah ah ah..... Manners is more of a 70's groovy tone to me, not really sleezy. You should react to the Live version of Play to see MISA leading the "conversation " with Kanami and Miku at the intro to the song

Maid in Japan !

Akane loves Nao from maximum the hormone there is a video on KZfaq of her covering one of there songs benjo sandal dance. why would you not check that out it’s called benjo sandal dance 😂😂 Personally I still think you would enjoy Real Existence most from bandmaid

next *Gacharic spin -Mindset or I wish i *Doll$Box - take my chance Live

WARNING! It's bad MANNERS to stop listening to Band-Maid because you'll feel starved for musical excellence and joy and fall into a BLACK HOLE of emptiness... probably! 😵 Thx angry, middle age, grey man!

It's impossible to create a band in 2021 without influences from great bands of the 20th century. You need to check out Japanese bands playing live. In Japan, if you don't perform live much better than in the studio version, you're nothing.

Japanese is like the Spanish. You pronounce all the vowels. Akane is "Ah-Kah-Neh"

did you hear the twin solo (lead & bass) at the same time👌🏽

Almost all Japanese female drummers are influenced by the drummer of Maximum the Hormone. Did not know that Akane was that, but why not?

Don't feel bad if it takes you a bit to pick up what MISA is putting down. Most music doesn't train us to actively listen to the bass line.

Thrill is their best song.

You read the lyrics perfectly almost all the songs are kinda upbeat except for Hate , lol.

Rinne (Reincarnation)

…………………….. Akane!! Try Daydreaming

Chamone babykins!!!!

@ freetobewhoibe, As you are going to start with Babymetal, I would recommend that you start with two videos in the same reaction, if possible. Start with the first video called Dok Dok Morning, featuring the girls in their early years and end with one of the last live songs from the 2020 or 2021 shows. I think it's going to show what they were and how big they've become today. With these two links, the beginning and the end, you will start an unforgettable journey through Metal Galaxy. I don't have the links right now, but you can ask Babymetal's army and they will provide you with the correct links. I don't know any reactor that started like this!