This is still one of my favorite songs of theirs. It's the perfect blend of heavy and kawaii.

Yes... it is in fact, the cutest and scariest song about playing hide and seek. And remember, if a disembodied "monster" asks if you are ready, the answer is always "no, not yet"

BOH is one of the greatest bassists in the world. God of 6-string bass!

BOH (the bassist) is so freaking charismatic, he really seems to have fun during live performances. In the live version of Karate you did, when the lead singer called out "everybody jump" he was getting like two feet of air bouncing with his giant 6 string bass. That always just made me crack up.

"Tag" in Japanese is 鬼ごっこ(oni gokko) which sort of translates to "playing demon". The person IT is the demon. At the start of the game the dem9n calls out if everyone is ready, and if they aren't players yell back, "not yet." (Mada da yo), which is what they say in the song.

The Metal girls are playing hide & seek with demons. Very amazing song , kami band just killed it with their individual solos.

Great reaction and yes, the song is about a game of hide and seek/tag with an ogre. As far as I know, it is a traditional Japanese event/game at a certain time, so why not make it into song, right? Yui and Moa were assigned the role of scream and dance, to hype up the crowd and perform most of the choreography. The have usually backing vocals but less main vocals, apart from their 4 Black Babymetal songs where they perform without Su. Same way, Su has 4 solo songs, that way all of them have some time to rest during their intense shows. Amuse really puts a lot of effort and money into Babymetal shows to get the audience the best experience possible and the Budokan shows (the two shows in 2014 and all 10 shows in 2021) were no exception. Looking forward to you next BabyMetal reaction which hopefully will be “Rondo of Nightmare” from the Budokan Black Night show in 2014 :)

You have no idea how big their productions can get. Babymetal Death - Legend 1997 has epic production and stage show. And the venue doesn't get much bigger than back to back sold out shows at Tokyo Dome

Also I strongly recommend you watch Rondo Of Nightmare and Akatsuki from the same show. SUPER EPIC! Rondo also has another EPIC band solo and both are Su Metal solos.

⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃‍♀👹 You got it. This cute song is about playing a game that is kind of like hide-and-go-seek, with some tag and blind-man's bluff mixed in. Pursued by an "Oni"" which is a kind of Japanese Ogre. If not a real monster, than at least someone pretending to be one in order to terrify children into behaving. Fun times! Kawaii Metal! : ) If much of their charm is in the blending of the cute and the brutal, this song is a great example. They performed this song quite a bit in 2017, but not since. The last time I saw this one live was in Chula Vista, California when they were on tour opening for Korn.

_Maada da yo!_ 🦊🤘🔥 Glad you're back just right on time with some great news about BM returns with new single coming this month and live performance along with new album next year so keep enjoying your ride until you reach this new era is getting everyone hype. This song is among many BM fans one of the most representative of their kawaii metal sound, is heavy but is cute or kawaii at the same time with so much energy and crazy circle pits and mosh from the crowd, not on this performance but you'll see that in another. This was live at Budokan Arena 2014 reaching a huge milestone with only 14 and 16 yo, after this they started the World Tour and reach the Sonisphere Festival you already saw. This time the Kami Band playing in order are: Leda Cygnus and Takayoshi Ohmura on guitars, BOH on that freaking monster 6-String bass, and Hideki Aoyama on drums. All of them are possessed by the Fox God the moment they step up on the stage, and I'm not even joking 🦊🤘 This crazy beautiful song is about hide & seek tag game, but isn't just any other regular child play, they're playing with an Oni, a mythological japanese creature human flesh eater 👹👀 This is heavy af. You can also noticed the punk section, many people reminds it the sound of some of the US rock punk like The Offspring or Green Day, and the heavy part apparently got some Slipknot vibes. Kami Band intro are rare and only on certain songs but throughout different live performance you'll hear slightly different changes because like said, not always were the same members and even the same members sometimes change their solo a little bit. If you want another melting faces intro you should go for: - Rondo Of Nightmare, with Mischiefs Of Metal Gods Intro live at this same venue you just saw, is a SuMetal solo and I'm pretty sure you're gonna love it, "Kawaii Metal" got the clip. Thanks for sharing this and see you next time.🦊🤘🔥

One of my absolute favorite songs. Brutally cute. 🤘🦊🤘

Oh, so many things you'll see. The long version of "In The Name Of" from Legend S, "Sis Anger", "BABYMETAL Death" from Legend 1997, "Iine", Heck - "Kingslayer"... you're in for such a wild ride.

excellent content John-Metal, dude, BABYMETAL is where it's at, the new songs are epic sounding.

I gave a thumbs up to anyone who plays BABYMETAL to me I am a drummer I feel they are the best band in the world and I like many different styles of music and play different styles of music this band and the girls rock I can’t wait to see them next year in Paris

No one has ever made a game of hide and seek look and sound so cool 😎👍

Great reaction, thanks! Good guess, "CMIYC" is about playing hide and seek with an "oni", a sort of ogre. All in all it's brutally cute... or cutely brutal. 😁 This was my very first BABYMETAL song and got me hooked from the first moment. So it's very special to me. I really love the juxtaposition of the two extremes: brutal instrumentals (pretty much on their heavier side) and cute vocals and choreo, including my personal favorite movement: the infamous Moa slide (which I'm pretty sure you noticed at 3:51 mark on your video). And yes, this performance at the Budokan was their biggest show at the time. Two consecutive dates at one of the most important venues in Japan. That stage is quite insane, cool and a little too dangerous... although they went even crazier later. But that's another story. Until next time!

That cool guitar is Takayoshi Ohmura's custom guitar from ESP, but inofficially it's called the "Pink-chan"...

Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。You like these girls' cute dance moves very much. Can you believe that this exhaustion choreo was for 8th song in the setlist and 7 more to come. (total 15 songs). What cardio capacities these 3 little and skinny girls had ! In a recent interview, Moa said she and Su were continuing hard physical training like first-class athletes even in the inactive COVID period . That is why they could perform flawlessly 90-minutes almost non-stop shows in 10 BABYMETAL Budokan concerts last year.

Definitely check out the Headbanger MV and then the Legend 1997 concert videos, starting with Gimme Chocolate, Headbanger, and ending with Babymetal Death.

Yep - the girls are hiding from an Oni. Really heavy song, with excellent call and response from all three girls, and the Oni literally breathing down their necks throughout (Are you ready yet?) Apparently, it's a thing in Japan to say to children that if they misbehave, an Oni (I think the reference to wearing red shoes is a nod to being chased by a Red Oni) will find you and get (eat) you. So when the Oni says, "I've found you!" I genuinely crap myself. I love a lot of BabyMetal songs (Kagerou is my all time fave) but Catch Me If You Can is my absolute favourite of their early songs. Another fantastic and really heavy song is the Black BabyMetal song, Onedari Daisakusen. Check it out. I think you'll love it!

Great reaction. 'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek I've ever heard. It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni (a sort of Japanese ogre 👹 popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children ... and the idea of that probably amuses me a lot more than it really should 🤭), very little gets any more metal than that. 🤘 The growling vocals (they are on a backing track) are the Oni asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance.🏃‍♀🏃‍♀🏃‍♀👹 The Kami Band (in order of solos) that night were Takayoshi Ohmura and Leda Cygnus on guitars, BOH on 6 string bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums. This was their second night (Red Night and Black Night) at the Budokan in Tokyo in March 2014. The Budokan is a martial arts arena built for the 1964 Olympics and now also one of the most prestigious venues for concerts in Japan (think Carnegie hall or Madison Square Garden). It is where all Japanese artists aspire to play - not so many ever get to do that. BABYMETAL became the youngest ever female band to headline there and they sold it out 2 nights running as their first album was being or was about to be released. They returned in 2021 to play 10 more concerts as part of their 10th anniversary celebration.

Here is a fun fact!! Marty Friedman who should need no introduction here has lived in Japan for 20+ years. There is a whole discovery totally worth exploring on that topic in itself. However I won't get into that here. In reality you might be suprised to discover that he has very strong connections with Babymetal. Takayoshi Ohmura one of BabyMetal's lead Gutarists. Just so happens to also play in Marty Friedman's own Japanese band lol. So one can almost say BabyMetal was destined for greatness here. Marty had once said, "In Japan, the mainstream allows heavy influences in the mainstream music." "Whereas in other countries like where I grew up in America." "There's heavy music, and there's non-heavy music, and they don't really mix very much." "Japan is different in that respect." Marty is very heavily involved in many music projects in Japan. So it's not all that suprsing i guess. Given his long history with helping to popularize metal's influences there. Babymetal is great for many reasons but Kami Band definitely are well deserving of reconization. :)

Hide and Seek is part of the song, but it actually touches on a few different games played during childhood and a couple of childrens stories. It's a celebration of childhood, with a hint of darkness. The darkness is typical of Babymetal.

Great reaction did you spot they came up from under the stage . 😁🤘🦊🤘

very good! yes, it's a game of hide and seek. The cool thing is who they're playing with... Su sings - Mr Satan I'm here, follow my claps... Three girls singing this with a band holding it all very heavy.. The result is incredible!

Amazing how they can dance on a spinning platform.

Babymetal is back! after 1 year of hiatus, they released a song recently. You have to check that out. Babymetal hype is in the air!🤘🦊🤘🔥 Nice reaction.

I don't see any tape to mark the girls' spots. Looks like they were using the stage pattern. They did say that this show was more difficult than previous shows.

The solo intros seems to be different on every version I watch. All exceptional!

I also would like to add the live video of Megitsune in Budokan I think you’ll be very impressed of course all the videos are great I’ve been in love with them and then in the fox hole immediately and watch crazy as I wouldn’t know who they were if I wasn’t looking at the drum styles from all girl band from Japan called Nemophilia they actually did baby metals Megitsune and I thought it was their original but when I looked it up again I found BABYMETAL and that’s all she wrote

They do a really cool collaboration with Rob Halford, was kinda like them being fully accepted in the metal scene when you get to play painkiller with the legend himself!

It's the mix of super-cuteness, with horror that makes it so awesome

Suggestion? How about the time BabyMetal performed the Judas Priest classics Pain Killer and Breaking The Law with Rob Halford live. Think about that for a minute. And then there was the time they performed their hit song Gimme Chocolate with The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Doesn't this just bring joy to your life, I have to have a daily fix, after a real hard days work these amazing people let it all out, glad you're on board.🦊

Going full Polyphia with an entire band solo, you love to see it.

"I really haven't paid enough attention to the bassist. But I'm sure he's amazing too." please react to: Babymetal Rondo of Nightmare with intro, video on KZfaq should be some 7+ minutes long. Same night, even very similar stage use.

I don't know where in the concert this was but would assume somewhere in the middle for a break for the girls and a chance for these guys to show off their chops, these guys have serious heavy metal cred back to the debut of the band. I love them! in the early days of Baby Metal, they did "Give Me Chocolat", I turned a fellow employee on to it and he was "that's so cool", later I heard from another employee when he learned of my being the source of this music he said "I Didn't like it at first, but then rather looked forward to hearing it"

Excellent reaction. Glad you're enjoying the dive into the foxhole. Pick a song any song you can't go wrong. Live shows are always awesome. A shout out to all the crew to make the show as awesome as they are. Yes this is about hide and seek. In Japanese culture an Oni is an under world demon that in stories takes away misbehaving children. The person who is it is the Oni trying to catch the other children. All in good fun. Looking forward to your next reaction. 🤘🦊🤘. New single drops November, December, January. New album drops March. 1st concert in Japan 1/28&29/23. Recommendations, Kagerou with Kami band live intro, No Rain No Rainbow really shows off Su's vocals and From Dusk to Dawn again shows off vocals and I personally think it will lead into the new album. Would suggest digging into the translated lyrics that really add to the songs. Even if you don't understand the language Su is able to get the emotions of the songs to transend language and culture. A true talent.

If no one has suggested the rock singer Miyavi then you definitely should. The way he plays the guitar is pretty cool :)

Oh yes. Black Night. The day after they said whoops!!! And put the rails up…

Thank you!! Thank you so match!!

2:19 I see you 🥸That was the right call, you'd have gotten a lot of heat for that.

Heavy metal: You know there's a Beast Doom metal: You preach about the Beast Black metal: You obey the Beast Death metal: You ARE the Beast Power metal: You fight the Beast Viking metal: You fight the Beast for Odin Thrash metal: You're going to F'ing kill the Beast Metalcore/Nu metal: You're afraid of the Beast Glam metal: You're too drunk to care about the Beast Kawaii metal: You play hide and seek with the Beast

Weirdly enough, most show clips I’ve seen from Budokan cut off a section of the seating. Babymetal may have had a slightly larger stage, but the overall shape of it allowed for more seating to be open.

Can't believe these girls can run around like that for a whole show. I'm tired just watching them. Choreography is insane.

I highly highly recommend you to check out Su-mental doing a solo; Rondo of Nightmare and also recommend yui-metal and moa-metal duo with Onedari Daisakusen

How to make headbanging 55K+ people to a song who speak about the game hide and seek XD BM is still one of my favorite metal band ever !

Hi from San Francisco California Babymetal 💕 🤟

Babymetal kagerou with kami band intro 👍👍

Yes unlike America Japanese metal bands usually are about happy things that make people feel happy and cheerful their concerts are amazing but there’s one thing missing from their concerts that our USA concerts have lots of ,,violence,, there’s no violence in their concerts and they’re crowds , everybody is happy and respectful

Great reaction mate

Also there’s videos of them where the girls actually sing without Su and then vice versa

John you have to watch Kagerou 2021 with Kami Band solo. It represents about 7 years of growth and will blow you away!

Some Japanese nursery rhymes and children's games are characterized in part by a dark atmosphere. So that's a theme that fits Metal surprisingly well, and BM understands that very well. That's why this song is so shocking. This is not just Kawaii.. If you inadvertently try to join them just because they look cute and fun, you could die. But if someone were to kill me, I would want to die in terror? No, I would want to be torn to death by Oni (Demons) in the seemingly pleasant atmosphere of this song... It's as pleasant as if I had been gotten by the Hokuto Ujo Ken (北斗有情拳, North Star Affectionate Fist) from Toki in The Fist of the North Star,... Excuse me from Japan...

🍅💀🍅 🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼 Controlled chaos.

i mean i saw them live when they came to Estonia this spring. And i will go to their concert again in winter because they are really good at live, and the songs are like heavy so that a true metalhead can enjoy and then just smile at the same time, i saw that during the concert. I saw them hadrcore with the biker vests on them, like MC something. when Lordi was on they where like hell yeaaa . rawwww .. and then babymetal came on and all of them were just enjoying now shouting or anything, you know the face where you listen to the music and it is just that good, you have the yea this is cool and good. And Su singing makes it really impressive. So if possible go hear them live, just so good !

Good reaction

The game is hide and clap. The game is played on the movie The conjuring

There's a ton of suggestions in the comments for BM songs, because there really isn't a bad one in their set list. One of the songs that put them on the map recently for metal enthusiasts who never gave them a chance is their collaboration with Bring Me to the Horizon "Kingslayer" which featured them a bit. You could throw a dart at a list of their songs and never go wrong, though.

Now that they are older, they take turns singing the lead.

You haft to check out black baby metal it's some stuff just featuring moa and yui any way welcome to the foxhole it's a exciting ride

enjoyable👹👠🏃‍♀♪

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Great reaction! 🤘🏻🦊🤘🏻

Love that slow Final Fantasy BGM after the song, during the discussion portion. That's beautiful. I wish their shows were like this in the West, but those are much more conventional and less theatrical than the amazingly creative stages and decorations they use in Japan.

BABYMETAL🔥🤘🦊🤘🔥

It's a different style for them but check out No Rain No Rainbow

BABYMETAL - DEATH LIVE, DO IT NAO!!!....or at least Headbanger, do it NAO!!!

Heavy Metal about playing hide and seek... Love it..!

That riff has Slipknot written all over it!

You gotta watch Rondo of a nightmare it’s only Su and the kami band and they absolutely crush it

2017 version of this song - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bqukesqHybq9aHk.html Babymetal - Catch Me If You Can (Fox Festival 2017 Live) Eng Sub :)

I love the contrast between heavy instrumentals and cutesy lyrics about hide and seek or chocolate

one day me and my kids will be play hide and seek. and i will teach them this song

If you really want to hear the other girls voice you can look up Moabanger where she does the last half of Headbanger. There is also a fan cam version of Yui doing the same. Both have great voices in their own way.

Babymetal always makes me smile.. Megitsune pleasee

You should react to road of resistance live it’s so good

the Kami Band consists of more then 25 members who rotate in and out from show to show, as well there is the Kami Band and the Western Kami Band (who wear black), when you see the band in Bone costumes, they are actors not an actual band, also Moa and Yui do have songs they do with out Su (the Balck Babymetal songs like Sis Anger, and Onedari Daisakusen) well until Yui departed the band, Su also has her solo stuff, you will need to go watch the Everything you need to Know about Babymetal at some point before you get to lost as to what is going on the one by CrypticMisery the other leave out way too much

Hide and Seek BABYMETAL style. BABYMETAL FOREVER 🤘🤘🤘 All hail The Fox God

HIDE & SEEK WITH THE DEMON 😘

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I fell in love with this band when I 1st heard them years ago. Such amazing energy. And on a side note...the background music when you are talking at the end...Final Fantasy 7??

Apologies if this has already been addressed but yes, tag is called onigokko in Japan. Funny thing about Babymetal is while their creed is to unite and bring positivity, a lot of their older songs are very Japanese. The JP meaning in this instance is that the "oni" means demon while "gokko" means to do something together (Onigokko or 鬼ごっこ‎). Basically, the game is the same but have very different meanings, as is the culture.

If you want to see a progression of music check out Pa Pa Ya or Shanti Shanti. You will be mind blown. I have live videos to use if you want them

Good reaction🔥🤘❤️🦊

lol not just a game of hide and seek, but a game of hide and seek with an Oni, a Japanese demon lol How metal is that!?

You've done Gimme Chocolate, right? If not, prepare for a hook that you'll never get out of your head.

Sugoi! Arigatou! 🦊🤘 #notacult #kawaiimetal

This is the definition of Kawaii (Cute) Metal. A song about playing Hide 'n' Seek is pretty kawaii and as it's being played with two demons, it's pretty Metal. Especially when the demon voices would scare Sepultura. 🦊🤘🤘🦊 There is a Pandora's Box of female Metal bands in Japan and I'd recommend checking out Nemophila and Lovebites amongst others. If you like Rock then by lucky chance THE best Rock band on Earth, Band-Maid, are also from Japan and all female (try 'Domination' live and you'll be pleasantly astounded - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8iphKZ705zWiZs.html ). The musicianship, especially live, is off the charts for all those I've named. Japan is making all the best music for the 21st century.

Please react more babymetal live performance 🦊

Hide and seek with a demon. Totally metal.

Straight up one of my favourite bands. On the face of it, a bit of a novelty, but when you really dig into it, it's a act of pure mastery at every level.

If you want to see one of the other girls doing an absolutely kickass bit of lead vocal, look for the video entitled MOABANGER. It features Moametal taking over lead vocal halfway through the song 'Headbanger' for her birthday. Su starts the song but just wait until Moa comes in. Amazing. EDIT: Actually, the full title of the vid I recommended is - BABYMETAL - Headbanger!! 『へドバンギャー！！ 』(MOAMETAL ver.) | Moabanger

Welcome to the foxhole 🤘🏾🦊🤘🏾

Second day of a 2 day concert. The first day during the call out for Headbanger Yui fell off the stage. The first concert those guard rails weren't installed. After Yui fell from the stage the installed the rails.

Mi favorita 🤘🤘🤘

If you’ve never reacted to any black BABYMETAL songs, I would recommend

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Pls react for bloodywood folk metal band.. you did not regret it....