This song composed by the bassist Haraguchi-san and lyrics by guitarist Hazuki, with influenced by Arabic melodies. It highlights the ability of their most experienced member of the band, the Japanese drums goddess, Murata Tamu, as a very serious powerhouse on drums. In this song, instead of guitar solos as their normal song would be, Haraguchi-san imagined to have Tamu playing couple of traditional percussion instruments since she knew Tamu's percussion knowledge and ability. However, upon receiving the midi, immediately Tamu got to work and submitted two drum lines, one was just like her normal days at work and the other was more intense with extra fills and solo. Haraguchi-san was very impressed and during the recording rehearsals, SAKI decided to try and incorporate Tamu's second options and further arrangement made them fully opted for Tamu's intense drumming. Just listen to how hard she goes after her drum solo section with intense fills and harmonic beatings in the rest of the rhythm sections all the way towards the end. Now let's dig deeper on who is this drums goddess, whose real name is Ai Murata (stage name Murata Tamu). In 2007, she started as jazz drummer at the early age of 15 in high school and received guidance from a very well established session drummer, Masahiko Noguchi at Saila Drum School (now Tamu is also one of the lecturers at that school). Tamu continue her drumming activities after graduated from high school and in 2011 she joined a pop band Grizzly on the Planet (GP) but surprisingly, as a keyboardist. In 2013 she joined a girls band SORAMIMI as a drummer. During this very early period of her musical carrier, she was already playing two different instruments professionally for two different bands, a feat that is rarely to be seen. She graduate from university in 2015, the same year she won the best female drummer award in the voting project My Goddess 2015 by BEEAST - Living with Rock, Lifestyle Support Magazine. In the same voting project that year, SAKI, guitarist from Mary's Blood and her soon-to-be band mate that time, won the best female guitarist award category. In 2016, SORAMIMI released an album that includes the song 'Paralle Line', which is the first song composed and written by Murata Tamu. She also signed her first endorsement contract with TAMA Japan that year. She left GP in 2016 and eventually SORAMIMI suspended in 2017. Year 2017 was a time when her carrier in drumming started to pick up drastically. She held her first drum solo performance in February 2017 and it was a completely sold-out solo drumming concert at the TSUTAYA O-Crest live music venue. She joined the INSPION group (a project led by Takeshi Kuramochi and Daisuke Kurosawa for corporate sound production company) as a session drummer and becoming one of the prominent member of the group, considered as one of the staff member at the company in-charge of the drums. The group mostly do sounds production for games and movies and in free time, they get together doing cover songs of X JAPAN among other projects and she is still active with the group until now (2021). She released her self-produced DVD titled Murata Tamu's Hyper Drum Training in April 2017. She won the best female drummer award category again, in the voting project My Goddess 2017 of BEEAST magazine award. This time, SAKI was in 2nd place for the best female guitarist award category. In May 2017, she held her second solo live concert at TSUTAYA O-West and invited Japan's infamous drummer, Nyango Star as her guest. She appeared again at the same venue in September 2017 to mark the release of her self-produced EP titled INNOCENT with four original songs, one of which she also sings. She appeared in NAONのYAON (yearly event organized by legendary Japan's all female metal band, SHOW-YA) every year since 2017. She was also one of the supporting drummers in SAKI's World Guitar Girls Collection (WGGC) project where in NAONのYAON, Tamu was the drummer behind WGGC show since 2017. She is very active with her drumming activities such as holding drum seminars at vocational schools, musical instrument stores, and Drum Clinic Tour in China. She is also one of the drummer support for idol group The World Standard (WASUTA) and many other successful artists. She regularly appeared on the national music information TV 'MUSIC BB'. She host her own variety show Tamu Zukan, where she invites, learns, explores other drummers' skill set and also about various musical instruments. In January 2018, Tama Drumsticks H-TMTM, Mutata Tamu signature model hits the market. She held another live concert at TSUTAYA O-West in February 2018 for the commemoration the release of her single titled Super D&D Completely Lead Aimaimi | D Zettai! SAMURAI-In-The-Rain, featuring Ladybeard, an Australian stunt actor, professional wrestler and ex-vocalist of Deadlift Lolita and Ladybaby. In March 2018, she was invited as a guest drummer for Naka-Kon event in Kansas City, USA. It is an annual three-day convention, celebrating anime, manga, cosplay, music, fashion and gaming. In mid 2018, she held her 5th installment of her solo live concerts at two venues, OSAKA MUSE and Shibuya WWW-X, celebrating her entering into 10 years of professional drumming. By 2019, she already had 6 live solo concerts under her belt with the latest one was held in January 2019 at TSUTAYA O-West again. In August 2019, she was invited to perform in Mayu Session band by vocalist, Mayu and bassist, Haraguchi-san who were high school friends and just quit their bands, LIPSTICK and HöLDERLINS respectively. At that time, they were still looking for guitarist so she asked SAKI (Mary's Blood & AMAHIRU guitarist, ex-Destrose) to introduce anyone who might be available since SAKI got connections through her WGGC project. If Tamu herself is playing, SAKI wouldn't miss the opportunity to return the favour to Tamu (remember that she is the prominent drummer for SAKI's WGGC project) by being there herself. SAKI bring along her friend Hazuki (Disqualia guitarist) since Disqualia activities was put on hold and Hazuki that time only supporting Li-sa-X project as a session guitarist (later in 2020, Li-sa-X Band was formed with Hazuki as permanent member). Mayu Session band performed at live venue and they hits of immediately eventhough its the first time they played together and some members didn't know each other before. They had lots of fun together and thought this is what they are looking for individually - technical superiority asides, a tight band and fun friends. So after that one session ends, they decided to stay together and make their quintet permanent, which is now known as the NEMOPHILA. In September 2019, she announced in her social media "I became a drummer of NEMOPHILA. Thanking you in advance. I'm glad I met some nice friends and I'll hit them with my soul." ...and she did hit them hard as the band grew tighter every day, in line with the growth of their local and international fan base. SAKI, the leader of the band and also the composer for Mary's Blood said "I write songs for NEMOPHILA too, but there is also a composer team, so we compose the songs at the same time and give every member the midi’s. Tamu has had the longest career of the band, so she always makes her own fills by herself." She got much respect from SAKI even before WGGC & NEMOPHILA since both of them top their categories in 2015 BEEAST goddess award and Tamu did it again in 2017. Miki 'mittan' Tsunoda, the drummer of legendary Japanese metal band SHOW-YA also seen paying respect to Tamu during her time-off giving birth. Mittan appeared in NEMOPHILA line ups and supporting them covering two SHOW-YA songs, taking the drummer's place while honouring Tamu by wearing the frog t-shirt which is Tamu's trademark shirt. Another legendary drummer did the same was Kyoko Tomita from rock band Princess Princess while NEMOPHILA did their cover song. A respect from legendary Japanese drummers really shows how big her reputation is. In October 2019, Tamu signed another endorsement contract with MEINL cymbals. She is now using TAMA Silverstar (Jet Blue Burst) and MEINL cymbals in her studio. In February 2020, NEMOPHILA secured their first ever one-man show at Shibuya REX and the tickets sold out instantly after the announcement. This show, however, not featuring all NEMOPHILA original line-ups because Tamu was on maternity leave. Again, in her place, the legendary mittan of SHOW-YA made an appearance covering for her. The other scheduled NEMOPHILA show after that was cancelled due to the pandemic. She had played in Roland Boss Player Summit 2020 to wrap up Roland's Junior Drums Competition in which she was one of the judges that time. In 2021, she again took part in NAONのYAON but officially as NEMOPHILA drummer, plus filling in for Gacharic Spin (their drummer Yuri was pregnant at that time) so she isn't part of SAKI's WGGC. Later that year, she welcomed another member of her family and she is now a mother of two. In January 2022, NEMOPHILA appeared in one-man show for the first time featuring all original members including the drums goddess, Tamu. In that show, they performed a song LIFE as finale, which was a very special song they performed for Tamu during one of their live streaming event, celebrating Tamu's return to the line ups after maternity leave. This time around, it is very emotional for mayu seeing all the band members around her managed to pull off this one-man show with her and she broke into tears eventually. Before their final bow, SAKI and Tamu, being the oldest members of the band approached mayu and gave her a hug with gentle stroke on her hair like a mother's gesture. She is a lovely person who always look after the band members as her own little sisters especially her rhythmic partner Haraguchi-san.

You know it's amazing on how many Japanese girl bands that can play awesome music as they do....more power to them...."Never Stop the Music"

Have a Japanese friend in Japan who lets me in on the music scene in Japan and these girls are huge. Was sent a Nemophila tour shirt all Japan dates Japan is killing it

I’m fully entranced by Hypnosis and Nemophila! Their Revive album is one of the best albums I’ve heard in many years. Fantastic from start to finish. More Nemophila please

There great and yes YT compressed it the album version (i have it ) is superb as are all the others on it .

This is one of those songs that you may not like it so much the first time you hear it but every time you listen to it again you grow to love it. The dancing by Mayu is hypnotic and she is a very good dancer and underappreciated for her talent. Watch it a few times more. You'll see what I mean.

Next please do BAND MAID "CATHARSIS" from their online live accoustic

Awesome track!! so different, so good!! Mayu is AWESOME!! 🤘🙂🎸🔥

BAND-MAID ＆ NEMOPHIA AFTERSHOCK FESTIVAL 2022

Thank you for reacting to one of most favorite band!

Just think Mayu got them together to record some covers as audition demos as she was looking for a new band. They clicked as a band. They liked each other with the plus of liking playing together. So from covers, worth reacting too, to original songs. Hoping we will see them the US soon. "Monsters" should be next, a different Mayu plus Tamu is awesome!

Love love love this song! You know it's true said it three times!

Hi. This band was greate.👍 Bud you most react to Battle Beast, your gonna loved it. Like Nightwish a band from Finland, also whith a female singer. I have many favorites but one of them is Master of Illusion, from the latest album.

Great song, slides right into my top songs of a) time, love this. This album is my favorite of the year. Bassist Haraguchi San composed this song. The guitars are one of my favorite tones, this and Slash tones, which Kanami uses as well. A dirty distortion.

Played live the drums really are the highlight of this track and I wish they had been able to portray that more in the sound of the YT clip. They do make up for it in their next YT song called Hozuki. It’s the one with the Japanese icon as the title.

Nemophila and Maximum the Hormone are some of my most favorite Japanese Bands !!! Awesome to see a reaction of one here!!

Check out Life by Nemophila next. It won’t disappoint you.

NEMOPHILA played their pocket Ace...HARAGUCHI-SAN crushed this. From the composition, the base line, to her harmonization vocals...smash hit. Absolute banger that puts the rhythm section front and center. Agree, this on the CD is much fuller. You mentioned the drum line, I think the very best version to date of this was when they debuted it for the very first time on their 2nd Anniversary Live Stream event. TUMU went freaking ballistic on that one. So glad they kept that heavier drum line in this...completes it perfectly. 🌸✨🌠

I was going to beg and beg and beg that you react to this song and silly me, you already had. I'm writing this before I watch your entire video so I am uber excited to see how you react. Love you guys! So I watched your reaction and I agree about the compression. Man I would love to hear this live. It's my favourite Nemophila song. I like the versatility that Mayu has in her voice and her screams are actually perfect for her and me and as a listener because I can actually understand what she is singing. I have to give you a tsk tsk though. There's a little bass guitar lick that you talked over. Naughty naughty lol. I love everything about this video, especially the look. Mayu's dancing, the hair twirls from them (if you look in the back Tamu is doing it also. Not often seen from the drummer).

There is a live version of Oiran that you really need to see.

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Regarding the harsh vocals, it's something I've never been a huge fan of. I grew up conscious of bands like Death, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, etc. and have heard a lot of growl vocals over the years. For the most part, it all sounds the same to me. There's some variation and nuance here and there, but it tends to blend together for me. However, there's three exceptions to this where it sounds distinct and where I can listen to it at any time: Nemophila, Unlucky Morpheus, and Jinjer.

As Mayu sings the verse of Hypnosis, I’m struck by how she sounds like Koda Kumi (that’s a good thing) in Get Up & Move. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npqgmZaUpt6niGQ.html Mayu’s versatility is amazing. She should have a variety show on network TV.

Tisztára úgy szól mintha a Ningen Isut hallanám... Jó. It clearly sounds like I'm listening to Ningen Isu ... Good.

My 2nd favorite female Japanese Rock/Metal band after the Bandmaid, with Lovebites a close 3rd. (granted with Nem's screaming singer weighs the heaviness a tad more)

Now I am curious whether guys reacted to songs of Myrath - authentic Tunisian band...

The females and screaming Jennies from JAPAN.... 😀

The CD sounds better and way heavier. Even when I play it in my little Honda, buildings crumble. This song grows on you quickly.

Guys try to listen with it big headsets

a few more worth checking out ... Demon Light, Life, Monsters, Shimi(cover)

have you expected THAT?

Here are big big requestd songs: monster, night flight, demon light, reitai, please listene to them. Thanks

Nemophila recorded a new cover. This time Journey - Separate Ways kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMenftRmubu9gKM.html Extremely successful, with lots of elements from the original video Journey. It's worth watching the original in front of Nemophila.

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This song has a strong India vibe like the Babymetal song

Have you ever checked the specs on the audio codec, opus, that youtube use? Its absolute S..T :(

Next reaction VOICE OF BACEPROT🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

@Songs and Thongs Guys, try to listen it with big headsets

Inspired by Hara-san’s love of Disney’s Aladdin.

Please check Nemophila - Life

This song almost has a belly dance vibe to it in the musicality

Did you notice the shamisen?

Please react to Blind and Frozen by Beast in Black

You just have to listen to their newest one - 鬼灯 - English phonetics version "Hoozuki" (don't pronounce it like "who", but like "Ho-oh", which translates roughly to "Demon Light". It's at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itChpaidubKRomw.html - truly must-listen stuff.

Guys, react "INSOMNIUM - One For Sorrow" pls

Reac VOB

Did you ever said.... this is not cool🤣🤣

Maximum the hormone next, you'll thank me later & also checkout Unlucky Morpheus

I love you guys but go back to Band Maid

Hmmmm, bassist "composed" a song completely based on an existing Dream Theater song (In the Name of God) . How original. This is SO BLATANT, very disappointed. Nobody else caught this?????