Ah yes. I was there. Had never heard of BABYMETAL. Then this happened. They stole the show. Many other bands played that weekend but BABYMETAL were the best by miles. Absolutely amazing.

The miracle at Sonisphere. It not be the most flashy performance they ever did, but it was one of the most important.

I recall when I first watched this video, one of the comments really stood out: "This performance will be, forever, the most beautiful and courageous jump without a parachute by three of the loveliest girls possible." When you consider their age, their bravery in fronting a 50K crowd, some of whom were intent, initially, on ridiculing them, then gradually winning them over, is quite breathtaking. Definitely one for the annals of rock music history.

5:00 Reaction start _Kitsune tobe!_ 🦊🤘🙅‍♂️ This was the moment 60K UK souls felt in love with this Japanese group, they called it the miracle of Sonisphere, after this UK become the 2nd home for them. Thanks for sharing this amazing performance in this year being the 10th anniversary of this special festival. See you next time 🦊🤘🔥

The sound check was what piqued the interest of many. The rest is history.

they sold more merch than any other band there. That was the last song of the set. Yui's flag was not cooperating when they came out and Moa missed a start, showing how nervous they were, but Su guided them through. By the end, Yui's dress was falling apart but they kept their composure and finished the show. They are the Wild Stallions

What a moment! Babymetal breaking out in the west.... Awesome song!! Just soooo good! Thx guys! ... They were soooooooo young!

Exactly that was the point. Originally they were booked for a small stage (about 4000 guests) but the Video of "Give me Chocolate " went viral on KZfaq. So they were warned that they were changed for the main stage. They couldn't See if there were any people. Most of the people were waiting for Metalica and so on and suddenly these small girls appeared...

" Legend of BABYMETAL and Sonisphere 2014 "

we want more... one more song . Babymetal killed it. great show for them.

I was just thinking when you did amore that you hadn't done this one yet. Such a great performance. Its a short set and I've watched the fancam footage of it at least twice. An awesome peice of babymetal history.

You've said before that you wished you could see more of the band onstage, well here you go. Usually videos of them performing at festivals is a good way to see that. You should check out the entire 5 song set, there's a video of it here on YT 🦊🤘

Thank you for this great reaction! Sonisphere 2014 is a historic victory for Queen Su and her troops.🤘🦊🤘

The moment where BabyMetal told the world they’ve arrived and won’t be stopped. No amount of bullying will deter them.

Great reaction, great song, great occasion.🤘🦊🤘You have all the history, the significance and the repercussions of this performance already. They played 2 small gigs in the lead up to Sonisphere, one in Paris one in Cologne (Yui and Moa celebrated their 15th birthdays at those) and they did their first London show a couple of days later. At Sonisphere Su is reported as saying that when they walked on stage there was a sea of very puzzled looking faces and she thought to herself "This will be fun. Let's knock it out of the park!" This was the last song of the 5 they played, they only had about 30 minutes, not much time to set up (their sound check was done immediately before they went on stage and ate into the time they were being allowed, so the set was just 25 minutes) ... and you could hear what the crowd were shouting, calling for one more song and we want more as they walked off stage at the end. This was where they finally felt the metal community had accepted them and their music, that their music could break all sorts of boundaries and things like language barriers and it gave them a huge boost of confidence to continue what they had started.

Great reaction as always, so fun watching along with you both. This is one of three times I've seen Su-Metal break a little from emotion where at the very end when she waves and her voice cracks counting down 3,2,1. Another is when she shouts "Bring them on" in Japanese near the end of "Road of Resistance - Live in Japan", and the other is when the entire 55k audience neckbraces light up during "The One" during the Tokyo Dome 2016 concert, at about 7:20 her jaw drops in awe when she sees the crowd lit up. There is just such an air of joy around these performances, always but especially these.

there are few fan cams of sonisphere.. Including the kami sound check..

Su's smile at 14:08 says it all.

the picking method that almost everyone use in the Kami band is the legendary by one of the babymetal guitarist too that are not playing here, which is takayoshi ohmura picking you should check it how they picking fast with little movement. Takayoshi ohmura picking is world wide known tho by shreder who know japanese music. not to mention the Sensei of takayoshi ohmura which is RIP Fujioka Mikio using it too there in 8:53

In this classic IDZ performance you get a bit of everything: Kami Band shredding, Su power vocals, Su's hyper extended elbow, Moa and Yui backing vocals, dancing, and a Yui tutu malfunction. The title takes an iconic Japanese anti-drugs slogan "Mayaku, Dame, Zettai" (Absolutely no drugs) and uses it against bullying substituting Ijime (bullying or abuse) for Mayaku (drugs). In the two years before this concert BM had worked hard to transform themselves from an idol group, just singing and dancing to backing tracks, into a metal band capable of performing live in concert. The Kami Band had been formed and integrated into the performances and they had played several Japanese festivals and done the Legend concerts in preparation for touring. After that BM were getting good buzz and they were invited to perform at Sonisphere, a big UK metal festival at Knebworth, as part of their first European tour. They were nervous because the UK crowd was notoriously tough and weren't expecting such a large crowd, but by the end of their 30 min set they had won them over completely. IDZ was their finale. It's the moment that critics and the international audience realized that BM were a legitimate headlining band and not just a gimmick. It was also a complete vindication of Koba's vision and everyone's hard work and I think you can see that in Su's smile at the end.

Now witness the power of this armed and fully operational BABYMETAL! Great reaction ❤🦊🤘

Great reaction 🤘🏻🦊 I really didn't expect them to sing this song and make it the main setlist on the Asia - Australia World Tour. IDZ is my top 5 favorite song 🤘🏻🦊🔥 Oh, and they also performed this song for an extra 1 song at the close of the World Tour in the US and EU. Thank you 🤘🏻🦊

There is a fancam compilation video from the whole gig which is a great watch. You can see how the 3 girls and the whole band got more confident with each song and thje crowd were LOVING it from the start :)

Great reaction. ありがとうございます！

the 5 songs Babymetal did changed metal forever. these girls were so strong to go in front of a know hostile crowd if they didn't like them, and perform at 120%. the second song they did Gimmie Chocolate and to show how much confidence Su has in that song she got this foreign crowd to sing along with her. do you know how much confidence a person has to have to stand in front of 50,000 unknown people and get them sing with you in a foreign language? Su did it at 16 years old. also rarely after this Yui and Moa are actually singing their part not a backing track like other times. their merch outsold every other band there even the big names. they had been outside Japan once before but this was the first big music festival they had done. this song i think was like their 4th or fifth song to release. the government actually used this song also in a bullying campaign. love the message of this song in that bullying is not jsut about the bully or the victim but also the people that watch and do nothing about it but they do as much hurt as the actual bully. i love Babymetal because of songs like this. their messages is always positive and uplifting. you can not listen to a Babymetal song and not come away feeling good and uplifted.

Happy New Year! Offset Era+ Babymetal = Instant watch :) Really enjoy your Videos, thank you ❤ Oh, since i´m not writing as much, i forget to say: IDZ is my most liked song of BM (after Monochrome) so i be very happy you liked it so much :) For me personaly, there are other perfromances of this song i like more (even if this one is very importand indeed). IDZ- Live at Tokyo Dome IDZ- Metrock (the croud is going crazy af) and my favourite: IDZ- LMG Day 2 All Avengers+ Both Kamis is fire as hell!

Great reaction, thanks! "Ijime, Dame Zettai" or "IDZ" is definitely one of my top favorites. Really love the final part with that key change. It's absolutely perfect. The song also has an important message, being an anti-bullying song. The tittle roughly translates as: "Absolutely no more bullying" (or "no more bullying forever"). This performance is a very important piece in BABYMETAL's history. This was their first performance in the UK (actually their first "big" stage outside Japan) and that was a massive festival with 50.000+ metalheads most of which never heard about BABYMETAL before. They were very afraid before they got on stage because that particular type of crowd can be very disgusting if the band doesn't match their expectations. Also the organizers moved them to the main stage several weeks before due to the online buzz. They actually were worried that no one would show up. The result? Leaving the stage while the crowd were chanting "we want more!". They also sold more merch than any other band that weekend (including Iron Maiden, Metallica, Anthrax, Dream Theater, Slayer...). This is what I call an epic win. 😁 🤘🦊

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prGgY5urnMi4m4k.htmlsi=X___VcSF1v1ZpQi0 Here's a link to the entire 5 song performance, and yes this was huge in Babymetal history as far as breaking through to a western metal audience

Nice reaction. 🍻🙂

This is almost like a movie scene, where the very under-underdog (underfox?) has one last chance to conquer the challenge, and perseveres until they come out on top. They'd already played the whole set until this moment, and had been winning hearts all the way, but this was their last chance to put a full stop on their victory. And by the Fox God they absolutely slayed. You can see Su at the end surveying her newly conquered domain with confidence. What a show!

As Su said, we are excerpted by the metal community now . Watched this so many times and still hits mè in the feels 😁 🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼

More than just IDZ, their entire set really is the miracle. They played five songs that day, and in each one you can hear the crowd getting more and more into it. By this point, the finale, the whole front area had already been converted, but it was this song, Ijime Dame Zettai that got everyone, even the farther out ones in the back, to raise their hands and shout we want more. BM has ever since been a mainstay headliner in the UK, they even played Wembley.

Great reaction as always! This was the last song of a short 5 song set that lasted about 30 minutes. The girls were afraid that nobody would come to see them (they got bumped from a small side stage to the main stage on short notice) and couldn't see the crowd from behind the stage, so they were nervous af. To their surprise, they saw an ocean of about 50.000 to 55.000 people waiting for them at the main stage. Su said in an interview later on that this was her best moment of 2014. They were the talk of the festival and outsold any other band's merch. Ever since they consider the UK as their second home

👍👍Overall BABYMETAL is Joy/Positive METAL, except when Su-Metal extracts a tear from your eye. She has the voice of an angel. 🦊 🖖❤

It really is amazing to watch this. The sheer serendipity of the moment is also amazing, because if Lady Ga Ga hadn't taken them on tour with her as her opening act, who knows when they would have gotten to the West. And to do it in Great Britain, which has the toughest music fans on the planet, was even more wild and crazy. I don't know if it's still on YT, but there is a video of their entire performance at Sonisphere in one video and it's amazing to watch. And their performance here eventually led to their invitation to the 2016 Download Festival, where once again they wowed the crowd and did their finest live performance of Karate, in the rain, in front of almost 70,000 screaming fans who sang along with BM in the chorus. Lady Ga Ga deserves a lot of kudos for taking that risky step for the ladies. And it turned out to be the best step that could possibly happen.

The Choreography was ttly Kickass too Mates!

They had been scheduled to play a side stage, but the reaction to a BABYMETAL performance (in London?) in the days before the festival led to them being moved to the maid stage. You can see the entire five song set elsewhere on KZfaq.

Great reaction guys. The miracle at Sonisphere many BM fans refer to it. Their big breakout outside Japan. Su has said it was one of the most memorable and important moment in their career. One of my fav performances from them . They kicked ass and Su vocals are so powerful. Also the Kami band was brilliant.

First video I watched from them back in 2019 and still amazed… I have even seen BM live twice ❤ Good reaction and observations!!

They were the first band on stage that day. When they were just off stage and couldn't see the crowd and thought no-one was there. The 3000 in the front were fans including a journalist from Japan. Crowd size was 50K or so was waiting. It took 30 minutes to conquer the crowd and the English metal world. Interviews in England are fun, the interviewers really do not how interview 3 Japanese teenagers and some were a little afraid of them. From this they began the learn English and they consider England to be their second home. Go back and watch Su's eye's at the start. She knows the crowd belongs to them. In the full 30 minute performance, you can see/hear the crowd being pulled in. Next - "Karate" at the Download festival, in the pouring rain. Everyone stayed and were in Su's control.

great reaction💖 No more bullying forever🤘🦊

im crying when i listen to this song,everytime i play it

This Sonisphere performance by Babymetal is one of the main reason why Japanese rock/metal scene blew out the hole. Bands like BandMaid, Nemophila, Lovebites etc would'nt even have tasted the amount of succes they have have tasted now if it wasn't for this performance. Babymetal put the world to notice what Japanese rock/metal was all about.

I mean their very first song, Doki Doki Morning, is basically a song about getting up too late for school. XD

I've been recently to a concert in Spain and I can confirm, the mix is extremly proffesional, no matter where they play, they always bring their own sound engineers and they are very good. You can hear Su voice so clearly and still hear those brutal guitars and drums (and the hole theater was vibrating during the double pedal parts).

Not their debut song but really there debut on the international stage .. A success to say the least!

8:31 On the eighth day, Su-Metal created Chaos. And she saw it was good.

1:00 you guys should check Doki Doki Morning as it's a little bit like that...their first ever song

Best BABYMETAL show ever 🤩

There's a fan cam compilation of their whole set, BabyMetal Sonisphere 2014 Full Concert Fan Cam Compilation or something. Good watch for a rainy day. There's also a video of their soundcheck somewhere, which was epic in its own way but I can't find it.

Sonisphere was one of the most import performances of their career. They were originally meant to perform on a smaller side stage, but due to their sudden burst of popularity from Gimme Chocolate going viral they were moved to the main stage in front of 50,000 people, many of whom had no idea who they were. UK festival crowds are notorious hard to please, and there was some concern about how they would react, but Babymetal have said in subsequent interviews that they weren't worried, they just wanted to go out and show what they could do. Even from such a young age, they had a ton of confidence.

👍 👍 Hello gentlemen. First off great reaction, this performance was the last of a 5 song set at Sonisphere. This performance marked the first time that they had performed outside of Asia. They were invited to Sonisphere mainly because the Gimme Chocolate MV went ballistic (hate the cliche term viral 😉). Few if any of this massive crowd knew anything about Babymetal and supposedly many who did were there to deride them. UK crowds are notorious for showing their displeasure at bands they did not approve of (beer bottles thrown onstage and cursing). The girls were rightly nervous (maybe terrified as there is a great picture of them looking nervously at the crowd before walking onstage). Kudos to these brave young ladies who were only in their early teens. At first the crowd was baffled but after a couple of songs they were into it and most were enjoying it (as you saw). This was the turning point for Babymetal and they were legitimized onstage and in the media. The test is history. Until next time.

Awesome reaction fellas! Glad you got to this one! This was definitely a metal festival, Iron Maiden was headliner I believe. Babymetal played 5 songs: BABYMETAL DEATH, Gimme Chocolate, Catch Me If You Can (w/ Kami Intro), Megitsune, and IDZ for the closer. They were originally slated for a much smaller side stage, but fans and online buzz due to Gimme Chocolate video going viral put them on the main stage. Awesome moment for Babymetal history! 🤘🦊. One more suggestion to add: Babymetal covers Judas Priest, Painkiller & Breaking the Law, with Chad Smith (RHCP) cameo on drums, and a wholesome surprise for Su! Fan cam only, so quality is not the greatest, but an awesome moment for all involved!

This was the last song of the set. They played 5 songs, they had planned 6 but they cut it short. Babymetal were told they had 30 minutes on the stage, that's it. They were only given an abbreviated sound check. In the run up to the show, many fans said they were going to bottle the band - throwing water bottles full of urine at them. A quaint custom in the area for bands that are gimmicky. All in all, there was a lot of nervousness going into the show. But the girls crushed it. Su-metal says that she could see the acceptance radiating outward from the stage like a wave, as people started to move to the music and smile. It was the moment she realized what Babymetal was doing would work. The moment they became stars, caught on video. As a side note, if you notice Yui's skirt was coming apart during the song which didn't phase them, and on the first song Moa's in ears didn't work so Yui had to cue her when the song would start. So much you could write about this performance. Their Debut on the world stage, the first trip with musicians, you could go on.

⚡ 💀 💕 / 🚫 They were bumped up to a main stage once their music video for 'Gimme Chocolate!!' started to go viral outside of Japan. That was a couple of months before this Sonisphere appearance. My favorite part of 'Ijime, Dame, Zettai' is still the part where Su threatens to kick Yui and Moa in the head if they don't stop bullying each other. And this anti-bullying song gets some of the biggest mosh pits. : ) I can't imagine the strength of nerve it took for a 16 year old Su, and just turned 15 year olds Yui and Moa to take that stage. And to leave them wanting more. I'd say they made some new fans that day. They followed this up with a headlining concert at The Forum in London two days later. This was a classic Kami Band line-up with Mikio Fujioka (RIP) and Leda Cygnus on guitars, BOH on bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums.

There's a more recent version from a concert in Japan that has been subtitled. This is my favorite version of my favorite BM song (was so gutted they didn't play it at the gig I went to recently)

The miracle of Sonisphere, complete with Yui's tutu malfunction.

Nice reaction. A favorite performance by many of The One. Su was very happy at the end of that show. You can tell by how big her smile is. Ever since I saw this, I noticed that is a good way to tell how Su thinks the show went. She likes to give a nice send off. But when the show went extremely well. Su smiles is big and those arms shack with such enthusiasm. Last song of their set for sure. You can always tell because in those days they ended every show with See You as they walked off stage. Su and Moa say they clearly remember this day. A historical moment for them. And in some ways a historical moment for Japan too. It had been a while since a metal band made it worldwide from Japan at this time. There was X Japan and Loudness before this, but they had faded from the world stage at this point. To the point that nobody was looking for metal from Japan. And then 3 little girls with Kawaii metal in their pocket change everything and this is that moment. Babymetal opened the flood gates for Metal bands from Japan to return to the world stage. The USA had the British invasion long ago. And after this performance came the Japanese invasion. Band Maid, Lovebites, Nymophila just to name a few. All because Babymetal made folks look East and ask what the heck is going on over there. Answer a new take on old things. IMO refreshing take on it too. Enjoy the rest of your journey through the foxhole and into the Babymetal galaxy of music. See You

Great reaction. This song hits me in the feels. as i was bullied at school. Ok it was decades ago and I've put that behind me a long time ago. But there is this part when Moa and Yui goes down on their knees in praying position Su sings these lines that could have been mine those years: Namida mise-zu ni, nakidashi-soona yoru wa kokoro no oku no heya ni hitori. Kizutsuketa no wa hoka no dareka dake ja naku kizuka-nai furi shiteta nakama. I didn't show my tears, and in the night I was about to cry, in a room deep inside my heart, I stayed alone. Those who hurt me were not only someone else, but also those who pretended not to notice. It was my friend.

😎😎😁🤘🤘🤘

Sou fã delas.. Cara.. Muito bom som.. Ao vivo

NGL if Babymetal made a song about going to bed on time, I might be able to actually do so for the first time in my life. 🤣

I would have loved to see the celebration that went on backstage after this 🦊

🍅💀🍅 🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼 Tobe !! !!

8:31 ...wow! just look at her! ... it's the moment she realized that the crowd has fallen into the foxhole, ... and there's no turning back ....

I think you might be indeed interested in watching the entire set. This was right after BABYMETAL hit the big Gimme Chocolate buzz on KZfaq in 2014. BABYMETAL by that point was already booked to be at Sonisphere, but prior to the buzz, they had been set to play in one of the smaller side stages. Due to the big buzz online, they were then moved to the Mainstage where huge metal names were set to play alongside them. They were put rather early on in the day. Still, a lot of hate and toxicity ensued online. People did NOT like that and thought Sonisphere were selling out to a buzz gimmick that was set to crumble as the hype would fade around BABYMETAL. Commenters said they would throw bottles of urine at them. It was really bad. Still, the show was set to happen. And despite all this negativity, the then 16 year old Su and 14 year old Yui & Moa were brave enough to get up on stage. But they were reportedly mortified, scared to death of the response they would get. A massive curious crowd gathered to see what BABYMETAL was, what all the fuzz around them was about. At first, they did not really know what to expect. A few converted fans were there, but a vast amount of the crowd was just curious folk waiting to see what BABYMETAL was really about. The first soundchecks got the crowd really curious. The musicians were already showing signs that they were real killers. When you watch the entirety of this set, you can clearly see an evolution on how the crowd reacts. It's timid at first. This is the last song, and by that time, you can see that the crowd was really loving it and people were chanting "we want more" as the girls were leaving the stage. You can watch the girls and the Kami band's facial expressions. Relief, happiness. To this day, they still talk about this performance as a key moment in their History. Legitimized on the big stage. I still feel emotional thinking about the bravery and courage it took, at such tender ages. I'm also forever grateful for the crowd and the UK metal fans for acting so nice and encouraging. Those girls are human beings. They're just doing what they love. Their intention was never to insult metal, and they were so young and scared. They deserve all the praise in the world for going through with this. Forever grateful for the kind metalheads, who in their vast majority are more mellow in their hearts than most people think. Many of them saw that these were just teenage girls, and why would anyone want to gatekeep metal for anyone? Metal is all about openmindedness, tolerance, and being welcoming. I sincerely hope you get to see the whole set some day. Perhaps in a livestream format? I'd be down for that. And while we're at it, why not a bunch of BABYMETAL concerts down the road? Hell yeah!!

Apparently Babymetal wasn't even suppose to be performing on the main stage. Being the girls first performance outside of their home country of Japan, they were quite nervous and didn't really know how the crowd would react to them. Apparently, if the crowd didn't like you, they'd let you know about it. Thankfully, Babymetal was accepted and they're more successful as a result of this.

If you haven't already, you should do a react to the official video of it. Yui & Moa are absurdly cute while pretending to the play the guitar solos. There's a couple of alt versions as well. The guitarist in this "Nemesis" version is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fp6ndZZ3np7IZoU.htmlsi=51LzEdj1KoLgCCiA is Michael Amott of Arch Enemy. Both pretty different and good at the same time. And here's a link to a the making of video. Fun stuff. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdepgKd0zMzJm40.htmlsi=lro5a-mlBtYo2WGh

By my count, these three tiny Japanese ladies in tutus broke through at least 5 glass ceilings in this one performance. 1) Age, 2) Nationality/Race, 3) Non-English singers/musicians, 4) genre (before them, nobody has performed anything remotely close to Babymetal's mish-mash of pop, idol, rock, metal with choreographed dancing!) and 5) literal "ascent" to the main stage from obscurity. I mean after the teenaged Babymetal girls did this in Sonisphere - one of the hard core, unforgiving and heralded metal festivals in the world, it's safe to say there is little that these ladies won't be able to pull off in live performances...

Copy all said hereunder a big moment in bm history. Without this concert , it would have taken them so much longer to breaktrhough in the west. This was the last song. The setlist was build up very smart, to reel the audience in. 1. Babymetal death. (Ver metal) 2. Gimme choco. (The most known) 3. Kami intro (super musicians) 4. Catch me if can. (Metal and catchy) Now the crowd get what it is by now. 5 megasuni 6 i d zettia tonclose Crowd soldnhahaha

Those front disteactions are pretty good for 15 yr olds. 😅

Thought I had a comment before. Someone said already they were bumped up to main stage. Yui's dress snagged on her wrist spike. And.. Mikio(RIP) has some great solos and individual vids. I like your energetic reviews. Keep it going, y'all. ✌️🎶

Please know This main stage appearance was decided in a hurry. Moreover Authentic 60,000 spectators They also expected to have plastic bottles filled with urine thrown at them and practiced avoiding it There is also footage of them looking extremely anxious before the performance Their producer confirmed it multiple times Is it really okay? Sonishere PD answered You'll definitely be successful Because of this background In Japan, it is said to be 「the miracle of the Sonisphere」

The fan cams footage prior to this video has an introduction message about the last song. One message shown is “Wall of death”. Don’t react to this. Just enjoy it.