AKATSUKI is the best power metal song in the history

At last... BabyMetal..,, thanks, more please..

If you want to know what the bassplayer is like, then check out Rondo of Nightmare with the Mischiefs of God Intro.

I love all of babymetals earlier very grand dominated spectacular perfectly performance skills of abilities.🥰

Babymetal 🤩😍

"Adolescent", "child-like", "younger" - she was 15 in this concert. Seems like you nailed it.

Babymetal is an experimental metal band. They integrate everything from electronic to rap into their metal structure, and they've been quite successful. I personally consider them a "metal theater" band because their concerts are wild participation-type concerts, not just "watch me sing" types. They have a few ballads you might like to review voice wise, but most of their live performances are pure "holy fuck" type of experiences.

Yeah babymetal

"No Rain No Rainbow" Legend S Baptism XX, a real showcase for her.

I love this song but it's probably their most "normal" sounding song

Thanks for reacting to Babymetal. Loved your analysis!

Suzuka Nakamoto and Floor Jansen are my two favourite female singers. They have so much emotion when they sing. ❤❤❤

Su is one of the best female vocalists out there and she was only 16 during this incredible performance,something she has a habit of doing during live gigs. Check out Rondo of nightmare only Su could follow the intro by the Kami band she is fearless on stage.

Their acoustic version of this song, video titled "Akatsuki (Unfinished Ver.)", where Su-metal sings with just a piano and I think some violins, is amazingly beautiful, and is known to make grown metalheads come to tears!

Akatsuki means day break my friend!

Never stop in the middle of a guitar solo

"She's dressed a lot like Little Red Riding Hood" LOL! 😂 The Big Bad Wolf doesn't know what he's in for! Nice reaction.

Great analysis, probably the most thorough and best I've seen so far from a vocal standpoint. You mentioned her reaching for the lower notes, she said a few years ago that these always gave her problems and Akatsuki was her most challenging song the first few Babymetal years. And there's a rather new interview from last year where she talks about the fact she now has a much easier time to sing these lower notes because of her more matured voice. Babymetal was actually formed in 2010, when she was 12, around her voice and her ability to cut through the super loud metal music behind her. When the three Babymetal girls met with the band (they're called Kami Band, Kami means god or god-like spirit) the first time, a band member asked their producer if they should play a little bit quieter... the answer was to "play as loud and hard as they can". The band was pretty surprised that she had no issues whatsoever to sing over the music, especially at her age. Black Night was the name of the second of the back-to-back Budokan concerts in 2014 (the first night was called Red Night). Akatsuki means something like "Daybreak". But if you take the word apart it means Aka (Red), tsuki (moon). Japanese is a LITTLE BIT complicated. Akatsuki is one of 4 Su-metal solo songs on the first two albums, but Babymetal were at this point in time of the video (March 2014) three girls, Suzuka Nakamoto, Su-metal, lead singer you see in the video (born Dec 1997), Moa Kikuchi, Moametal, backup vocals and dance (born Jul 1999) and Yui Mizuno, Yuimetal, backup vocals and dance (born Jun 1999). Yui went on hiatus at the end of 2017 and eventually left in 2018, so it's only Su and Moa now. They had their official 10 year anniversary last weekend.

Next song react "no rain no rainbow" please!!

She is one of the greatest female rock singer, IMHO.

⚡ / 🔴 🌙 Guitarists that night were Leda Cygnus and Takayoshi Ohmura. As usual BOH was on bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums. Su doesn't need to fear any of the pyrotechnics because she is made of fire. : ) That solo (and Rondo of Nightmare from the same concert) are what sold me on BABYMETAL. Before that I liked them, and thought the whole idea was a lot of fun, but seeing Su in full Metal Queen mode turned me into a diehard fan. An interesting thing about 'Akatsuki'. It's written by combining "Red" and "Moon". Which helps explain the red moon imagery BABYMETAL uses in many of their concerts. On the track listing the character "Kurenai" (often translated as a deep red or crimson) is used instead of "Red" as a tribute to the X-Japan song of that name.

It's easy to forget that Su was only SIXTEEN years old in this video! And they are at the world famous Budokan arena, where you have to be invited to perform there. The Beatles, Cheap Trick, and Bob Dylan have performed there too. This is one of my most favorite BABYMETAL songs and performances. It is the most bad @ss yet touching songs I have ever heard: "Going over thousands of nights, some love shall survive. So, until my body perishes, until my life disappears, I shall keep on cherishing this love." Great reaction! 🦊🤘

That was Suzuka Nakamoto aka Su-Metal, and she's just turn 16 a couple month before. Pretty good performance for a girl her age I'd say. Funny you mention final fantasy music, because they have this one song called Babymetal Death, opening song from their first album that reminds me of Metallica One AND final boss battle music of FF X 😀.

I'm as addicted to baby metal reaction videos as I am baby metal videos.

Do BabyMetal - Road Of Resistance,, I promise u will blown away more

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Next babymetal - rondo of nightmare . . .

Her voice and eyes is clean and beautiful. Another song, “the one” is also nice.

I hope you get back to more BabyMetal it has been a hot minute

Interesting breakdown of her vocal technique. Next, maybe their performance of "Headbanger" from the concert "Legend of 1997"?

BABYMETAL is BABYMETAL , their own genre :) Nice reaction!

Excellent reaction and analysis - and welcome to the BABYMETAL galaxy. As others have said, no BABYMETAL are not 'typical' of Japanese metal, especially vocally - but they are not typical for anywhere, they really are that rare thing, something new and unique but also pure quality in everything from the song writing to every aspect of the performance. I hope you follow up on some of the suggestions for more BABYMETAL songs, every one of them is different and you will have so many different aspects to analyse in each one.

Finally!! Great first reaction. Su was just 16 back then, now that she's a grown woman (her voice is still maturing) she can be even more impressive.

Yaaaaaaay

Nice reaction! I want see your Babymetal reaction more. If you have time please react "AKATSUKI unfinished ver". You can hear her wonderful singing voice.

All hail The Queen!! No more words! Good reaction 🤟🏻🦊

love seeing your reaction to her vocals. sumetal’s voice gives me countless chills no matter how often i listen to her. ive been a babymetal fan for several years and i’ve loved seeing her voice mature throughout the years! she really is one of those vocalists that sound better live, and her voice suits metal so much. a lovely reaction and all your comments were very interesting!

Great first song to react to. The singer, Suzuka Nakamoto (Su-metal) was 16 at this performance in 2014 at the Budokan, but she's been in the entertainment industry since she was a small child. First as a child model, attended an acting school, joined a three girl J-Pop group at age 10, and finally was a founding member of a J-Pop group called Sakura Gakuin that has a school concept that had different clubs the girls could join. One of those clubs was a metal club called Babymetal. She was 12 at the time, and the Babymetal was formed around her, due to her singing abilities and stage presence. Now 10 years later, Su is a lovely young women about to turn 23 this December, and Babymetal is still going strong.

Babymetal recently won Best Album for "Metal Galaxy" at the MTV Music Awards Japan 2020.

Baby metal is the best really

Thank you for the great reaction & analysis.

Akatsuki means "Red Moon" 🔴 She's just 16 y.o. at that time and this year she's 23 in December 20th... So i think you need to check the recent performance when her voice is more mature and improved...

This group is interesting in that it’s actually three girls but the focus is around Su ( the girl here) vocals. Like this group basically invented a new metal genre around themselves and it’s because of Su. Interesting fact about Su is she may have Synethesia because interviews she strongly relates notes to colors to notes and is the main way she can describe her own singing

Waiting for more

So interesting! I found myself nodding as I was listening to your analysis. This performance was 5 years ago and she was only 16, now she's 21 and her voice is much more stable, matured, and strong. I'd like to see how you react to recent performance of her.

Its 6 string Bass, and its 7 string guitar if you notice :)

love it love it love it 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

Your dog scared the crap outta me when he/she just popped out xD hahaha. They are beautiful!

This is how a voice coach probably should review. Great content!

Yo talk about Su-METAL's voice's purity and I cannot but agree. She is not of those vocalists who use and abuse "techniques such as portamento and vibrato, singing straight, on the note. The first time I heard Su, her vocalisation reminded me that of Annie Haslam, although Annie is no "power vocal".

This band has a very special place in my heart, and are one of my favourites. Plus they led me to a couple more favourites ... Lovebites and Waggakiband.

babymetal is incredible. You've gotta check out more! They put on amazing live shows.

Please be noticed that her voice was not been covered by the instruments , still clear and nice also looked like she did effortless to sang.

your so write about twang suiting japanese vocals, nice catch

Nice reaction & thanks from Japan 有難う💛。 You felt adolescence because she was only 16-year-old when this was filmed in 2014. She and another BABYMETAL member have grown up into beautiful ladies now and their performance has matured, and yet very energetic as before. Their activities are worldwide. Since June last year until March this year (before the pandemic), they performed 20 times in USA, 19 in EU/UK/Russia and 1 in Taiwan in addition to 15 in Japan (total : 49 their own concerts + 6 appearance in festivals). Please continue to explore BABYMETAL. Just so you know, the bassist is playing 6 strings bass.

You missed a opportunity to hear her live yourself, they played Glasgow in February.

I really love her voice. First thing I noticed about the band after how cute it all was. It so powerful and clear.

Babymetal songs are very different form one to another and also diferente ages. They have over 50 songs... The Fox God welcomes everyone 🦊🤘🦊

MORE BABYMETAL

Very cool and interesting and entertaining reaction, thank you! Yeah, BABYMETAL are an experience, especially their live stuff. They're really one of a kind, not only in the metal scene.

Listen to "Karate" mate, it's nuts but brilliant.

Headbanger!!!

She's only 16 here so check out Starlight or Shine to see how much more mature her voice is 🖤🤘🦊

The way you talk to your dog tells me youre a nice guy.

React to Amore or Rondo of Nightmare

10:52 . Literally my face when 1st time discovering Babymetal.

Babymetal takes a lot of queues from a lot of different metal variants and combine them with Su Metal's singing. This results in some epic music. Now you have to appreciate that they are also all about the performance and as you saw Babymetal is just awesome.

The Ring was originally a Japanese movie. The look reminds you of her because that is burial garb that they are wearing.

The crisp vocal clarity of this sixteen year old girl (at the time) is awesome!

Ringing through like a bell.

This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding how good Queen SU is.

Babymetal is not typical anywhere. They invented their own genre of music that they got to name because nobody knew what to call them. They called it 'kawaii metal' which means 'cute' but also the cultural revolution of cuteness that happened in Japan. So kawaii also has connotations of rebellion and doing things a different way. This is sort of a not typical song but a lot of their songs are not typical. Most have 3 girls with full dance choreography. But Su sings much better of course when she doesn't have to dance. So this is a good song to recommend for this purpose. I also think that Su is not typical of Japanese singers. She sings very simply and straightforward and most of them are the opposite, some well past the point of what i could consider being cheesy. You add that to Japanese vocal melodies which are like crack cocaine and it's all too much if you're not used to it. In my opinion that is why Japanese music is usually never popular outside Japan. But it is very good IMO, but it's so different and extreme from a western perspective.

Funny you asked if Babymetal is the standard Japanese metal or kinda "out there". Well, Babymetal is definitely out there AND they set the standard. Not just for J-Metal but for what heavy metal could be, and we are all in for the treat of our lives. Thanks for the thorough analysis. There's a lot more in store for you in the Babymetal foxhole mate.

React Rondo of Nightmare

Check out ijime dame zetai live @ sonisphere. Their break through performance in europe. Su singing her heart out in in my opinion one of her best vocal performances, moa and yui dancing in overdrive and the Kami band pouring on the metal to unbelievable. My absolute favorite

It was more interesting with comments than any other Akatsuki reaction.

Thank you! Suzuka (the singer) was 16 with probably 1 to 2 yrs of private vocal training. However, shes unique in the sense that its rare in japanese music scene to sing clean/high while also with power at such a young age. She was scouted at 9 yrs old by the producer because of her voice. My next suggestion would be babymetal - kimi to anime ga mitai (black night) to get the full on babymetal experience. Sidenote:the timing of the pauses is the sad part. But your analysis is so great so its fine.

Here are 5 songs to check out among the many they have done. Headbanger kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9Cair2hy8XOg6c.html Road of Resistance kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLp1jLh3zLLalY0.html Pa Pa Ya kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbVnjJt_2NTPgps.html iine kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7yUdaWA1bnTfmg.html Megitsune kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbFjgbCLpruvd6s.html Rondo of Nightmare (with Mischief of Gods intro) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/br1yd8x9srS-k3k.html No Rain No rainbow kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqqXpNJny8nQmY0.html There are many more that you can choose from.

Anyone else get scared when the dog popped up out of nowhere at 3:00 ?? Because I did and I started laughing so hard I was crying and in pain😂😭

Sounded like your voice had a Mongolian throat-singing hangover at the beginning, Sam. ;-) This is probably the best Baby Metal song *for my personal tastes* that I've heard.

Three words regarding outstanding Japanese acts: Dir En Grey.

Nice reaction video, I love seeing the technical aspects of BABYMETAL performances, because there are so much to talk about. And you come in a great time, we are celebrating 10 years anniversary of BABYMETAL this month. This was a solo performance of a once trio, a vocal and 2 dancers (now they're just 2 of them). Since we're discussing the vocal, it's a good choice already. Other older solo performance examples are: Rondo of Nightmare (has unique timing), No Rain No Rainbow (ballad), Amore (similar to Akatsuki), From Dusk Til Dawn (very high pitch). There also some unique style of singing technique shown off in their latest album such as: Shanti Shanti Shanti (Indian), BxMxC (Rap, new mv available), Brand New Day (R&B), Night Night Burn (Spanish/Latin), Oh Majinai (European Folks), and what I think the hardest to sing is Shine. Other epic must watch performance examples are: Ijime Dame Zettai, Headbangerrr...!!!, Road of Resistance, PA PA YA!!, The ONE, and many others. You can find most of their audio in digital platform. Their music video however is a bit hard to react to, since their label is very strict about copyright. But you can still try react to their mv from official BABYMETAL site.

Our little Queen is a tiny powerhouse indeed, by the end of this song she's so into her character, she's almost possessed 😅 Usually female singers in metal goes for either growl (Archenemy, Jinjer, Eths, etc.) or very emphatic theatrical singing ( Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence etc.), SU use the sharpness of her voice to cut through the metal sound like a sword in such an easy way, it's impressive how every single word is still perfectly intelligible, no matter how loud the music is. The bass player here is BOH, a very talented musician, you can find some of his own stuff on KZfaq. 🤘🦊⚡

please react more babymetal live performance 🦊

I love how babymetal fans will straight write a wiki entry about their favorite band in any comments section y'all are great

This girl want to be a producer tho

Rondo of nightmare or No rain No rai bow next please !

Думаю ,вам следует послушать еще одну их песню под названием "rondo of nightmare"

Top cape work!

check more babymetal pls

We call her our Queen and Goddess for a good reason .. Enjoying watching your smile as Su did things that impressed you . Really good reaction . One of my favorite BabyMetal songs and Su has only got even better as she has Matured into a incredibly talented 22 year old . Lots of great recommendations in comments for you to react toò. 🤘🦊🤘

Congratulations for entering the fox hole. Another precious song by Su is “No Rain, No Rainbow” live. You will experience same divine emotions

Probably mentioned earlier in comments, but BABYMETAL'S backing band, the KAMI Band (KAMI means god, spirit, or divine being) often wore traditional Japanese burial robes & corpse paint/makeup as seen in this video. Would love to see more BABYMETAL reactions from you! Arigatou! 🦊🤘

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The unfinished version is better. It's just Su and the piano. Truly beautiful ballad.

Please make a reaction video for the song Babymetal Monochrome Piano Version at the First Take

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Who knew the girl from The Ring could jam on guitar like that hu.

Next BabyMetal no rain no rainbow

Beautiful take, great vid :D