Good one. Yes the Kami Band are always their backing band - for a couple of festivals and the encores in some shows since October 2012, for the entirety of every live performance since March 2014. The Kami Band of the West (Chris Kelly, CJ Masciantonio, Clint Tustin and Anthony Barone) were the support for the 2019 US and 2020 UK & Europe tours. It was them in this video. You will not see Yui in any performance of songs from the 3rd album. That was released in October 2019, a year after she left and 2 years after her last performance. The Avengers were not given microphones, they were there to dance, not to sing. Backing vocals and harmonies are from Moa. There are a handful of older songs where the Kami Band of the East played instrumental intros in live shows like the one for this song - 'Rondo of Nightmare' and 'Catch Me If You Can' are the obvious ones - less frequently they had intros before 'Yava' and 'Awadama Fever' (and I'm sure I've missed another - or have I?).

Nice one and thanks for the re-upload! "Kagerou" definitely represents the grown-up version of BABYMETAL, because of the unusual lyrics (it's about jealousy), the choreo, etc. If you have not watched another Kami Band solos intro yet, you need to check out "Rondo of Nightmare" or "Catch me if you can" ASAP 😁 🤘🦊

Great reaction Champ! Kagerou is definitely a vibe... One of my absolute favourites. It is a more mature sounding BABYMETAL and I really enjoy seeing the evolution of their music. Oh, what about Barone-sama and that gravity blast beat! Thank you for the reaction. 🦊🤘💎🔥🖤

Yeah this song is killer live. This is the Western Kami Band made up of American musicians. If you look closely you'll see the the Avengers don't have mic's so Moa handles the backing vocals herself. As I understand it the Avengers are no more, it'll be interesting to see if they remain a duo if and when they return to live performances. The question is does Koba have a surprise in store for the third spot, I guess only the Fox God Knows 🤔 🦊🤘

If you liked that intro, you should check out Rondo of Nightmare (a Su solo song) with the Kami band intro.

Oh this one is the re upload, not the other one in your alternative channel, apologies for the mistake, kitsune up! 😅🤘

I absolutely love this song...total mature side....western Kami band is rocking and the drumming vocals were stunning, NOW....HOW ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHY WAS TOTALLY KILLER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My absolute favorite version of this song and top 5 favorite BABYMETAL songs!!

There are a ton of videos of live performances with Kami Band intros. This is one of my favorites.

Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛 especially for your effort to re-upload this. This is a compilation from 3 shows including one at the Forum, Inglewood CA. The band in the girls' back is West (American) Kamis as Grington300 300 commented below. The machine gun drummer, Anthony Barone, is great. (FYI, Anthony has recently been qualified as N4 in Japanese-Language Proficiency Test. 😲 That must be difficult.) Su is singing about jealousy against someone using a metaphor of heat haze, "Kagerou". The hash emotion is shimmering from her inner blaze, and it seems to me that her emotion will not erupt but turn into magma. It's scary😱 . This is the song featuring BM's heavy and seductive side. The girls have grown up into ladies now without doubt.

⚡ 💕 / 🌡 🔥 Well worth a re-upload. One of my favorites from the 'Metal Galaxy' album. BTW, the avengers don't have mics. Background vocals are Moa (live) and Su's own harmonies on the backing track.

In case you wanna see an intro from the "original/eastern" kami band, you have to check out "Rondo of Nightmare (w/ Mischiefs of Metal Gods Intro)" Awesome song, but the intro included is totally killing it!

I just got into them 3 months ago and I'm deep in the foxhole. This may be my favorite song from them so far, or at least in the top 5! It's been quite a ride emotionally, I feel like I've experienced their journey with them via KZfaq 🤣as silly as that sounds. Seeing the courage and conviction they had on stage performing idz in 2014 at Sonisphere, to seeing the live show of Metal Kingdom and their gorgeous melodies and dancing in Light and Darkness, it's truly inspiring!

🤘🦊🤘for me it's a tie between this song and No Rain No Rainbow for my favorite. Can't pick just one favorite. Good job, good reaction. 👍

4:33 Yeah!, It's my favorite song too!

Rondo of Nightmare and Catch Me If You Can live also have instrumental solos in the beginning of the songs.

that was the western Kami band and they are super talented (the classical piece in the guitar solo, and the machine gun double tap [felt more like triple] were stand out for me). I still prefer the Japanese Kami band (for the Kiss-esque showmanship); definitely check out "Rondo of Nightmare" - I'm stunned you've not been pushed into reacting to that one already - vn with Mischiefs of Metal Gods Intro (for the Japanese Kami band with some great solos). I would suggest the Budokan Black Night show.

I did not know this video existed..

If you liked the intro by the western Kami band, then you need to check out Rondo of Nightmare (Mischief of Gods intro) this has the original Kami band.

Anthony Barone is a beast on drums, his work with Shadows of Intent was impressive as well when he was in that band.

This song is awesome ！ SU-METAL too🤘

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Kami Band of the West Represent!!! You haven't seen Kamiband intros??? Time to check out Rondo of Nightmare, Yava, Catch Me if You Can....These 3 usually have an intro preceding it.The evolution of Babymetal headbangs... you had the side to side young Babymetal from Headbanger, now you get to see the mature, badass, ponytail whip head banging in Kagerou. so cool. 😁😁😁🤘🦊🤘

Nice reaction. IMO their album recordings are like a taster's plate. Here's a taste of what you're going to get live. Babymetal why are you teasing us? LOL Good thing for us they like to release their live concerts as well. Babymetal has gotten their best live reputation through a lot of hard work. And it's most appreciated. The choreography is part of their new mature kawaii metal. They wanted the choreography to reflect the fact that are little angels have grown up before our eyes. The lyrics are more mature as well. Jealousy isn't something they would have covered in their younger days. But there are a few lines in the song that I think are what Babymetal told someone when the conversation about should Babymetal continue after Yui left. "Crazy crazy you you don't believe". Kagerou is a heat haze. They're side to side movement is meant to represent that. The heat that raises up. Also, the growing anger of being asked that question. We're so glad they decided to continue on. Moa has talked about focusing on her dancing for the 3rd album. But when you listen to this song and others from the 3rd album, you'll notice that Moa did a lot of vocal work as well. She does some backing harmonies as well as backing vocal lines. And sometimes whole vocal sections like in Night Night Burn or Oh Mijinai. Moa was on top of her game during the last tour. We can only guess at what choreography Babymetal will bring to us next.

Check out Rondo of Nightmare. The Kami band(East) there is superb. Different from Kami Band(West) in this song, but more skilled IMO. Great, nonetheless!

Since Su is a goddess if she hit a wrong note, the world might end, maybe.

please react more babymetal live the all live version of babymetal song is really go🦊

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Even Su-Metal can be out of tune on extremely rare occasions, but I am not disappointed but rather relieved at that moment. Because I can confirm that she is also human.

A re-upload?

You want to see drummer beat drum like AK47 machine gun....check Indonesian drummer OKI FADHLAN

Forgot to tell you.....when you edit your review try and match the music audio level and your voice. This one you barely here the band but your voice is way too loud....FYI

Okay Re-re-upload. Hope to see an actual new reaction soon Champ. Kami Band intros available on certain LIVE performances of Catch Me If You Can Yava Rondo of Nightmare Awadama Fever There are also some singled out highlights in other performances such as: Road of Resistance Tokyo Dome. Good luck and take care.

dude that is not the Kami band super empaths can tell the difference if you saw the original you would know the difference... w/Ohmura...Boh...and Maeta are much better players...you need to know the difference