Kanami is singing to you with her PRS and her heart and soul.

They are all top tier musicians. No one stands above the others in this band. They all encourage each other to go above their comfort zone.

NO GOD live. Best rock band on the planet.

First Band-Maid song I ever heard and immediately fell down the deep rabbit hole of all female Japanese rock/metal bands. That was a year ago and im still in that hole.

Band-Maid in their instrumental excellence!

You weren't bored because Band-Maid doesn't use instrumentals as a flex. They actually write fleshed-out songs that don't happen to have lyrics.

Kanami’s guitar sings straight to my Heart and Soul 🔥🤘❤️

Up next...Band Maid-Puzzle live!!! 🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂🕊

Many of us recently saw Band-Maid play “From Now On” live. OMNG! Kanami riffed her ass off. And the DB’s matched the BPM’s! So FROM NOW ON, Band-Maid will grow in popularity even faster as their awesome, sold out 2023 BAND-MAID 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR wrapped up in Japan and Hong Kong. Thx, Mel!

The 2 fer Manners / Black Hole live is a good way to hear 2 other different sides of BM. Then you could slow it down with Wonderland, Daydreaming, About Us or Endless Story for example. Although they are all slower songs they are all quite different in styles.

They played this the first time I ever saw them in San Diego - the hair stood up on my arms, for real.

Kanami is a classically trained pianist. She has spent a decade teaching her friend and founder of Band-Maid to hold a guitar for the first time, play her first string on a guitar to now, a decade later knowing all the chord progressions popping up in classical music, blues, jazz and prog after Miku cried with bleeding fingers from training so hard during the early years. Kanami was also backed deeply by her friends in Band-Maid as their record company refused to accept her compositions during their early years. Miku was likewise refused as a writer of lyrics. They were only allowed to "Band-Maid" stuff written for them by their skills and arrangements. Listen to them now after winning their rights to artistic control!

Band maid doesn’t make bad music. Anything on their channel is a banger, grab a dart and have some fun picking one. Though personally, I’d recommend Blooming next.

Amazing shirt! Appropriate, too, since Tony Iommi is arguably the riff-king of rock history… but Kanami, in just 10 years, has become a riff-queen! So many great, memorable, riffs. And, like Iommi, she plays multiple riffs, and riff modifications, in most songs. She’s never afraid of running out of good ones.

BAND-MAID loves a good instrumental. BAND-MAID fans love a good instrumental. In fact, we all love them so much, BAND-MAID released a completely instrumental version their album 'Unseen World' with their score book. It's phenomenal!

Was fortunate enough to see them play live twice in the past few years. They played for bout 2 hours each time! By far the best 2 concerts I've ever been to! dbl ♥I suggest these Band Maid songs: Thrill (old skool hard rock), Dice (70s/80s/noughties rock & pop metal), Manners (old skool rock), Bubble (classic rock - killer riff), No God (live/indescribable) & Puzzle (live/great guitar)

From Now On should be considered THE instrumental of 2023.

Ace, Welcome to the pigeon-hole. The reason we call Band Maid reactions the pigeon-hole is Miku Kobato, their rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist, refers to herself as a 810 year old pigeon. Kobato means small pigeon in Japanese. She also has another side project as Cluppo, also a nickname for a small pigeon. We Maidiacs (that's what we call ourselves) love these talented young women so much. I have been to two of their live concerts and I along with many others say their live performances are even better. We all have our favorite songs (they have recoreded over 130 songs on 9-10 albums. The band just completed their 10th Anniversary tour with concerts in Japan, throughout the U.S. and Mexico City. They just recently had a live concert in Hong Kong. There is some pretty good fan-cam footage of songs on KZfaq. The band does not usually block any content of their live concerts on KZfaq, so they are available for review. One of my favorite tracks of the band is from their one-hour performance at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago in August 2023. There is a two-song clip from the performance on KZfaq that has gone VIRAL. The clip is of "Dice/Hate?" and is worth the your time to react to it. Another recent release by the band is Shambles", the official music video. It's another banger. By far, one of my favorite songs by Band Maid is "Moratorium". There are many videos of the song for you to choose from. My last suggestion is "Choose Me". There is video of the song that was performed twice during their 10th Anniversary final concert at Yokohama Arena in November. The band allowed concert goers to record the song on their fan-cams. (In Japan, it is usually forbidden to video live concert performances). The second version is acoustic with Saiki, their lead vocalist, accompanying herself on piano. That video is also available on KZfaq.

The effect on the lead guitar is an Evantide harmonizer. Gives it that almost harpsichord like effect.

ye, I can imagine Misa sing for this tune,

Kanami's compositions smash our expectations. "Instrumentals are boring" or "pop songs are boring" or "guitar solos are boring" or "ballads are boring." Au contraire, mon père! Only the boring ones are boring. Kanami Tōno's songs are NOT boring. You'll see. Over and over and over, you'll see. Her mind works in wonderfully unusual ways. I'll suggest *"Rinne"* but you can go in almost any direction ... *"Daydreaming"* or *"Giovanni"* or *"Moratorium"* or *"Onset."* It really _doesn't_ matter. Live (on stream) *"Manners" / "Black Hole,"* roll the dice and take a shot.

MISA is the bassist. Saiki is the singer, and the rhythm guitarist Miku also sings.

And....breathe...and hear Misa playing solo under the whole song, with Kanami playing solo the whole song, with Akane playing solo the whole song , with Miku playing rythym to whole song. "Without holding back" was written by Kanami to allow Miku up to speed for playing "Different".

Thanks from Japan 有難う💛。 I witnessed this song performed live four times with this MV quality in Japan and dropped my jaw four times 😲. I believe so did many of American audience in their recent three US tours. This song has been normally played in the middle of the setlist to give Saiki, lead vocalist, some break. They played this song, however, as opening at festivals and in Guns N' Roses concert in Japan as support to the legendary band. Yeah! they showed off their skills and talents to the audience who knew nothing about the girls in maid outfit on the stage. I felt as if I heard them screaming "Hey guys! Listen to us and open your eyes wide! We are not the persons that you think ! Salute us!" 😄

Of course I smashed the like and subscribe! It’s like watching someone open Christmas gifts of music. “Domination” and then “From Now On” are truly brilliant songs to start with. I’ve been a Maidiac for a while now and I take a lot of pride in recommending songs that appeal to the other person’s interests. Your first Maid song was an example of their arena rock, audience participation music. The cousin of that would be “Freedom,” also live. “From Now On” is progressive heavy metal instrumental, and the cousin of that would probably be “Without Holding Back,” also instrumental. But you deserve to experience the other facets of their musicianship. This band will surprise you. They have a darker side: “Rinne,” OMV. Alice in Chains meets Queen meets KISS: “Moratorium,” LIVE @Zepp Tokyo Or an uptempo 2000’s pop rock ballad, “Daydreaming.” Or another masterpiece: “Blooming,” OMV. Band Maid doing their post-hardcore punk rock with pop sensibilities; and includes a Maid trademark dynamic shifting bridge section. Or, if you want some old school hair metal done Maid style? “DICE,” OMV. Pick a path and enjoy the ride 🚀

I can help you out with your struggle to decide what kind of Metal this was... It's not any kind of Metal, it's Band Maid doing Band Maid things, which in this case is some of the best Prog Rock you're gonna hear.

BAND-MAID has several instrumentals. They played FROM NOW ON and ONSET back to back both times I've seen then Live. Not sure that will ever happen again. Check out ONSET-LIVE on their YT channel. Other Lives on their channel will be PLAY and PUZZLE. Then there's over 120 others to choose from. No other Rock band out there beats their catalog. And that's the truth. Peace. 2.77

My favorite moment in rock videos, at age 72, is seeing the ladies pick up those guitars and just fuggin CRASH into the beginning. and then of course and then.... Saw them live in Austin last year- you cannot believe the power and glory of hearing Misa's bass and Akane's drums live. Such a visceral experience. You're young you will get your chance to see them don't miss it

Your next should be their official live of puzzle. A song that goes back a few years but replayed recently and is always a fan favorite

Where Band Maid appears, so will we. Always a joy to hear someone finding their way to the Maids awesome music.

Seen it twice live. It indeed “crushes it.”

i would love to hear MISA sing (she is the bass player aka barefoot assassin) Saiki is the singer

Yes, they crush this one live, too. I got to hear From Now On live at their Minneapolis 2023 show, stationed about ten feet away from Kanami.

A great instrumental band is Asterism. Watch ‘Dawn’ live and you will be amazed at how tight they are.

A superb instrumental from THE best band on Earth. As they literally don't make bad songs, you only have another 120+ songs to react to...but they'll be releasing a new album this year (so a little pigeon tells me) so plenty more to come. There's a one hour gig of theirs from Lollapalooza festival this year on YT if you want to see what they're like live these days.

Nice reaction. The lead guitar supplies the singing. That's one of the things that makes this so satisfying. They have three other instrumentals that I know of. And they've released instrumental versions of some other songs (just the song stripped of the vocals). I find them all really satisfying even though I love the hundred other songs with vocals. One of the best part about this song is that the lead guitar is not lost in the mix as it often is. Check out Corallium live at Shibuya Eggman and then find the instrumental version. I think it's out there somewhere on a fan site.

There are other instrumentals. 'Onset' LIVE and 'Without Holding Back' on the Instrumental Maid channel. There was an instrumental that Saiki liked so much she got Miku to write some lyrics for it called 'Play!' The old version has pyrotechnics on it, but you can't find it one KZfaq anymore. It's one of those pulled ahead of a DVD release. The version still on KZfaq has a great intro though. You might even like it better. No fire, but it's got lasers!

Band Maid are that group. Pick anything man. Loved that you can appreciate the skill it takes to play this. I suggest Official MV Dice. Simple but effective, as far as Band Maid goes. Or Official MV Unleash!!!!! Or, hmm. Official MV Different. It doesn't matter though just do whatever then be impressed.

Hi Melvin! Kanami the lead guitarist is using an Eventide H9 Harmoniser pedal. Their instrumentals are often played mid-set to give Saiki the lead singer a break during their 2+ hour sets - Saiki has had throat surgery in the past so they are careful of her, though it is more of a tradition nowadays. Mid-set they will often play an instrumental, then Miku (rhythm guitar/red rose) will take lead vocals for a song or two (she generally has one song per album where she is lead vocals) and then Miku will do her infamous and hilarious 'Magic Time' MC spot. Then Saiki will come back on.

Great reaction. Thanks for returning to Band-Maid. That band has other instrumentals you need to check out, starting with the official live "Onset".

You may want to hop to Daydreaming or Gion-Choto see how wide and deep the umbrella of music these ladies perform is- you mentioned not pigeon holeing them very insightful dude.

AKane the " gorilla "🤘😎🤘

No better group of fans than the Maidiacs...... BTW- they're pigeon holes..no rabbits with Band-Maid.

More BAND MAID please!

Kanami has been using the Eventide H9 Harmonizer heavily for the last few years which not everyone is a huge fan of. I may be wrong but I think she may recently have either changed the settings to reduce the effect or ditched it as in the 10th Anniversary Tour Finale concert at Yokohama she sounded a lot cleaner to me.

*MISA, MISA, MISA* Sings? 🤣

@Melvin Thinks Did you notice in Domination the picking/slapping swap and back that MISA did in her mini solo?

Hi Melvin, thank you. Please don't follow the already written reactor's path (you haven't yet) & just get smashed in the ears with those ladies :-) My 5cts advice would be to stay on the same E.P right now ("Influencer", "Unleash" etc), but you're the master in your own house. Have a good ride !

これぞhard rock、bassのmisaはピック持ちながらスラッピングするんですよ、これ出来る人、世界に誰が居る?

You might want to try Gacharic Spin next, another all female Japanese band full of amazing musicians.

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