Having two extraordinary lead guitarists trade off lead and rhythm so seamlessly is what makes the Nemophila 'sound', I think. The way they harmonize at the end of the solo reminds me of Iron Maiden all day! 🤘😃🤘 Great reaction, Maddy! I hope you do a lot more Nemophila, They never disappoint!
Yes I agree about the two guitarists. Also Lovebites has two extraordinary lead guitarists, and I have the same opinion about Lovebites. It is such an asset to have that in the toolbox.
Then, of course, both Nemophila and Lovebites have drummers that are totally off the chart. Not the same kind of drumming. Tamu is much more allround, but Haruna is a metal monster.
Tamu, their drummer, was in a jazz band prior to being recruited into Nemophila, and I've seen her play incredibly complex stuff. They do lots of covers: Iron Maiden, Kiss, etc. They do a cover of 'Detroit, Rock City' with all of them in Kiss make up: fun to watch, Tamu has a huge smile and looks so cute with the cat whisker make-up, and of course they sing out: "Detloit! Lock City!"
In the 20th century (70's, 80's, 90's), nearly every Metal and Rock band I saw live were often great musicians and performers and were almost inevitably male. And mostly angry. They also all had to grimace a lot when playing hard guitar solos, presumably so we'd know it was difficult. Then came the 21st century and, since about 2015, all the greatest Rock and Metal bands (Nemophila, Band-Maid, Lovebites, Babymetal, Asterism, etc, etc) are either all-female or female-led master (mistress?) musicians who smile and laugh while they play, no matter the difficulty. I haven't looked West for 8 years!
Thats one of their greatest appeals for me.. Beautiful, talented, happy women playing my favorite music.. Whats not to like? I, like you, don't look West anymore either, there is just to much great music right here..
This comment spoke to me right out to my heart! Metalhead 56ys, thought there's nothing more to come after the 2000s, but thanks to YT i learned about Hardcore Punk or Metalcore/Deathcore. But the absolute Peak seems to be Japanese Metal and their female dominated Bands!!!
A very diverse band of amazing musician artists, and Mayu can bring the thunder and lightning, but also the blue sky with her vocal abilities..Thank you for your reaction..I hope you'll react to more of their great music to discover greatness of Nemophila
Hi Maddy.. Great first reaction to Nemophila... A brilliant band of 5 very tallented ladies.. Do some more there is lots to see.. Tale a look at the Revive MV.. It's awesome... Best wishes from France
Thanks for reacting to my favourite band. I'm happy you liked the song. Mayu can scream, growl, rap or whatever. Although Nemophila is primarily a metal band they do way more than just metal. When you said "I wasn't expecting that", you said what most reactors say the first time. Even the fans are often surprised by the unexpected swerves in style and genre. SAKI and Hauki are both amazing guitarists. Hazuki's style is a little more modern while SAKI's is a mixture of old school and newer. She's a tremolo-picking monster and I totally covet her signature Killer Fascinator Empress guitar. With Tamu and Hara-chan in the rhythm section it really would be nearly impossible for them to do anything that wasn't amazingly good. Maybe look at their songs 'Adabana', 'Raitei' and 'Revive'?
Not only talented, but versatile. For more Heavy Metal, try Raitei, Revive, Sieze the Fate, Rise. For ballads, Now I Here or Life. For something completely diferent, Hypnosis or Style. They also have a bunch of covers, including DRC in full Kiss makeup. They are fun.
Nemophila - "baby blue eyes" flower, "Rurikarakusa" in Japanese; grows in N-America and is appreciated in Japan (see "Hitachi Seaside Park"). The band was formed in 2019, originally as a "session" brought together by... Mayu - the vocalist (ex- Lipstick band); Haraguchi-san - bass, backing vocals, was Mayu's friend and colleague from Music College (ex - Holderlins band); Tamu Murata - drums, backing vocals, one the most respected session musician in Japan (countless bands), with also her own original carrier; she's also the wife of Akira Yamaoka, musician/composer, known especially for his videogames OSTs, in particular for "Silent Hill"; Saki (ex - "Mary's Blood" band for a decade), she's a "young sacred monster" in J-metal) guitar, backing vocals, and... Hazuki (Li-sa-X / KOIAI bands) - guitar, backing vocals; both, Saki and Hazuki have a lot of experience. Nemophila made an amazing fandom impression during the pandemic, thru TH-cam clips...so far about 40 Western/Japanese awesomely bonkers covers, and over 30 original freakishly good songs (singles, EPs, 2 albums - "Revive" and "Seize The Faith"). Discography, alphabetical order: 01. ADABANA - 徒花 - "Fruitless/seedless flower" 02. Another Story (ballad) 03. A Ray Of Light 04. Back into the wild 05. Blooming 06. Breaking Out 07. Change the World 08. Creature 09. DISSENSION 10. ENTEN - 炎天 - "Scorching/blazing heat/sun" 11. Fighter 12. GAME OVER (ballad) 13. Hōzuki - 鬼灯 - "Demon Light" - "Winter cherry" / "Japanese lantern" plant 14. HYPNOSIS 15. Life (ballad - their "official anthem") 16. MONSTERS 17. Night Flight 18. now I here (ballad) 19. OIRAN - "Courtesan" (their first original song, in february 2020) 20. RAITEI - 雷霆 - "Thunder" 21. REVIVE 22. RISE 23. Rock’n’Roll Is? (an homage to famous rock bands/artists; the lyrics/melody and style of play are Easter Eggs) 24. Rollin’Rollin’ 25. Seize the Faith 26. Soaring ～to be continued～(instrumental) 27. SORAI - "Autumn wind" (was supposed to be the original name for the band) 28. STYLE 29. - 群青 30. Waiting for you 31. ZEN ________ - Another Story... written during the pandemic, with the purpose of lifting the spirit; not part of any official release or performed in any concert... but - according to Saki - "it's part of 'Yell to Art, Tokyo Project' (started by Tokyo Metropolitan Government to offer place for artists to upload their work...since all lives, concerts, events and exhibitions had been suspended, all venues had been closed"; was posted on TH-cam, on this channel: アートにエールを!【音楽 1ch】; although is no longer there, there are some reactions to it, just search "NEMOPHILA / AnotherStory". - Breaking Out, Creature, Ultramarine... not part of any official release, but they are performed sometimes in the concerts. - Blooming...released only on the official Nemophila TH-cam channel, it is performed sometimes in the concerts. ___________________________
The members of nemophila are musicians from 5 different bands. They are all excellent musicians. And their styles cross various genres of music. I recommend《oiran》live (recent one) as the next🤘🏻🌸🤘🏻
great reaction to this fantastic band. thank you. love the seven strings and the five string. thundergodess tamu on drums, saki and hazuki on guitars, haraguchi-san on bass and of course mayu on vocals ( although I like her clean voice better) they all are masters. but wait ´ til you hear hanabies "we love sweets" or "tousou (runaway)" maybe the best all female japanese band at the moment.
I just finished watching the BAND-MAID live stream and realised that you have already done NEMOPHILA. Keep going with both bands. NEMOPHILA are very normal and the drummer has 2 young children and the singer has one child where as BAND-MAID are all a little crazy but you will learn all about that as you go.
Muy linda reacción me gustó! Esta banda es muy buena, me conquistó ! Es lo que se conoce como una super banda! Cantantes así no hay muchas, es una gran prodigio Mayu ❤️ también hacen covers alucinantes! 😎🤘
MAYU can really *sing* well, too. In a variety of styles. Many female reactors have expressed excitement about the tinsel hair; no one male reactor has commented about the hair.
NEMOPHILA has taken the World by storm in just four short years! SAKI-chan came from DESTROSE, then MARY's BLOOD! HARAGUCHI-SAN and MAYU knew each other before, TAMU the drummer is married to the dude that has done all the music for the Silent Hill video games, and Hazuki was in DISQUALIA w/ NARUMI (another ex-DESTROSE member)
Next LOVEBITES live 2023 new video The Hammer Of Wrath, new songs MV Judgement Day, Stand And Deliver... HANABIE - songs We Love Sweets, Be The GAL(WTF)new, Pardon Me, TOUSOU(Run Away), NEET GAME.. BAND-MAID live songs Freedom, Domination, Thrill, Play, Dice, Influencer...
Meanwhile I watched your reactions to Lovebites, Jinjer and this one and liked them all. For religious reasons (😃 no, just joking) I hate pink headsets, but your at least doesn't have pink bunny ears 🤪. So I just subscribed to your channel. 🙂 Btw the background of "for religious reasons" is that I never wear a wristwatch. People often ask me why and my usual answer is "for religious reasons". Their facial expression is priceless and it's the absolute conversation killer. Never someone asked me about this strange "religion" 😂
@@MaddyReactions -- Does the spaghetti monster wears a watch on each of its tentacles? -- as often, the truth is banal and boring: skin irritation (but let's be this a secret between you and me)😇
I would not call this a growl, rather a scream, as you say in the video. But yes, she has some skills in not clean singing. And clean singing also. BTW - this is maybe the only "negative" songs they have. For some reasons she is hating something and the chanting girls are quite mean. So, it happens that reactors that hear this song first is a bit thrown back by it. Some day I have to find out what this hate is about. If it is for real or only a cool song text.
For some awesome drum work check out their cover of "X-JAPAN"s (Kurenai). It will blow you away. These Ladies do not disappoint on any of their songs, including covers!!!!!!! Have fun on your journey. Speaking of Journey, checkout their cover of "JOURNEY"s (Separate Ways). The drummer (TAMU) is so funny!!!!
If you are a daring women, you might enjoy the German fun metal band "Knorkator" and their song "Klonen" (I let clone myself th-cam.com/video/XS2JvfCwiQg/w-d-xo.html ). Spoiler: There is a little vocal surprise in the middle of the song.
Way too many "effects" on that microphone for my taste. She is no Tatiana. Also the band is kinda vanilla for metal. It sounded good, in a pedestrian way, but there was nothing special about it. straight 4:4 timing the entire time, very few if any complex syncopations. This is rock radio metal. It almost seems like what you would get is AI generated a female fronted metal band. This makes me really appreciate Jinjer so much more for the complexity in their song structure. Not to be a Debbie downer. Still a great reaction, just not my favorite song.
We get it you're a Jinjer simp lol. What is even with this comparison? I can sit here and say Tati is no Angela Gossow too or Alissa White-gluz. Only 3 musicians on instruments? They're no Dying Fetus. If something sounds good it's fine, there's no quota of "complex syncopations" to fill or number time signature changes to meet it doesn't matter if what they're writing doesn't call for it. No need to be complex just for the sake of being complex. If that's all you're looking for I suggest you go check out Polyphia. I can also sit here and say Jinjer "has" to do that because Roman (as much as I like his playing) could never keep up with and shred or solo like Saki. Not to be a Debbie downer.
Having two extraordinary lead guitarists trade off lead and rhythm so seamlessly is what makes the Nemophila 'sound', I think. The way they harmonize at the end of the solo reminds me of Iron Maiden all day! 🤘😃🤘
Great reaction, Maddy! I hope you do a lot more Nemophila, They never disappoint!
Yes I agree about the two guitarists. Also Lovebites has two extraordinary lead guitarists, and I have the same opinion about Lovebites. It is such an asset to have that in the toolbox.
Then, of course, both Nemophila and Lovebites have drummers that are totally off the chart. Not the same kind of drumming. Tamu is much more allround, but Haruna is a metal monster.
Tamu, their drummer, was in a jazz band prior to being recruited into Nemophila, and I've seen her play incredibly complex stuff. They do lots of covers: Iron Maiden, Kiss, etc. They do a cover of 'Detroit, Rock City' with all of them in Kiss make up: fun to watch, Tamu has a huge smile and looks so cute with the cat whisker make-up, and of course they sing out: "Detloit! Lock City!"
Oh wow!
In the 20th century (70's, 80's, 90's), nearly every Metal and Rock band I saw live were often great musicians and performers and were almost inevitably male. And mostly angry. They also all had to grimace a lot when playing hard guitar solos, presumably so we'd know it was difficult. Then came the 21st century and, since about 2015, all the greatest Rock and Metal bands (Nemophila, Band-Maid, Lovebites, Babymetal, Asterism, etc, etc) are either all-female or female-led master (mistress?) musicians who smile and laugh while they play, no matter the difficulty. I haven't looked West for 8 years!
Thats one of their greatest appeals for me.. Beautiful, talented, happy women playing my favorite music.. Whats not to like? I, like you, don't look West anymore either, there is just to much great music right here..
This comment spoke to me right out to my heart! Metalhead 56ys, thought there's nothing more to come after the 2000s, but thanks to YT i learned about Hardcore Punk or Metalcore/Deathcore. But the absolute Peak seems to be Japanese Metal and their female dominated Bands!!!
@@DeeDee-eb6fe If there's a Metal pyramid, it's topped with a golden capstone of Japanese female Metal and Rock bands!
A very diverse band of amazing musician artists, and Mayu can bring the thunder and lightning, but also the blue sky with her vocal abilities..Thank you for your reaction..I hope you'll react to more of their great music to discover greatness of Nemophila
Hi Maddy.. Great first reaction to Nemophila... A brilliant band of 5 very tallented ladies.. Do some more there is lots to see.. Tale a look at the Revive MV.. It's awesome... Best wishes from France
Thanks for reacting to my favourite band. I'm happy you liked the song.
Mayu can scream, growl, rap or whatever. Although Nemophila is primarily a metal band they do way more than just metal. When you said "I wasn't expecting that", you said what most reactors say the first time. Even the fans are often surprised by the unexpected swerves in style and genre.
SAKI and Hauki are both amazing guitarists. Hazuki's style is a little more modern while SAKI's is a mixture of old school and newer. She's a tremolo-picking monster and I totally covet her signature Killer Fascinator Empress guitar.
With Tamu and Hara-chan in the rhythm section it really would be nearly impossible for them to do anything that wasn't amazingly good.
Maybe look at their songs 'Adabana', 'Raitei' and 'Revive'?
Lovin this Band. Best in this Universe right now. Amazing musicians 🔥❤️🤘🇫🇮
Nemophila - Rise 🔥
Not only talented, but versatile. For more Heavy Metal, try Raitei, Revive, Sieze the Fate, Rise. For ballads, Now I Here or Life. For something completely diferent, Hypnosis or Style. They also have a bunch of covers, including DRC in full Kiss makeup. They are fun.
Dont missed out Minion's Banana Song
Nemophila - "baby blue eyes" flower, "Rurikarakusa" in Japanese; grows in N-America and is appreciated in Japan (see "Hitachi Seaside Park").
The band was formed in 2019, originally as a "session" brought together by...
Mayu - the vocalist (ex- Lipstick band);
Haraguchi-san - bass, backing vocals, was Mayu's friend and colleague from Music College (ex - Holderlins band);
Tamu Murata - drums, backing vocals, one the most respected session musician in Japan (countless bands), with also her own original carrier; she's also the wife of Akira Yamaoka, musician/composer, known especially for his videogames OSTs, in particular for "Silent Hill";
Saki (ex - "Mary's Blood" band for a decade), she's a "young sacred monster" in J-metal) guitar, backing vocals, and...
Hazuki (Li-sa-X / KOIAI bands) - guitar, backing vocals; both, Saki and Hazuki have a lot of experience.
Nemophila made an amazing fandom impression during the pandemic, thru TH-cam clips...so far about 40 Western/Japanese awesomely bonkers covers, and over 30 original freakishly good songs (singles, EPs, 2 albums - "Revive" and "Seize The Faith").
Discography, alphabetical order:
01. ADABANA - 徒花 - "Fruitless/seedless flower"
02. Another Story (ballad)
03. A Ray Of Light
04. Back into the wild
05. Blooming
06. Breaking Out
07. Change the World
08. Creature
09. DISSENSION
10. ENTEN - 炎天 - "Scorching/blazing heat/sun"
11. Fighter
12. GAME OVER (ballad)
13. Hōzuki - 鬼灯 - "Demon Light" - "Winter cherry" / "Japanese lantern" plant
14. HYPNOSIS
15. Life (ballad - their "official anthem")
16. MONSTERS
17. Night Flight
18. now I here (ballad)
19. OIRAN - "Courtesan" (their first original song, in february 2020)
20. RAITEI - 雷霆 - "Thunder"
21. REVIVE
22. RISE
23. Rock’n’Roll Is? (an homage to famous rock bands/artists; the lyrics/melody and style of play are Easter Eggs)
24. Rollin’Rollin’
25. Seize the Faith
26. Soaring ～to be continued～(instrumental)
27. SORAI - "Autumn wind" (was supposed to be the original name for the band)
28. STYLE
29. - 群青
30. Waiting for you
31. ZEN
________
- Another Story... written during the pandemic, with the purpose of lifting the spirit;
not part of any official release or performed in any concert...
but - according to Saki - "it's part of 'Yell to Art, Tokyo Project' (started by Tokyo Metropolitan Government to offer place for artists to upload their work...since all lives, concerts, events and exhibitions had been suspended, all venues had been closed";
was posted on TH-cam, on this channel: アートにエールを!【音楽 1ch】; although is no longer there, there are some reactions to it, just search "NEMOPHILA / AnotherStory".
- Breaking Out, Creature, Ultramarine... not part of any official release, but they are performed sometimes in the concerts.
- Blooming...released only on the official Nemophila TH-cam channel, it is performed sometimes in the concerts.
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Oh hell yes! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
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Great reaction ! Appreciate your opened mind ❤ Nemophila is one of the best band's in the world 🤘🔥🔥❤️❤️
NEMOPHILA is a great band they have many amazing originals but I also love their covers check them out also
The members of nemophila are musicians from 5 different bands. They are all excellent musicians. And their styles cross various genres of music.
I recommend《oiran》live (recent one) as the next🤘🏻🌸🤘🏻
Oh wow! So cool!
great reaction to this fantastic band. thank you. love the seven strings and the five string. thundergodess tamu on drums, saki and hazuki on guitars, haraguchi-san on bass and of course mayu on vocals ( although I like her clean voice better) they all are masters. but wait ´ til you hear hanabies "we love sweets" or "tousou (runaway)" maybe the best all female japanese band at the moment.
I just finished watching the BAND-MAID live stream and realised that you have already done NEMOPHILA. Keep going with both bands. NEMOPHILA are very normal and the drummer has 2 young children and the singer has one child where as BAND-MAID are all a little crazy but you will learn all about that as you go.
Oh wow!
I've seen them live twice. The next time they're in town, go. (Ditto Band Maid, Hanabie and -- if they ever make it over here -- Lovebites).
Muy linda reacción me gustó! Esta banda es muy buena, me conquistó ! Es lo que se conoce como una super banda! Cantantes así no hay muchas, es una gran prodigio Mayu ❤️ también hacen covers alucinantes! 😎🤘
you need more Nemophila in your life. try....Adabana ...Rise...Life....Now I Here !
MAYU can really *sing* well, too. In a variety of styles.
Many female reactors have expressed excitement about the tinsel hair; no one male reactor has commented about the hair.
I love the hair!
NEMOPHILA has taken the World by storm in just four short years! SAKI-chan came from DESTROSE, then MARY's BLOOD! HARAGUCHI-SAN and MAYU knew each other before, TAMU the drummer is married to the dude that has done all the music for the Silent Hill video games, and Hazuki was in DISQUALIA w/ NARUMI (another ex-DESTROSE member)
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Awesome. Nemophila are awesome and maybe now you’ll be ready for Hanabie? 😬
❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥 Greetings from Argentina
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Mayu is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You might be ready for HANABIE!!!
Ohhh who is that? Lol
@@MaddyReactions Heavier all girl j-metal band thats blowing up. Any song is good to react to.
Next LOVEBITES live 2023 new video The Hammer Of Wrath, new songs MV Judgement Day, Stand And Deliver...
HANABIE - songs We Love Sweets, Be The GAL(WTF)new, Pardon Me, TOUSOU(Run Away), NEET GAME..
BAND-MAID live songs Freedom, Domination, Thrill, Play, Dice, Influencer...
Love your reaction...next hanabie-we love sweets..
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Meanwhile I watched your reactions to Lovebites, Jinjer and this one and liked them all. For religious reasons (😃 no, just joking) I hate pink headsets, but your at least doesn't have pink bunny ears 🤪. So I just subscribed to your channel. 🙂
Btw the background of "for religious reasons" is that I never wear a wristwatch. People often ask me why and my usual answer is "for religious reasons". Their facial expression is priceless and it's the absolute conversation killer. Never someone asked me about this strange "religion" 😂
😂 so you are praying to the spaghetti monster? 😂
@@MaddyReactions -- Does the spaghetti monster wears a watch on each of its tentacles? -- as often, the truth is banal and boring: skin irritation (but let's be this a secret between you and me)😇
well aren't you just a special snowflake 😄
You say Avenged 7fold, I say Iron Maiden. 🥔🥔
LOL
🤘🇺🇦❤️🌸❤️🇯🇵🤘
🇺🇦 🐷💩
I would not call this a growl, rather a scream, as you say in the video. But yes, she has some skills in not clean singing. And clean singing also.
BTW - this is maybe the only "negative" songs they have. For some reasons she is hating something and the chanting girls are quite mean. So, it happens that reactors that hear this song first is a bit thrown back by it. Some day I have to find out what this hate is about. If it is for real or only a cool song text.
For some awesome drum work check out their cover of "X-JAPAN"s (Kurenai). It will blow you away. These Ladies do not disappoint on any of their songs, including covers!!!!!!! Have fun on your journey. Speaking of Journey, checkout their cover of "JOURNEY"s (Separate Ways). The drummer (TAMU) is so funny!!!!
Ohhh fun!
If you are a daring women, you might enjoy the German fun metal band "Knorkator" and their song "Klonen" (I let clone myself th-cam.com/video/XS2JvfCwiQg/w-d-xo.html ). Spoiler: There is a little vocal surprise in the middle of the song.
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Way too many "effects" on that microphone for my taste. She is no Tatiana. Also the band is kinda vanilla for metal. It sounded good, in a pedestrian way, but there was nothing special about it. straight 4:4 timing the entire time, very few if any complex syncopations. This is rock radio metal. It almost seems like what you would get is AI generated a female fronted metal band. This makes me really appreciate Jinjer so much more for the complexity in their song structure.
Not to be a Debbie downer. Still a great reaction, just not my favorite song.
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We get it you're a Jinjer simp lol. What is even with this comparison? I can sit here and say Tati is no Angela Gossow too or Alissa White-gluz. Only 3 musicians on instruments? They're no Dying Fetus. If something sounds good it's fine, there's no quota of "complex syncopations" to fill or number time signature changes to meet it doesn't matter if what they're writing doesn't call for it. No need to be complex just for the sake of being complex. If that's all you're looking for I suggest you go check out Polyphia. I can also sit here and say Jinjer "has" to do that because Roman (as much as I like his playing) could never keep up with and shred or solo like Saki. Not to be a Debbie downer.