Thank you, Greg. Added it to our list. We hope to get to it eventually. The list is just soooo long now (over 20 A4 pages) that we have no idea when we'll get to them all. Lol. Thanks again for dropping in. Always good to hear from you! 🙏
Thank you, Andrea! Much appreciated! Unfortunately, as we found out from comments here, it seems the band is going through some major changes, so we'll see what he future brings when it comes to Hagane. In any way, thanks for viewing and engaging yet again. Always fantastic to hear from you! 🙏
We saw that in the beginning, but as it is written as if part of a superhero comic, we weren't sure if the meaning was so direct. Still, an interesting song and musically awesome! Thank you for taking the time to view and engage, Gordon. Much appreciated! 🙏
Thank you for featuring Hagane (pronounced HAH-ga-neh). They were seen as one of the up and coming groups until their announcement in March 2023 that they are breaking up. They came together in 2018, just as they were finishing high school. They are young, all around 22, and should all have bright futures if they continue to pursue music. The final lineup was: Vocal : Uyu Guitar : Sakura Yoshida (also wrote and arranged most of the music) Guitar : Mayto Bass : Sayaka Drum : Kanako Takahashi (b. 2001) Sakura Yoshida started posting metal covers on youtube when she was 14, and gained notoriety as a highly technical wizard on the instrument, with a taste for ferocious shredding. That is how most of the other band-members found her. They formed the band around the time they were all finishing high school. The songwriting is astonishingly mature, far beyond what you should be able to expect from a bunch of high-school kids. They have had two vocalists, with Uyu being on board most of their history. They were clearly playing in a similar space as groups like Mary’s Blood, Nemophila and Lovebites-melodic, hard, heavy and technical, but they quickly found their own signature sound, built around exotic scales, syncopated rhythms and high-octane shredding. “Soul Beats”: th-cam.com/video/k8NTRJ_yTxY/w-d-xo.html The rhythm line seamlessly melds rock and funk throughout. The guitar solo is classic jazz fusion, but with distortion. The heavy use of minor and diminished scales gives it a vaguely middle-eastern vibe, but jacked up to searing intensity. “Super Villan” th-cam.com/video/MCqzm0nUxbM/w-d-xo.html Huge guitar duet, with give and take and a lot of experimental ideas. “Black Cult” th-cam.com/video/LCheI6-MWhY/w-d-xo.html From their recently released album, another with lots of musical ideas, great guitar duelling, and continuously improving vocals from Uyu. Sakura and Sayaka announced they are staying together and will rebuild Hagane. Uyu already has her own band, which is largely focusing on covers of other metal groups, especially Babymetal. Both Mayto and Kanako are elite musicians and should have no trouble landing with other bands if they choose to.
Really like Hagane, unfortunately they already announced that the band's splitting up. Most likely they will continue in one form or another, but it was kind of a bummer, I really enjoy their Code;9021 album. Also it was kind of funny to hear that there's "a little shredding" in there, if you know what's coming right after :) As for suggestions, you can never go wrong woth Sokoninaru, mathy/proggy yet very melodic three-piece and difficult to describe but great to hear. I'd recommend either Gou Ni Moyu or Lament Moment for MV, or VortEX for live (because they pull all their stuff of live, which is quite the feat).
Yeah Sakura and Sayaka have said they will continue on as Hagane and will begin searching for new members so they'll definitely be continuing on in some form at least. Kinda curious what the other members will go on to from here.
Yeah, it's a shame that we just got introduced to the band as they are going through this change. Still, we are are glad to hear that they will continue on, even if the personnel differs somewhat. Could be interesting. Thank you, Guybrush, for the comment and thank you, DShiflet01 and Yan for chiming in. We appreciate you taking the time to view and engage! 🙏
I have seen this video previously plus a couple of others (one a live performance). Honestly they never caught on with me. Sakura Yoshida, the guitarist on screen right (stage left), most impressed me and I later found out that she writes all the music and lyrics. As has been said, the band blew up last month with the vocalist, drummer and the other guitarist all leaving. Sakura and the bassist remain and Hagane will very likely return since Sakura effectively is Hagane. Superior musical talent in Japan is not hard to find. I hope they return with a punchier sound. I can't help but imagine what a band like Nemophila could do with Sakura's compositions. The live performance I watched was for the song WintrySky if y'all would still like to see the old band live - th-cam.com/video/JY-a9YGXVJ4/w-d-xo.html
Yes, we heard about their issues/breakup. I (Itai) guess that at least Sakura being in the (future) new line-up is a positive we can take from this. I'm kind of excited to see what the new line-up will look and sound like. At the moment, we are leaning towards covering them in future episodes only once the new line-up is put together and reacting to the new material they will come out with. This episode got very mediocre views/attention, so we are guessing the audience is less interested in the band now that they are going through these changes. We'll see what happens. Again, thank you so much for viewing and engaging, Dan. Always great to hear from you! 🙏
@@myindieprodentertainment Itai, I am not sure you would have gotten many more views even if they were still together. Their first album, Code;9021, which they self released last August failed to chart in Japan. My guess is that they were hoping to get interest from a label and when that didn't happen the band fell apart. They were a young band (Sakura was only 19 when they formed 5 years ago) and they deservedly gained many fans. The competition in Japan, even among all-female rock/metal bands, is fierce when there are already bands like Aldious, Band-Maid, Lovebites, Nemophila, Gacharic Spin, Hanabie, Bridear, Trident, Lonesome_Blue etc. Even a band as currently popular as Band-Maid almost ended a couple of years after they started. I will be curious to see how Lonesome-Blue does. They are very new and I don't think their first album released a few months ago charted either. They have advantages over Hagane however - they have a very talented, experienced and respected guitarist in Narumi and they have very close ties with Lovebites including the same producer and the same label, Victor Entertainment. The music business, no matter the country, is a very tough business.
@@danw6048 Yes, it is cutthroat... extremely competitive. We will try to cover Hagane as much as we can as there are several requests for them on the list. I guess due to the sheer volume of requests (20+ A4 pages) we might have to make some tough decisions. Lonesome-Blue are also somewhere on the list and we hope to get them as well. I hope we manage to get monetized and are able to move to doing this full time so that we can release more episodes every week. The channel/show is growing but it is not easy by any means. Lol. Hopefully, people will appreciate all the hard work we put into it and we'd be able to do more and more as we go. Stay tuned! 🙂 Again, we appreciate you more than you know! So happy to have you along on our Babble On journey! 🙏
A list of the top japanese female Guitarslingers : 01. Miyako Watanabe - JP heavy metal band LOVEBITES 01. Saki - JP heavy metal band NEMOPHILA 01. Midori Tatematsu - JP heavy metal band LOVEBITES 01. Hazuki - JP heavy metal band NEMOPHILA 05. Narumi Suzuki - JP hard Rock Band Lonesome_Blue 06. Sakura Yoshida - JP heavy Metal Band Hagane 07. Kanami Tono - JP hard Rock Band Band Maid 08. Haruka Noma (HAL-CA) - JP hard rock band Asterism 09. Yoshi Hoshizaki - JP heavy Metal Band Aldious 10. Toki - JP heavy metal band Aldious 11. Ika - JP heavy metal band Ark Royal 12. Yashiro - JP heavy metal band Mary’s Blood 13. Illumina - JP heavy metal band Ark Royal 14. Tomo-zo - JP heavy metal band DOLL$BOXX 15. SATORU Suzaku- heavy metal band Crush Crew 16. Mayto - JP heavy Metal Band Hagane 17. Mina Taichō - JP steampunk metal Band Fate Gear 18. Yuki - JP hard rock band D-Drive 19. Ayumi - JP heavy Metal Band Bridear 20. Moe - JP heavy metal band Bridear 21. Lisa X - JP Rock band KOIAI
Great list, pretty complete, but I'd probably add Noma to your list of #1s. She's a god-level talent. If this is meant to be a ranking, then it's good to see Narumi high on the list--she gets overlooked. I might move Yuki and Yashiro higher--also underrated. But frankly, the concentration of talent on that list is just mind-numbing. I've written elsewhere that if you made a list of the top 50 rock and metal guitarists in the world today, half would be Japanese women.
@@hiawatha.g Ha ha, I think so too. And I keep discovering new ones. At the weekend I saw Aoiro and her Crash Crew and Sally from Lipstick was in it. I think she belongs on this list too. You can always argue about the order. It's always changing for me too...
Interesting stuff, guys. We still need to get familiarised with many on this list. And we look forward to it! Thank you for taking the time to view and engage. Much appreciated! 🙏
I agree that this is a great list. The only changes I would make at first glance would to place Haruka Noma as a #1 to make a 5-way tie at the top, Lisa X would be higher on my list and I would connect Tomo-zo to Gacharic Spin instead of Doll$Boxx (even though I love Doll$Boxx).
Too bad they dismantled recently. Fantastic band while they lasted. I’m sure Sakura will be back with a new iteration. Check out Black Cult for their best song.
Yes, it seems to be a popular request and is already on the list. We hope to get to more of their work in future, just not sure if it will be before or after the new line-up is put together as our request list is so long and we're not sure when it will happen. Thank you for taking the time to view and engage, Jesse. Much appreciated! 🙏
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TRIDENT are a Japanese all-female power trio. Their best song is AMBIVALENT - th-cam.com/video/yGwWnOSvh5A/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, Greg. Added it to our list. We hope to get to it eventually. The list is just soooo long now (over 20 A4 pages) that we have no idea when we'll get to them all. Lol.
Thanks again for dropping in. Always good to hear from you! 🙏
Thoughtful conversation on point from both of you. I have nothing to add. Just 👌
Thank you, Andrea! Much appreciated!
Unfortunately, as we found out from comments here, it seems the band is going through some major changes, so we'll see what he future brings when it comes to Hagane.
In any way, thanks for viewing and engaging yet again. Always fantastic to hear from you! 🙏
Super Villian was written about an abusive father. If you go back to the beginning of the song there is a blurb (in English) about that.
We saw that in the beginning, but as it is written as if part of a superhero comic, we weren't sure if the meaning was so direct. Still, an interesting song and musically awesome!
Thank you for taking the time to view and engage, Gordon. Much appreciated! 🙏
Thank you for featuring Hagane (pronounced HAH-ga-neh). They were seen as one of the up and coming groups until their announcement in March 2023 that they are breaking up. They came together in 2018, just as they were finishing high school. They are young, all around 22, and should all have bright futures if they continue to pursue music. The final lineup was:
Vocal : Uyu
Guitar : Sakura Yoshida (also wrote and arranged most of the music)
Guitar : Mayto
Bass : Sayaka
Drum : Kanako Takahashi (b. 2001)
Sakura Yoshida started posting metal covers on youtube when she was 14, and gained notoriety as a highly technical wizard on the instrument, with a taste for ferocious shredding. That is how most of the other band-members found her. They formed the band around the time they were all finishing high school. The songwriting is astonishingly mature, far beyond what you should be able to expect from a bunch of high-school kids. They have had two vocalists, with Uyu being on board most of their history. They were clearly playing in a similar space as groups like Mary’s Blood, Nemophila and Lovebites-melodic, hard, heavy and technical, but they quickly found their own signature sound, built around exotic scales, syncopated rhythms and high-octane shredding.
“Soul Beats”: th-cam.com/video/k8NTRJ_yTxY/w-d-xo.html
The rhythm line seamlessly melds rock and funk throughout. The guitar solo is classic jazz fusion, but with distortion. The heavy use of minor and diminished scales gives it a vaguely middle-eastern vibe, but jacked up to searing intensity.
“Super Villan” th-cam.com/video/MCqzm0nUxbM/w-d-xo.html
Huge guitar duet, with give and take and a lot of experimental ideas.
“Black Cult” th-cam.com/video/LCheI6-MWhY/w-d-xo.html
From their recently released album, another with lots of musical ideas, great guitar duelling, and continuously improving vocals from Uyu.
Sakura and Sayaka announced they are staying together and will rebuild Hagane. Uyu already has her own band, which is largely focusing on covers of other metal groups, especially Babymetal. Both Mayto and Kanako are elite musicians and should have no trouble landing with other bands if they choose to.
Thank you for taking the time to deliver this information. Much appreciated! 🙏
Its a shame i was really hoping to see where they went with this lineup.
@@cius2112 me too. I think they were aiming for the Lovebites lane in terms of technical craziness. Their album is impressive.
Really like Hagane, unfortunately they already announced that the band's splitting up.
Most likely they will continue in one form or another, but it was kind of a bummer, I really enjoy their Code;9021 album.
Also it was kind of funny to hear that there's "a little shredding" in there, if you know what's coming right after :)
As for suggestions, you can never go wrong woth Sokoninaru, mathy/proggy yet very melodic three-piece and difficult to describe but great to hear.
I'd recommend either Gou Ni Moyu or Lament Moment for MV, or VortEX for live (because they pull all their stuff of live, which is quite the feat).
Yeah Sakura and Sayaka have said they will continue on as Hagane and will begin searching for new members so they'll definitely be continuing on in some form at least. Kinda curious what the other members will go on to from here.
Yeah, it's a shame that we just got introduced to the band as they are going through this change. Still, we are are glad to hear that they will continue on, even if the personnel differs somewhat. Could be interesting.
Thank you, Guybrush, for the comment and thank you, DShiflet01 and Yan for chiming in. We appreciate you taking the time to view and engage! 🙏
I have seen this video previously plus a couple of others (one a live performance). Honestly they never caught on with me. Sakura Yoshida, the guitarist on screen right (stage left), most impressed me and I later found out that she writes all the music and lyrics. As has been said, the band blew up last month with the vocalist, drummer and the other guitarist all leaving. Sakura and the bassist remain and Hagane will very likely return since Sakura effectively is Hagane. Superior musical talent in Japan is not hard to find. I hope they return with a punchier sound. I can't help but imagine what a band like Nemophila could do with Sakura's compositions. The live performance I watched was for the song WintrySky if y'all would still like to see the old band live - th-cam.com/video/JY-a9YGXVJ4/w-d-xo.html
Yes, we heard about their issues/breakup. I (Itai) guess that at least Sakura being in the (future) new line-up is a positive we can take from this. I'm kind of excited to see what the new line-up will look and sound like. At the moment, we are leaning towards covering them in future episodes only once the new line-up is put together and reacting to the new material they will come out with. This episode got very mediocre views/attention, so we are guessing the audience is less interested in the band now that they are going through these changes. We'll see what happens.
Again, thank you so much for viewing and engaging, Dan. Always great to hear from you! 🙏
@@myindieprodentertainment Itai, I am not sure you would have gotten many more views even if they were still together. Their first album, Code;9021, which they self released last August failed to chart in Japan. My guess is that they were hoping to get interest from a label and when that didn't happen the band fell apart. They were a young band (Sakura was only 19 when they formed 5 years ago) and they deservedly gained many fans. The competition in Japan, even among all-female rock/metal bands, is fierce when there are already bands like Aldious, Band-Maid, Lovebites, Nemophila, Gacharic Spin, Hanabie, Bridear, Trident, Lonesome_Blue etc. Even a band as currently popular as Band-Maid almost ended a couple of years after they started. I will be curious to see how Lonesome-Blue does. They are very new and I don't think their first album released a few months ago charted either. They have advantages over Hagane however - they have a very talented, experienced and respected guitarist in Narumi and they have very close ties with Lovebites including the same producer and the same label, Victor Entertainment. The music business, no matter the country, is a very tough business.
@@danw6048 Yes, it is cutthroat... extremely competitive. We will try to cover Hagane as much as we can as there are several requests for them on the list. I guess due to the sheer volume of requests (20+ A4 pages) we might have to make some tough decisions. Lonesome-Blue are also somewhere on the list and we hope to get them as well. I hope we manage to get monetized and are able to move to doing this full time so that we can release more episodes every week. The channel/show is growing but it is not easy by any means. Lol. Hopefully, people will appreciate all the hard work we put into it and we'd be able to do more and more as we go. Stay tuned! 🙂
Again, we appreciate you more than you know! So happy to have you along on our Babble On journey! 🙏
A list of the top japanese female Guitarslingers :
01. Miyako Watanabe - JP heavy metal band LOVEBITES
01. Saki - JP heavy metal band NEMOPHILA
01. Midori Tatematsu - JP heavy metal band LOVEBITES
01. Hazuki - JP heavy metal band NEMOPHILA
05. Narumi Suzuki - JP hard Rock Band Lonesome_Blue
06. Sakura Yoshida - JP heavy Metal Band Hagane
07. Kanami Tono - JP hard Rock Band Band Maid
08. Haruka Noma (HAL-CA) - JP hard rock band Asterism
09. Yoshi Hoshizaki - JP heavy Metal Band Aldious
10. Toki - JP heavy metal band Aldious
11. Ika - JP heavy metal band Ark Royal
12. Yashiro - JP heavy metal band Mary’s Blood
13. Illumina - JP heavy metal band Ark Royal
14. Tomo-zo - JP heavy metal band DOLL$BOXX
15. SATORU Suzaku- heavy metal band Crush Crew
16. Mayto - JP heavy Metal Band Hagane
17. Mina Taichō - JP steampunk metal Band Fate Gear
18. Yuki - JP hard rock band D-Drive
19. Ayumi - JP heavy Metal Band Bridear
20. Moe - JP heavy metal band Bridear
21. Lisa X - JP Rock band KOIAI
Great list, pretty complete, but I'd probably add Noma to your list of #1s. She's a god-level talent. If this is meant to be a ranking, then it's good to see Narumi high on the list--she gets overlooked. I might move Yuki and Yashiro higher--also underrated. But frankly, the concentration of talent on that list is just mind-numbing. I've written elsewhere that if you made a list of the top 50 rock and metal guitarists in the world today, half would be Japanese women.
I think Yuki should be higher! otherwise, I totally agree with your top6.
@@hiawatha.g Ha ha, I think so too. And I keep discovering new ones. At the weekend I saw Aoiro and her Crash Crew and Sally from Lipstick was in it. I think she belongs on this list too. You can always argue about the order. It's always changing for me too...
Interesting stuff, guys. We still need to get familiarised with many on this list. And we look forward to it!
Thank you for taking the time to view and engage. Much appreciated! 🙏
I agree that this is a great list. The only changes I would make at first glance would to place Haruka Noma as a #1 to make a 5-way tie at the top, Lisa X would be higher on my list and I would connect Tomo-zo to Gacharic Spin instead of Doll$Boxx (even though I love Doll$Boxx).
Too bad they dismantled recently. Fantastic band while they lasted. I’m sure Sakura will be back with a new iteration. Check out Black Cult for their best song.
Yes, it seems to be a popular request and is already on the list. We hope to get to more of their work in future, just not sure if it will be before or after the new line-up is put together as our request list is so long and we're not sure when it will happen.
Thank you for taking the time to view and engage, Jesse. Much appreciated! 🙏