Nemophila is another excellent all-female Japanese Heavy metal band. Japan is the country with more all-female rock bands in the world. Male and female Japanese musicians are outstanding. Some people say that rock is not dead, it just moved to Japan. By the way, Nemophila played at the Whiskey a gogo a few days ago and is gonna perform at the Aftershock festival in a few days. Band-Maid and The Warning will be there too.
When it comes to the all-female scene in Japan, it is hard to say who is the Big 4. The Big 3 is easy, that's pretty clearly Lovebites, Nemophila and Band-Maid, in terms of having the largest followings outside of Japan. There are a few stand-outs that could be considered that #4, though. First, there is Aldious, whose drummer Marina Bozzio is the step-daughter of the legendary Terry Bozzio of Frank Zappa and Missing Persons fame! They have a pretty good following outside of Japan. Then there are the other offspring of Destrose, a band that didn't have a lot of success on their own, but which spawned several of Japan's biggest female bands. The biggest bands to rise from the ashes of Destrose are Lovebites, Nemophila, Mary's Blood, Fate Gear and Disqualia. Mary's Blood and Disqualia are both defunct now, but they interestingly featured both of Nemophila's guitarists (Hazuki was with Disqualia, but was not the ex-Destrose member in that band; and Saki was with Mary's Blood, and WAS the ex-Destrose member in that band - Hazuki is the first lead in this song, with the black jacket, and Saki has the second lead, with the black tee shirt). There are several bands who aren't all-female who could also fit that #4 spot - male bands Ningen Isu, Crossfaith and Galneryus, and female-fronted bands Unlucky Morpheus, Wagakki Band, and Babymetal, just to name a few. Of course, those are bands who are current. If you delve into the history of Japanese metal, you'll find some truly iconic 80s bands like X-Japan, Loudness, and Show-ya (the band that started the all-female scene), and 90s bands like Maximum the Hormone, most of which are still performing to this day!
Saki was one of five former Destrose members in Mary's Blood. The other four were Eye, Eri, Niboshi (Kayo in her Destrose days), and Mari (though Mari was considered support rather than a full member of Destrose)---they were four of the five original members of MB. Surely in terms of domestic and overseas popularity Gacharic Spin merits mention in any discussion of the most prominent all-female rock/metal bands.
@@Ratovx They're on hiatus---actually they called it an "indefinite suspension of activities". Saki said that, as of now, an autograph session in August is the last scheduled activity of the band. (I'm going to that session.)
If you want to know the band they listened to, here are their favourites... mayu (vocals) Foo Fighters Haraguchi-san (bass) Slipknot, Ellegarden SAKI (guitar) Seikima-II Hazuki (guitar) Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom Murata Tamu (drums) Dream Theatre, Opeth
Saki certainly listens to (and watches) Babymetal. She's been to their concerts and covered them both with Nemophila and Mary's Blood. In her MB days she gigged with Takayoshi Ohmura of BM's Kami Band.
As others have mentioned, Ningen Isu would be a great band to react to. They are often called the Japanese Black Sabbath, but have many influences. 30+ years, 20+ studio albums. Not living on their past hits. Heartless Scat is the song most start with, Namahage and the Colour out of Space are good first reacts as well.
Check out Maximum the Hormone if you get a chance. They are another great metal band from Japan that will throw every kinda metal at you in one song!!!
Nemophila is a great band. adabana is probably in my view one of the best songs I have heard in 2022. I do recommend you check out a couple live songs from band maid. domination live and play live are awesome displays of musicianship. they are definitly a rock band, not so much metal. you will find that the Japanese bands are masters at mixing genre's. and they sound great doing it. here's a bunch to check out.....all female....Aldious, Hanabie, Hagane, Bridear, Fate Gear, Broken by the scream, Doll$box, and a more!
Great choice of this song from this band. This song is one of their best songs. When you two hear more songs from this band, you will get a better picture of this band. Songs like Life, Monsters, Sorai, Hypnosis, A Ray Of Light or Oiran. As I wrote before, their new song Adabana is one of the best metal songs of 2022. Guitarist Saki said that the band's musical concept is to play a heavy sound (something like metalcore) spiced with "yurufuwa". Yurufuwa is a Japanese word and means something like fluffy and smooth. The singer mayu is considered the Queen of the Banshee. This is the term for her style fry screams. Many people compare her growling to the roar of a jaguar or mountain lion. This singer has a beautiful voice color with a raw flavor. I love both her singing styles-harsh vocals and pure vocals. I personally consider the singer mayu to be one of the best singers in Japan and a new rock star of the new metal generation. This young band is one of the best metal bands in Japan (not only Japan). New Metal Comet. Thank you so much for this reaction video. Have a good day with my heartfelt greetings :-).
Great reaction. Love the references, most of them are spot on and similar to what I have in mind. Care to try reacting to HANABIE? "We Love Sweets" is your first song from them, definitely 🤘🏼🤘🏼
@@truebrodown you need much more than 4 for Japan. The metal scene is much too strong for that. That is like saying 4 metal bands for America. You could do a top 4 all female Japanese metal bands but even that is very hard. I guess it wouldn't be that hard if you exclude Babymetal and Band-Maid for not strictly fitting the category. Lovebites, Aldious, Nemophila and Hanabie. Imo. But if Babymetal and Band-Maid are eligible then they should definitely be there. You could take out Hanabie and Nemophila for being too new. But if I had to do only 4 for Japan I guess... Maximum the Hormone, X-JAPAN, Babymetal and I'm not sure about the 4th I don't know enough about Japanese metal. Show-ya? Ningen Isu? Dunno.
Top 4? It depends on so many things. Hard Rock: Band-Maid Cute Metal: Babymetal Power Metal: Lovebites Metalcore: Crystal Lake and Crossfaith Alternative Rock: Hello Sleepwalkers Alternative Metal: SiM Deathcore/Visual Kei: Deviloof Experimental Metal: Dir En Grey Mixed Genre: Maximum the Hormone Ultradark Idol: Necronomidol And many, many more....
Try asterism three-piece Japanese band. Female lead guitarist something on the lines of Jeff Beck or Steve Vai. Mainly instrumental music. Extremely talented guitar player bass player normally plays seven string bass uses a seven string bass
Asterism, Basically kids (maybe now hitting age 20?, formed in middle school, def metal, but had bootsie collins?! as producer when they were like 14, playing Austin by 16… And damn, swagger!!!!!! But talent to back it up
@@r01dtox15 , yes, I love that one th-cam.com/video/3thAXV4laAA/w-d-xo.html Normally three piece, often instrumental, they had famous singer (currently Aldious’s 4th) Maki Oyama guesting at a small club gig. Fan cam, but quality sound, front row. Loudness was a big influence on HalCa, but basically an easy cover song for her/them…
I love this band. They are quite diverse in their style, after Dissension The next logical steps would be: OIRAN and REVIVE. His last song: ADABANA has another vibe and it's fantastic (With an absolutely wonderful instrumental bridge)
X Japan is considered the greatest band in Japanese history. Very influential. Others include MUCC and Loudness. Maximum the Hormone is also hugely influential but wouldn't be your cup of tea.
Loudness was one of the few bands in the late 80's that broke into the western market. I would look at Crazy Doctor (Live Europe 1984) to see them in their prime. X-Japan was another huge band. They are know for the "Visual Kei" style (costume dress and hair) that can be traced as an influence to modern Japanese bands today. Yoshiki Drummer/Piano main song writer, famously puts everything into his performance to the point of needing multiple neck surgeries. Rusty Nail live would be a good song to look at. Gazatte is a band that fallowed with the Visual Kei look active from 2002-2019. They can get over Emo at times, but some of the songs hit hard. Other old school Japanese bands include Anthem and Sex Machineguns.
Enjoyed the video very much. Your quest for the best 4 metal bands in Japan is pretty daunting. It is like asking for the best 4 metal bands in the Scandinavian countries, especially considering the population of the 5 Scandinavian countries combined is less than a third of the population of Japan. Hell, the metro population of Tokyo is more than the combined population of the 5 Scandinavian countries. Trying to name the top 4 metal bands in Sweden would probably get you in a bar fight. Sabaton fans would probably go to war if that band was included. I would put Therion in my Swedish top 4 but I doubt many others would. What about the diehard Ghost fans? Sweden would erupt in a metal civil war. After all of that, my simple point is that y'all need to listen to at least 10-15 Japanese metal bands. Y'all have have a good start with Lovebites and Nemophila that would be in many top 4 lists (as has been said many times Band-Maid is a great band just not metal). After all those listens, y'all can announce your top 4 and hopefully not start a war. If you want to listen to Japanese metal at its weirdest then give Maximum The Hormone a try. They are the first Japanese band I started listening to almost 20 years ago and I still enjoy them but you have to be in the right mood. With this band, always expect the unexpected and in the words of Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park "Hold On To Your Butts". As a side note, the only female member of the band is Nao, the drummer, who was a big inspiration to Akane, the drummer for Band-Maid. Maximum The Hormone "Yoshu Fukushu" - th-cam.com/video/beN5ep5MrdY/w-d-xo.html
Don't threaten me with a good time! We will be doing Scandinavian metal soon! I'm much more familiar with it than Japan but I love seeing the passion of the fans. We are planning to tour the world for the best of each country. I believe we agreed on India next. Should be fun!
For just all female bands, you might like ALDIOUS and BRIDEAR to round out your top-4 with LOVEBITES and NEMOPHILA I'm thinking from your review comments. For something more, try HANABIE. You will likely fall deep into this rabbit hole. Like some old-school hard n roll, try WHISKEY DUST.. There is a ton more.
I can't wait for you to react to Hanabie. It can really go either way, to me they're the best thing to happen to metal in a long time, but I like weird shit thrown into my metal.
Okay, one of the guitarist name is Saki, nickname Chucky (because she loves horror movies), and the band that influenced her at the early start of her career is an unknown power metal band pre-2000 name Seikima-II. The stage performance of this Seikima-II band is available in TH-cam. You can check the Seikima-II song titled 'Fire After Fire'.
U guys still should give band maid another chance,u don't know what u missing, but NXT up should be hanabie or for the males side- it dir en grey , crystal lake and vamps ( Hyde side band)
If they don't like it then they don't need to like it...it's up to them, I personally don't love Nemophila like other people do but I don't dislike them too, I prefer bands like GnR, Black Sabbath, AiC and BAND-MAID.
Bridear - Brave New World Revisited .... please. They have been around much longer then Lovebites. There is also Aldious - Re-Fire, also much much longer then Lovebites. Maybe one of the earliest band in all female metal band movement in Japan.
Guitarist Hazuki is signed with Ibanez since 2020. (early videos she was using ESP) Guitarist Saki uses Killer Guitars. She has her own model that she is using here "KG-Fascinator Seven the Empress". Both guitarist use 7 Strings.
NEMOPHILA is my go to band if I want to listen to some metal. Their riffs drive hard and heavy. They are an All star as far as I'm concerned. One thing I do want to add is that the song you pick for B-M, which understandably you didn't really like, is possibly the worst selection of song to pick. That song was specifically done for an Anime opening. Having said that, try "RINNE" MV or if you can find "Puzzle" live then you will see them rock pretty hard. But as others said, they are more Hard Rock than Metal. Cheers.
@@truebrodown ah nice. some great bands from Scandinavia. but it really depends what you are looking for. i am more in to black/depressive/atmospheric black metal my self. so with that i have alot of favorites from them. But in every genre they have great stuff.
The lack of Maximum The Hormone mentions in this comment section disturbs me. In terms of the big 4 metal bands in Japan, here is an unbiased list to go by how many monthly listeners they have on Spotify. A nice sample poll: 1 - BABYMETAL (1,018,593) 2 - Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas (567,857) 3 - Maximum The Hormone (424,687) 4 - X Japan (252,459) runner up at number 5 would be Band-Maid with 251,319 listeners (if you even count them as metal. they are more hard rock). All your B-tier metal bands are all in the 20,000-50,000 listeners range includes: Lovebites, Nemophila, Brats, Passcode, Broken By the Scream, Ningen Isu, ect. Many in which have major growth potential in the next few years to reach A-tier! biggest Japanese band in the world PERIOD is One OK Rock with 3,077,714 monthly listeners.
the guitarists of Nemophila correct me if im wrong play a Killer and a Ivanesan i know i spelled the 2nd one wrong for sure but i know it is a very special and expensive guitar please let me know what you think
The dude's bands are far more popular, but the girl's bands have the momentum on their side these days. In general, metal music is huge in Japan, Crystal Lake, for example is one of the top metalcore bands from Japan, and it's quite sucessful internationally (check for example "Apollo" or "Curse"). Their drummer Gaku Taura produces Hanabie (Ha-na-bee-eh, which can be translated as "cold flower" or "flower chill"), another girl's band which mixes heavy metalcore sounds with a variety of genres, while being very kawaii ("cute") at the same time. Great stuff! (Listen to "We love sweets", to begin with) They began as a Maximum the Hormone cover band, which is a veteran alternative/progressive metalcore band, legendary and very influential for the younger generations of japanese musicians. Don't miss Dir En Grey, which started in the late 1990s, with many recordings up to now, and a great variety of metal and hardcore tunes. Very unique, and Kyo, their vocalist, is an outstanding vocalist (listen to "Vinushka in the Androgynous Tour live version, it's a real treat). And what about the stunning Unlucky Morpheus an d their Deathcore buddies of the Undead Corporation? Or the power metal band Galneryus, another legend in Japan? Did I mention Crossfaith yet, or Coldrain, post-hardcore/alternative metal both of them, which reached lots of popularity in the past decade. And this isn't even the tip of the iceberg and a very unfair selection in the end, there are a lot more interesting and inpiring bands. It's a fact that the japanese are obsessed with rock - the louder and harder the better, for many of them.
After watching your Band-Maid reaction I figured Nemophila would be more your speed. As a huge fan of both bands I hope you give Band-Maid another try or two. You mentioned Loudness in another reaction; coincidentally they opened for Nemophila in Japan for a show this June 11th. Subbed to see where you settle on your top four!
Some Japanese bands, old and new. Take your pick: BAND-MAID [All their songs... really!], LOVEBITES [Break the Wall, Raise some Hell, and all the other songs], MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu], DEXCORE [Red Eye], CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe], SiM [Killing Me], NINGEN ISU [Heartless Scat], UNLUCKY MORPHEUS [Black Pentagram], YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma], COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow], CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle], GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove], ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome], SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate], ALDIOUS [Dominator], BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark], CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny], MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette], GRAUPEL [Bereavement], DOLL$BOXX [Take my Chance], SOKONINARU [Tenohira De Odoru], HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer], TELECiDE [Tied up Memories], NEKO [Ghost on a Record], ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah], JILUKA [Mephisto], BROKEN BY THE SCREAM [Emotion Cross-Counter], LYNCH [Devil], GACHARIC SPIN [Mindset], DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu], X JAPAN [Kurenai], DAZZLE VISION [Second], JUPITER [My Enemy], NOKUTO [Life of Desire], GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation], BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol], NEMOPHILA [Hypnosis], DADAROMA [Lucid Dream], JILUKA [Lluvia], HANABIE [We Love Sweets], A CROWD OF REBELLION [Re:Create of the Re:d], TRiDENT [Spoopy], POLKADOT STINGRAY [any song], MUTANT MONSTERS [Abnormal], BLACKLAB [Insanity], ASTERISM [Church], NOISEMAKER [Hunter or Prey], BiSH [The Night When Stars Twinkle], SCANDAL [A.M.D.K.J.], DEEP GIRL [I kill], Mrs. GREEN APPLE [Inferno], BRATS [Doudatte Yokatta], THE ORAL CIGARETTES [Frenzy Hey Kids!!], Girugamesh [Drain], LiLiHoLi [From Darkness to Light], and many many more...
TOP FIVE, LOVEBITES, NEMOPHILA(live streaming live from Whisky A GoGo club Hollywood live show on 1st July 2022), BAND-MAID(USA TOURS OCTOBER 2022), HANABIE, ASTERISM, check out HANABIE(Japanese JINJER) song MV We Love Sweets and ASTERISM songs Dawn, Rising Moon...
Trying to hold your face on while it was being melted off was a nice touch! In my experience that rarely works. As you can see from the bonnet avatar I have no face left!
If it is a female bands rank, i think nemophila may rank in the top 4. But top 4 Japanese bands? This is a hard choice, Japan has been very popular with rock/metal music since the 80s, and there have always been countless excellent bands in Japan. Nemophila is a band formed in 2019, but actually each of their members is from a different band, All the members are excellent musicians, And they are diverse, they not limited to one style of music, you can hear different things in every song of them. Check out《adabana》next time please!🤘🏻🌸🤘🏻
Nice start into Japanese Rock/Metal. You will find many Female (or female dominated) bands here. The most important (afaik) are: - LOVEBITES - BAND-MAID - NEMOPHILA - ASTERISM But you should also check out bands like: - UNLUCKY MORPHEUS - MARY'S BLOOD - RIE a.k.a. SUZAKU - ALDIOUS - BRIDEAR - NINGEN ISU - BRAY ME - BROKEN BY THE SCREAM - SHOW-YA - CYNTIA - DROP'S - WHISKEY DUST - YOSEI TEIKOKU - WAGGAKI BAND - TELECiDE - BABYMETAL - LADYBABY - PASSCODE - SAISEIGA - HANABIE - TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI - TRIDENT - ZETTAI CLUB - CINQ ELEMENT - CLUPPO - D_DRIVE - DOLL$BOXX - FATE GEAR - GACHARIC SPIN - GLIM SPANKY - HAGANE - KIYOSHI ....and many more, but I think this will do for the start. Have fun during the next months! OH! And don´t forget "The WARNING" from Mexico, "VOICE of BACEPROT" from Indonesia and "Jinjer" from Ukraine!
Band-Maid is a hard rock band, they were never a metal band, to begin with. They just happen to play all types of genres. Some people are confused about what metal is when they recommend Band-Maid to you, I can see why you are not as impressed with them when you expect metal going in. I'm a huge fan of Lovebites, Nemophila and Band-Maid. They are all so talented, different and special in their own way but personally, I do find Band-Maid is No#1 overall. I think you will appreciate them more with each new song you check out and they are plenty.
Out of interest, as a german, which german bands have you listened to ? I would maybe start with "Beyond the Black" and "Xandria" or if you want an old classic of course there are the "Scorpions" or Doro Pesch
German bands are much more prevalent in the States. I've seen Scorpions, Doro and Rammstein live before. Doro was one of my crushes as a teenager. But admittedly I haven't scratched the surface. We are planning a German week or two in the near future.
It's all about what you're looking for in your metal. You had a sip of what Nemophila can do. This band can take an old Beach Boys classic that will have you saying........ th-cam.com/video/MfylJy_nMbM/w-d-xo.html (not a song) Here's what Nemophila does for fun. The Banana Song th-cam.com/video/8mkiCb28NYA/w-d-xo.html But here's where their going. They will change metal. *Hypnosis* (original song - love the solo) th-cam.com/video/k7iF1BZ36cU/w-d-xo.html *Adabana (original song) th-cam.com/video/AxYiOwsu6wU/w-d-xo.html
Within the metal community of people I know I'd say the 5 most well known hard rock/metal bands from Japan are X-Japan, Babymetal, Band-Maid, Dir En Grey and Maximum the Hormone. Though there are others that are fairly well known such as Lovebites, Nemophila, Crystal Lake, Mary's Blood, Loudness, Ningen Isu, Passcode, Broken By The Scream, Girugamesh, Deviloof and a few others. Japan has one of the best if not the best Metal scenes going right now.
I just sent the 7 hours ago about Doll$ Boxx from Japan. And I forgot to give you the name of the song. It's Karakuri Town Live version, not the offical video. It rocks fast, and I love it.Also you guys are fun and I like what you have to say.
If you want to hear growl voice, try react to Hanabie with a song We Love Sweets, for male bands try on Crystal Lake, Dexcore, for heavy music and heavy riff, try react to Ningen Isu with a songs Heartless Scat, Toshisun and Namahage and for instrumental song with female guitarist, try react to Asterism, a trio band with a song Dawn, Gunfire and Church.
I saw M. Friedman do an interview with them recently. He’s been hanging out in Japan for over a decade. The metal scene hot with great musicians. Enjoy your travels.
Yes, Marty Friedman has a lot of influence on new guitar players in Japan as he has lived there for a few years and does a lot of concerts and media material.
I think you're being misled a bit here. First off, I'm enjoying watching you go down this particular rabbit hole. But none of these bands are really all that big in the grand scheme of things. What's happening is that there was a band called Babymetal who went viral on youtube in 2014/2015. Babymetal were an idol unit, but they played metal combined with pop, and it was a bizarre concept that shouldn't have worked, but did. Babymetal gained a big following among Westerners, and youtube's algorhythm took it from there, so suddenly other new "all-female" Japanese hard rock and heavy metal bands got recommended in the sidebar starting with Band-Maid, then Lovebites, then Nemophila, etc. , and then everyone who reacted to Babymetal started reacting to them too. All these bands are fairly new (well, Band-Maid aren't exactly new anymore), and they are all very popular with Western viewers on youtube, but they aren't even close to the "big four of Japanese metal". In fact, there's been what's called a "boom" of all-female hard rock and metal bands in Japan for the last 15 years or so, and the most popular of those bands in Japan were Aldious, Cyntia, and Mary's Blood, while the most influential was Destrose. Because they all existed pre-Babymetal and pre-reaction videos, they barely got any attention at all from the post-Babymetal reaction video crowd. All the bands you're reacting to are what you might call "up and coming". But people in the West have discovered them and are recommending them to you, which is fine because they're great bands. Also, metal in Japan has been a thing for almost as long as metal in the West, staring with Flower Travellin' Band around 1970, but it really kicked off in the late 70s/early 80s with bands like Earthshaker, Ezo, Anthem, Loudness, and a ton of others. later in the 80s bands like X-Japan and Seikima-II came along and became massive, massive bands, influencing generations of metal musicians for decades to come even more than Western metal bands. The metal scene in Japan was huge and has been around for decades, and many of the current (and even older) Japanese bands were primarily influenced by earlier Japanese bands. Of course the earlier Japanese bands were influenced by Western bands, so it makes for some interesting sounds. Third thing - the "all-female" bands aren't the biggest metal bands in Japan, except for one, an 80s band called Show-Ya, who were also massively popular and influential. They're often cited as the "first all-female Japanese heavy metal band", but that's only because they were so popular. They were actually more of a hard rock band who drifted more and more toward metal throughout their career, but meanwhile there were a couple of dozen legitimate all-female metal bands in the 80s who are less well known but significantly more "metal". There have always been a ton of all-female metal bands in Japan, it's not a boy's club like it is over here, but having said that, the male bands have still been the most popular bands traditionally, and by quite a big margin (Show-Ya excepted). Last thing, I mentioned that a lot of the Japanese bands were primarily influenced by older Japanese bands. A perfect example of that is Saki, the guitarist in this video on your right. She was inspired to become a musician after seeing Seikima-II on TV when she was a kid, she was in a Seikima-II tribute band early in her carerer, she plays Killer guitars, which is what Luke Takamura from Seikima-II plays, she even played his signature Killer guitar, and Saki now even has her OWN signature Killer guitar. She's a veteran and an original and a highly regarded player and shredder extraordinaire in her own right, but as far as comparisons go, her lead style is more similar to Luke Takamura's style than it is to any Western guitar player. But a glaring exception to this is Lovebites, and that's because Miho (bass player/leader until she left the band) grew up on 80s Western bands like Iron Maiden, Helloween, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Slayer, Motorhead, etc, and so her entire concept for Lovebites is that she wanted to form a band that played the kind of music she grew up on and loves, and so Lovebites have a very intentional Western 80s-inspired metal sound. I was going to say more, but that's already a book and I have to get up for work in 5 hours. I hope that's somewhat useful information at least. Cheers!
While Destrose was important, because so many great players passed through it, it was not particularly "influential". Arguably Scandal was more influential, because so many of today's younger Japanese female professional rock and metal musicians listened to and watched them growing up. Scandal's influence on the Japanese music scene is often underestimated by Westerners---in their heyday they were everywhere in Japan, on TV specials, TV commercials, anime tie-ups, drama theme songs, Budokan concerts, overseas appearances too---and a very slick PR effort, including a renowned fan-club and associated events. Japanese female musicians didn't necessarily imitate Scandal's musical style, but I think many saw the band as a kind of role-model because of its great success. Its influence was on both the music and business sides of the music industry. Also, Gacharic Spin should be mentioned in the same breath as Aldious and Mary's Blood. In fact, those three bands and Destrose often shared the bill---I saw various combinations of those four bands numerous times at club and theater gigs over a number of years. They were a kind of sorority, building relationships that continue today.
Lovebites make speed metal btw. but thats besides the point. if you want to have one of the biggest japanese metal bands ever then listen to X-Japan. they got such a cult fanbase you wont find that anywhere else in the world. i dont even think fans from Metalica iron maiden slayer and those kinds of bands come close to the fans of X-japan. read a little bit about the band. the drummer who couldnt drum anymore because of neck injury but he kept trying and trying and eventually played drum again. the whole story behind that band is massive. never seen anything like that of any band in the world. they are definitely worth checking out.
Nemophilas best songs are the music videos of A Ray of Light, Revive, Adabana, Raitei, Oiran youtube version, Life live and their 2 best covers they did Linking Park Given Up where she does chester banningtons 17 second scream pretty damn good and Babymetal Megitsune which in my opinion is better then the original please let me know what you think
This band was before Lovebites. Had the drummer Haruna and bass player Miho who later created the band Lovebites. This band is called Destrose and the song is called Maze th-cam.com/video/D6ivt5CCHOE/w-d-xo.html
Band Maid is not a metal band, it's a hard rock band, lovebites, Nemophila and Baby Metal are, if you only look into 4 metal bands from Japan your certainly going to miss out on a lot of incredible artists.
I agree. Also, the song that was chosen for B-M was not even a good representation of the band's typical sound (Sense) as it was tailored maid for an Anime. Anyway, not fair to put B-M in the metal category as they are as you said Hard Rock, even though they do have a few heavy metal-ish songs in their catalog. But, going back to NEMOPHILA, they are my favorite metal band coming out of Japan hands down.
Welcome to the rabbit hole of incredibly talented musicians from Japan. Sorry for the novel length comment, but I feel like I have to clarify something before you get the wrong impression (even though my comment will probably be swallowed up because the video's a week old now). All of the Japanese metal bands you explored (and will explore) probably have more fans outside of Japan than in their home country. After reading a few comments, I really don't know where the impression that "metal is huge in Japan" comes from. They probably have the best bands in the world at the moment, but their metal community is really small. If you'd ask 100 people under 30 years old in Shibuya, I'd say that the majority couldn't even name you one metal band (if they even knew what metal is) and the majority of the rest would say X Japan because that's one of the few they know because either their parents listen(ed) to them or because of their band leader Yoshiki, who even played piano on the emperors birthday celebrations a few years back. Talking about metal bands founded after 2010, BABYMETAL is by far the most successful and that's probably because they're Idols. They're (were) the only ones filling arenas. Lovebites go and Nemophila could probably go up to ZEPP Tokyo level, which would be ~3500 people, for their tour finals, Unlucky Morpheus and Mary's Blood can consistently fill venues of 2000 people for their tour finals, but the big majority of the rest play mainly live houses (the Japanese form of music clubs) in front of 500 people or less. Majority also can't live from playing in a/one band either, that's why you see so many musicians with more than one band or giving music lessons on the side for example. If you want to be successful with music in Japan you need to become an Idol (female or male), play Pop(rock) or be lucky and get chosen for an anime theme. You probably have a bigger chance that a Japanese under 30 who listens to mainstream music can name you all of the 100+ AKB48 members than a metal band founded after 2010. And yes, I deliberately left out Band-Maid (who'd be a clear #2 after BABYMETAL) because they're not a metal band.
A couple of bands to check out that I didn’t see listed MakeMake, Gyze, Blood Stain Child, Raise a Sullen, Deviloof. Definitely don’t give up on Band-Maid because they are incredible musicians with many great songs that are heavy but they always have awesome choruses and melody that sound poppy but with the hard rock riffs. Definitely my favorite!! Japan just has so many great musicians.
Nemophila doesn’t have the deep catalog that Band-Maid has due to being a young band. You can’t really pin these bands to a genre, especially Band-Maid. They incorporate pop, punk, rock, metal and more into their songs. About the only thing that all of their songs have in common is that they are “catchy”. If you dig deeper into their catalog you will experience the variety. I do suggest Band-Maid’s official live videos instead of the OMVs which I think distract you from what amazing musicians these women are. The quickest way to see the diversity of their music is the Official Live Video for “Manners/ Black Hole”. Enjoy the journey!
I'd go check out Galneryus, "Angel of Salvation" I'd say SYU, the guitarist, is probably one of the best in the world. Also check out the hugely influential Maximum the Hormone, "Youshu Fukushu" The drummer, Nao is is on e of the big influences of Murata Tamu (Nemophila) as well as Akane Hirose (Band Maid).
Welcome to the party. Japanese bands have been playing Rock and Roll for 70 years. You just haven’t been listening. Japan’s Heavy Metal “Big Four” would certainly include X-Japan, a group that took off in the 80’s. NEMOPHILA made covers of two X-Japan songs. See on TH-cam. You still don’t have NEMOPHILA “figured out.” They’re very versatile and every song has a different sound. ADABANA, their latest single, might be their best yet. And they’ve released dozens of cover songs in tribute to other influential Japanese bands you’ve never heard of. They are all worth checking out. The “girls” doing the gang vocals are the band members. (Drummer MURATA TAMA is a mother of two.)
Are you seriously ready to delve into the Japanese rock and metal scene, if so plan to stay awhile! As far as a top 4 goes after Band Maid(because of how many genres they cover and song writing) the rest would depend on who you talk to! Here are a few bands to check out : One OK Rock, ACME, Aldious, BABYMETAL, Bridear, Crystal Lake, Gacharic Spin, HANABIE, Mary's Blood, Maximum the Hormone, Rottengraffty, Sokoninaru, TELECiDE, Unlucky Morpheus, ASTERISM, C-GATE, Doll$Boxx, Loudness, X Japan, Dir En Grey, Galneryus and many more.
I doubt he would like One Ok Rock. They are definitely waaay too far on the pop rock side of things for his tastes based on their videos. He likes stuff like Slayer
You guys have to check out Maximum The Hormone. They will blow your mind. Think Red Hot Chili Peppers & System of the Down with a sprinkle of The Doors.
7:00 There is a lot of women bands popping right now yeah, another great one that's starting to trend right now is Hanabie. You can also check Aldious, Mary's Blood or Bridear, that are heavy metal bands smaller but also with five women. And we are not even looking at the idol bands side of the scene xD There was in the 80s a generation of metal bands in Japan like Loudness, Earthshaker or Anthem and one of them was show-ya, a band of girls that are now getting close to their 60s but still kicking ass. Show-ya not only played music but they also helped to grow the women scene in Japan, and 30 years later the result is that we have a lot of girls playing metal. Then the success of Babymetal put a lot of eyes in Japan and a lot of people has discovered what is happening there. But yeah there are very good dudes bands too. Crystal Lake (very good metalcore band, though that's far away from my favorite genre), Galneryus as epic power metal, Ningen Isu that are a classic band from 80s that has found more success nowadays... And all the Visual Kei bands, that's another whole world to get into xD
If you try Indonesia the only one I know of is Voice of Bacetprot. Great band though. Korea has the hard rock band Rolling Quartz but I'm not sure on Metal. India has a fantastic band called Bloodywood.
Good reaction. Another good Japanese female metal band you should check out is Hanabie. Also check out Defiloof or Dexcore. No they're not female. Btw, the biggest metal act from Japan is still Babymetal. Like it or not 🙂
On your bandmaid reaction, i'd put nemophila Raitei, but you started stronger w Dissension. for variety, try their "Life", or "Hypnosis". for live, try anything from Naon No Yaon show 2021 (no audience, soso sound, but rockin 3 song set). Personally think the latest is the best, "Adabana" th-cam.com/video/AxYiOwsu6wU/w-d-xo.html This Dissension vid was about half english, there is a full english version. I'd also put lots of female metal, that is a large part of the current scene, and i dare say the attraction for westerners (and everyone). As far as finding a BIG 4?, i'm not sure there's enough thrash, nor groove metal bands. There are some *-Core bands like Crossfaith...? th-cam.com/video/zK3tjL0Q_FI/w-d-xo.html Maximum the Hormone is awesome, contemporaries of System of a Down (with female drummer and her lil bro guitarist), "Yoshu Fukushu" (i dunno, translate says "preparation assistant") th-cam.com/video/beN5ep5MrdY/w-d-xo.html Dir En Grey is like art-metal, a bit of everything but it's about the show, the drama, incredible voice: "Tousei" th-cam.com/video/MA-zXhJBtNY/w-d-xo.html . But Japan's mostly got powermetal, they thrive on mashups and superb technique. Their alternative is "idol culture" which focuses on personality and is (way too!) forgiving of lackluster talent, huge gaps from them to top-tier that you'd like. Some "in the middle"? might be Hanabie (all female, new) "We love sweets" th-cam.com/video/G18yyvPCiTM/w-d-xo.html , there's also BiSh ("brand new idol shit"), Broken by the Scream... and of course 20 more... But one more thing they do have, classic metal. Merge loudness and judas priest, with no gimmicks at all, you get Anthem. been around forever, all english now on nuclear blast records, try 2019's Black Empire th-cam.com/video/AttcCxA7gZ8/w-d-xo.html or an apparently brand new? live version, my first listen, sounds killer th-cam.com/video/wUZLY4vR33A/w-d-xo.html Other bands like this, Sabre Tiger, SexMachineguns?, dozen more... I'll be watching, maybe you'll react to something that triggers my horrible memory ;)
Nice reaction. If you like this song, then you’ll really like their song Revive. Have you checked Wagaki band? It’s unique in that they mix traditional instruments with modern ones. Not sure what genres it is. Good song is Senbonzakura. Going back to Lovebites have you seen Winds Of Transylvania (Vlad Love version) or Edge Of The World? Many other groups like Hanabie, X Japan, Mary’s Blood, etc.. (fyi.. for rock, pop, emo you MUST check out the band One Ok Rock.)
These ladies are defacto the best coming from Japan today. Check out their song Adabana. 🤘 I think your dismissal of Band-Maid is a mistake. Checkout Domination (live).
He is not dismissing them. He said that more commercial hard rock isn't his style. He likes he harder heavier stuff. He said several times he is looking for the big four of Japanese metal. Band Maid are not metal. So it's not an issue of them being good or not. It's just that the style of rock they play is not to his taste.
No Japanese metal tour will be complete with checking out Maximum The Hormone, try their song Alien.
Nemophila is another excellent all-female Japanese Heavy metal band. Japan is the country with more all-female rock bands in the world. Male and female Japanese musicians are outstanding. Some people say that rock is not dead, it just moved to Japan.
By the way, Nemophila played at the Whiskey a gogo a few days ago and is gonna perform at the Aftershock festival in a few days. Band-Maid and The Warning will be there too.
Aftershock is in October
When it comes to the all-female scene in Japan, it is hard to say who is the Big 4. The Big 3 is easy, that's pretty clearly Lovebites, Nemophila and Band-Maid, in terms of having the largest followings outside of Japan. There are a few stand-outs that could be considered that #4, though. First, there is Aldious, whose drummer Marina Bozzio is the step-daughter of the legendary Terry Bozzio of Frank Zappa and Missing Persons fame! They have a pretty good following outside of Japan. Then there are the other offspring of Destrose, a band that didn't have a lot of success on their own, but which spawned several of Japan's biggest female bands. The biggest bands to rise from the ashes of Destrose are Lovebites, Nemophila, Mary's Blood, Fate Gear and Disqualia. Mary's Blood and Disqualia are both defunct now, but they interestingly featured both of Nemophila's guitarists (Hazuki was with Disqualia, but was not the ex-Destrose member in that band; and Saki was with Mary's Blood, and WAS the ex-Destrose member in that band - Hazuki is the first lead in this song, with the black jacket, and Saki has the second lead, with the black tee shirt).
There are several bands who aren't all-female who could also fit that #4 spot - male bands Ningen Isu, Crossfaith and Galneryus, and female-fronted bands Unlucky Morpheus, Wagakki Band, and Babymetal, just to name a few.
Of course, those are bands who are current. If you delve into the history of Japanese metal, you'll find some truly iconic 80s bands like X-Japan, Loudness, and Show-ya (the band that started the all-female scene), and 90s bands like Maximum the Hormone, most of which are still performing to this day!
Saki was one of five former Destrose members in Mary's Blood. The other four were Eye, Eri, Niboshi (Kayo in her Destrose days), and Mari (though Mari was considered support rather than a full member of Destrose)---they were four of the five original members of MB. Surely in terms of domestic and overseas popularity Gacharic Spin merits mention in any discussion of the most prominent all-female rock/metal bands.
Wait, did mary's blood just disbanded or something ? i thought they were just on a hiatus
@@Ratovx They're on hiatus---actually they called it an "indefinite suspension of activities". Saki said that, as of now, an autograph session in August is the last scheduled activity of the band. (I'm going to that session.)
El NÚMERO 1 es SHOW-YA, 1banda femenina de heavy metal japonés y madrinas entre otras de Nemophila, Mary's Blood, Gacharic Spin, Scandal, etc
Great 4 - 4th is ASTERISM!
If you want to know the band they listened to, here are their favourites...
mayu (vocals) Foo Fighters
Haraguchi-san (bass) Slipknot, Ellegarden
SAKI (guitar) Seikima-II
Hazuki (guitar) Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom
Murata Tamu (drums) Dream Theatre, Opeth
He ID'd the Arch Enemy influence too
Saki certainly listens to (and watches) Babymetal. She's been to their concerts and covered them both with Nemophila and Mary's Blood. In her MB days she gigged with Takayoshi Ohmura of BM's Kami Band.
As others have mentioned, Ningen Isu would be a great band to react to. They are often called the Japanese Black Sabbath, but have many influences. 30+ years, 20+ studio albums. Not living on their past hits. Heartless Scat is the song most start with, Namahage and the Colour out of Space are good first reacts as well.
Absolute giants of metal, I am still amazed they never went big internationally. 100% agree that Heartless Scat is a great song to start with.
Maximum The Hormone is a must for Japanese metal. Their drummer Nao has been a major inspiration for many female Japanese musicians.
Check out Maximum the Hormone if you get a chance. They are another great metal band from Japan that will throw every kinda metal at you in one song!!!
Nemophila is a great band. adabana is probably in my view one of the best songs I have heard in 2022. I do recommend you check out a couple live songs from band maid. domination live and play live are awesome displays of musicianship. they are definitly a rock band, not so much metal. you will find that the Japanese bands are masters at mixing genre's. and they sound great doing it. here's a bunch to check out.....all female....Aldious, Hanabie, Hagane, Bridear, Fate Gear, Broken by the scream, Doll$box, and a more!
Great choice of this song from this band. This song is one of their best songs. When you two hear more songs from this band, you will get a better picture of this band. Songs like Life, Monsters, Sorai, Hypnosis, A Ray Of Light or Oiran. As I wrote before, their new song Adabana is one of the best metal songs of 2022. Guitarist Saki said that the band's musical concept is to play a heavy sound (something like metalcore) spiced with "yurufuwa". Yurufuwa is a Japanese word and means something like fluffy and smooth. The singer mayu is considered the Queen of the Banshee. This is the term for her style fry screams. Many people compare her growling to the roar of a jaguar or mountain lion. This singer has a beautiful voice color with a raw flavor. I love both her singing styles-harsh vocals and pure vocals. I personally consider the singer mayu to be one of the best singers in Japan and a new rock star of the new metal generation. This young band is one of the best metal bands in Japan (not only Japan). New Metal Comet. Thank you so much for this reaction video. Have a good day with my heartfelt greetings :-).
Great reaction. Love the references, most of them are spot on and similar to what I have in mind. Care to try reacting to HANABIE? "We Love Sweets" is your first song from them, definitely 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I second this request
Sure. I'll have her add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@truebrodown you're welcome!!
@@truebrodown you need much more than 4 for Japan. The metal scene is much too strong for that. That is like saying 4 metal bands for America. You could do a top 4 all female Japanese metal bands but even that is very hard.
I guess it wouldn't be that hard if you exclude Babymetal and Band-Maid for not strictly fitting the category. Lovebites, Aldious, Nemophila and Hanabie. Imo. But if Babymetal and Band-Maid are eligible then they should definitely be there. You could take out Hanabie and Nemophila for being too new.
But if I had to do only 4 for Japan I guess... Maximum the Hormone, X-JAPAN, Babymetal and I'm not sure about the 4th I don't know enough about Japanese metal. Show-ya? Ningen Isu? Dunno.
If you want a great male metal band from Japan, try Crystal Lake.
Saki (guitarist on the right) was mentored by the guitarist from Show Ya.
Ningen Isu next. Heartless Scat is the song.
Top 4? It depends on so many things.
Hard Rock: Band-Maid
Cute Metal: Babymetal
Power Metal: Lovebites
Metalcore: Crystal Lake and Crossfaith
Alternative Rock: Hello Sleepwalkers
Alternative Metal: SiM
Deathcore/Visual Kei: Deviloof
Experimental Metal: Dir En Grey
Mixed Genre: Maximum the Hormone
Ultradark Idol: Necronomidol
And many, many more....
Try asterism three-piece Japanese band. Female lead guitarist something on the lines of Jeff Beck or Steve Vai. Mainly instrumental music. Extremely talented guitar player bass player normally plays seven string bass uses a seven string bass
Asterism, Basically kids (maybe now hitting age 20?, formed in middle school, def metal, but had bootsie collins?! as producer when they were like 14, playing Austin by 16… And damn, swagger!!!!!! But talent to back it up
In the mirror (cover ). Halca went crazy.
@@r01dtox15 , yes, I love that one th-cam.com/video/3thAXV4laAA/w-d-xo.html Normally three piece, often instrumental, they had famous singer (currently Aldious’s 4th) Maki Oyama guesting at a small club gig. Fan cam, but quality sound, front row. Loudness was a big influence on HalCa, but basically an easy cover song for her/them…
I love this band.
They are quite diverse in their style, after Dissension The next logical steps would be: OIRAN and REVIVE. His last song: ADABANA has another vibe and it's fantastic (With an absolutely wonderful instrumental bridge)
X Japan is considered the greatest band in Japanese history. Very influential. Others include MUCC and Loudness. Maximum the Hormone is also hugely influential but wouldn't be your cup of tea.
Loudness was one of the few bands in the late 80's that broke into the western market. I would look at Crazy Doctor (Live Europe 1984) to see them in their prime. X-Japan was another huge band. They are know for the "Visual Kei" style (costume dress and hair) that can be traced as an influence to modern Japanese bands today. Yoshiki Drummer/Piano main song writer, famously puts everything into his performance to the point of needing multiple neck surgeries. Rusty Nail live would be a good song to look at. Gazatte is a band that fallowed with the Visual Kei look active from 2002-2019. They can get over Emo at times, but some of the songs hit hard. Other old school Japanese bands include Anthem and Sex Machineguns.
Good song as a starter.
Perhaps gods to follow Revive next.
Enjoyed the video very much. Your quest for the best 4 metal bands in Japan is pretty daunting. It is like asking for the best 4 metal bands in the Scandinavian countries, especially considering the population of the 5 Scandinavian countries combined is less than a third of the population of Japan. Hell, the metro population of Tokyo is more than the combined population of the 5 Scandinavian countries. Trying to name the top 4 metal bands in Sweden would probably get you in a bar fight. Sabaton fans would probably go to war if that band was included. I would put Therion in my Swedish top 4 but I doubt many others would. What about the diehard Ghost fans? Sweden would erupt in a metal civil war.
After all of that, my simple point is that y'all need to listen to at least 10-15 Japanese metal bands. Y'all have have a good start with Lovebites and Nemophila that would be in many top 4 lists (as has been said many times Band-Maid is a great band just not metal). After all those listens, y'all can announce your top 4 and hopefully not start a war.
If you want to listen to Japanese metal at its weirdest then give Maximum The Hormone a try. They are the first Japanese band I started listening to almost 20 years ago and I still enjoy them but you have to be in the right mood. With this band, always expect the unexpected and in the words of Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park "Hold On To Your Butts". As a side note, the only female member of the band is Nao, the drummer, who was a big inspiration to Akane, the drummer for Band-Maid.
Maximum The Hormone "Yoshu Fukushu" - th-cam.com/video/beN5ep5MrdY/w-d-xo.html
Perfect choice to start with
Don't threaten me with a good time! We will be doing Scandinavian metal soon! I'm much more familiar with it than Japan but I love seeing the passion of the fans.
We are planning to tour the world for the best of each country. I believe we agreed on India next. Should be fun!
Picking a top 4, that's tough ! Your basically just scratching the surface. There are some great recommendations, don't limit yourself to 4.❤️🎙🎸🎹🥁😎👌
Name of the song should be spelled Dissension not Dissention. Check out their other new song called Adabana.
Check out Crystal Lake, J-Metal Core male band , Apollo,mv.🔥
NEMOPHILA
The next new song is July 20th.
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For just all female bands, you might like ALDIOUS and BRIDEAR to round out your top-4 with LOVEBITES and NEMOPHILA I'm thinking from your review comments. For something more, try HANABIE. You will likely fall deep into this rabbit hole. Like some old-school hard n roll, try WHISKEY DUST.. There is a ton more.
I can't wait for you to react to Hanabie. It can really go either way, to me they're the best thing to happen to metal in a long time, but I like weird shit thrown into my metal.
I love them! But I'm guessing he's gonna dislike them. Or at least the clean vocals and rapping. I am curious to see what happens. . .
@@TehPhysics yep, cause Hanabie is like either you love them or hate them. And I fear it's gonna be the latter. But fingers crossed, though.
Okay, one of the guitarist name is Saki, nickname Chucky (because she loves horror movies), and the band that influenced her at the early start of her career is an unknown power metal band pre-2000 name Seikima-II. The stage performance of this Seikima-II band is available in TH-cam. You can check the Seikima-II song titled 'Fire After Fire'.
U guys still should give band maid another chance,u don't know what u missing, but NXT up should be hanabie or for the males side- it dir en grey , crystal lake and vamps ( Hyde side band)
If they don't like it then they don't need to like it...it's up to them, I personally don't love Nemophila like other people do but I don't dislike them too, I prefer bands like GnR, Black Sabbath, AiC and BAND-MAID.
Lovebites singer Asami used to be backup singer touring with Vamps…
Bridear - Brave New World Revisited .... please. They have been around much longer then Lovebites.
There is also Aldious - Re-Fire, also much much longer then Lovebites. Maybe one of the earliest band in all female metal band movement in Japan.
I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't that!! Nice!!
Guitarist Hazuki is signed with Ibanez since 2020. (early videos she was using ESP)
Guitarist Saki uses Killer Guitars. She has her own model that she is using here "KG-Fascinator Seven the Empress". Both guitarist use 7 Strings.
Your listening to one of the top best bands out of Japan there are fairly new buy the band members are from different bands and are highly talented
NEMOPHILA is my go to band if I want to listen to some metal. Their riffs drive hard and heavy. They are an All star as far as I'm concerned. One thing I do want to add is that the song you pick for B-M, which understandably you didn't really like, is possibly the worst selection of song to pick. That song was specifically done for an Anime opening. Having said that, try "RINNE" MV or if you can find "Puzzle" live then you will see them rock pretty hard. But as others said, they are more Hard Rock than Metal. Cheers.
👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘🤘💀🤘❤❤❤❤❤ nemophila the beast band .👊 Muy buena reacci9n👊
Have you done the netherlands? (i live in the netherlands always nice to see what people think of our bands)
We are working on that now. We plan to tour the world of metal and Scandinavian bands are on the agenda. 🤘
@@truebrodown ah nice. some great bands from Scandinavia. but it really depends what you are looking for. i am more in to black/depressive/atmospheric black metal my self. so with that i have alot of favorites from them. But in every genre they have great stuff.
you need to continue down the rabbit hole of Nemophila in my opinion the best japanese metal band
Yes, much of it is in English. Mayu does a pretty good job of going back and forth. Nemophila is a super group with AMAZING talent. 12 thumbs up!
The lack of Maximum The Hormone mentions in this comment section disturbs me.
In terms of the big 4 metal bands in Japan, here is an unbiased list to go by how many monthly listeners they have on Spotify. A nice sample poll:
1 - BABYMETAL (1,018,593)
2 - Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas (567,857)
3 - Maximum The Hormone (424,687)
4 - X Japan (252,459)
runner up at number 5 would be Band-Maid with 251,319 listeners (if you even count them as metal. they are more hard rock).
All your B-tier metal bands are all in the 20,000-50,000 listeners range includes: Lovebites, Nemophila, Brats, Passcode, Broken By the Scream, Ningen Isu, ect. Many in which have major growth potential in the next few years to reach A-tier!
biggest Japanese band in the world PERIOD is One OK Rock with 3,077,714 monthly listeners.
Good to see someone bringing out actual facts.
the guitarists of Nemophila correct me if im wrong play a Killer and a Ivanesan i know i spelled the 2nd one wrong for sure but i know it is a very special and expensive guitar please let me know what you think
The dude's bands are far more popular, but the girl's bands have the momentum on their side these days. In general, metal music is huge in Japan, Crystal Lake, for example is one of the top metalcore bands from Japan, and it's quite sucessful internationally (check for example "Apollo" or "Curse"). Their drummer Gaku Taura produces Hanabie (Ha-na-bee-eh, which can be translated as "cold flower" or "flower chill"), another girl's band which mixes heavy metalcore sounds with a variety of genres, while being very kawaii ("cute") at the same time. Great stuff! (Listen to "We love sweets", to begin with) They began as a Maximum the Hormone cover band, which is a veteran alternative/progressive metalcore band, legendary and very influential for the younger generations of japanese musicians. Don't miss Dir En Grey, which started in the late 1990s, with many recordings up to now, and a great variety of metal and hardcore tunes. Very unique, and Kyo, their vocalist, is an outstanding vocalist (listen to "Vinushka in the Androgynous Tour live version, it's a real treat). And what about the stunning Unlucky Morpheus an d their Deathcore buddies of the Undead Corporation? Or the power metal band Galneryus, another legend in Japan? Did I mention Crossfaith yet, or Coldrain, post-hardcore/alternative metal both of them, which reached lots of popularity in the past decade. And this isn't even the tip of the iceberg and a very unfair selection in the end, there are a lot more interesting and inpiring bands. It's a fact that the japanese are obsessed with rock - the louder and harder the better, for many of them.
After watching your Band-Maid reaction I figured Nemophila would be more your speed. As a huge fan of both bands I hope you give Band-Maid another try or two. You mentioned Loudness in another reaction; coincidentally they opened for Nemophila in Japan for a show this June 11th. Subbed to see where you settle on your top four!
We had to add a 2nd week to try and figure that out. So stay tuned for that!
Some Japanese bands, old and new. Take your pick: BAND-MAID [All their songs... really!], LOVEBITES [Break the Wall, Raise some Hell, and all the other songs], MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu], DEXCORE [Red Eye], CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe], SiM [Killing Me], NINGEN ISU [Heartless Scat], UNLUCKY MORPHEUS [Black Pentagram], YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma], COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow], CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle], GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove], ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome], SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate], ALDIOUS [Dominator], BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark], CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny], MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette], GRAUPEL [Bereavement], DOLL$BOXX [Take my Chance], SOKONINARU [Tenohira De Odoru], HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer], TELECiDE [Tied up Memories], NEKO [Ghost on a Record], ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah], JILUKA [Mephisto], BROKEN BY THE SCREAM [Emotion Cross-Counter], LYNCH [Devil], GACHARIC SPIN [Mindset], DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu], X JAPAN [Kurenai], DAZZLE VISION [Second], JUPITER [My Enemy], NOKUTO [Life of Desire], GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation], BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol], NEMOPHILA [Hypnosis], DADAROMA [Lucid Dream], JILUKA [Lluvia], HANABIE [We Love Sweets], A CROWD OF REBELLION [Re:Create of the Re:d], TRiDENT [Spoopy], POLKADOT STINGRAY [any song], MUTANT MONSTERS [Abnormal], BLACKLAB [Insanity], ASTERISM [Church], NOISEMAKER [Hunter or Prey], BiSH [The Night When Stars Twinkle], SCANDAL [A.M.D.K.J.], DEEP GIRL [I kill], Mrs. GREEN APPLE [Inferno], BRATS [Doudatte Yokatta], THE ORAL CIGARETTES [Frenzy Hey Kids!!], Girugamesh [Drain], LiLiHoLi [From Darkness to Light], and many many more...
TOP FIVE, LOVEBITES, NEMOPHILA(live streaming live from Whisky A GoGo club Hollywood live show on 1st July 2022), BAND-MAID(USA TOURS OCTOBER 2022), HANABIE, ASTERISM, check out HANABIE(Japanese JINJER) song MV We Love Sweets and ASTERISM songs Dawn, Rising Moon...
Checkout Unlucky Morpheus!
Symphonic Metal!
Trying to hold your face on while it was being melted off was a nice touch! In my experience that rarely works. As you can see from the bonnet avatar I have no face left!
If it is a female bands rank, i think nemophila may rank in the top 4. But top 4 Japanese bands? This is a hard choice, Japan has been very popular with rock/metal music since the 80s, and there have always been countless excellent bands in Japan.
Nemophila is a band formed in 2019, but actually each of their members is from a different band, All the members are excellent musicians, And they are diverse, they not limited to one style of music, you can hear different things in every song of them. Check out《adabana》next time please!🤘🏻🌸🤘🏻
Top 3: Nemophila, Band-Maid, Lovebites!! Nemophila is a badass super band!!! Pure FIRE 🔥
Nice start into Japanese Rock/Metal. You will find many Female (or female dominated) bands here. The most important (afaik) are:
- LOVEBITES
- BAND-MAID
- NEMOPHILA
- ASTERISM
But you should also check out bands like:
- UNLUCKY MORPHEUS
- MARY'S BLOOD
- RIE a.k.a. SUZAKU
- ALDIOUS
- BRIDEAR
- NINGEN ISU
- BRAY ME
- BROKEN BY THE SCREAM
- SHOW-YA
- CYNTIA
- DROP'S
- WHISKEY DUST
- YOSEI TEIKOKU
- WAGGAKI BAND
- TELECiDE
- BABYMETAL
- LADYBABY
- PASSCODE
- SAISEIGA
- HANABIE
- TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI
- TRIDENT
- ZETTAI CLUB
- CINQ ELEMENT
- CLUPPO
- D_DRIVE
- DOLL$BOXX
- FATE GEAR
- GACHARIC SPIN
- GLIM SPANKY
- HAGANE
- KIYOSHI
....and many more, but I think this will do for the start. Have fun during the next months!
OH! And don´t forget "The WARNING" from Mexico, "VOICE of BACEPROT" from Indonesia and "Jinjer" from Ukraine!
Band-Maid is a hard rock band, they were never a metal band, to begin with. They just happen to play all types of genres. Some people are confused about what metal is when they recommend Band-Maid to you, I can see why you are not as impressed with them when you expect metal going in. I'm a huge fan of Lovebites, Nemophila and Band-Maid. They are all so talented, different and special in their own way but personally, I do find Band-Maid is No#1 overall. I think you will appreciate them more with each new song you check out and they are plenty.
Saki is such an amazing guitarist, she is also the guitarist in Mary's Blood!
Unfortunately Mary's Blood has gone on hiatus. I'll miss them.
Saki is also in Amahiru, she is awesome
Out of interest, as a german, which german bands have you listened to ? I would maybe start with "Beyond the Black" and "Xandria" or if you want an old classic of course there are the "Scorpions" or Doro Pesch
German bands are much more prevalent in the States. I've seen Scorpions, Doro and Rammstein live before. Doro was one of my crushes as a teenager. But admittedly I haven't scratched the surface. We are planning a German week or two in the near future.
Nemophila has some really hefty bangers and some feelsy stuff, good band and a staple to lift my mood now^^ Versatile and skilled badass women
It's all about what you're looking for in your metal. You had a sip of what Nemophila can do.
This band can take an old Beach Boys classic that will have you saying........
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(not a song)
Here's what Nemophila does for fun.
The Banana Song
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But here's where their going. They will change metal.
*Hypnosis* (original song - love the solo)
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*Adabana (original song)
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Within the metal community of people I know I'd say the 5 most well known hard rock/metal bands from Japan are X-Japan, Babymetal, Band-Maid, Dir En Grey and Maximum the Hormone. Though there are others that are fairly well known such as Lovebites, Nemophila, Crystal Lake, Mary's Blood, Loudness, Ningen Isu, Passcode, Broken By The Scream, Girugamesh, Deviloof and a few others. Japan has one of the best if not the best Metal scenes going right now.
Thank you from Japan.
Big 4
・BABYMETAL
・BAND-MAID
・LOVEBITES
・NEMOPHILA
from Japan with love
I just sent the 7 hours ago about Doll$ Boxx from Japan. And I forgot to give you the name of the song. It's Karakuri Town Live version, not the offical video. It rocks fast, and I love it.Also you guys are fun and I like what you have to say.
We may check it out tonight. We love new music.
My list of favorites from Japan.
Nemophila
Bridear
花冷え (Hanabie)
Broken by The Scream
Fate Gear
THEO NOVA
Hanabie ''We Love Sweets'' banger band.....you will love them
Reaction posted for them already.
Galneryus Angel of Salvation
If you want to hear growl voice, try react to Hanabie with a song We Love Sweets, for male bands try on Crystal Lake, Dexcore, for heavy music and heavy riff, try react to Ningen Isu with a songs Heartless Scat, Toshisun and Namahage and for instrumental song with female guitarist, try react to Asterism, a trio band with a song Dawn, Gunfire and Church.
I saw M. Friedman do an interview with them recently. He’s been hanging out in Japan for over a decade. The metal scene hot with great musicians. Enjoy your travels.
Yes, Marty Friedman has a lot of influence on new guitar players in Japan as he has lived there for a few years and does a lot of concerts and media material.
HANABIE WE LOVE SWEETS and I subscribed
I think you're being misled a bit here. First off, I'm enjoying watching you go down this particular rabbit hole. But none of these bands are really all that big in the grand scheme of things. What's happening is that there was a band called Babymetal who went viral on youtube in 2014/2015. Babymetal were an idol unit, but they played metal combined with pop, and it was a bizarre concept that shouldn't have worked, but did. Babymetal gained a big following among Westerners, and youtube's algorhythm took it from there, so suddenly other new "all-female" Japanese hard rock and heavy metal bands got recommended in the sidebar starting with Band-Maid, then Lovebites, then Nemophila, etc. , and then everyone who reacted to Babymetal started reacting to them too. All these bands are fairly new (well, Band-Maid aren't exactly new anymore), and they are all very popular with Western viewers on youtube, but they aren't even close to the "big four of Japanese metal". In fact, there's been what's called a "boom" of all-female hard rock and metal bands in Japan for the last 15 years or so, and the most popular of those bands in Japan were Aldious, Cyntia, and Mary's Blood, while the most influential was Destrose. Because they all existed pre-Babymetal and pre-reaction videos, they barely got any attention at all from the post-Babymetal reaction video crowd. All the bands you're reacting to are what you might call "up and coming". But people in the West have discovered them and are recommending them to you, which is fine because they're great bands.
Also, metal in Japan has been a thing for almost as long as metal in the West, staring with Flower Travellin' Band around 1970, but it really kicked off in the late 70s/early 80s with bands like Earthshaker, Ezo, Anthem, Loudness, and a ton of others. later in the 80s bands like X-Japan and Seikima-II came along and became massive, massive bands, influencing generations of metal musicians for decades to come even more than Western metal bands. The metal scene in Japan was huge and has been around for decades, and many of the current (and even older) Japanese bands were primarily influenced by earlier Japanese bands. Of course the earlier Japanese bands were influenced by Western bands, so it makes for some interesting sounds.
Third thing - the "all-female" bands aren't the biggest metal bands in Japan, except for one, an 80s band called Show-Ya, who were also massively popular and influential. They're often cited as the "first all-female Japanese heavy metal band", but that's only because they were so popular. They were actually more of a hard rock band who drifted more and more toward metal throughout their career, but meanwhile there were a couple of dozen legitimate all-female metal bands in the 80s who are less well known but significantly more "metal". There have always been a ton of all-female metal bands in Japan, it's not a boy's club like it is over here, but having said that, the male bands have still been the most popular bands traditionally, and by quite a big margin (Show-Ya excepted).
Last thing, I mentioned that a lot of the Japanese bands were primarily influenced by older Japanese bands. A perfect example of that is Saki, the guitarist in this video on your right. She was inspired to become a musician after seeing Seikima-II on TV when she was a kid, she was in a Seikima-II tribute band early in her carerer, she plays Killer guitars, which is what Luke Takamura from Seikima-II plays, she even played his signature Killer guitar, and Saki now even has her OWN signature Killer guitar. She's a veteran and an original and a highly regarded player and shredder extraordinaire in her own right, but as far as comparisons go, her lead style is more similar to Luke Takamura's style than it is to any Western guitar player. But a glaring exception to this is Lovebites, and that's because Miho (bass player/leader until she left the band) grew up on 80s Western bands like Iron Maiden, Helloween, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Slayer, Motorhead, etc, and so her entire concept for Lovebites is that she wanted to form a band that played the kind of music she grew up on and loves, and so Lovebites have a very intentional Western 80s-inspired metal sound.
I was going to say more, but that's already a book and I have to get up for work in 5 hours. I hope that's somewhat useful information at least. Cheers!
While Destrose was important, because so many great players passed through it, it was not particularly "influential". Arguably Scandal was more influential, because so many of today's younger Japanese female professional rock and metal musicians listened to and watched them growing up. Scandal's influence on the Japanese music scene is often underestimated by Westerners---in their heyday they were everywhere in Japan, on TV specials, TV commercials, anime tie-ups, drama theme songs, Budokan concerts, overseas appearances too---and a very slick PR effort, including a renowned fan-club and associated events. Japanese female musicians didn't necessarily imitate Scandal's musical style, but I think many saw the band as a kind of role-model because of its great success. Its influence was on both the music and business sides of the music industry.
Also, Gacharic Spin should be mentioned in the same breath as Aldious and Mary's Blood. In fact, those three bands and Destrose often shared the bill---I saw various combinations of those four bands numerous times at club and theater gigs over a number of years. They were a kind of sorority, building relationships that continue today.
@@OtobokeGaijin6218 Yes, that's what I meant re: Destrose. I'm not sure what word to use other than influential and I ran out of time.
U check sir adabana new song nemophilaa
Lovebites make speed metal btw. but thats besides the point. if you want to have one of the biggest japanese metal bands ever then listen to X-Japan. they got such a cult fanbase you wont find that anywhere else in the world. i dont even think fans from Metalica iron maiden slayer and those kinds of bands come close to the fans of X-japan. read a little bit about the band. the drummer who couldnt drum anymore because of neck injury but he kept trying and trying and eventually played drum again. the whole story behind that band is massive. never seen anything like that of any band in the world. they are definitely worth checking out.
Nemophilas best songs are the music videos of A Ray of Light, Revive, Adabana, Raitei, Oiran youtube version, Life live and their 2 best covers they did Linking Park Given Up where she does chester banningtons 17 second scream pretty damn good and Babymetal Megitsune which in my opinion is better then the original please let me know what you think
This band was before Lovebites. Had the drummer Haruna and bass player Miho who later created the band Lovebites. This band is called Destrose and the song is called Maze th-cam.com/video/D6ivt5CCHOE/w-d-xo.html
please next react 【Live】NEMOPHILA / OIRAN ( NAONのYAON 2021 )
Band Maid is not a metal band, it's a hard rock band, lovebites, Nemophila and Baby Metal are, if you only look into 4 metal bands from Japan your certainly going to miss out on a lot of incredible artists.
I agree. Also, the song that was chosen for B-M was not even a good representation of the band's typical sound (Sense) as it was tailored maid for an Anime. Anyway, not fair to put B-M in the metal category as they are as you said Hard Rock, even though they do have a few heavy metal-ish songs in their catalog. But, going back to NEMOPHILA, they are my favorite metal band coming out of Japan hands down.
Welcome to the rabbit hole of incredibly talented musicians from Japan. Sorry for the novel length comment, but I feel like I have to clarify something before you get the wrong impression (even though my comment will probably be swallowed up because the video's a week old now). All of the Japanese metal bands you explored (and will explore) probably have more fans outside of Japan than in their home country. After reading a few comments, I really don't know where the impression that "metal is huge in Japan" comes from. They probably have the best bands in the world at the moment, but their metal community is really small. If you'd ask 100 people under 30 years old in Shibuya, I'd say that the majority couldn't even name you one metal band (if they even knew what metal is) and the majority of the rest would say X Japan because that's one of the few they know because either their parents listen(ed) to them or because of their band leader Yoshiki, who even played piano on the emperors birthday celebrations a few years back.
Talking about metal bands founded after 2010, BABYMETAL is by far the most successful and that's probably because they're Idols. They're (were) the only ones filling arenas. Lovebites go and Nemophila could probably go up to ZEPP Tokyo level, which would be ~3500 people, for their tour finals, Unlucky Morpheus and Mary's Blood can consistently fill venues of 2000 people for their tour finals, but the big majority of the rest play mainly live houses (the Japanese form of music clubs) in front of 500 people or less. Majority also can't live from playing in a/one band either, that's why you see so many musicians with more than one band or giving music lessons on the side for example. If you want to be successful with music in Japan you need to become an Idol (female or male), play Pop(rock) or be lucky and get chosen for an anime theme. You probably have a bigger chance that a Japanese under 30 who listens to mainstream music can name you all of the 100+ AKB48 members than a metal band founded after 2010. And yes, I deliberately left out Band-Maid (who'd be a clear #2 after BABYMETAL) because they're not a metal band.
Hagane (very new band) Super Villian, Trident - Spoopy, Mary's Blood (anything), Unlucky Morpheus - Black Pentagram, Galynerus (Japanese Dream Theater) Angel of Salvation, Hanabie - We Love Sweets, Bridear, Sokoninaru PROG (very!)
A couple of bands to check out that I didn’t see listed MakeMake, Gyze, Blood Stain Child, Raise a Sullen, Deviloof. Definitely don’t give up on Band-Maid because they are incredible musicians with many great songs that are heavy but they always have awesome choruses and melody that sound poppy but with the hard rock riffs. Definitely my favorite!! Japan just has so many great musicians.
Nemophila doesn’t have the deep catalog that Band-Maid has due to being a young band. You can’t really pin these bands to a genre, especially Band-Maid. They incorporate pop, punk, rock, metal and more into their songs. About the only thing that all of their songs have in common is that they are “catchy”. If you dig deeper into their catalog you will experience the variety. I do suggest Band-Maid’s official live videos instead of the OMVs which I think distract you from what amazing musicians these women are. The quickest way to see the diversity of their music is the Official Live Video for “Manners/ Black Hole”.
Enjoy the journey!
I'd go check out Galneryus, "Angel of Salvation" I'd say SYU, the guitarist, is probably one of the best in the world. Also check out the hugely influential Maximum the Hormone, "Youshu Fukushu" The drummer, Nao is is on e of the big influences of Murata Tamu (Nemophila) as well as Akane Hirose (Band Maid).
You gotta check out Hanabie. Start off with "We love sweets". Heavy heavy metal
Hanabie- “We Love Sweets”, Telecide - “Cycle of Addiction”, any Broken by the Scream song, any miscast song just to name a few
Have you tried bring me the horizon/babymetal KINGSLAYER ??? Or ARKADIA from Babymetal ?
Welcome to the party. Japanese bands have been playing Rock and Roll for 70 years. You just haven’t been listening.
Japan’s Heavy Metal “Big Four” would certainly include X-Japan, a group that took off in the 80’s. NEMOPHILA made covers of two X-Japan songs. See on TH-cam.
You still don’t have NEMOPHILA “figured out.” They’re very versatile and every song has a different sound. ADABANA, their latest single, might be their best yet. And they’ve released dozens of cover songs in tribute to other influential Japanese bands you’ve never heard of. They are all worth checking out.
The “girls” doing the gang vocals are the band members. (Drummer MURATA TAMA is a mother of two.)
Are you seriously ready to delve into the Japanese rock and metal scene, if so plan to stay awhile! As far as a top 4 goes after Band Maid(because of how many genres they cover and song writing) the rest would depend on who you talk to! Here are a few bands to check out : One OK Rock, ACME, Aldious, BABYMETAL, Bridear, Crystal Lake, Gacharic Spin, HANABIE, Mary's Blood, Maximum the Hormone, Rottengraffty, Sokoninaru, TELECiDE, Unlucky Morpheus, ASTERISM, C-GATE, Doll$Boxx, Loudness, X Japan, Dir En Grey, Galneryus and many more.
I doubt he would like One Ok Rock. They are definitely waaay too far on the pop rock side of things for his tastes based on their videos. He likes stuff like Slayer
Well you just found the number one of Japan :3
You guys have to check out Maximum The Hormone. They will blow your mind. Think Red Hot Chili Peppers & System of the Down with a sprinkle of The Doors.
Go through our library. We have done a couple of his songs now.
look for FATE GEAR, ALDIOUS, UNLUCKY Morpheus, wagakki band, mary blood,
The top 4 from Japan? Nemophila, LOVEBITES, Nemophila, & LOVEBITES
7:00 There is a lot of women bands popping right now yeah, another great one that's starting to trend right now is Hanabie. You can also check Aldious, Mary's Blood or Bridear, that are heavy metal bands smaller but also with five women. And we are not even looking at the idol bands side of the scene xD There was in the 80s a generation of metal bands in Japan like Loudness, Earthshaker or Anthem and one of them was show-ya, a band of girls that are now getting close to their 60s but still kicking ass. Show-ya not only played music but they also helped to grow the women scene in Japan, and 30 years later the result is that we have a lot of girls playing metal. Then the success of Babymetal put a lot of eyes in Japan and a lot of people has discovered what is happening there.
But yeah there are very good dudes bands too. Crystal Lake (very good metalcore band, though that's far away from my favorite genre), Galneryus as epic power metal, Ningen Isu that are a classic band from 80s that has found more success nowadays... And all the Visual Kei bands, that's another whole world to get into xD
While we're on Japanese bands that don't get enough attention:
MergingMoon - Greyen (live clip official)
Saiseiga - Ride On!
Blacklab - Abyss Woods
Ningen Isu and Galneryus are male heavy metal bands. You're just naive.
Try to listen to DIR EN GREY - VINUSHKA live
If you try Indonesia the only one I know of is Voice of Bacetprot. Great band though. Korea has the hard rock band Rolling Quartz but I'm not sure on Metal. India has a fantastic band called Bloodywood.
indonesia is a place for extreme metal, try Deadsquad
Good reaction. Another good Japanese female metal band you should check out is Hanabie. Also check out Defiloof or Dexcore. No they're not female. Btw, the biggest metal act from Japan is still Babymetal. Like it or not 🙂
I have found over 26 all female rock though metal Japanese bands so far
I’d like to see you react to Hanabie(ha na bi eh); We love sweets, and Gacharic Spin; I wish I, next level gene blending.
Band Maid , Aldious, Nemophila, Lovebites
On your bandmaid reaction, i'd put nemophila Raitei, but you started stronger w Dissension. for variety, try their "Life", or "Hypnosis". for live, try anything from Naon No Yaon show 2021 (no audience, soso sound, but rockin 3 song set). Personally think the latest is the best, "Adabana" th-cam.com/video/AxYiOwsu6wU/w-d-xo.html This Dissension vid was about half english, there is a full english version.
I'd also put lots of female metal, that is a large part of the current scene, and i dare say the attraction for westerners (and everyone). As far as finding a BIG 4?, i'm not sure there's enough thrash, nor groove metal bands. There are some *-Core bands like Crossfaith...? th-cam.com/video/zK3tjL0Q_FI/w-d-xo.html
Maximum the Hormone is awesome, contemporaries of System of a Down (with female drummer and her lil bro guitarist), "Yoshu Fukushu" (i dunno, translate says "preparation assistant") th-cam.com/video/beN5ep5MrdY/w-d-xo.html
Dir En Grey is like art-metal, a bit of everything but it's about the show, the drama, incredible voice: "Tousei" th-cam.com/video/MA-zXhJBtNY/w-d-xo.html . But Japan's mostly got powermetal, they thrive on mashups and superb technique. Their alternative is "idol culture" which focuses on personality and is (way too!) forgiving of lackluster talent, huge gaps from them to top-tier that you'd like.
Some "in the middle"? might be Hanabie (all female, new) "We love sweets" th-cam.com/video/G18yyvPCiTM/w-d-xo.html , there's also BiSh ("brand new idol shit"), Broken by the Scream... and of course 20 more...
But one more thing they do have, classic metal. Merge loudness and judas priest, with no gimmicks at all, you get Anthem. been around forever, all english now on nuclear blast records, try 2019's Black Empire th-cam.com/video/AttcCxA7gZ8/w-d-xo.html or an apparently brand new? live version, my first listen, sounds killer th-cam.com/video/wUZLY4vR33A/w-d-xo.html Other bands like this, Sabre Tiger, SexMachineguns?, dozen more...
I'll be watching, maybe you'll react to something that triggers my horrible memory ;)
Check out Hanabie "We love Sweets" they don't follow a "template" lol
Nice reaction. If you like this song, then you’ll really like their song Revive. Have you checked Wagaki band? It’s unique in that they mix traditional instruments with modern ones. Not sure what genres it is. Good song is Senbonzakura. Going back to Lovebites have you seen Winds Of Transylvania (Vlad Love version) or Edge Of The World? Many other groups like Hanabie, X Japan, Mary’s Blood, etc.. (fyi.. for rock, pop, emo you MUST check out the band One Ok Rock.)
Next song lovebites - edge of the world Please...
Hi im from indonesia... 🥰
These ladies are defacto the best coming from Japan today. Check out their song Adabana. 🤘 I think your dismissal of Band-Maid is a mistake. Checkout Domination (live).
He is not dismissing them. He said that more commercial hard rock isn't his style. He likes he harder heavier stuff. He said several times he is looking for the big four of Japanese metal. Band Maid are not metal. So it's not an issue of them being good or not. It's just that the style of rock they play is not to his taste.
Wonderful! More japanese band reacts, please! (with Babymetal too!) :D
another good recommendation from japan is Doll$boxx