great reaction as always, and I agree with you, Band-Maid are absolutely unique. They are a real super band as in the past few existed, this is because they only make their music and that is why they can remember all these complicated passages, because no one, like, producers or financiers, interferes in the creative flow. Misa is also released by Kanami, so she can go around her bass neck as she sees fit. if you then listen to the tone and the sound of Misa's bass, it is a unique and unrepeatable sound, this is the signal of how much she studies and researches on the instrument. Akane can let herself go in those impossible rhythmic combinations of foot and hand (you listen to Corallium well in certain points it is always hitting or kicking off, I don't know how she manages without seizing her brain), but this is certainly easy for her because it is her research and her pleasure. Miku and Saiki continue to create new vocal weaves. Kanami now makes solos and riffs that are on Kanami scales, we no longer know where she goes to get the notes, one day here one day there, she explores every genre and every scale and way. the pop melodic lines, or as you say from movie theme, are beautiful and uncommon, they always have one or two notes that are signed. By now at this point, I think they are by far the best band today and even for a few decades.
Band Maid's b-sides ... Damn ... What a quality, my lord!. Ten riffs per song, with their corresponding insane bass counter-melody, different drum patterns for each section with their different drum fills to spice them up even more, crazy guitar solos with double or triple layers, depending on Kanami's desire to play hide and seek. .. and the red and blue oni demons singing BETTER THAN EVER IN THEIR LIFE. F_cking best band in the world... This is a miracle.
So.. they put out an album of 12 songs, none of them bad. The put out Different and About Us, which also weren't bad. Then these 3... thats 17 KICK ASS songs in 11 months. Other than the Beatles, what other band has done that? Freaking amazing!
Different single had Don't Be Long, so make it 18. Oh wait, also Youth and Without Holding Back, so 20. And if you count the instrumentals on the BluRay which are so incredible that they are their own entities, there's 23. And I will throw in Smile (Acoustic) because it's so distinctive vs. the original, which would be 24. I would say no one else has ever had this kind of hitting streak. I could probably make a case for Guided By Voices at some point in late 90s, but Band-Maid's music is on a whole other level of ambition and execution compared to GBV. Band-Maid's music is so much more thrilling.
First listen: B-M have finally gone over board-Sense too close to speed metal and Saki's song spoilt with too much pounding of the drums. Those harmonies were good though.... Needless to say, I love them both now. Quite amazing how B-M can write songs that instantly grab me and others that grow over time. Only two drawbacks: highly addictive and can spoil pleasure of other bands. Great reviews, Ryan. Thanks.
I like Hibana, I really do... but the gem on this release is Corallium. The vocals are just on a whole different level. The harmonies, especially the post-solo harmonies just give me goosebumps. Akane's unrelenting beat, Kanami's riffing, Misa's baseline... all working together to give us a sound that somehow is different from everything they've done before... and STILL FUCKING INCREDIBLE... I cannot wait to see this live, I hope it holds up. I hope it gets a MV.
Yeah man, Band maid is a musician's wet dream. They really are a Musician's band.... But also insanely catchy. I'm starting to hear some people say that they miss the older stuff, mostly because it's more simple and therefore "catchier". The dudes who wrote for them back in the day just couldn't possibly think of shit like that.. .. Nobody can, I really hope they never cave in to the pressure, and keep on pushing each other. This is the only band I've heard that consistently blows my mind. On every new release.
I love World Domination songs the most. And I think all songs on that album were written by them, unlike Just Bring it. I already knew them from Just Bring it days but I never thought they own written songs could be better than producer written songs.
If I recall correctly, Fate, Turn me on, Honey... And.. damn I'm sure there's another one were written by other dudes on WD.. Honey being a cover. And yes, they write better than producers. Much better.. Kanami is one hell of a genius, and she knows how to use her crew well.
Corallium is like nothing else out there, truly original. Band Maid have matured into a force of "genre-creating" heights. A unit that's already iconic just from that perspective! A five-piece, relentless fun machine of excellence where now each five 'parts' are ultimately irreplaceable.
Akane activated her other two brains in her feet and started doing impossible things in her hands and feet that require the use of three brains, at least.
Miku: "Hey Mincho, do you have a few minutes to work on a couple of B side tracks for our single?" Kanami: "Sure!" *Makes these two AMAZING songs* Miku: "So... Training camp again?" Kanami: "Sure!"
To me, what makes Band Maid so special is, the way they use instruments to underpin the melody, (like a harmony), then turn it around and use the vocals to give you another riff beside the instruments. (WTF .... that sounded so much better in my head than what I wrote. I think I'm turning into a maid.)
Most bands that I have known and loved in my life have been good for two or maybe three albums of great music and then are relegated to living on past glory. The Maids have not only broken that mold but shattered it to s___t. How in the world can they just continually get better and better. These are three of the most killer rock songs I have ever heard. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha...gotcha!
I have started to feel that many Band-Maid songs are composed like very compressed rock symphonies. Lot's of (very short) movements that are distinct but related, with themes and motifs that recur throughout. I would not be at all surprised if Kanami is applying some classical techniques to these compositions.
I think Kanami learn a lot from her classical trained friends when writing Sense. Saiki was saying Kanami uses so many classical music terms she does not know.
As much as well all love and admire Akane for her kicks and tom work... I think her high hat work is criminally overlooked. Its not just this song. There are soooo many songs where she's just driving the beat forward with her high hat work. I think Choose Me or SML is one of the ones that always stands out to me.... now I have to go back and listen to find out which ones I was thinking of... oh the horror! :) Honestly I think Hibana is the best song on this release. Even though it was written for a specific purpose, same as Sense, it just works better in my mind. I love the main riff from Kanami. Crunchy and Miku and MISA laying down a sweet rhythm melody for Saiki and Kanami to work off of. Corallium is impressive as well. The vocals from Saiki on it are the stand out to me... as well as the lyrics of course. :)
Band Maid and fine wine, two things that just get better with age! Great to see Saiki spreading her wings, and Misa not far behind! Akane is still on fire on that drum kit! Love the scream from Miku! Kanami is never satisfied with the ordinary!
@@grayholloway4704 Happy Halloween to you, Gray! I'm up for a beer or two, but no horror flicks for me, maybe a war movie or two, or Alita, Battle Angel.
It doesn't matter if you listen to the songs first Ryan. Not everything has to be a first time reaction, we just like to hear your insights. "HIBAAAAAAAAANA" :)
@@xagorvangard I see what you've done there Xagor. I agree with you "Hibana's" my fav too. It's a epic slab of Hard Rock awesomeness. And if anyone disagrees it doesn't matter cos Mincho told me to say it.😏
Your observation at 3:27 reminded me of something I read where someone described Band-Maid music as a fractal, where the closer you look, the more complex it is and you just confirmed it! Hibana gets me pumped!
Hibana has such an awesome riff, besides Liberal it´s my favorite riff from Kanami so far, i just LOVE IT! There are for sure better songs, but that´s a TOP5 riff from Band-Maid for sure. Corallium on the other hand is cool as well, not so much my taste to be honest, but nice that SAIKI did her first own lyrics. Round about a year ago she said she is trying and wanted to make a song and here it is! Great stuff! Love all 3 songs, but Corallium is my least favorite, just a taste thing that i can´t really explain... Greetings from Germany, always looking forward to your reactions, Ryan :)
Excerpt from a recent interview of Miku and Saiki by Tokion: Interviewer: There are [female] bands that want to be seen simply as a band, and not as a girl band. Kobato: We don’t really care now, since there are more hard rock girl bands making appearances in the media and the world now seems to properly understand what girl bands are, though, when BAND-MAID first started, girl bands were lumped together as “idol groups,” and we wanted to prove to people that “we aren’t idols!” SAIKI: We were like, “It’s okay if people call us a girl band, but just don’t forget that we’re a band!” Kobato: Back then, there were quite a lot of bands that weren’t actually playing the instruments on their own, and we wanted to show that we were different from them; I think that was huge. SAIKI: It’s been years since we started, and we have more songs in our repertoire and our own staple tunes that make people say, “these songs are unique to BAND-MAID,” so I don’t care anymore about how people label us.
.... and Misa plays all those baselines the same whilst supping whisky. The different accents and inflections are probably just dependent on how merry she is.
oh ... you've probably seen (going by your comment) that there's a couple of brand new interviews - only a couple of days old - that's been posted on their sub-reddit. For anyone that doesn't know.
They are constantly testing out new things and seeking new directions for their music. So far CORALLIUM is my favouite, Saiki really brings something special to the band.
you know something I've been pondering: I wonder if the fact that Kanami basically trained her own rhythm guitarist from scratch gives her alot more song writing freedom.
The thing I really love about Band-Maid, is this wall of sound they create. I know a couple of metal bands that play incredibly dense music, but Band-Maid is the only hard rock band I know of that manages to create the same kind of atmosphere, the same kind of musical landscape as those bands. Other people find their later stuff too busy and hectic, but for me this is peak Band-Maid.
What sets them apart for me is that they can orchestrate all the layers and keep it catchy, even accessible, without it veering into noise or virtuosity just for its own sake.
I´m enjoying a lot the new stuff. Still like their earlier songs and that sound is the one that made me interested but after following for a while it's nice to see how they're evolving. The other thing is that even though the music and style is changing their quality is still there, so no matter what they do they always make something that sounds good.
Saiki is called the Ice Queen, but reading the lyrics of Corallium shows how passionate she is!! I can't wait to see Corallium live performance. Her stage presence, charisma and aura will kill us..!!
I keep banging on about Kanami being a musical savant but it explains so much, She is full of music. She is not an air head, she is very well versed in guitar tech - look at her pedal board - but I think she is composing all the time. How else does she keep us the work rate and deliver so many riffs and complexities. Her heart melting awkwardness of stage is perhaps another clue. I am in thrall.
it popped up on my RUclips music while i was at work the last week and i was blown away when it came on during the shuffle i knew it was them but i had never heard the song what a fantastic surprise.
'hibana'/'spark' is similar to 'i can't live without you' in terms 'of guitar layers. it's also got three tracks laid -- two melodies panned left and right and subtle, thick chugging chords as backdrop.
I downloaded your album a small place in a big world from spotify. It takes 40 minutes to commute to work every day. BAND-MAID roars in the morning to prepare for battle, and Ryan's song calms down in the evening. This is going to be my daily routine for a while. Your voice is awesome!
@@RyanMear Your song is perfect for jim beam on the rock. It's the best time of the day to lean back on the spacious sofa and drink jim beam while listening to your album🍸
I love what you said about how much Band-Maid throws in to one song. It reminds me of a line in the movie Amadeus. "There's too many notes!' Well of course Mozart chose very carefully what and how many notes he needed. I feel the same about Band-Maid. To give another quote, "it's just right!"
By the time my brain has caught up with what one member is doing, everything and I mean everything has changed. It leaves me open mouthed and dumbfounded in the best possible way.
Sounded a lot as if they were having a lot of fun !!-----as if they had discovered a whole pile of forgotten tubes of paint, and communally decided on the instant to mess around with them together. ----------and so the five beautiful maids lived happily ever after. !!!
I am reminded of solo classical orchestration composers (I won't name names but you'd recognise them if I did). What I mean by that is that ALL of their material is truly orchestrated.... "we've got all these sounds we can use to serve the song, how do we combine them to provide the best outcome?".
A pleasure as always. It might look like I'm just admiring the shirt, but it my head all I can hear is the cool riffs, at least until Miku shakes me up. Need a rhythm section video for Hibana. For Corallium I'm itching to see Saiki in action. (Shout out for the Doctor Who gif - these songs _are_ bigger on the inside.)
I've had it, this is the last straw, I've decided that I'm going in for some gene editing treatments to see if I can grow at last three more ears and new brain regions to properly listen to Band-Maid.
I am in a minority that actually would put Corallium in third spot out of the three on the CD. But that just means it is still head and shoulders above anything else anybody else is doing.
Hahaha, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to wait listening to this just for the reaction. I think it's completely fine, there's sooooo much to deconstruct, even after 5 listens there's more than enough to talk about! Well, what can I even say... they blew me away AGAIN... over and over!! Corallium is fkin ridiculous. I wonder if I will ever experience a bad song from them!? Just like you said, HOW do they remember all these songs, Corallium alone has material for a whole album. I know how I will spend my next few days on my way to work etc., just listening to each instrument and jamming out lol I've seen your 'Asterism-Gunfire' just before this, too, didn't realize you had a reaction for it. The first song of theirs I reacted to is their 'Rising Moon' MV on the 'TOKUMAJAPAN' channel, which came out 3 years ago. If you ever have the time and mood to react to it, would love to see it! Imo they have HUGE potential!
After listening to the other 2 more, they sound better and better. I thought they all just as good, but now I listen to Corallium again and... yep it's still the best for me.
Just to get me outta my ignorance, what would you say is Corallium's genre? I've been thinking for a while but can't properly classify it. Maybe just put it on the Band-Maid genre(? 🤘🕊️
I love all 3, but Corallium is just stunning. It feels like the perfect summation and culmination of the incredible output of the past year, and somehow, impossibly raises the bar even more for the future. Just in disbelief about how great they are.
Feeling the same. Not that Hibana and Sense are bad, not in the slightiest, it's just Corallium is on another level of excellence imho. I can't stop playing and replaying it. I calculate in three more months of constant repetition maybe I'll absorb 1/3 of it. Freaking insane sht 🤘🕊️
Been waiting for this and you didn't disappoint! I'm so glad you mentioned the Gacharic Spin part, that came instantly to mind the first time I heard it. Could talk about these songs for days but one of my biggest takeaways is that Saiki has stepped up big in all three of these tracks and that's very exciting for the future.
I just had a crazy thought. I wonder what an acoustic version of Corallium would sound like. Sort of like Puzzle. However, in this acoustic version, you'd need both Saiki and Miku singing. Thoughts anyone?
17:50 That "sensory overload" feeling is specifically what I come to Band-Maid for! On the first listen there's just too much and you're kinda just washed away by it all. But if you stick around and explore it you'll find new things to love and it never gets old or too familiar.
I suggest Sense is a teaser for what's gonna be on their next album. They usually put out an album every 12 months or so. I reccon they are already hard at work recording songs for their new album. Can't wait for the new album, at least I have got Sense CD and DVD to listen to while waiting for more awsomeness from my favorite band of all times.
Rewatching this tonight, it strikes me how critical the vocal melody is to pulling everything together. It almost seems like if you dropped the vocals the instrumentation wouldn’t mesh - wouldn’t sound like a cohesive song. But, ofc, it would because Kanami is a musical genius; as I guess are the other four, too. Because if they weren’t all freaking geniuses they’d never be able to contribute their parts nor write these crazy incredible vocals that somehow combine with these crazy instrumental parts to create such an amazing work of rock music. Lol 😂 Yeah, it’s freaking perplexing and freaking awesome 👏🏼🤷🏻♂️ Cheers! 😎
Lets take everything complicated from Unseen World, vocal layering from Black Hole, Dragon Cries and Daydreaming, the passion from Puzzle, and throw that into a blender. Now crank things to 11 and add a dash of lyrical spice from Saiki. Then place it as a B-Side track. This trio of songs is a whole meal for the ears. Sense is bold appetizer, Hibana the solid, full, main course, finishing with a masterpiece of a desert in Corallium. Corallium is such a masterpiece of music. This eclipses Sense for me, in all aspects.
Somehow, can't help wondering if they'd ever appear at "Big Sight" show in Tokyo !!!----what a festival opener that could be---and not even confined to music ,but all the arts !
The old geezer I am may be allowed to utter it: A simple explanation for Misa's virtuosity and unending range? Classical musical education! Mind you, that also goes for Kanami and Akane! LOL
Hibana's riffs and vocals are highly toxic, for a whole day I kept hearing "gunshot, gunshot" in my brain! Imagine them playing live among lasers, smoke, and flames, this song will show no mercy.
Dear Ryan Mate! More important news for you! We broke through the 100-contaminations floor today! Only 86 cases for the whole of Japan (125 million souls) and only 9 for Tokyo (13 million souls)! Expect the real live concerts by the beginning of January! They might write a song about it! "We squished the beast under millions of Akane's beats"? Long live Band Maid and You! Robert-Gilles
Saiki either learned about lyric writing from Miku or is teaching her about songwriting. Corallium is a masterpiece which shows a vulnerable side to Saiki's tsun tsun/ tsun dere attitude
You're right the second verse of Coralluim really reminds me of Gacharic spin, the slap bass rhythm (similar to Koga's iconic slap bass riffs) and the singing (similar style to Angelina from Gacharic Spin)
BTW: I don't know if you are in Band Maid Prime. Probably the best place to glimpse some signature tricks of the girls and learn some of their music. I think you would love it.
I burst out laughing when the rockets started. And then you kept it coming. Great video! I love how they spread Akane's kit out stereophonically, as it highlights how effing much she's doing in the background.
@@grayholloway4704 Craft beer might interfere with how you remember things and what actually happened. I too have faint memories of a chapel in Vega, but as I recall, I married all the 5 maids at ones. However, someone else took them all on a honeymoon trip and left me behind. MISA has always said that Vegas as the reason she shifted from Bourbon to beer. It could be related to the same evening. Her bass tone sure got deeper after that.
I like that you admitted to already hearing songs when you have. It’s better than trying to bullshit a fake reaction. I’m watching for your commentary as a fellow musician. -Rick from Indy.
![MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | BAND-MAID / Corallium [Live at Shibuya Eggman]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T4FKuYPMbzc/mqdefault.jpg)
Entire music careeres have probably been built on lesser riffs than what Kanami leaves on the cutting room floor. She's insane!
Is this "Trimbach" Thor?
@@ericifune5543 No, sorry. Don't know who that is.
great reaction as always, and I agree with you, Band-Maid are absolutely unique.
They are a real super band as in the past few existed, this is because they only make their music and that is why they can remember all these complicated passages, because no one, like, producers or financiers, interferes in the creative flow.
Misa is also released by Kanami, so she can go around her bass neck as she sees fit.
if you then listen to the tone and the sound of Misa's bass, it is a unique and unrepeatable sound, this is the signal of how much she studies and researches on the instrument.
Akane can let herself go in those impossible rhythmic combinations of foot and hand (you listen to Corallium well in certain points it is always hitting or kicking off, I don't know how she manages without seizing her brain), but this is certainly easy for her because it is her research and her pleasure.
Miku and Saiki continue to create new vocal weaves.
Kanami now makes solos and riffs that are on Kanami scales, we no longer know where she goes to get the notes, one day here one day there, she explores every genre and every scale and way.
the pop melodic lines, or as you say from movie theme, are beautiful and uncommon, they always have one or two notes that are signed.
By now at this point, I think they are by far the best band today and even for a few decades.
The maids are legitimately the best band in the world.
On my list they are.
No argument from me
Ditto!! They kick ass!
True 100%
Agreed !
Band Maid's b-sides ... Damn ... What a quality, my lord!.
Ten riffs per song, with their corresponding insane bass counter-melody, different drum patterns for each section with their different drum fills to spice them up even more, crazy guitar solos with double or triple layers, depending on Kanami's desire to play hide and seek. .. and the red and blue oni demons singing BETTER THAN EVER IN THEIR LIFE.
F_cking best band in the world... This is a miracle.
Possibly the best band ever
So.. they put out an album of 12 songs, none of them bad. The put out Different and About Us, which also weren't bad. Then these 3... thats 17 KICK ASS songs in 11 months. Other than the Beatles, what other band has done that? Freaking amazing!
Different single had Don't Be Long, so make it 18. Oh wait, also Youth and Without Holding Back, so 20. And if you count the instrumentals on the BluRay which are so incredible that they are their own entities, there's 23. And I will throw in Smile (Acoustic) because it's so distinctive vs. the original, which would be 24. I would say no one else has ever had this kind of hitting streak. I could probably make a case for Guided By Voices at some point in late 90s, but Band-Maid's music is on a whole other level of ambition and execution compared to GBV. Band-Maid's music is so much more thrilling.
Saiki is getting some well deserved spotlight on these new songs. her voice is so powerful!
First listen: B-M have finally gone over board-Sense too close to speed metal and Saki's song spoilt with too much pounding of the drums. Those harmonies were good though.... Needless to say, I love them both now. Quite amazing how B-M can write songs that instantly grab me and others that grow over time. Only two drawbacks: highly addictive and can spoil pleasure of other bands.
Great reviews, Ryan. Thanks.
I like Hibana, I really do... but the gem on this release is Corallium. The vocals are just on a whole different level. The harmonies, especially the post-solo harmonies just give me goosebumps. Akane's unrelenting beat, Kanami's riffing, Misa's baseline... all working together to give us a sound that somehow is different from everything they've done before... and STILL FUCKING INCREDIBLE...
I cannot wait to see this live, I hope it holds up. I hope it gets a MV.
Yeah man, Band maid is a musician's wet dream. They really are a Musician's band.... But also insanely catchy.
I'm starting to hear some people say that they miss the older stuff, mostly because it's more simple and therefore "catchier". The dudes who wrote for them back in the day just couldn't possibly think of shit like that.. .. Nobody can,
I really hope they never cave in to the pressure, and keep on pushing each other. This is the only band I've heard that consistently blows my mind. On every new release.
I love World Domination songs the most. And I think all songs on that album were written by them, unlike Just Bring it. I already knew them from Just Bring it days but I never thought they own written songs could be better than producer written songs.
If I recall correctly, Fate, Turn me on, Honey... And.. damn I'm sure there's another one were written by other dudes on WD.. Honey being a cover.
And yes, they write better than producers. Much better..
Kanami is one hell of a genius, and she knows how to use her crew well.
Corallium is like nothing else out there, truly original. Band Maid have matured into a force of "genre-creating" heights. A unit that's already iconic just from that perspective! A five-piece, relentless fun machine of excellence where now each five 'parts' are ultimately irreplaceable.
I've said it before and I'll say it Every time. There's nothing these Ladies can't do to perfection. Band Maid is and will always be a Legendary Band.
In sum: This band has legit rewired my neural pathways. All three songs are friggin' brilliant.
In a way it makes most other music slightly dull, they have ruined me in a good way.
@@bartyslattfast I totally hear you there!
Yes!
Yes!
Akane activated her other two brains in her feet and started doing impossible things in her hands and feet that require the use of three brains, at least.
Miku: "Hey Mincho, do you have a few minutes to work on a couple of B side tracks for our single?"
Kanami: "Sure!" *Makes these two AMAZING songs*
Miku: "So... Training camp again?"
Kanami: "Sure!"
Kanami: What is a B-side?
Yeah, how in the heck are they playing any of these 3 songs live? I can’t imagine how they’d sound like the recordings. Crazy ambitious!! 🤯😱😀
Does "B" stand for Bonanza ??------or Blitz ?---or just Brilliant ???? !
To me, what makes Band Maid so special is, the way they use instruments to underpin the melody, (like a harmony), then turn it around and use the vocals to give you another riff beside the instruments. (WTF .... that sounded so much better in my head than what I wrote. I think I'm turning into a maid.)
Most bands that I have known and loved in my life have been good for two or maybe three albums of great music and then are relegated to living on past glory. The Maids have not only broken that mold but shattered it to s___t. How in the world can they just continually get better and better. These are three of the most killer rock songs I have ever heard. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha...gotcha!
I have started to feel that many Band-Maid songs are composed like very compressed rock symphonies. Lot's of (very short) movements that are distinct but related, with themes and motifs that recur throughout. I would not be at all surprised if Kanami is applying some classical techniques to these compositions.
I think Kanami learn a lot from her classical trained friends when writing Sense. Saiki was saying Kanami uses so many classical music terms she does not know.
🎀 *Ryan* I see on the shelf behind you on the top row I see the *Unseen World* CD is this shelf going to be the unofficial *BAND-MAID* shelf 🎀
As much as well all love and admire Akane for her kicks and tom work... I think her high hat work is criminally overlooked. Its not just this song. There are soooo many songs where she's just driving the beat forward with her high hat work. I think Choose Me or SML is one of the ones that always stands out to me.... now I have to go back and listen to find out which ones I was thinking of... oh the horror! :)
Honestly I think Hibana is the best song on this release. Even though it was written for a specific purpose, same as Sense, it just works better in my mind. I love the main riff from Kanami. Crunchy and Miku and MISA laying down a sweet rhythm melody for Saiki and Kanami to work off of.
Corallium is impressive as well. The vocals from Saiki on it are the stand out to me... as well as the lyrics of course. :)
Oh yeah.. those shouts from Miku... they make the song. :)
Band Maid and fine wine, two things that just get better with age! Great to see Saiki spreading her wings, and Misa not far behind! Akane is still on fire on that drum kit! Love the scream from Miku! Kanami is never satisfied with the ordinary!
My wine doen't have time to age much, it gets emptier pretty quick after uncorking.😏
@@grayholloway4704 Stack 'em deep! Stay safe, Gray(Gary)!
@@waynebenedict5785 Lol. I'm a beer & Netflix horror guy tonight. Happy Halloween Wayne.😈👻
@@grayholloway4704 Happy Halloween to you, Gray! I'm up for a beer or two, but no horror flicks for me, maybe a war movie or two, or Alita, Battle Angel.
@@waynebenedict5785 +1 Alita, Battle Angel. Great movie!
It doesn't matter if you listen to the songs first Ryan. Not everything has to be a first time reaction, we just like to hear your insights. "HIBAAAAAAAAANA" :)
True
But then we don't get the "Holy shit, man!" ...lol
@@motley22crue HAHA. Yep that's true, i didn't consider that.😆
Corallium is good but Hibana is my fave in this CD. It's such a "Spark". 💥✨
@@xagorvangard I see what you've done there Xagor. I agree with you "Hibana's" my fav too. It's a epic slab of Hard Rock awesomeness. And if anyone disagrees it doesn't matter cos Mincho told me to say it.😏
Your observation at 3:27 reminded me of something I read where someone described Band-Maid music as a fractal, where the closer you look, the more complex it is and you just confirmed it!
Hibana gets me pumped!
Origami.😊
B-M are a complex simplicty of complex sounds in a seemingly simple manner
Or "0rikanami"😃
Hibana has such an awesome riff, besides Liberal it´s my favorite riff from Kanami so far, i just LOVE IT! There are for sure better songs, but that´s a TOP5 riff from Band-Maid for sure.
Corallium on the other hand is cool as well, not so much my taste to be honest, but nice that SAIKI did her first own lyrics. Round about a year ago she said she is trying and wanted to make a song and here it is! Great stuff! Love all 3 songs, but Corallium is my least favorite, just a taste thing that i can´t really explain...
Greetings from Germany, always looking forward to your reactions, Ryan :)
Excerpt from a recent interview of Miku and Saiki by Tokion:
Interviewer: There are [female] bands that want to be seen simply as a band, and not as a girl band.
Kobato: We don’t really care now, since there are more hard rock girl bands making appearances in the media and the world now seems to properly understand what girl bands are, though, when BAND-MAID first started, girl bands were lumped together as “idol groups,” and we wanted to prove to people that “we aren’t idols!”
SAIKI: We were like, “It’s okay if people call us a girl band, but just don’t forget that we’re a band!”
Kobato: Back then, there were quite a lot of bands that weren’t actually playing the instruments on their own, and we wanted to show that we were different from them; I think that was huge.
SAIKI: It’s been years since we started, and we have more songs in our repertoire and our own staple tunes that make people say, “these songs are unique to BAND-MAID,” so I don’t care anymore about how people label us.
.... and Misa plays all those baselines the same whilst supping whisky. The different accents and inflections are probably just dependent on how merry she is.
oh ... you've probably seen (going by your comment) that there's a couple of brand new interviews - only a couple of days old - that's been posted on their sub-reddit. For anyone that doesn't know.
They are constantly testing out new things and seeking new directions for their music.
So far CORALLIUM is my favouite, Saiki really brings something special to the band.
Akane is a diamond core at the heart of Band Maid ... she's a natural drummer ... Wonderful !!
I hope they release an instrumental version of Hibana. All of them really, but Hibana has some catchy little riffs under the vocals.
"Hibana" was the theme for the All Japan e-sport team.
you know something I've been pondering: I wonder if the fact that Kanami basically trained her own rhythm guitarist from scratch gives her alot more song writing freedom.
Yepp, Miku didn’t know how to play guitar before Saiki joined the band.
Kanami's brain is wired differently to most people when it comes to music theory. She seldom follows the rules. Bless her cotton socks.
Perfect !---including her cotton socks.
The thing I really love about Band-Maid, is this wall of sound they create. I know a couple of metal bands that play incredibly dense music, but Band-Maid is the only hard rock band I know of that manages to create the same kind of atmosphere, the same kind of musical landscape as those bands. Other people find their later stuff too busy and hectic, but for me this is peak Band-Maid.
Gotta agree. I haven't heard many modern rock bands that sound this. In the metal genre, people like Devin Townsend nail that.
What sets them apart for me is that they can orchestrate all the layers and keep it catchy, even accessible, without it veering into noise or virtuosity just for its own sake.
I´m enjoying a lot the new stuff. Still like their earlier songs and that sound is the one that made me interested but after following for a while it's nice to see how they're evolving. The other thing is that even though the music and style is changing their quality is still there, so no matter what they do they always make something that sounds good.
Hate the new stuff.
@@powbobs The new stuff is awesome!
Saiki is called the Ice Queen, but reading the lyrics of Corallium shows how passionate she is!! I can't wait to see Corallium live performance. Her stage presence, charisma and aura will kill us..!!
Real meaning of SAIKI is 彩colorful 姫queen
Her parent may hope her to live colorful life and became a beauty like queen
I think most of the fans have now dropped the ice
and now just think of her as the Queen.
🤘❤✌🇬🇧
I keep banging on about Kanami being a musical savant but it explains so much, She is full of music. She is not an air head, she is very well versed in guitar tech - look at her pedal board - but I think she is composing all the time. How else does she keep us the work rate and deliver so many riffs and complexities. Her heart melting awkwardness of stage is perhaps another clue. I am in thrall.
my fav part "Gun SHot shot Gun SHot shot Gun shot shot, Gun shotx3 "
it popped up on my RUclips music while i was at work the last week and i was blown away when it came on during the shuffle i knew it was them but i had never heard the song what a fantastic surprise.
That would be a nice surprise!
These songs are fantastic and beautiful.
Thanks for another awesome video Ryan. 🤟🏻
'hibana'/'spark' is similar to 'i can't live without you' in terms 'of guitar layers. it's also got three tracks laid -- two melodies panned left and right and subtle, thick chugging chords as backdrop.
I downloaded your album a small place in a big world from spotify.
It takes 40 minutes to commute to work every day.
BAND-MAID roars in the morning to prepare for battle, and Ryan's song calms down in the evening. This is going to be my daily routine for a while.
Your voice is awesome!
Wow, thank you! You just got my morning started right!
@@RyanMear Your song is perfect for jim beam on the rock. It's the best time of the day to lean back on the spacious sofa and drink jim beam while listening to your album🍸
I wouldn't mind it being a good drinking album..... not at all👍
I love what you said about how much Band-Maid throws in to one song. It reminds me of a line in the movie Amadeus. "There's too many notes!' Well of course Mozart chose very carefully what and how many notes he needed. I feel the same about Band-Maid. To give another quote, "it's just right!"
Screaming hide and seek and now corallium
I legit get more excited about the b-sides when I see a new B-M single now
Unfair Game!
By the time my brain has caught up with what one member is doing, everything and I mean everything has changed.
It leaves me open mouthed and dumbfounded in the best possible way.
Sounded a lot as if they were having a lot of fun !!-----as if they had discovered a whole pile of forgotten tubes of paint, and communally decided on the instant to mess around with them together. ----------and so the five beautiful maids lived happily ever after. !!!
I am reminded of solo classical orchestration composers (I won't name names but you'd recognise them if I did). What I mean by that is that ALL of their material is truly orchestrated.... "we've got all these sounds we can use to serve the song, how do we combine them to provide the best outcome?".
Band Maid rules the musical universe! 🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂
Thanks, Ryan, your interesting musical glosses are only equaled by the entertainment value of your reactions!
A pleasure as always. It might look like I'm just admiring the shirt, but it my head all I can hear is the cool riffs, at least until Miku shakes me up. Need a rhythm section video for Hibana. For Corallium I'm itching to see Saiki in action. (Shout out for the Doctor Who gif - these songs _are_ bigger on the inside.)
Liking the Doctor Who analogy Paul.👍
NICE!
Mincho is The Riffinator X10🤘
I liked the poster. Here I am. I think I like this better than sense. Unlike Via, I like it heavy. Your melting face from IJ cracks me up.
I've had it, this is the last straw, I've decided that I'm going in for some gene editing treatments to see if I can grow at last three more ears and new brain regions to properly listen to Band-Maid.
I am in a minority that actually would put Corallium in third spot out of the three on the CD. But that just means it is still head and shoulders above anything else anybody else is doing.
Hahaha, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to wait listening to this just for the reaction. I think it's completely fine, there's sooooo much to deconstruct, even after 5 listens there's more than enough to talk about!
Well, what can I even say... they blew me away AGAIN... over and over!! Corallium is fkin ridiculous. I wonder if I will ever experience a bad song from them!? Just like you said, HOW do they remember all these songs, Corallium alone has material for a whole album.
I know how I will spend my next few days on my way to work etc., just listening to each instrument and jamming out lol
I've seen your 'Asterism-Gunfire' just before this, too, didn't realize you had a reaction for it.
The first song of theirs I reacted to is their 'Rising Moon' MV on the 'TOKUMAJAPAN' channel, which came out 3 years ago. If you ever have the time and mood to react to it, would love to see it!
Imo they have HUGE potential!
That you reacted to?
@@RyanMear Oh, I just meant watch/react in my own time. Didn't have the time and balls yet to make my own reaction channel, I guess lol
After listening to the other 2 more, they sound better and better. I thought they all just as good, but now I listen to Corallium again and... yep it's still the best for me.
Just to get me outta my ignorance, what would you say is Corallium's genre? I've been thinking for a while but can't properly classify it. Maybe just put it on the Band-Maid genre(? 🤘🕊️
It's BAND-MAID. That is the only classification that fits
Spot on for that "Hibana" riff, I was wondering what does it recall me of. John Murphy score from 28 Days Later "In the House - In a Heartbeat" 👌🏻
I love all 3, but Corallium is just stunning. It feels like the perfect summation and culmination of the incredible output of the past year, and somehow, impossibly raises the bar even more for the future. Just in disbelief about how great they are.
Feeling the same. Not that Hibana and Sense are bad, not in the slightiest, it's just Corallium is on another level of excellence imho. I can't stop playing and replaying it.
I calculate in three more months of constant repetition maybe I'll absorb 1/3 of it. Freaking insane sht 🤘🕊️
Been waiting for this and you didn't disappoint! I'm so glad you mentioned the Gacharic Spin part, that came instantly to mind the first time I heard it. Could talk about these songs for days but one of my biggest takeaways is that Saiki has stepped up big in all three of these tracks and that's very exciting for the future.
I just had a crazy thought. I wonder what an acoustic version of Corallium would sound like. Sort of like Puzzle. However, in this acoustic version, you'd need both Saiki and Miku singing. Thoughts anyone?
MISA was going off during Kanami's Corallium solo. She was just going off the whole time really.=)
He tricked us in the best possible way! Edit: (Just realized It's Halloween, so you could call this a trick with a treat).
Band Maid just keep it going making shit that every musician blows their minds..🤘😅👍
Band Maid doing Band Maid things.
17:50 That "sensory overload" feeling is specifically what I come to Band-Maid for! On the first listen there's just too much and you're kinda just washed away by it all. But if you stick around and explore it you'll find new things to love and it never gets old or too familiar.
I suggest Sense is a teaser for what's gonna be on their next album. They usually put out an album every 12 months or so. I reccon they are already hard at work recording songs for their new album. Can't wait for the new album, at least I have got Sense CD and DVD to listen to while waiting for more awsomeness from my favorite band of all times.
Rewatching this tonight, it strikes me how critical the vocal melody is to pulling everything together. It almost seems like if you dropped the vocals the instrumentation wouldn’t mesh - wouldn’t sound like a cohesive song. But, ofc, it would because Kanami is a musical genius; as I guess are the other four, too. Because if they weren’t all freaking geniuses they’d never be able to contribute their parts nor write these crazy incredible vocals that somehow combine with these crazy instrumental parts to create such an amazing work of rock music. Lol 😂 Yeah, it’s freaking perplexing and freaking awesome 👏🏼🤷🏻♂️ Cheers! 😎
There are some songs that change so drastically musically, that Saiki's vocal is the only thing to let you know it is the same song
Lets take everything complicated from Unseen World, vocal layering from Black Hole, Dragon Cries and Daydreaming, the passion from Puzzle, and throw that into a blender. Now crank things to 11 and add a dash of lyrical spice from Saiki. Then place it as a B-Side track.
This trio of songs is a whole meal for the ears. Sense is bold appetizer, Hibana the solid, full, main course, finishing with a masterpiece of a desert in Corallium.
Corallium is such a masterpiece of music. This eclipses Sense for me, in all aspects.
Somehow, can't help wondering if they'd ever appear at "Big Sight" show in Tokyo !!!----what a festival opener that could be---and not even confined to music ,but all the arts !
The old geezer I am may be allowed to utter it:
A simple explanation for Misa's virtuosity and unending range?
Classical musical education!
Mind you, that also goes for Kanami and Akane! LOL
Hey Ryan. The maids laid waste once again.
Hibana's riffs and vocals are highly toxic, for a whole day I kept hearing "gunshot, gunshot" in my brain! Imagine them playing live among lasers, smoke, and flames, this song will show no mercy.
Dear Ryan Mate!
More important news for you!
We broke through the 100-contaminations floor today!
Only 86 cases for the whole of Japan (125 million souls) and only 9 for Tokyo (13 million souls)!
Expect the real live concerts by the beginning of January!
They might write a song about it! "We squished the beast under millions of Akane's beats"?
Long live Band Maid and You!
Robert-Gilles
Glad to hear it.... better than us....ugh
Saiki gets her first songwriting credit. MISA will follow shortly. Sacramento loves Band-Maid. And Sai-chan.
lol, they need to do a song for Dr Who. Thank you Ryan Mear. Love these girls.
That's cool! 😆👍👍👍
Saiki either learned about lyric writing from Miku or is teaching her about songwriting. Corallium is a masterpiece which shows a vulnerable side to Saiki's tsun tsun/ tsun dere attitude
You're right the second verse of Coralluim really reminds me of Gacharic spin, the slap bass rhythm (similar to Koga's iconic slap bass riffs) and the singing (similar style to Angelina from Gacharic Spin)
Kanami trying to prove that their are an infinite number of great Riffs!
Can you imagine the next album...
CORALLIUM feels a lot of potential.
I don't think I've seen you this happy in your other reactions. This song is surprisingly beautiful.
BTW: I don't know if you are in Band Maid Prime. Probably the best place to glimpse some signature tricks of the girls and learn some of their music. I think you would love it.
MISA!!! MISA!!! MISA!!! 🥃🥃🥃
First listen with Band-Maid is complete after the first 17 listens. Then after that it doesn't count.
I want an extended Corallium remix and I wanna get on the floor.
I was going to say. I'm getting "hints" of Gacharic Spin in Corallium .... and I like it! (LOTS)
Band maid is another next level above everyone else
"Hibana" is missing from the title of your video🧨🙄
今日のお気に入りはCorallium（ジョギング中に聴いた最後の曲だったから😁）
次のアルバムにはバラード系の曲も２つくらい欲しいね。
Yeah, that was intentional..... it was a surprise!
@@RyanMear Oh, OK. You successfully surprised me in that case👍😁
When a seriously good single is weaker than it's B-sides...Band maid doing Band Maid things
😍👍
Great mini album. These 3 songs is a banger. I like bandmaids direction.
good lord that is a wonderful single
spine tingles all the way through corrallium
and the riffs are just insane
I learn so much from your videos - thank you
@18:40 The memes are getting better and better! 😂😂😂
It's really a pleasure to watch your videos.
I burst out laughing when the rockets started. And then you kept it coming. Great video!
I love how they spread Akane's kit out stereophonically, as it highlights how effing much she's doing in the background.
Finally, I get to hear you review Snap and Corallium. :-P
Yes! I was really hoping we'd get to the other two songs that went with Sense.
Riff?
What riff?
We don’t need no riff!
We don’t need no stinkin’ riff!
(Adapted from Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Oh no! This has been up for nine minutes and I just got here!
Too much craft beer i tells ya.🥴
@@grayholloway4704 You sound very much like my wife! Are you sure we are not married?
@@nussekuddenxxx6564 LOL. Hmm🤔 i don't think so, but i have a faint memory of a chapel in Vegas. Does that jog your memory?😆
@@grayholloway4704 Craft beer might interfere with how you remember things and what actually happened. I too have faint memories of a chapel in Vega, but as I recall, I married all the 5 maids at ones. However, someone else took them all on a honeymoon trip and left me behind. MISA has always said that Vegas as the reason she shifted from Bourbon to beer. It could be related to the same evening. Her bass tone sure got deeper after that.
@@nussekuddenxxx6564 Lol. Damn is that what happened. But i still have this ring & if it's not from you then who the hell did i marry.😮
How does MISA remember all her bass lines? Alcohol is necessary...lol
I like that you admitted to already hearing songs when you have. It’s better than trying to bullshit a fake reaction. I’m watching for your commentary as a fellow musician. -Rick from Indy.