I found these ladies during COVID quarantine when I was listening to a lot of Jazz and found that a lot of the artists had video's on RUclips. I was very impressed with Senri Kawaguchi's drumming and sought out a number of her performances, (Her trio playing at the 2017 Tokyo Jazz Festival is simply fabulous BTW. ruclips.net/video/MvEBp2qGHYU/видео.html if you are interested in checking it out). At any rate, there were videos of a very young Senri just killing her kit and RUclips starting suggesting other terrific young Japanese artists. Somewhere along that line Band Maid appeared. I was instantly enthralled. 3 videos later I was flabbergasted and hooked. A few after that and they were solidly my new favorite band . At 62 I never imagined that such a thing would happen. These ladies take me back to the 70's and 80's Rock I loved as a youth. A genre I thought, with the exception of a few brief flashes, was done and gone. They are wonderfully nostalgic yet fresh and innovative. I started ordering all of their CD's (First band I've supported in that fashion in probably 30 years) and couldn't get enough of them. I've become such a fan that now I enjoy watching other folks discover them, which brings me to you. You're doing a great job working your way through the catalogue and it's a pleasure to join you on this journey.
Discovered Band-Maid back in 2016. I had my desktop computer just playing random music from RUclips while I was doing something in the next room and was sort of half listening to the songs being played. A rock song being played caught my attention and I realized that I had never heard it before, but it was sounding great. Intrigued, I went back to the computer to see the music video and was amazed to see five young, cute Asian women dressed as maids playing an insanely powerful hard rock song simply called "Thrill". It was love at first sight and I was immediately hooked. I must have rewatched that video dozens of times before I searched for other music videos made by Band-Maid. There were only a few others posted at that time on RUclips, but they were all equally terrific and I could hardly stop watching this band perform their magic. Back then there were only three or four MV Band-Maid reactors/reviewers on all of YT, but they all raved about the group, and I agreed with them 100%. Other different reviewers eventually posted their own BM reactions, but at first it was only a few a month, then a few a week and then daily until now there are BM reactions all over the place. I must credit the fine people who take the time and make the effort to do the Band-Maid reaction/review videos which are musically informative as well as entertaining. They have helped me to be a better and more informed listener, as well as promoting this great and talented band. I was very fortunate to have accidently found this wonderful band relatively early and watch them evolve into the superstars that they are today. After decades of mostly mediocre music, it is such a joy to finally see and hear a band that I truly love and admire. Po!
Recommendation on a friend's FB page took me to Non fiction days and I thought I'd listen for 30 seconds just for a laugh to see what a bunch of girls in maid outfits could do. 2 1/2 years later can't wait to catch them live. Best band.
Reactors always heap praise on the MV's & rightly so. But dig deeper & some of BAND-MAID's greatest songs don't even have MV's. That's how awesome they are :)
I discovered *BAND-MAID* in 2019 In RUclips the side bar suggestion was a video called *Top Female Japanese Metal Bands* I pulled it up and nothing really stood out in the video so I decided to check out the comments and all that I saw posted was *BAND-MAID* and the rest was history.
fed up with western music of all sorts, i was browsing the tube, discovering Sokoninaru, Scandal, Wagakki Band, GRBK (Girl Rock Band Kakumei, now Trident)... and then another band with the word "Band" in the band's name pops up with The non-fiction days. instant love. and then another band with the word Band in the band's name, Band Maiko with only a few hundred views. yep, april 1, 2019, Gion-Cho. spent a hot second realizing, it's MISA and Saiki and then went digging and finding a gold mine. ever since, not a single day has passed without this awesomeness, known as bando meido :)
I found Band-Maid in December 2015 while searching for a cover of the Beatles "Don't Let Me Down". Next thing I know is Miku running through the doors, and I think "Nah, this ain't the Lennon-McCartney song" and I click out of the video. But those first few seconds were so catchy and ultimately hit the back arrow and then listened to the song several times that night. I wasn't searching for new music and in fact had given up on the current rock music scene. Over the next few days I checked out all their YT content which was only three videos and nothing live. So for a few months I had this fear that they weren't playing this music. It was only after fan-cam from Seattle and the London started appearing that I knew they were the real deal. At that point they became my favorite band and here I am today with 17 Band-Maid t-shirts in my closet. I've met them in Dallas in 2019 and they were as they appear, charming, gracious, humble and grateful. I don't think they know they are the best thing to happen in rock music in a long, long time. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, this is still my favourite riff. Glad to see someone else get so hyped about it! I found Band-Maid from a prog rock reactor I was watching. Someone recommended he check out Band-Maid. I went and watched "Dice", which literally brought tears of joy. I was so excited but scared of being let down; I didn't think they could possibly have another song that good. So to avoid being disappointed I didn't listen to anything else by them for a while, but I did watch reactions to "Dice" over the next couple of days. In the comments, people kept mentioning a song called "Blooming" and eventually I decided I couldn't wait any more. So I went to watch it and, well, you'll understand when you get to "Blooming".
Whoa, that's pretty similar to what I experienced. Found them through BABYMETAL. I was having fun with BM reactions and RUclips wouldn't stop recommending BAND-MAID. I thought, "OK, fine. What's this gimmicky band got going on?". Watched the live performance of 'Puzzle' and had my world flipped. I spent the whole morning watching reactions to 'Puzzle' because I thought, "what if the other songs suck". Finally moved on to a 2nd song, 'Moratorium' live, at lunch time. Had my world flipped, again! Watched a bunch of reactions to that song. Finally, around dinner time, I went for a third song, 'Play' live. 🤯Forever, lifelong, die hard fan. Couldn't get enough. Still can't!
Okay 3rd comment to answer your question about finding Band-Maid. A 50 year friend of mine who is into 60s-70s Detroit-sound bands like the MC5, and Stooges told me to check out an Australian band called "Radio Birdman", so I did. RUclips put up Band-Maid "Play" live as a sidebar suggestion and since I was once heavily into anime-J-Pop-J-Rock I clicked on it. This was mid-Dec. 2021. "Choose Me" live came up next. Instant Band-Maid Otaku. My friend asked me about it and I said, "In Band-Maid I can get everything I ever wanted to listen to in rock music in one greatly talented package." If anyone is interested in what I mean by "Detroit sound" then look up Radio Birdman "Descent Into the Maelstrom" or Hellacopters "Soulseller." They are hard rock verging into metal usually having 2 lead guitarists. Birdman from the 70s and Hellacopters from the 90s. Not Band-Maid but not bad.
Boot up my computer one day and login to RUclips and was watching a video I can't remember at the moment, but I was so engrossed in that video, I forgot to turn autoplay off, video is almost over rolling it's end credits, so I get up to get something from the other room. Suddenly I hear "Freedom" playing. I'm like, what is that, is that an advertisement playing? I thought it sounded good, so I walked back in and noticed these 5 asian ladies dressed in maids outfits playing a rockin good song. I saw that I had autoplay still turned on so I turned that off but looked to the right side of the page and saw the next video was by the same band and something called "Onset", So I finished watching Freedom, then I watched it again, and again. Finally I clicked on Onset and was totally blown away. I have been a confirmed Maidiac ever since.
I was looking into Baby Metal on RUclips and Band-Maid "Thrill" was a suggestion on the side bar. I loved that song and mv and then next came the mv for "Dice" and I was hooked! I found them about three years ago, and like you, can't believe I hadn't heard of them before! So glad I finally did, except my wallet is still crying, LOL!
I only found this band just a little over a year ago. Just bored one day going through YT and decided to search for Japanese bands I remembered from a while back, Stereo Pony and Scandal. I wasn't a huge fan of those two bands but wanted to see and hear them again. Then YT recommendation with THRILL showed up. I was instantly intrigued but not completely sold. Then checked out Real Existence and the hook started to set in. Then I saw Domination Live and I was just completely sold. One year later I haven't been Band-Maided out yet and I don't think I ever will because of their musical diversity and continued evolution as musicians. It also doesn't hurt that they're all great people that makes me want to support them.
I started watching some Babymetal reactions to see what the hype was about and always in the comments people were saying "You've got to listen to Band Maid". So I did and now I can't get enough of them.
Heard Baby metals Gimme chocolate on Kerrang radio and decided to check them out on YT, saw BAND-MAIDS "Thrill" Pic in the recommended list, thought it looked a bit odd so I clicked on it, the rest is history. Finally got VIP tickets to see them in 2019 London, Islington and they blew me away, the meet and greet, Saiki is amazing in person. Never seen a gig like it, it was just them on stage! For most gigs, the main band is on for maybe an hour or 90 mins if you're lucky! They crushed that, for 2 hours they steamed through 24 songs! it was an awesome gig, made my all-time top 5 concerts at #2 Maids Waltz (Intro) REAL EXISTENCE Screaming Glory Hide-and-Seek DOMINATION Don't you tell ME Play CLANG You. Miku's Magic Time TIME Rock in me DICE CROSS Choose me Bubble Endless Story Onset Daydreaming Wonderland Take me higher!! FREEDOM Moratorium Spirit!! Carry on living
See them now while you can, even if you have to go the resell ticket route. Don’t assume the future. I had tickets to their appearance at a large outdoor festival in Ohio in July of 2020, but of course that was cancelled. I feel fortunate to get a second chance.
7 in the morning, having a cup of tea and switched on to your BM reaction, now I want to crack a beer and dance, fck I love this band, I was bored during a covid lockdown turned on a movie called Kate and when it hit a scene with BM playing in a nightclub I was WTF and that was it and thanks to generous Madiacs like Vladimir C I had plenty of fan cam to cement my BM addiction, as to Saiki and her footwear that woman could make gum boots look elegant, aahhhhh bugger it I'm getting a beer. Viva the Maids, peace and love Po 👍🎼🥁🎸🎤🍻
Shopping for a kayak while letting youtube do its thing and Freezer came on . Curiosity caught me . Went looking into who this is and here I am 3 years later . I was floored by how good they are . I am no novice when it comes to music out of Japan . Like you how did I miss this . Enjoying the journey .
Came from an alternative rock background in the 80s/90s, something in my browsing made Tricot pop up in the YT suggestions, and I liked them, so then I guess that led to a suggestion for "Thrill" (and I wouldn't have had time for any of this if not for a broken leg followed by staying at home because pandemic). The "Thrill" thumbnail had me expecting some wacky Japanese garage-pop-rock version of the Donnas or something similar, so the sound of mainstream guitar rock (which I had mistakenly run away from entirely in the 80s as having become as boring and corporate as most of today's Top 40) was almost like hearing that genre for the first time. "Non-Fiction Days" was too much to wrap my head around on first listen, but that tends to be a good sign, so I moved on to the "Domination" MV and I'm pretty sure I screamed at Kanami's tabletop solo, followed I think by the live version and then it was all over. Spent the next 48 hours watching every video available and reading/watching everything about them that was available on the web.
i found this band cause am a real Music Nerd in terms of history of the bands and all those things, so i was searching on youtube discovering the real industry behind the kpop stars, cause as a rock/metal fan, i like when artist create their own music, even if they have some help or collaboration, but anyway in terms of discovering BM, i saw a comment about, and i search for it on youtube. that was at the beginnig of this year, and i think the first song was real existence. so, thks YT
How ever much we'd love for them to be around for many more years.....you have to remember they are ladies and as such will possibly want to have kids at some point...and as they are all around 30 years old...the clock is ticking....Only gonna take one to want to have them for the band to end...As I can''t see the others carrying on without one of the original members...Yes they might be able to find a work around so the whole band can still perform....but it maybe limited to Japan.....So we have to enjoy what we can while we can.
Although people have pointed out, there are other Japanese female bands whose members have become moms and stuck with the band. We're all used to big names in the West going three, four, or more years between albums, so I would encourage people to not jump the gun and unilaterally declare the end of Band-Maid just because they have (and have a right to) personal lives and for once don't put out several different things in the space of a year. And as a supporter, as much as I would like to constantly have new Band-Maid material, what I really want is for them to be more widely appreciated and respected. In that vein I always think of [the] Pixies, who had a good run mostly limited to the alternative rock/college radio scene but years later triumphantly reunited to take their bows as one of the most influential bands in not just rock, but popular music in general.
There is a possibility that Akane is married and already has a daughter. I won't go into too much detail but there are photo's that show a woman who "MIGHT" be Akane about 8 1/2 months pregnant that date to the time to she was out with her "Back Injury" And there were a couple of now deleted tweets that reference a "Husband" and "Daughter" NOT Master or Princess. The most recent of which was last December. Also Akane was the first member of the band to buy her own house. The other Ladies rented or lived with family until at least 2019 when both Kanami and Saiki made a mention of buying Real Estate. As far as I know Miku either is renting a house or owns a house and has her mother living with her and MISA is renting an apartment. These are from inferences from reading almost every interview translation available through the Reddit forum plus watching every sub-titled interview. So my information may be wrong due to translation errors in context. Also it is known that all 5 of the Ladies have more than one Facebook/Instagram/Twitter accounts, as it has been referenced in the past in interviews that they use those accounts to keep up with each other, family members and members of their staff and management team. This was known after someone found Akane's private Facebook page and was harassing members of her family and friends of hers. The Ladies go out of their way to keep their private lives, VERY PRIVATE. And they have every Right and Reason to.
I got a list from one my co-workers over a year ago which included Baby Metal, Lovebites and Band Maid. I'd listened to Baby Metal before, but by the hand of fate, decided to look up Band Maid, first. Thrill was the first song I watched, and I was intrigued by the sound, but hooked on the riffs. I then found the live videos for Freedom and Domination, and that was it. Don't get me wrong, when I'm itching for some metal, Lovebits and Nemophila do satisfy. But Band Maid fills that void that I hadn't realized existed until I'd heard them. Great reaction SB, as Clang is one of my favorites! Have a good one! 🍻
A few friends and I were discussing music one night about 18 months ago. The subject of interesting bands popped up and I showed them a video of Baby Metal. After that, a friend said I really have to check out Band-Maid. So I searched and the first video I saw was Dice. I was so intrigued and impressed with the quality of their musicianship. I then watched the next video suggested which was Domination live. They had me at that point. Saiki's stage presence was on another level and the band's performance floored me. After that I fell down the pigeonhole, and B-M quickly became my favorite hard rock band of all time.
I found B-M through reaction videos. I thought my music collection was growing stale, plus I was grieving some losses in my personal and professional life, and BAND-MAID started being recommended to me when I'd watch Nightwish reactions. I finally decided to give them an honest shot. If I liked them, so much the better. If I didn't, I can always tell RUclips I'm not interested. It turned out that I love them, and the floodgates opened to LOVEBITES, Unlucky Morpheus, Wagakki Band, Babymetal, Ningen Isu, Galneryus, Asterism, D_Drive, and Gacharic Spin/Doll$boxx. The Japanese bands in turn led to me finding out music from around the world like Jinjer and The Hu and solo singers like Diana Ankudinova and Sohyang. Tapping on the bass isn't difficult. The thicker strings can be a bit harder to hold down as opposed to the guitar, but tapping in and of itself isn't a difficult technique. It gets more difficult the faster you go, the more fingers and strings you incorporate, and for me, it's always been more about what precedes and follows the tapping than the actual tapping itself. I always appreciate a smooth transition.
I think one of Vladimir’s other videos of this is way better. As much as we love MISA’s bass, when the camera is right in front of her amp, you can’t hear Kanami or Miku at all.
@@VladimirChupin maybe slightly, but the camera position is better at Bochum. Still, great job catching so many different angles at the shows you went to.
I can't believe I have never seen that live version before. Was Misa TAPPING on the bass? To answer your question RUclips dropped "Thrill" into my suggested video list in 2017. I was hooked immediately.
I'll answer your question - I found out about Band-Maid by seeing the Thrill MV in 2015 or 2016, but didn't really start following them and becoming a hard core Madiac until the era of YT Reactions starting about 2019.
my journey to Band-Maid began with a Jinjer reaction which led to babymetal (was not too into it) then a recommendation to Band-Maid. TNH i was reluctant to check out because of the outfits then i said WTH i'll see what's up. Listened to "Dice" and the intro hooked me i thought to myself "holy crap this is a killer rhythm section" and the rest is history
AaaH!! Misa and those beautiful bare feet. The 'Barefoot Assassin' playing to perfection. As were the other Maids too of course. Sound quality accepted. A song written with crowd participation in mind. And the smiles on Saiki & Miku's faces when they are all chanting says it all. Especially in a foreign country.
@@VladimirChupin The sound in the LOGO is undoubtedly the best, but what I love about Bochum is the view of the whole stage, the excellent light show, which harmonises exactly with the songs and the whole course of the concert with the nice incidents in between. Hamburg has some situations where I feel a bit uncomfortable. Also, the crowd in Bochum sang better, but that's rather secondary. Apart from all this, Amsterdam will always have a very special place in my heart.
Was scrolling through one of my fave reactor's catalog and came across Freedom live reaction andbthe rest is history. 6 months ago. Where u based out of?
I like the Bochum version better because you can see the tapping duel at the start of Clang head on: watch Misa paying with a smirk on her face -- usually she is so serious but she was smiling while she tapped. I think I found out about Band-Maid through a reactor who was reviewing Nightwish. Possibly Carneson. The first Band-Maid song I can remember watching was Freedom -- that was my first favourite Band-Maid song.
Last year we tried to run a knockout competition on one of the Maid fan sites and I had Clang in my top 4. As someone who prefers more metal this song kicks !
I found them through baby metal. Way back in the days of the World Domination. Ironically enough my first song was Thrill. Then Iistened to World Domination and this was the one song that really stood out. That opening riff man! After that was Day Dreaming mostly for that second verse switch from solo instead of chorus. I didn't have access to anything else the RUclips music app only had one full album same with Spotify. Now Spotify has all released albums.
Found them before the pandemic via my brother. Was thinking about seeing them in 2019 in LA but went to Europe instead. I figured they'd be back in 2020, but we know how that turned out.
I found out about Band-Maid 3 years ago, when a buddy of mine shared a MV on Facebook. I think it was "Thrill". I did the guy a favor by checking out his band, so I clicked on the link. He and I tend not to share the same taste in music, so I expected the worst. I figured 10 seconds, and I'm out of there. But, I was pleasantly shocked. I actually didn't hate it. I quickly tried another couple of their videos at RUclips, and then ventured out to their web site. I was on Band-Maid journey for the next 3 or more hours. And yes, fan cams turned into a big part of it that day. Kanami's fancam solos, MISA/Kanami/Akane "Don't You Tell Me" fancams. By the end of that week, I believe I had heard every song on "World Domination", "Just Bring It', and "Brand New Maid", which were the 3 most recent albums at that time. Those remain my 3 favorites.
I learned about band maid from the peacemaker soundtrack Spotify list that James Gunn put out. Choose me was on there but it was the 1 track that wasn’t on Amazon music. They had Sense. So I listened to that and it really grew on me… so I wanted to hear choose me… ended up listening to more on Amazon from unseen world and just kinda got hooked. Ended up going to RUclips to finally find choose me and stumbled into reactions and here I am
I just tipping/Japanese rock music...Well my first results was Onset from Band-Maid 😉 probably 20 times I watch the song that evening...the rest just history 😃
I found out about the maids when I was researching for a trip to Japan that we took in 2019. I started about a year before that and eventually got fed a RUclips video of The maids music video thrill. I wouldn't watch it the first five or six times it popped up but RUclips was persistent that I finally watched them even though I thought it would be lame. It wasn't lame. So I watched real existence live and instantly became a madiac.
Great reaction, enjoying your journey. For me I discovered B-M through a YT recommendation. I'd discovered Babymetal a couple of months prior in early 2018 and DICE popped up, watched and was captured.
One of their best Motörmaid riffs! Sadly, you didn't chose the best version, the Bochum's one, the next day (why best? Because I was there 😆 ). About your question: I found B-M thx to ... a reaction video ("British guitarist" - Wings of Pegasus) end of 2018.
The Wings of Pegasus's Band-Maid review was great except his video malfunctioned and dropped one of the audio channels, so the sound wasn't as good as it should have been. He did apologize for this in the comment section though. Glad that you found BM despite the hiccup on the sound.
Sorry, but Kanami doesn't like the word Tsunami's because it brings destruction and misery to Japan. Someone suggested the name Obi Wan Kanami to describe her Jedi-like mastery of the guitar which is flattering to her and pretty spot on.
![First time REACTION to [Band-Maid - CLANG (studio+live fancam)] Actually a NEW FAVOURITE???](/img/1.gif)
*Skipping Buffalo Reactions Playlist*
🎀 *Maid in Japan* 01/8/2014
🎀 *New Beginning* 11/18/2015
🎀 *Brand New Maid* 05/18/2016
🎀 *YOLO* 11/15/2016
🎀 *Just Bring It* 01/11/2017
🎀 *Daydreaming / Choose me* 06/18/2017
🎀 *World Domination* 02/14/2018
├ 📂 -I Can't Live Without You-
├ 📂 -Play-
├ 📂 -One and Only-
├ 📂 -Domination-
├ 📂 -Fate-
├ 📂 -Spirit!!-
├ 📂 -Rock in Me-
├ 📂 -Clang-
├ 📂 Turn Me On
├ 📂 Carry On Living
├ 📂 -Daydreaming-
├ 📂 Anemone
├ 📂 Alive-or-Dead
├ 📂 Dice _(Music Video)_
└ 📂 Honey _(Cover check out the original by MUCC)_
Blu-Ray / DVD _(2017 - STUDIO COAST)_
├ 📂 -Moratorium-
├ 📂 -Puzzle-
└ 📂 -Play-
🎀 *start over* 06/25/2018
🎀 *Bubble* 01/16/2019
🎀 *Glory* 01/16/2019
🎀 *BAND-MAIKO* 04/03/2019
🎀 *Conqueror* 12/04/2019
🎀 *Different* 12/02/2020
🎀 *Unseen World* 01/13/2021
🎀 *about Us* 2/3/2021
🎀 *Sense* 10/27/2021
🎀 *BAND-MAID ONLINE ACOUSTIC* 12/25/2021
The Maids are legitimately the best rock band, in the world
The world famous Maids lay waste once again
I found these ladies during COVID quarantine when I was listening to a lot of Jazz and found that a lot of the artists had video's on RUclips. I was very impressed with Senri Kawaguchi's drumming and sought out a number of her performances, (Her trio playing at the 2017 Tokyo Jazz Festival is simply fabulous BTW. ruclips.net/video/MvEBp2qGHYU/видео.html if you are interested in checking it out). At any rate, there were videos of a very young Senri just killing her kit and RUclips starting suggesting other terrific young Japanese artists. Somewhere along that line Band Maid appeared. I was instantly enthralled. 3 videos later I was flabbergasted and hooked. A few after that and they were solidly my new favorite band . At 62 I never imagined that such a thing would happen. These ladies take me back to the 70's and 80's Rock I loved as a youth. A genre I thought, with the exception of a few brief flashes, was done and gone. They are wonderfully nostalgic yet fresh and innovative. I started ordering all of their CD's (First band I've supported in that fashion in probably 30 years) and couldn't get enough of them. I've become such a fan that now I enjoy watching other folks discover them, which brings me to you. You're doing a great job working your way through the catalogue and it's a pleasure to join you on this journey.
Discovered Band-Maid back in 2016. I had my desktop computer just playing random music from RUclips while I was doing something in the next room and was sort of half listening to the songs being played. A rock song being played caught my attention and I realized that I had never heard it before, but it was sounding great. Intrigued, I went back to the computer to see the music video and was amazed to see five young, cute Asian women dressed as maids playing an insanely powerful hard rock song simply called "Thrill". It was love at first sight and I was immediately hooked. I must have rewatched that video dozens of times before I searched for other music videos made by Band-Maid. There were only a few others posted at that time on RUclips, but they were all equally terrific and I could hardly stop watching this band perform their magic. Back then there were only three or four MV Band-Maid reactors/reviewers on all of YT, but they all raved about the group, and I agreed with them 100%. Other different reviewers eventually posted their own BM reactions, but at first it was only a few a month, then a few a week and then daily until now there are BM reactions all over the place. I must credit the fine people who take the time and make the effort to do the Band-Maid reaction/review videos which are musically informative as well as entertaining. They have helped me to be a better and more informed listener, as well as promoting this great and talented band. I was very fortunate to have accidently found this wonderful band relatively early and watch them evolve into the superstars that they are today. After decades of mostly mediocre music, it is such a joy to finally see and hear a band that I truly love and admire. Po!
Over the last two years Siki has became my favorite Vocalist, in the world
Recommendation on a friend's FB page took me to Non fiction days and I thought I'd listen for 30 seconds just for a laugh to see what a bunch of girls in maid outfits could do. 2 1/2 years later can't wait to catch them live. Best band.
Reactors always heap praise on the MV's & rightly so. But dig deeper & some of BAND-MAID's greatest songs don't even have MV's. That's how awesome they are :)
Hey, Gary! I hope you are having a great day! Has it been any cooler lately?
@@markhayes9004 Hi Mark. Yep back to our usual boring English weather, just the way i like it. A blizzard would be cool tho :)
Space darts...
@@GaryHolloway-810 We probably have a blizzard coming up here in January. You can have it. For free! 😁
@@Jonas_S_ Any snow would be nice, Jonas. London is forever devoid of it.😔
Clang is one of the 35 songs that's in my top 5 list!
Clang is a banger
I discovered *BAND-MAID* in 2019 In RUclips the side bar suggestion was a video called *Top Female Japanese Metal Bands* I pulled it up and nothing really stood out in the video so I decided to check out the comments and all that I saw posted was *BAND-MAID* and the rest was history.
fed up with western music of all sorts, i was browsing the tube, discovering Sokoninaru, Scandal, Wagakki Band, GRBK (Girl Rock Band Kakumei, now Trident)... and then another band with the word "Band" in the band's name pops up with The non-fiction days. instant love. and then another band with the word Band in the band's name, Band Maiko with only a few hundred views. yep, april 1, 2019, Gion-Cho. spent a hot second realizing, it's MISA and Saiki and then went digging and finding a gold mine. ever since, not a single day has passed without this awesomeness, known as bando meido :)
I found Band-Maid in December 2015 while searching for a cover of the Beatles "Don't Let Me Down". Next thing I know is Miku running through the doors, and I think "Nah, this ain't the Lennon-McCartney song" and I click out of the video. But those first few seconds were so catchy and ultimately hit the back arrow and then listened to the song several times that night. I wasn't searching for new music and in fact had given up on the current rock music scene. Over the next few days I checked out all their YT content which was only three videos and nothing live. So for a few months I had this fear that they weren't playing this music. It was only after fan-cam from Seattle and the London started appearing that I knew they were the real deal. At that point they became my favorite band and here I am today with 17 Band-Maid t-shirts in my closet. I've met them in Dallas in 2019 and they were as they appear, charming, gracious, humble and grateful. I don't think they know they are the best thing to happen in rock music in a long, long time. Keep up the good work.
Nice one 👍🍻
"Don't Let Me Down" is a pretty rare (and I'm sure you know, kinda funny) first Band-Maid exposure. Very cool.
Saiki's hardest job before each tour, and getting harder every time, is picking a setlist for the tour. So much greatness to have to choose from.
Yeah, this is still my favourite riff. Glad to see someone else get so hyped about it!
I found Band-Maid from a prog rock reactor I was watching. Someone recommended he check out Band-Maid. I went and watched "Dice", which literally brought tears of joy. I was so excited but scared of being let down; I didn't think they could possibly have another song that good. So to avoid being disappointed I didn't listen to anything else by them for a while, but I did watch reactions to "Dice" over the next couple of days. In the comments, people kept mentioning a song called "Blooming" and eventually I decided I couldn't wait any more. So I went to watch it and, well, you'll understand when you get to "Blooming".
Whoa, that's pretty similar to what I experienced. Found them through BABYMETAL. I was having fun with BM reactions and RUclips wouldn't stop recommending BAND-MAID. I thought, "OK, fine. What's this gimmicky band got going on?". Watched the live performance of 'Puzzle' and had my world flipped. I spent the whole morning watching reactions to 'Puzzle' because I thought, "what if the other songs suck". Finally moved on to a 2nd song, 'Moratorium' live, at lunch time. Had my world flipped, again! Watched a bunch of reactions to that song. Finally, around dinner time, I went for a third song, 'Play' live. 🤯Forever, lifelong, die hard fan. Couldn't get enough. Still can't!
@@TehPhysics That's so cool! Never thought I'd hear such a similar story. I finally found a band making the music I always wanted to hear.
Okay 3rd comment to answer your question about finding Band-Maid. A 50 year friend of mine who is into 60s-70s Detroit-sound bands like the MC5, and Stooges told me to check out an Australian band called "Radio Birdman", so I did. RUclips put up Band-Maid "Play" live as a sidebar suggestion and since I was once heavily into anime-J-Pop-J-Rock I clicked on it.
This was mid-Dec. 2021. "Choose Me" live came up next. Instant Band-Maid Otaku. My friend asked me about it and I said, "In Band-Maid I can get everything I ever wanted to listen to in rock music in one greatly talented package."
If anyone is interested in what I mean by "Detroit sound" then look up Radio Birdman "Descent Into the Maelstrom" or Hellacopters "Soulseller." They are hard rock verging into metal usually having 2 lead guitarists. Birdman from the 70s and Hellacopters from the 90s. Not Band-Maid but not bad.
That whole scenario is so typical for so many of us older fans I think. I'm in my 60's and feel the same way Geoff
Boot up my computer one day and login to RUclips and was watching a video I can't remember at the moment, but I was so engrossed in that video, I forgot to turn autoplay off, video is almost over rolling it's end credits, so I get up to get something from the other room. Suddenly I hear "Freedom" playing. I'm like, what is that, is that an advertisement playing? I thought it sounded good, so I walked back in and noticed these 5 asian ladies dressed in maids outfits playing a rockin good song. I saw that I had autoplay still turned on so I turned that off but looked to the right side of the page and saw the next video was by the same band and something called "Onset", So I finished watching Freedom, then I watched it again, and again. Finally I clicked on Onset and was totally blown away. I have been a confirmed Maidiac ever since.
I was looking into Baby Metal on RUclips and Band-Maid "Thrill" was a suggestion on the side bar. I loved that song and mv and then next came the mv for "Dice" and I was hooked! I found them about three years ago, and like you, can't believe I hadn't heard of them before! So glad I finally did, except my wallet is still crying, LOL!
I only found this band just a little over a year ago. Just bored one day going through YT and decided to search for Japanese bands I remembered from a while back, Stereo Pony and Scandal. I wasn't a huge fan of those two bands but wanted to see and hear them again. Then YT recommendation with THRILL showed up. I was instantly intrigued but not completely sold. Then checked out Real Existence and the hook started to set in. Then I saw Domination Live and I was just completely sold. One year later I haven't been Band-Maided out yet and I don't think I ever will because of their musical diversity and continued evolution as musicians. It also doesn't hurt that they're all great people that makes me want to support them.
I started watching some Babymetal reactions to see what the hype was about and always in the comments people were saying "You've got to listen to Band Maid". So I did and now I can't get enough of them.
A nice addiction to have Eh!!
Heard Baby metals Gimme chocolate on Kerrang radio and decided to check them out on YT, saw BAND-MAIDS "Thrill" Pic in the recommended list, thought it looked a bit odd so I clicked on it, the rest is history. Finally got VIP tickets to see them in 2019 London, Islington and they blew me away, the meet and greet, Saiki is amazing in person. Never seen a gig like it, it was just them on stage! For most gigs, the main band is on for maybe an hour or 90 mins if you're lucky! They crushed that, for 2 hours they steamed through 24 songs! it was an awesome gig, made my all-time top 5 concerts at #2
Maids Waltz (Intro)
REAL EXISTENCE
Screaming
Glory
Hide-and-Seek
DOMINATION
Don't you tell ME
Play
CLANG
You.
Miku's Magic Time
TIME
Rock in me
DICE
CROSS
Choose me
Bubble
Endless Story
Onset
Daydreaming
Wonderland
Take me higher!!
FREEDOM
Moratorium
Spirit!!
Carry on living
I started watching reaction videos in April 2020. Out of the blue, YT recommended the video for Thrill. A couple of videos later and I was hooked.
See them now while you can, even if you have to go the resell ticket route. Don’t assume the future. I had tickets to their appearance at a large outdoor festival in Ohio in July of 2020, but of course that was cancelled. I feel fortunate to get a second chance.
7 in the morning, having a cup of tea and switched on to your BM reaction, now I want to crack a beer and dance, fck I love this band, I was bored during a covid lockdown turned on a movie called Kate and when it hit a scene with BM playing in a nightclub I was WTF and that was it and thanks to generous Madiacs like Vladimir C I had plenty of fan cam to cement my BM addiction, as to Saiki and her footwear that woman could make gum boots look elegant, aahhhhh bugger it I'm getting a beer. Viva the Maids, peace and love Po 👍🎼🥁🎸🎤🍻
Shopping for a kayak while letting youtube do its thing and Freezer came on . Curiosity caught me . Went looking into who this is and here I am 3 years later .
I was floored by how good they are . I am no novice when it comes to music out of Japan . Like you how did I miss this .
Enjoying the journey .
Came from an alternative rock background in the 80s/90s, something in my browsing made Tricot pop up in the YT suggestions, and I liked them, so then I guess that led to a suggestion for "Thrill" (and I wouldn't have had time for any of this if not for a broken leg followed by staying at home because pandemic). The "Thrill" thumbnail had me expecting some wacky Japanese garage-pop-rock version of the Donnas or something similar, so the sound of mainstream guitar rock (which I had mistakenly run away from entirely in the 80s as having become as boring and corporate as most of today's Top 40) was almost like hearing that genre for the first time. "Non-Fiction Days" was too much to wrap my head around on first listen, but that tends to be a good sign, so I moved on to the "Domination" MV and I'm pretty sure I screamed at Kanami's tabletop solo, followed I think by the live version and then it was all over. Spent the next 48 hours watching every video available and reading/watching everything about them that was available on the web.
i found this band cause am a real Music Nerd in terms of history of the bands and all those things, so i was searching on youtube discovering the real industry behind the kpop stars, cause as a rock/metal fan, i like when artist create their own music, even if they have some help or collaboration, but anyway in terms of discovering BM, i saw a comment about, and i search for it on youtube. that was at the beginnig of this year, and i think the first song was real existence. so, thks YT
CLANG 🔔💥🔨 It's a hit! (Check out the live ZEPP version!)
How ever much we'd love for them to be around for many more years.....you have to remember they are ladies and as such will possibly want to have kids at some point...and as they are all around 30 years old...the clock is ticking....Only gonna take one to want to have them for the band to end...As I can''t see the others carrying on without one of the original members...Yes they might be able to find a work around so the whole band can still perform....but it maybe limited to Japan.....So we have to enjoy what we can while we can.
Although people have pointed out, there are other Japanese female bands whose members have become moms and stuck with the band. We're all used to big names in the West going three, four, or more years between albums, so I would encourage people to not jump the gun and unilaterally declare the end of Band-Maid just because they have (and have a right to) personal lives and for once don't put out several different things in the space of a year.
And as a supporter, as much as I would like to constantly have new Band-Maid material, what I really want is for them to be more widely appreciated and respected. In that vein I always think of [the] Pixies, who had a good run mostly limited to the alternative rock/college radio scene but years later triumphantly reunited to take their bows as one of the most influential bands in not just rock, but popular music in general.
And each kid will have 4 doting aunts.
There is a possibility that Akane is married and already has a daughter. I won't go into too much detail but there are photo's that show a woman who "MIGHT" be Akane about 8 1/2 months pregnant that date to the time to she was out with her "Back Injury" And there were a couple of now deleted tweets that reference a "Husband" and "Daughter" NOT Master or Princess. The most recent of which was last December. Also Akane was the first member of the band to buy her own house. The other Ladies rented or lived with family until at least 2019 when both Kanami and Saiki made a mention of buying Real Estate. As far as I know Miku either is renting a house or owns a house and has her mother living with her and MISA is renting an apartment. These are from inferences from reading almost every interview translation available through the Reddit forum plus watching every sub-titled interview. So my information may be wrong due to translation errors in context.
Also it is known that all 5 of the Ladies have more than one Facebook/Instagram/Twitter accounts, as it has been referenced in the past in interviews that they use those accounts to keep up with each other, family members and members of their staff and management team. This was known after someone found Akane's private Facebook page and was harassing members of her family and friends of hers.
The Ladies go out of their way to keep their private lives, VERY PRIVATE. And they have every Right and Reason to.
Mate! Greetings!
As for me living in Japan I discovered them on RUclips after I discovered Wagakki Band!
Best regards,
Robert-Gilles
this song kicks so much ass that donkeys all over the world have gone into hiding
this reminds me of the time i was riding a donkey and someone threw a rock at me and knocked me off off. you could say i was stoned out of my ass :)
@@frankgonzalez4853 good one !
MISA-TAP! Hell yeah!!!!!
There are other fancams of Clang where you can hear kanami well
I got a list from one my co-workers over a year ago which included Baby Metal, Lovebites and Band Maid. I'd listened to Baby Metal before, but by the hand of fate, decided to look up Band Maid, first. Thrill was the first song I watched, and I was intrigued by the sound, but hooked on the riffs. I then found the live videos for Freedom and Domination, and that was it.
Don't get me wrong, when I'm itching for some metal, Lovebits and Nemophila do satisfy. But Band Maid fills that void that I hadn't realized existed until I'd heard them.
Great reaction SB, as Clang is one of my favorites! Have a good one! 🍻
I found out about Band Maid on a reaction channel. It was his first time seeing them Dice was the song .
This song is a rif machine, my favorite so far
A few friends and I were discussing music one night about 18 months ago. The subject of interesting bands popped up and I showed them a video of Baby Metal. After that, a friend said I really have to check out Band-Maid. So I searched and the first video I saw was Dice. I was so intrigued and impressed with the quality of their musicianship. I then watched the next video suggested which was Domination live. They had me at that point. Saiki's stage presence was on another level and the band's performance floored me. After that I fell down the pigeonhole, and B-M quickly became my favorite hard rock band of all time.
I found B-M through reaction videos. I thought my music collection was growing stale, plus I was grieving some losses in my personal and professional life, and BAND-MAID started being recommended to me when I'd watch Nightwish reactions. I finally decided to give them an honest shot. If I liked them, so much the better. If I didn't, I can always tell RUclips I'm not interested. It turned out that I love them, and the floodgates opened to LOVEBITES, Unlucky Morpheus, Wagakki Band, Babymetal, Ningen Isu, Galneryus, Asterism, D_Drive, and Gacharic Spin/Doll$boxx. The Japanese bands in turn led to me finding out music from around the world like Jinjer and The Hu and solo singers like Diana Ankudinova and Sohyang.
Tapping on the bass isn't difficult. The thicker strings can be a bit harder to hold down as opposed to the guitar, but tapping in and of itself isn't a difficult technique. It gets more difficult the faster you go, the more fingers and strings you incorporate, and for me, it's always been more about what precedes and follows the tapping than the actual tapping itself. I always appreciate a smooth transition.
I think one of Vladimir’s other videos of this is way better. As much as we love MISA’s bass, when the camera is right in front of her amp, you can’t hear Kanami or Miku at all.
Yes, Bochum is better 😎 (and germans are better singers 😅 )
LOGO Hamburg is the best in terms of sound 🤘
@@VladimirChupin maybe slightly, but the camera position is better at Bochum. Still, great job catching so many different angles at the shows you went to.
There's an audience shot performance out there with Kanami and Misa playing a hammer on intro duet that's good.
I can't believe I have never seen that live version before. Was Misa TAPPING on the bass?
To answer your question RUclips dropped "Thrill" into my suggested video list in 2017. I was hooked immediately.
Personally "Turn me on" is my favorite song on this album, but don't get me wrong, this song is awesome. Of course all Band-Maid songs are awesome.
I like the song on the album but I think it really changes live with the crowd participation. Such an awesome song.
I'll answer your question - I found out about Band-Maid by seeing the Thrill MV in 2015 or 2016, but didn't really start following them and becoming a hard core Madiac until the era of YT Reactions starting about 2019.
my journey to Band-Maid began with a Jinjer reaction which led to babymetal (was not too into it) then a recommendation to Band-Maid. TNH i was reluctant to check out because of the outfits then i said WTH i'll see what's up. Listened to "Dice" and the intro hooked me i thought to myself "holy crap this is a killer rhythm section" and the rest is history
AaaH!! Misa and those beautiful bare feet. The 'Barefoot Assassin' playing to perfection. As were the other Maids too of course. Sound quality accepted.
A song written with crowd participation in mind. And the smiles on Saiki & Miku's faces when they are all chanting says it all. Especially in a foreign country.
Most of their concerts in US sold-out so good luck getting ticket
D.C. and New Jersey (and iirc maybe Houston resale?) tix are still available for about $35.
You should check out the Bochum 2019 06 24 version too sometime, and Zepp.
Hamburg LOGO two days later on Kanami's side isn't bad either.
As is the Islington, London version ruclips.net/video/ipsM0V09V9U/видео.html
@@joki5346 Yeah, LOGO Hamburg has the best sound in all those fancams.
@@VladimirChupin The sound in the LOGO is undoubtedly the best, but what I love about Bochum is the view of the whole stage, the excellent light show, which harmonises exactly with the songs and the whole course of the concert with the nice incidents in between. Hamburg has some situations where I feel a bit uncomfortable. Also, the crowd in Bochum sang better, but that's rather secondary. Apart from all this, Amsterdam will always have a very special place in my heart.
@@joki5346 In Amsterdam, at least one guy (let's not point the finger, although yes, it was me) was singing awfully and terribly 🥺🙈
Was scrolling through one of my fave reactor's catalog and came across Freedom live reaction andbthe rest is history. 6 months ago. Where u based out of?
Everything got overrided by Misa's bass cause Vlad was recording in front of Misa's Orange 😉
I like the Bochum version better because you can see the tapping duel at the start of Clang head on: watch Misa paying with a smirk on her face -- usually she is so serious but she was smiling while she tapped.
I think I found out about Band-Maid through a reactor who was reviewing Nightwish. Possibly Carneson. The first Band-Maid song I can remember watching was Freedom -- that was my first favourite Band-Maid song.
LOGO Hamburg has a little bit better sound than Bochum, and you can see that tapping dues from above 😎🤘
Last year we tried to run a knockout competition on one of the Maid fan sites and I had Clang in my top 4. As someone who prefers more metal this song kicks !
I found them through baby metal. Way back in the days of the World Domination. Ironically enough my first song was Thrill. Then Iistened to World Domination and this was the one song that really stood out. That opening riff man! After that was Day Dreaming mostly for that second verse switch from solo instead of chorus. I didn't have access to anything else the RUclips music app only had one full album same with Spotify. Now Spotify has all released albums.
Very Van Halen feel
Old Mr. B has a very avant-garde reaction channel. That was my introduction to the greatest proper rock band on the planet IMO.
Found them before the pandemic via my brother. Was thinking about seeing them in 2019 in LA but went to Europe instead. I figured they'd be back in 2020, but we know how that turned out.
I found out about Band-Maid 3 years ago, when a buddy of mine shared a MV on Facebook. I think it was "Thrill". I did the guy a favor by checking out his band, so I clicked on the link. He and I tend not to share the same taste in music, so I expected the worst. I figured 10 seconds, and I'm out of there. But, I was pleasantly shocked. I actually didn't hate it. I quickly tried another couple of their videos at RUclips, and then ventured out to their web site. I was on Band-Maid journey for the next 3 or more hours. And yes, fan cams turned into a big part of it that day. Kanami's fancam solos, MISA/Kanami/Akane "Don't You Tell Me" fancams.
By the end of that week, I believe I had heard every song on "World Domination", "Just Bring It', and "Brand New Maid", which were the 3 most recent albums at that time. Those remain my 3 favorites.
I learned about band maid from the peacemaker soundtrack Spotify list that James Gunn put out. Choose me was on there but it was the 1 track that wasn’t on Amazon music. They had Sense. So I listened to that and it really grew on me… so I wanted to hear choose me… ended up listening to more on Amazon from unseen world and just kinda got hooked. Ended up going to RUclips to finally find choose me and stumbled into reactions and here I am
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I just tipping/Japanese rock music...Well my first results was Onset from Band-Maid 😉 probably 20 times I watch the song that evening...the rest just history 😃
I found out about the maids when I was researching for a trip to Japan that we took in 2019. I started about a year before that and eventually got fed a RUclips video of The maids music video thrill. I wouldn't watch it the first five or six times it popped up but RUclips was persistent that I finally watched them even though I thought it would be lame. It wasn't lame. So I watched real existence live and instantly became a madiac.
RNG gods made me look at "Thrill" at YT couple years ago,i think it was about 5 years ago and next song was "Real Existens"both MV.LOL
I hope we get to hear this one in October.
And that tapping battle between MISA and Kanami ... hooo boy.
Great reaction, enjoying your journey. For me I discovered B-M through a YT recommendation. I'd discovered Babymetal a couple of months prior in early 2018 and DICE popped up, watched and was captured.
One of their best Motörmaid riffs! Sadly, you didn't chose the best version, the Bochum's one, the next day (why best? Because I was there 😆 ). About your question: I found B-M thx to ... a reaction video ("British guitarist" - Wings of Pegasus) end of 2018.
The Wings of Pegasus's Band-Maid review was great except his video malfunctioned and dropped one of the audio channels, so the sound wasn't as good as it should have been. He did apologize for this in the comment section though. Glad that you found BM despite the hiccup on the sound.
@@uffdad8211 That's right, as usual I immediately went to watch the original video, so I noticed it.But his review and comments were spot on.
@@realdocloco Same for me. Wings of Pegasus was one of the early pro reactors, who boosted the interest in the band a lot.
Great reaction! One of my fav songs from Band-Maid (which doesn't say much, most of them are ;)). Your reaction buddy not doing this with you?
Konami the tsunami
Sorry, but Kanami doesn't like the word Tsunami's because it brings destruction and misery to Japan. Someone suggested the name Obi Wan Kanami to describe her Jedi-like mastery of the guitar which is flattering to her and pretty spot on.