The lead in to Manners by MISA and Akane is something the band has been doing in live concerts. The do a lead in which sounds nothing like the song and the fans are desperately trying to guess which song is coming next and then… BOOM! they start playing the song. Being Band Maid of course it’s a different lead in for a different song every concert. It’s one of the things to love about them, they are endlessly inventive and hate playing the same thing, they change how they play their songs every time they play.
This video was put out this way to get in a Japanese government program to help artists during the Covid crisis. They cannot play live to generate funds so the government had a program where if they release a music video they would get funds to cover half of the production costs. The catch was it had to be at least five minutes in length. Band Maid does not have any songs that long so they put two together. They are quite a stunning pair to put together. Thank you for the reaction. You are falling down the same rabbit (pigeon?) hole that I did about eight months ago. Keep up the good work! Cheers from the US.
It wasn't the Monster, Unless the Monster in question is Band-Maid. "Lured into a false sense, to be pushed down the stairs": I love that analogy! Do didn't imagine the synth horns added for the live version. They definitely add to that false send if safe, pop/rock vibe just before pulling the sledgehammer that is Black Hole from out of nowhere to slam us between the eyes. This proggy, thrash metal masterpiece that I can easily envision coming straight off of Anthrax's "Among the Living" gives me visions of circle pits erupting at proper live performances, once they can resume.
Blues rock and speed metal from one group! Band-Maid is just so versatile! Black Hole is the 22 of 23 songs from this performance! Confidence and vitality is a Band-Maid trademark!
and yes, there is a synth or horn in some parts. My understanding is that Akane is doing the sampling and controls the playing. I would suspect that if it is a synth then it was played by either Misa, Akane, or Kanami (all of whom play piano) and if it was a horn then it was played by either Misa, or Akane (who both play various brass instruments). And that's my pure speculation for the day.
When Kanami was writing the music for Black Hole, she apparently asked Akane how fast she could play and was told it was around 200 BPM. So she wrote the song at 220 BPM as a challenge. Laughter at this aside, it's really impressive that they keep pushing each other and growing in both their skills and range. Band Maid makes me happy every time I listen to them. OK, "About Us" makes me cry, but I'm still enjoying it. :)
Nice to see you back at Band-Maid. Hope you had a great time and also an nice weekend. Yes, Band-Maid is AWESOME and they are already my favorite band for round about 2+ years! Greetings from Germany :)
At 220 bpm Black Hole is their fastest song to date, however, during Kanami and Miku's meeting with Herman Li from Dragonforce Kanami asked Herman what their fastest song was to which he replied he thought it was 235 bpm. The thoughtful look on Kanami's face must have sent shivers down Akane's spine lol ! If you are doing Play next why not bring things down and do 'Wonderland' or 'Endless Story' Thanks Chief !
Another awesome reaction! After Manners when you were talking about liking simple drum beats to God tier drums I thought, "Well you are about to hear the God tier level". Akane is a human/gorilla drum machine. I hope Kanami doesn't break her. As for the creepy guitar melody, when I first listened to the Unseen World album my first though... after I put my brain back together and picked my face up off of the floor was that that someone needed to check in on Kanami. A lot of her riffs and leads sounded like she was dragging us down into her pit of madness. Some are just downright sinister. Haha.
You'll sink into the Black Hole, it doesn't matter It will take your soul, have you good or bad Manners Thanks for coming back to the maids, be sure to not miss 'Kate' on Netflix. B-M will make a cameo and two songs on that movie, coming on Sep. 10th 🤘🕊️
For 'Black Hole' you definitely need several listens to begin to recognize everything that is in there. A slap in the face is a pretty good description. :) As for 'Manners', I'll let my signature do the talking. ;) ... Have a nice weekend! 🙋🏻♂️ 【 'Our rock never dies ever. Forever!' - from BAND-MAID 'Manners' 】🕊️
Ha ha--I seriously doubt that she did anything unplanned...it seems that they let MISA MISA have another romp on that tune like "about us". Loved how she drove that song with her GODDESS bass tone, the bass lines she comes up with are astounding!
You just made my day too with this! And probably a few other peoples' too. The musicianship from them all in these two performances is exceptional. The MV of 'Manners' is really nice too. I must have the notifications turned off in the Discord as I've missed all your stuff on there (very sad face)...have to go and fix that now. Hey, 3.33K subscribers! Congratulations, man, you deserve them all and all the others to come. 🤘🤘🦊👌
Band Maid as usual pulling their "Let's just play the bass solo and guitar solo at the same time" craziness in Manners. They don't care man. Everyone play a solo the whole time, rules don't apply. I really appreciate their live shows because they do let you hear the vocals way better. For some reason the albums always have Miku turned down alot so you have to strain to hear what she's doing. But the live performances lately seem to have better vocal quality. Too bad the guitar's usually quieter. :D Either Giovanni or Black Hole are my favorite track off 'Unseen World'. Black Hole does a good job of giving you a feeling like you're falling into a black hole. It sounds so chaotic and still so well structured when you really pay attention. They said before this concert that they were most apprehensive about playing Black Hole live because it's at such a fast rate and gets so crazy that if one of them trips and loses their spot they wouldn't be able to get back to the right spot. Poor Akane especially is going crazy through most of the song. But if you look at her she's enjoying the hell out of it. Basically Black Hole is Band-Maid making a prog metal song but rather than make us wait 12 minutes to hear all the cool things they're going to do, they instead just do it in 3.
This video is like two sides of a coin, very different from one another but both technical, both full of feeling, and you will love "Play" it's got a sort of prog rock feel.
yeah that horn was a surprise to me as well. listen for it in the studio version you almost can hear it but I cant tell if my ears are playing tricks on me
Spot on review. Akane is my favorite and along with Misa anchor Band Maid’s sound. This live performance, as usual, is better than the studio original. In “Manners” Kanami’s solo was very cool and Misa simultaneously soloing on the bass was a first for me. Some of Miku’s vocals and the synth horn part is better heard on this live version. Akane’s drumming on “Black Hole” is amazing, yet is almost eclipsed by the rest of the girl’s playing & singing. “Flying High” is a song you should review, probably my favorite from the Conqueror album.
In the Sea of Band-Maid, all the islands are unique and awesome!!! Just pick one, enjoy, and move to the next....🤔....though I am surprised to find out that Pigeons 🕊 are seafaring birds...😉!!!👍👍🤘🤘🤘
Awesome comment. I scuttled my boat on the island of "Don't Let Me Down", but i'm building a new one out of banana skins to get to the other islands :)
@@GaryHolloway-810 You could get the local gorilla 🦍 to help, but from what I heard about "Don't Let Me Down", I'd probably hang around for awhile 😉😍🤣!!!
@@GaryHolloway-810congratulations! I've been awake for 35 minutes and thanks to you, I've already had a great laugh, remembered some old friends, and my sinuses have had their hot coffee flush for the weekend. I need to elaborate a bit, I suppose. About ten years ago, a friend of mine built himself a boat. It's really more of an oversized canoe. Built of plywood, encased in fiberglass, he did a beautiful job. I believe it's 21' long, and it bows upward slightly at each end. During construction, his girlfriend (now wife) commented that it's shape was like a giant banana. Six or eight weeks later, when it was time to be painted, fate stepped in. He wanted some high quality paint, so he went down to the paint store and told them what he was doing and that he wanted paint that would have a pretty tough finish. It turned out that the previous week the paint store had done a large commercial order and had mixed one too many cans, so they had a gallon of this high dollar commercial paint that they would let him have at a huge discount. He's never been one to turn down a good deal, so he bought this $180 gallon of paint for $50. The catch? It was already colored. Bright canary yellow. While he was painting it, his girl (she's an artist) took a small bit of the paint and mixed in some of her art paint and added a few random little brown spots here and there, just to complete the look. The boat has been christened, and wears it's name proudly on each side of it's stern. "The Dirty Banana". (I believe they still have it.) Your talk of a banana skin boat brought that memory rushing back into my head, and a smile to my face. A smile with dripping with coffee mind you, but a smile all the same. Thanks for the grin. 😁
It's great to see bands like Lovebites, Baby Metal, and Band Maid getting recognition for quality variation and diversifying progressive styles into modern metal and replacing the redundant Cookie Monster vocals this music suffered from. Lovebites does a good version of Helloween's "Eagle Fly Free" ruclips.net/video/To21HILZvYE/видео.html
Yay...first to comment. Right...blue thumb and watch :-) Edit: Awesome Chief! "Oasis noise"?...the guitar chord sound there makes me think of 'Some Might Say' as an example. A great classic tone. Have a great weekend!
The way Saiki says "difficult"....The BAND MAID experience is a bit like a black hole...cross the event horizon and you won't be coming back out....not that you'd want to
Yeeeey brother!! Energylevel at 200%! And that now football season started again. Too bad you have to put in a lot of those tenth of a second glitches. Still great reaction and good to see a guine good time while doing so. Rock on!
MISA MISA MISA! my thoughts in this are when "Glory" is my least favourite song out of the 100 plus they have THAT has to mean something when you consider "Glory" is better than 99.8% of anything else out there (in the West)
I'm about 10 days into my BAND-MAID journey, and "Conqueror" is my favorite of their albums. Tbh, I've not really paid attention to "Glory" on any detailed level, but hearing the opening riff come in after the beauty of "Page" really got me when I first listened through it. All their songs stand strong on their own, but this is true album rock.
@@Metal_Auditor Hope you're enjoying your B-M journey. Hmm🤔 Conqueror is quite divisive cos after the behemoth that "World Domination" was, some fans thought it was a backwards step due to it's softer nature. I think it's a good album but following W.D meant it came in for some (unfair?) criticism :)
Band-Maid is always like "yep, we´re gonna absolutely freaking kill it on our instruments while looking like adorable porcelain dolls". So different from all the guy bands who´re all about being tough and macho and what not, i mean nothing wrong with that but it gets a bit old after a while. Love how they bring that feminine energy while rocking hard as f**K, and that goes for Lovebites and Nemophila as well.
After this song? Good what should we suggest? Moratorium? Wonderland? Mirage? Awkward? Giovanni? Man, you are giving me the question that I can't answer. There are just too many options. Anyway stay safe and stay positive! Good music help is all ☺👊👍
Play? Which version? A double reaction of the same song? It would be well worth it. The Studio Coast version is a little harder to find. Just a thought.
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The lead in to Manners by MISA and Akane is something the band has been doing in live concerts. The do a lead in which sounds nothing like the song and the fans are desperately trying to guess which song is coming next and then… BOOM! they start playing the song. Being Band Maid of course it’s a different lead in for a different song every concert. It’s one of the things to love about them, they are endlessly inventive and hate playing the same thing, they change how they play their songs every time they play.
This video was put out this way to get in a Japanese government program to help artists during the Covid crisis. They cannot play live to generate funds so the government had a program where if they release a music video they would get funds to cover half of the production costs. The catch was it had to be at least five minutes in length. Band Maid does not have any songs that long so they put two together. They are quite a stunning pair to put together. Thank you for the reaction. You are falling down the same rabbit (pigeon?) hole that I did about eight months ago. Keep up the good work! Cheers from the US.
It wasn't the Monster, Unless the Monster in question is Band-Maid.
"Lured into a false sense, to be pushed down the stairs": I love that analogy!
Do didn't imagine the synth horns added for the live version. They definitely add to that false send if safe, pop/rock vibe just before pulling the sledgehammer that is Black Hole from out of nowhere to slam us between the eyes. This proggy, thrash metal masterpiece that I can easily envision coming straight off of Anthrax's "Among the Living" gives me visions of circle pits erupting at proper live performances, once they can resume.
Blues rock and speed metal from one group! Band-Maid is just so versatile! Black Hole is the 22 of 23 songs from this performance! Confidence and vitality is a Band-Maid trademark!
🤣 finally FREEDOM on the 23 song ... piegon fly freely after the show🤣
That rasp in saiki’s voice in black hole might be my favorite part of the whole video. Thanks for calling it out!
Miku's really shining vocally and instrumentally here. And her little shouts! Still cute, though. lol
and yes, there is a synth or horn in some parts. My understanding is that Akane is doing the sampling and controls the playing. I would suspect that if it is a synth then it was played by either Misa, Akane, or Kanami (all of whom play piano) and if it was a horn then it was played by either Misa, or Akane (who both play various brass instruments). And that's my pure speculation for the day.
Thanks for the reaction!
Next stop on the Band-Maid train please: "The non-fiction days" 🚂🙂
they are phenomenal artist... your soul sink in the black hole... simply the best
When Kanami was writing the music for Black Hole, she apparently asked Akane how fast she could play and was told it was around 200 BPM. So she wrote the song at 220 BPM as a challenge. Laughter at this aside, it's really impressive that they keep pushing each other and growing in both their skills and range. Band Maid makes me happy every time I listen to them. OK, "About Us" makes me cry, but I'm still enjoying it. :)
Nice to see you back at Band-Maid. Hope you had a great time and also an nice weekend. Yes, Band-Maid is AWESOME and they are already my favorite band for round about 2+ years!
Greetings from Germany :)
Miku surprised me with her vocals, she had some good bits in there.
"there you go, have some black hole!"
I died 😂
At 220 bpm Black Hole is their fastest song to date, however, during Kanami and Miku's meeting with Herman Li from Dragonforce Kanami asked Herman what their fastest song was to which he replied he thought it was 235 bpm. The thoughtful look on Kanami's face must have sent shivers down Akane's spine lol ! If you are doing Play next why not bring things down and do 'Wonderland' or 'Endless Story' Thanks Chief !
From what I understood she basically took up the challenge.
Another awesome reaction! After Manners when you were talking about liking simple drum beats to God tier drums I thought, "Well you are about to hear the God tier level". Akane is a human/gorilla drum machine. I hope Kanami doesn't break her.
As for the creepy guitar melody, when I first listened to the Unseen World album my first though... after I put my brain back together and picked my face up off of the floor was that that someone needed to check in on Kanami. A lot of her riffs and leads sounded like she was dragging us down into her pit of madness. Some are just downright sinister. Haha.
You'll sink into the Black Hole, it doesn't matter
It will take your soul, have you good or bad Manners
Thanks for coming back to the maids, be sure to not miss 'Kate' on Netflix. B-M will make a cameo and two songs on that movie, coming on Sep. 10th 🤘🕊️
For 'Black Hole' you definitely need several listens to begin to recognize everything that is in there. A slap in the face is a pretty good description. :)
As for 'Manners', I'll let my signature do the talking. ;) ... Have a nice weekend! 🙋🏻♂️
【 'Our rock never dies ever. Forever!' - from BAND-MAID 'Manners' 】🕊️
manners solo needs to be listened to twice when you realise that misa says "screw it im going to do my own solo" behind the guitar solo
Ha ha--I seriously doubt that she did anything unplanned...it seems that they let MISA MISA have another romp on that tune like "about us". Loved how she drove that song with her GODDESS bass tone, the bass lines she comes up with are astounding!
It's not often you hear a bass solo under a lead guitar solo. Another sign of their creativity. Skills.
yeah i love saiki in black hole..i mean i love the whole band always but that part....yeah won me over again
You just made my day too with this! And probably a few other peoples' too. The musicianship from them all in these two performances is exceptional. The MV of 'Manners' is really nice too. I must have the notifications turned off in the Discord as I've missed all your stuff on there (very sad face)...have to go and fix that now. Hey, 3.33K subscribers! Congratulations, man, you deserve them all and all the others to come. 🤘🤘🦊👌
Band Maid as usual pulling their "Let's just play the bass solo and guitar solo at the same time" craziness in Manners. They don't care man. Everyone play a solo the whole time, rules don't apply. I really appreciate their live shows because they do let you hear the vocals way better. For some reason the albums always have Miku turned down alot so you have to strain to hear what she's doing. But the live performances lately seem to have better vocal quality. Too bad the guitar's usually quieter. :D
Either Giovanni or Black Hole are my favorite track off 'Unseen World'. Black Hole does a good job of giving you a feeling like you're falling into a black hole. It sounds so chaotic and still so well structured when you really pay attention. They said before this concert that they were most apprehensive about playing Black Hole live because it's at such a fast rate and gets so crazy that if one of them trips and loses their spot they wouldn't be able to get back to the right spot. Poor Akane especially is going crazy through most of the song. But if you look at her she's enjoying the hell out of it. Basically Black Hole is Band-Maid making a prog metal song but rather than make us wait 12 minutes to hear all the cool things they're going to do, they instead just do it in 3.
This video is like two sides of a coin, very different from one another but both technical, both full of feeling, and you will love "Play" it's got a sort of prog rock feel.
yeah that horn was a surprise to me as well. listen for it in the studio version you almost can hear it but I cant tell if my ears are playing tricks on me
Dude, the unintentionally audible horn section is nicked from a great 70's tune called "Jungle boogy"!
Spot on review. Akane is my favorite and along with Misa anchor Band Maid’s sound. This live performance, as usual, is better than the studio original. In “Manners” Kanami’s solo was very cool and Misa simultaneously soloing on the bass was a first for me. Some of Miku’s vocals and the synth horn part is better heard on this live version. Akane’s drumming on “Black Hole” is amazing, yet is almost eclipsed by the rest of the girl’s playing & singing. “Flying High” is a song you should review, probably my favorite from the Conqueror album.
Love Manners and the intro is just brilliant! Love the tone on Misa's bass. Thank you for reacting to this video.
In the Sea of Band-Maid, all the islands are unique and awesome!!! Just pick one, enjoy, and move to the next....🤔....though I am surprised to find out that Pigeons 🕊 are seafaring birds...😉!!!👍👍🤘🤘🤘
Awesome comment. I scuttled my boat on the island of "Don't Let Me Down", but i'm building a new one out of banana skins to get to the other islands :)
@@GaryHolloway-810 You could get the local gorilla 🦍 to help, but from what I heard about "Don't Let Me Down", I'd probably hang around for awhile 😉😍🤣!!!
@@sobabruddah7576 lol
@@GaryHolloway-810 all islands are inhabited by the same trib..... gittn a jet ski and sun tan lotion!!!🤣🤣😍😍😍😍🦧
@@GaryHolloway-810congratulations! I've been awake for 35 minutes and thanks to you, I've already had a great laugh, remembered some old friends, and my sinuses have had their hot coffee flush for the weekend. I need to elaborate a bit, I suppose.
About ten years ago, a friend of mine built himself a boat. It's really more of an oversized canoe. Built of plywood, encased in fiberglass, he did a beautiful job. I believe it's 21' long, and it bows upward slightly at each end. During construction, his girlfriend (now wife) commented that it's shape was like a giant banana. Six or eight weeks later, when it was time to be painted, fate stepped in. He wanted some high quality paint, so he went down to the paint store and told them what he was doing and that he wanted paint that would have a pretty tough finish. It turned out that the previous week the paint store had done a large commercial order and had mixed one too many cans, so they had a gallon of this high dollar commercial paint that they would let him have at a huge discount. He's never been one to turn down a good deal, so he bought this $180 gallon of paint for $50. The catch? It was already colored. Bright canary yellow.
While he was painting it, his girl (she's an artist) took a small bit of the paint and mixed in some of her art paint and added a few random little brown spots here and there, just to complete the look. The boat has been christened, and wears it's name proudly on each side of it's stern. "The Dirty Banana". (I believe they still have it.)
Your talk of a banana skin boat brought that memory rushing back into my head, and a smile to my face. A smile with dripping with coffee mind you, but a smile all the same.
Thanks for the grin. 😁
Should definitely check out their song: Bubble
It's great to see bands like Lovebites, Baby Metal, and Band Maid getting recognition for quality variation and diversifying progressive styles into modern metal and replacing the redundant Cookie Monster vocals this music suffered from. Lovebites does a good version of Helloween's "Eagle Fly Free" ruclips.net/video/To21HILZvYE/видео.html
Don't forget Miku. Only beacuse she is driving the rhythm with Akane, Misa has the freedom to play more or less solos the whole songs
I'm a drummer too...... till I heard AKANE...HARUNA...TAMU.... ECT. ECT...... THANKS BRO!! " YES YOU NEED TO PLAY AROUND!!!!"🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥👍🦧
Yay...first to comment. Right...blue thumb and watch :-) Edit: Awesome Chief! "Oasis noise"?...the guitar chord sound there makes me think of 'Some Might Say' as an example. A great classic tone. Have a great weekend!
Regarding Black Hole. Go Miku!!! good start to a song. Very proud of our little pigeon's guitar skill's. She has come a long way.
Thanks.
The way Saiki says "difficult"....The BAND MAID experience is a bit like a black hole...cross the event horizon and you won't be coming back out....not that you'd want to
If you do Play there are 2 versions. Try to find the older version. IMO it is the better version. It's from around 2017.
Nice video and hi Chief
Yeeeey brother!! Energylevel at 200%!
And that now football season started again. Too bad you have to put in a lot of those tenth of a second glitches. Still great reaction and good to see a guine good time while doing so. Rock on!
MISA MISA MISA! my thoughts in this are when "Glory" is my least favourite song out of the 100 plus they have THAT has to mean something when you consider "Glory" is better than 99.8% of anything else out there (in the West)
Hmm🤔 are you the "Dave" Chief mentioned? Of course it is, it couldn't be anyone else.👍
💯% 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🥃🥃🥃
@@GaryHolloway-810 lol
I'm about 10 days into my BAND-MAID journey, and "Conqueror" is my favorite of their albums. Tbh, I've not really paid attention to "Glory" on any detailed level, but hearing the opening riff come in after the beauty of "Page" really got me when I first listened through it. All their songs stand strong on their own, but this is true album rock.
@@Metal_Auditor Hope you're enjoying your B-M journey. Hmm🤔 Conqueror is quite divisive cos after the behemoth that "World Domination" was, some fans thought it was a backwards step due to it's softer nature. I think it's a good album but following W.D meant it came in for some (unfair?) criticism :)
Band-Maid is always like "yep, we´re gonna absolutely freaking kill it on our instruments while looking like adorable porcelain dolls". So different from all the guy bands who´re all about being tough and macho and what not, i mean nothing wrong with that but it gets a bit old after a while. Love how they bring that feminine energy while rocking hard as f**K, and that goes for Lovebites and Nemophila as well.
So i'm totally hearing King Crimson thrash on this one.
After this song? Good what should we suggest? Moratorium? Wonderland? Mirage? Awkward? Giovanni?
Man, you are giving me the question that I can't answer. There are just too many options. Anyway stay safe and stay positive! Good music help is all ☺👊👍
I love them all and respect their talent but MISA and Akane are my favourites. Reason is I used to play drums and playing bass is a dream of mine.
Good job bro
Thank you so much 😀
No God by them is a really good song. You’ll hear some interesting stuff in there
Hi ! Band Maid is a good band.There is also a band called Nemophila in Japan.Listen to it's okay. 👍
Play? Which version? A double reaction of the same song? It would be well worth it. The Studio Coast version is a little harder to find. Just a thought.
Some old school metal a bit of an L7 vibe
Sounded like something was chopping up the sound of the audio. Was that intentional to avoid blockage by youtube?
Are you making little cuts in the pip for copywrite reasons? there was quite a few little skips?
You could have put yer mankie dressing goonie away
Bro, plz react to TRiDENT-JAPAN songs Voltage, No Regret..(sure you will not regret)
those little breaks during the music are annoying, sorry