I will never get tired of saying that Japan is the true future of ROCK & METAL because of these incredible bands that are so dam good for actually understanding the genres that they are playing and making them better
Hey hey hey.. Love Aldious!! I knew you would love them. They are one of the pioneers of the 2000's All female rock and metal boom in Japan.. Toki and Yoshi on twin leads are awesome and Sawa on bass is very very good.. The drummer in this video is Marina Bozzio, daughter of the hall of fame drummer Terry Bozzio.. Sadly the band has struggled to keep a singer. Re:No in this video is my personal favorite and for me is the sound of Aldious, just love her silky smooth voice. She took ill with a inner hear disease a number of years ago and had to stop singing. She has come back with a solo album in the last year so good for her, hope she will one day get back with the band. They have a number of very cool songs Sweet temptation (MV is very cool with an unusual theme?)will blow you away with the "stops" which I know you really like and Reincarnation live is a masterpiece incorporating accoustic guitar, violin and full on metal with Re:No's haunting voice.. If you check out the lyrics of the song it is very dark, but is apparently about how her disease killed of her singing career, it's an awesome song.. The name as you pronounced it is the correct way if you are Japanese, English speakers pronounce it like it is spelt but the japanese struggle to pronounce the letter L like we do, they say R instead, i personally love the way they speak English it's very cool. Really hope you will do more of these beautiful talented ladies. Best wishes from France, and thanks for checking out Aldious.. PS. I still think Yoshi's Zemaitis guitar is one of the best looking guitars I've ever seen..
I think by now you understand why there's so many fans of the japanese rock/metal scene. And like all of us, you can't understand why you've never heard of all those wonderfull bands and artists before! There's only one reason: our western medias are DEAF and BLIND to anything coming out of Japan - and it makes me severely angry on them.
Our media are DEAF and BLIND to anything from anywhere outside the USA. They also ignore the great European metal bands. And forget South America, they couldn't find it on a map.
Just discovered aldious just now didn't know you reacted to them I think I found another group I realy like omg their is so many amazing talented girl groups in Japan omg
It's fun watching your reactions to all of these awesome Japanese bands. They are beautiful and badass! I wish I had 1/10 of the talent these bands have. 🤘👏😄
Aldious were one of the first of the new wave of Japanese girl-metal bands to form in the early 2000’s, along with Destrose, Cyntia and existTtrace. They are, in their hearts, a metal band, but have done a lot of exploring of various styles and genres. Personnel: Yoshi has been the constant (founder, lead guitar, band manager, audience right). Toki (co-lead guitar, pink Flying-V, audience left) joined a year later and has also been a constant, except in 2019 when she took time off to have a baby (during that time, Narumi toured with them for a year, in between solo projects). Sawa (bass) was there briefly at the beginning, left, and rejoined in 2010. Marina (drums) replaced Aruto, the original drummer, in 2014. Marina is the step daughter of the legendary Terry Bozzio, who played with Frank Zappa for almost two decades. As with many of the Japanese bands, Aldious have a rock solid rhythm section, over which the guitars and vocals have free range to do their thing. The biggest changes have been at vocals. Rami, the original vocalist, left in 2012 and Re-No took over. Their most commercially successful period was with Re-No, despite some controversy among their fans over whether she was “metal” enough. Re-No retired for medical reasons in 2018, and R!N stepped in. They seem to have bad luck with this position, as R!N announced she was leaving as of July 2021, also for medical reasons, after recording a few songs. Fans have vigorously debated the very different styles of the three women, with Rami being considered the most “metal” but all three bringing a unique sound to the mix. Maki Oyama has been filling in at vocal for some performances. The question now is whether they will find a permanent vocalist. Other ongs to check out (the first one features Aruto, the rest are with Marina on drums) “Dominator” (MV) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6GwPzPFhgAU.html “Kanasii Otoko” (live MV) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pDu-ZX2TAS0.html “Reincarnation” (Live) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-57UvVMWY2Vo.html This last one features a spectacular collaboration with classical violinist Chieko Kinbara; it suggests Aldious could have gone in a symphonic rock direction if they chose.
It's ALL-D-US, just say that as one word and you've got it, The name Aldious was created by Rami (original lead singer and co founder) by shortening the phrase "Ultimate Melodious" Been a fan of this band since 2013 when I heard District Zero, a real banger but then I must confess I've got most of the cd's and they all rock. Also got of 5 of there concerts and they put on a hell of a show! And from what I've heard from interviews they are loud, they crank it up to 11 not 10 but 11. LOL
This is a great Japanese metal band, this is a small part of the groups that exist in Japan, each one with a great style, continue exploring this great world of Japanese music.
Aldious is a portmanteau of "Ultimate" (Altimate) and "Melodious" pronounced "all-dee-ous". They are the first successful all-female J-Metal band with the breakout album "Deep Exceed" which ought to be in every metalhead's collection - it's excellent. They have been around since 2008 and have many, many brilliant tracks out there. They are best served live (try Dominator, Megalomaniac, Re:Fire or Yozakura for a sample) and have had a few vocalists and a couple of drummers - none of them have been anything other than awesome, all of them have made Aldious who they are, and this vocalist, Re:NO, more than most. They are still around, they still need a new vocalist...
cool that's another new group to me damn i am slacking in my old age i will have to up my JMetal /JRock recommendations you are throwing em at me as fast as i am to you lol
So glad you liked them, McCoy. I never considered how to pronounce it in Japanese, but I think you might have got it right. As I said, the rabbit hole s deep with Japan 😀😀 Once you are saturated with heavy, we are ready with some weird J-pop too. Let us know and have a nice day.
We Are is a call and response song, where the band says "We Are!!" and the audience says "Aldious!!" right after. Re:NO, the vocalist here stepped away from Aldious a few years ago because of a health issue. Herlast video with the band was for "Monster". It was written wit lyrics dealing with her issue. She recovered and released one full solo album of her own. Sawa, the bassist once played in a death metal band called GALMET. "The Metters Anthem" is a good one by them. However, Sawa is not in the video. Yoshi, the guitarist with mother of pearl guitar recently joined Miho ex:Lovebites, Maki Oyama and Hina of Tribal Scream of Pheonix under the band name Down Dope Squad. They played covers at a few venues in Japan. You will find many crossover connections of band members in your exploration of Japanese Rock and Metal bands.
Other good songs from them are - "In this World", "Dominator" and "Sweet Temptation". Must be more, but "on the first ball", I remember those like good ones!
The band is called Aldious which is short for Ultimate Melodius. The U in Ultimate sounds like an A in Awe. So the came up with Aldious for short. This band had 9 Japanese Billboard top 100 albums. There are no bad songs across many genres. If you really want to see their range do I Don't Like Me, Fragile, Marigold, White Crow. Go Away and Die For You.
One important thing. In the 1980s there was a successful female Metal band named Show Ya. They even got play in the USA. But nothing after. Female bands just couldn't make it other than small venues. No one would take a chance on them. Aldious formed I. 2008 and were popular o. Tbe circuit but no record company was interested. They formed their own label and put out an EP. it sold out immediately and got them on the Indie chart. After that they had a song got picked up to be the end theme on a TV show. That song became such a hit that it blew the doors open to other female artists who flooded through. These girls are the GodMothers of modern female J Metal and J Rock. Every Female band you will see owes these ladies a debt. Because of them all the others were allowed to get contracts.
The Drummer is Marina Bozzio, daughter of long time Frank Zappa and Missing Persons Drummer Terry Bozzio. She uses three kick drums in honor of her dad. You should give D-Drive and Asterism a listen.
It's pronounced All Dee Us. At least that how I've heard it pronounced. Maybe that's incorrect. Now that you did one of their must popular songs, check out the Rami years. (First singer and many fan favorite like me😆) Recommend the song Spirit Black (MV) to start.
another fantastic band from japan. live they are even better, as you can see in the live version of this one from their official channel with guest singer maki oyama.
Love the whole scene that’s utilizing these Japanese female hard rock musicians, and enjoying watching you get sucked in. Gacharic Spin (wait til you try Doll$Boxx -Take My Chance MV, same musicians but 10yrs ago w different singer), Lovebites and Nemophila melting brains, along with BandMaid (saw them in Philly; check the timeline, curious to me their concept came up months after that Doll$Boxx vid, ijs 🤷♂️), definitely leading in popularity but there’s depth to the scene and Aldious were at the forefront 10-15years ago, and still doing it. So, some unsolicited advice for the Japanese pronunciations. If you do Spanish or Latin languages at all, go with that for the vowels, always the same. Our AEIOU, they would say ahh, A(like the letter), E(like the letter), O(like the letter), eww. Ok, they order it differently, so they say AIUEO as “ahh E eww A O”. The strangest thing is that there’s almost no deviation from this (true in Spanish too), so it’s never “ohh”, just one beat to it, O. The rest, my best advice is blend the literal with your gut. Example: Aldious. They were named Ultimate Melodious, but shortened it. But English pronunciation, Altimet is what they hear. And they don’t distinguish between R & L traditionally (tho they try to accommodate since they know they’re stealing English). So the Japanese characters translated correctly to Ahh Ru, but knowing they spelled AL, just blend. Unprofessional advice? Correct, you’ll be neither English nor Japanese!, but. Dious from melodious, and AL like ahh Lu, well, we’d spell like the beginning of … ultimate. You’re already being very respectful, trying to get those Japanese characters translated, cool. Japanese doesn’t quite have syllables, more like each of those characters get a beat. So Aldious to me has three syllables, but reading those characters gives me 5? Yet there were six or seven characters?! So yeah, I can’t read, but I’ve been hearing their flow for years… blend. Same goes for Gacharic Spin. Crazy ladies wanted to be pop, but chose a name that can’t be read in either language! Gacha Gacha is onomatopoeia for clattering dishes, or toys falling from gum-ball machines. It’s their “spin” on “noisy” chick rock, get it? Nobody gets it! But broken down with Japanese syllables, you had it right; Ga (as in got, g-ahhh), cha (cha cha cha), ri (ree, like in real reel), hard C (they’d write Ku, then way underpronounce the u). Gotcha,Rick 😉(Rick w Spanish accent) Aldious is up to at least 5 singers now. The blonde you saw, Re:NO, was second and most popular. The first, Rami has a solo career using ringers from lots of the bands in the scene. I’m going to link to the overlooked third singer R!N (Rin), short lived but recent period of the band, maybe not popular. Since then they’ve used two who weren’t full members. Here’s R!N in Show Down MV about 2years ago ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rS9gWmp6e_E.htmlsi=k_HCVyeSSPJJFAzH Good luck 🤘
@@michelm.6033 ha you’re welcome. But your teachers will hate me, Don’t blend for them! Each beat is very concise. But when a true first timer tries to follow the correct advice, the result is unintelligibly stiff, slow, & discouraging. But ya, AIUEO with Spanish always-same vowels really helped me, and knowing it’s a beat per vowel (Lone N’s and trailing U’s kind of semi-exceptions.). Enjoy 🤘💃😎
Nice write up. I've always pronounced it (All Dee Us) as well heard it pronounced it that way by others. I wish Rami would have stayed, definitely my favorite singer by far.
The vocalist, Re:NO, had to leave the band for health reasons. She released a solo album and it's great. Check out a music video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aca-BSxKgsU.html Also, Aldrious have released a live version of this track with "hired gun" Maki Oyama. It's well worth checking out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IRcwS-XvOOk.html
I'm a live music fan and always prefer to recommend live videos to Reaktor video makers. The Japanese bands almost all have high quality live videos. Even Aldious. The latest live videos of Aldious are with the absolutely first-class singer Maki Oyama. We hope that Maki might soon become a full member of Aldious and compose songs for the band together with Yoshi and Sawa. However, this is not certain, as Maki has had an absolutely successful solo year this year. The fact is that the band needs a new full-time singer in the medium term.
Hi man, check out the main riff in "We'll be back" by Megadeth, sounds a bit similar to this one... Obviously these girls aren't Lovebites but Aldious have some really good songs, among them, "Re:fire" is their best song for me and i'm sure that you will enjoy it, what a banger!! Greetings dude 🤘🏼
Tienes mucho por delante, tienes que reacciónar a Destrose, de ahí salió Saki(Nemophila) Haruna y Miho (Lovebites) la gran Marina Heibiishi (Mardelas) para mí Keiko Terada, Marina y Mayu son las tres mejores, sin olvidar a Asami de Lovebites
