Baby Metal- Catch Me If You Can || Goth Reacts 

According to the results of a poll conducted by Metal Hammer, Babymetal has been voted into the Top 10 Greatest Metal Bands Ever.

Best reaction I have ever seen! Yes, BABYMETAL always brings a smile to your face. ALL their songs are positive. They fixed my half-year pet loss (of a 18 year old dog) and now I have 16 live Blu-rays, changed out my entire audio system just to see their performances. My first live was in Japan this January, and people around me were either smiling and jumping, or were in tears throughout the performance. That is what they do.

Kami band is one of the most talented all star band of all time. RIP Mikio Fujioka ❤

The first BabyMetal album is just pure unadulterated glorious WTF that never stops plastering a massive grin over your face. Seriously, it was amazing when that came out.

Time for the babymetal hype train. Can't wait for you to react to more of these amazing girls

I'm Japanese. Thank for your nice reaction. Babymetal's members belong to the biggest entertainment company in Japan and are famous star (acting in TV. CM. etc) from when a child.😀 And, Suzuka Nakamoto (The lead singer of Babymetal) is a very famous singer. There are many videos of her singing from when she was in elementary school on RU-vid.😀

your reaction seems typical the first time people see/hear Babymetal. As stated, they have been around since 2010, just released their fourth studio album and have a library of about 60 songs. The performers are Su-Metal (Song/Dance), Moa Metal (Scream/Dance) and Yui Metal (Sceam Dance. Scream/Dance thing of cheerleaders. They do add harmonies to some of the songs and have four songs they due as a duo, but mostly are there to get the crowd into the song. Su is currently 25. Moa and Yui are 23, though Yui left the group in 2018 citing health issues and was just recently replaced by 20 year old Momo Metal. This particular song is about playing a game of hide and seek/tag with an Oni (ogre). It;s based on Japanese lore. All of there songs are different. One may be power metal, one is rap/hip hop, the next may sound like it's out of a Bollywood movie. To mirror others here, if you wish to continue your journey down the fox hole I;d suggest Road if Resistance (Live in Japan), Ijime, Dame Zettai from Sonisphere (a show which put them on the international map), Headbanger (Legend 1997 the day after Su turned 16). BTW, if you didnt notice early on, they werent doing the "traditional" Devils Horns associated with metal shows, it's a shadow Fox (Kitsune) all of their lore and directions come down from "The Fox God"

Great first reaction and welcome to the BABYMETAL Foxhole.🦊 'Catch Me If You Can' is the best metal song about playing a game that's a sort of cross between tag, blind man's bluff and hide & seek I've ever heard. It is the perfect mix of the two extremes with the brutal instrumentals and the sweet vocals - and the game they are playing, they're playing with an Oni 👹(a sort of Japanese ogre popular in regional festivals and used specifically to frighten children ... which amuses me probably more than it should). The growling vocals (they are on a backing track) are the Oni👹 asking things like "Are you ready?" and the best response has to be "Maada da yo" (No, not yet) while doing a running away from an Oni dance.🏃‍♀🏃‍♀🏃‍♀👹 This was a compilation video with clips from 10 different concerts from 2013 through to 2017. There is a video from the live performance at Budokan , Black Night 2014 that has subtitles if you want to watch that as well. The Kami Band are the instrumentalists supporting BABYMETAL - in this they were just doing one of their intros - its only fair they get their chance to show off during the shows and there are two or three other songs where they would do an instrumental intro like this. In order of solos in this video they were - Mikio Fujioka (RIP January 2018), Takayoshi Ohmura, BOH on the bass and Hideki Aoyama on drums. You already have good suggestions for more songs - I will add a vote for the Legend 1997 live 'Headbanger' ... you can find that on Gans Tomas or abr metal channels.

Just today announced a huge U.S. tour for late summer fall all over the USA. God tier live performances. Got tickets already for St Louis to see them for the 4th time.

the whole blend of metal and japanese idol culture is so unique, but it just WORKS.

BABYMETAL TIME HELL YEAH! Welcome to the Foxhole 🦊🤘 BabyMetal is a Japanese metal dance unit created in 2010 under another Jpop/Jrock idol group called Sakura Gakuin, they were 11 and 12 years old when they first started. They created their own genre called kawaii-metal, mixing Jpop with metal sound and different subgenres along with many more rhythms. They became independent artists in their own right after 2013. They are: SuMetal (Suzuka Nakamoto, lead vocals). MoaMetal (Moa Kichuki, scream and dance) YuiMetal (Yui Mizuno, scream and dance, 2010 - 2018) Yui left the band due to health issues in 2018. MomoMetal (Momoko Okazaki, scream and dance, member since 2023) Catch Me if You Can was released in 2013 - at the time Moa and Yui were 14 and Su was 15. They have since gone on to release four studio albums, the latest of which, The Other One, was released this month. Their sound has matured and grown as they have aged and I urge you to check out some of their later stuff.

My all time favorite group. I was obsessed with Babymetal for several years. They are all grown now but the videos are ageless. There are hours and hours of video.

You never knew Metal could be so damn cute. The girls bring out the smiles.

I love watching people discover BABYMETAL. I'm always in tears because I'm getting to see them through new eyes every time and it's goddamned beautiful.

The entire band is amazing, the lead singer Su-Metal is one of the best vocalists ever, the more you listen to their catalog and watch the performances the more you realize how crazy good she is. And they do a huge range of styles and songs all with a metal backing.

I've see them live. AWESOME show. The whole band has so much energy. If my info is correct this started out as a school project or something like that and it took off.......third hand info so I could be wrong.

The musicians are insane good.

Great reaction! As an old 70's headbanger...this group is the real deal. Extremely talented and hardworking, and best live. From your commentary afterwards, I think you would really enjoy BabyMetal 'Death' live...not much singing but a very good musical theatrical show. 🤘🦊🤘

You're face when you girls started singing lmao so good. I loooove how the music is all down and dirty metal and then you have the cute little "UWU singers" 😂

Baby Metal is like Lays potato chips: you can't watch just one. You immediately google for hours.

Let's just call it 'The Babymetal Effect'!! Always positive, surprising, energetic and quite simply a joy to watch. What a band!!! Love Babymetal!! Kitsune up!!😂🦊🤟🎉❤

I literally found this group by accident like 6 months ago and instantly became a fan.

They are playing tag and hide & seek with a demon. The demon's voice is saying "Are you ready?" and girls respond "No, not yet." Keep in mind that demons in Japan are not always evil.

This is most weird & confusing while catchy & addicting song at the same time, genius compossed music. And their dance is so adorable especially on after the breakdown & chorus. Good choice for the first time watching BabyMetal. If you enjoy their energy, try Headbanger & Pa Pa Ya live performance.

Great first reaction! 🤘🦊🤘Thank you for giving BABYMETAL a chance!!! BABYMETAL started back in 2010 and since then have performed with, toured with, or opened for Metallica, Korn, Sabaton, Bring Me The Horizon, Dragonforce, Guns N' Roses, Lady Gaga, Rob Halford of Judas Priest (there's a great youtube video of their performance with Rob at a metal award show), and Red Hot Chili Peppers (there is a youtube video of them performing Gimme Chocolate with RHCP, as well as with Korn, and DragonForce), to name a few of many. They have performed at large metal events/concerts in front of 65,000+ skeptical metalheads in Europe (Glastonbury, Download, Sonisphere, etc), US, and Asia. They are the first Japanese band to perform at Wembley arena in the UK. 20+ awards have been given to them. They have 60+ songs and each one is different from the other, so I hope you give the other songs a try. By the way, they have some really great heavy songs too, and I hope you like guitar solos, as well as bass and drum solos, like I do, because they have them too.🤘🦊🤘

your ears have been blessed by the fox god

Babymetal: The only metal group in the world that puts an ear-to-ear grin on your face and makes you want to dance. I love them immensely.

I've seen literally over 1000 concerts, as I've toured on summer tours and seen more shows than I can ever remember, but I went in to Babymetal blind as a laugh to be a good friend to a guy from Ukraine I know, thinking it would just be a novelty. I came out thinking it was already in my top 5 ever, and settled on it being like #2 or #3. They're insane, and I never miss the chance to see them.

You don't have to be angry, you can smile,! Heavy metal don't have to be a bunch of angry men trying to be tough. You can have fun and enjoy and be danceable. Really this makes it the jondra it is

Welcome to the Foxhole and BabyMetal journey 🦊🤘🔥 They're the best thing that could ever happen in your life. I already saw Grington300 and Rick Wagner giving you some great info and suggestion about this amazing group. I'm gonna left my own suggestion so you can enjoy the best way to experience your journey into BM world. Hopefully you will hear some more songs from them so you can have the chance to meet them live when going on tour in the US and many more countries around the world, maybe you won't have some of these older songs but trust me they got more than 60 songs in their catalogue and none of them are bad. Have fun and see you next time 🦊🤘❤️

the cutest metal singers I ever seen.... they are magic..... backed by a metal band alpha,,,, happy meets doom with eye candy outfits ,,,,,, yin and yang,,,,, a 21st century band

I was watching some Rammstein, Prodigy, and the like over the weekend and I kept seeing this Babymetal in the suggestions. I finally clicked and pretty much lived your reaction to the 'T'. Next thing I knew it was four hours later.

There is nothing like watching what they do live. Friggin' amazing.

⚡ 💀 💕 / 🏃‍♀👹 So this cute song is about playing a game that is like hide-and-go-seek, tag or blind-man's-bluff. Pursued by an "Oni" which is a kind of Japanese Ogre. : ) While Megitsune is still my favorite, I think this is one of their their best early choreographies. If much of their charm is in the blending of the cute and the brutal, this song is a great example. They're all turned up to 11. They performed this song quite a bit in 2017, but not since. The last time I saw this one was in Chula Vista, California when they were on tour opening for Korn on the Serenity Of Summer tour. Here's 'Rondo of Nightmare', a solo song from their lead singer Su-metal (Suzuka Nakamoto, or just "Su") with a short instrumental lead-in by their live Kami Band: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8WBDiLMNZcE.html This Budokan Black Night performance from 2014 is a classic. Or look for a live version of 'Megitsune'. So many great songs. And yeah, this is a group that will create new synapses in your brain. : )

i'm not a metal fan but this band made me appreciate it a bit

Nothing like your first Babymetal experience! More of the ladies, please

Love this reaction. The look of shock on your face was priceless. So glad to hear Babymetal is back.

Got my ticket for Atlanta. Finally gonna see them live and knock #1 off my bucket list lol

Bro that crowd. Holy sheeet. Might have to try and see them live

BABYMETAL is absolutely on another level. greatest metal act EVER! Kitsune dao!

This is the first time I've seen them showcase the band so much in one of their videos.

Great review, I’ve been a fan since before seeing them in 2015. It’s so fun

10 string lead guitar 6 sting bass these guys are legit

Everyone smiles and loves it because it is so so so so good!

Babymetal is a great rabbit hole! Just positive vibes all throughout their music. Even if you cant understand the lyrics it just in the feeling.Also for great intros do their Rondo of Nightmare with the intro live.

Watching you slowly realize you love baby metal is good content

Has to be the most genuine smile I have seen on RU-vid in a long long time !

Excellent first exposure. 🤘🦊🤘 Welcome to the Fox Hole.

I gonna see them live on Saturday!!!!

4:00 OK, the stunned silence was VERY entertaining 😄👏🏻

Nice reaction. Babymetal making folks happy for over 10 years now. Many reactors ask how, do their pop vocals and dance work so well with the metal influenced music. For them it's easy. It's Babymetal magic. Start with Su the lead singer and add in her two kawaii angels Yui and Moa. Then add in the metal mixed with whatever other genre or genres of music they want to add in. Say the magic words. Double Double toil and trouble. Fire burn cauldron bubble. And poof. But this is just the start. You have to do this live. When done live you must add in the stage band known as the Kamiband. Some of the best session players in Japan. If their busy you get the East Kamiband. Also, very talented folks. This is how Babymetal rolls. A bundle of pure performance fun and happiness. They're coming to the USA to tour from late August to about mid-October. Tickets are on sale now. As you can see, they put on a great show. And even won awards for it. This is the best song ever about a version of hide and seek. But they do it with an Ogre. Because Babymetal is cool like that. When they started Babymetal were the troublemakers of metal. Metalhead gate keeper were shocked. and said things like how dare three little Japanese kawaii girls have the audacity to do metal. This can't be real. Just a gimmick. Over 10 years later. Some keep telling themselves that. They're not ready for happiness in their metal. But when Babymetal started out one of the things they wanted was to make a good starting point for those who just adventuring into metal. Especially young ladies like themselves at the time. A big part of mixing in the other genres of music. This way there's something for everyone to grab onto. Over the years it's not just the music they mixed. Their dance style is a mix of different types of dances as well. and vocally their lead singer is hard to beat. Strong is she in the way of singing. and has repeatedly been in the top ten metal vocalists for the last 5 years. Some metal heads say well she doesn't growl or screech. When you can sing like Su-metal you A don't have to, and B why would you want her to do that when she can sing the way she does? I hope you continue to react to more Babymetal. This is the way.

Gonna be seeing them in October here in Los Angeles , and I can't wait....it's going to be awesome.

This was my first Babymetal song as well... Totally blew me away and i have not stopped listening since... I need a daily dose of these girls st least three times a day.. See you!

😂 I came to you and subscribed through Nightwish originally and am so happy you've covered Babymetal. I'm 55 and have seen most major bands in 40 years of going to concerts including the famous Queen gig at Wembley Stadium in 1986 and Babymetal definitely does not disappoint - I've been lucky enough to see them twice here in London pre Covid and am really happy to say that I'm going to see them at Wembley Arena this coming Saturday as special guests of Sabaton (not sure if you've got to Sabaton yet?) 🎉🎉😊😊 Babymetal are too easily judged by some blinkered metal heads - because they can't appreciate that it's not just a concert, it is a whole encompassing performance experience. I hope you do more from them - you won't be disappointed 😊 Take good care of yourself 😃

I've watch your reaction five times....cuz when you catch yourself in shock when they first come out. is priceless and fun to see. These Ladies energy and fucking awesome band has made me a fan. Im a 48 yr old skool Hip-hopper....lol.

Hi. When you said this was a total blind reaction I literally did this 🫣 lol. I’m happy you like them! Hey, when you need a coffee and don’t want to wait, just throw on a Babymetal song. It will help you move twice as fast at everything 🤣

babymetal is something else they have some awesome stuff

Liked and subbed for getting to experience your amazing first go at BABY METAL!

You are in for such a ride, I've been a musician for 30 years, and this is so mind-blowing, it makes me want to re think everything I've done, and by the way the way you said blluup, amazing.

Babymetal is really an amazing concept and they have such crazy shows ! Opposite to this cuty song, you can watch their dark one 'babymetal death', a must have seen.🤟🤟

Catch Me If You Can is my first Baby Metal, and it will always be my favorite

Your reaction is the same as mine when I first saw them on YT (Gimme Chocolate). I was like seriously WTF did I just watch!? 6 months later and I have tickets to see them headline on their world tour here in Melbourne this June. They are freakin' awesome. I've gone full-on down the foxhole 🤘🏻🦊

The 99% of live compilation videos that are on YT as an attempt to by pass the YT filters is the bane of existence to reacting. A band would definitely want a best foot forward when introducing themselves, and those videos do anything but that. Most don't even say when the videos are compilations and label them like BABYMETAL // Catch Me If You Can, or BABYMETAL - Catch Me If You Can LIVE, so it doesn't even warn the reactor. The compilations that are good come from sets of concerts that are identical in stage, and usually just label themselves as the concert set they come from. So Fox Festival for the Five Fox Festival set of concerts, or Budokan 2021, or 10 Budokan, for the ten concerts they played at Budokan for their 10th anniversary. If the song is from one concert, it often lists the concert they come from such as Catch Me If You Can LIVE at Budokan Black Night.

I went down the Foxhole and am a proud member of "The One" for three years and running. Whenever I need a pick-me-up, i watch BabyMetal videos. I really like first-time reactions like yours because everyone feels the same way.... WTH am I watching, I think I like this, totally hooked

First time I saw this I broke into a 15 min laughing fit. Its soo unexpected and good.

The are monstrously huge - First Japanese Band to perform in Wembley Arena, London; in 2019 performed at the LA Forum sold-out and sold-out the Tokyo Dome 2 nights running, different show each night, Dome capacity 55,000. They will be on tour in the US this year. NEXT - "Monochrome", Lyric version and The First Take piano version. May need a hankie for the piano ver.

I love to watch the WTF-face of someone running the first time in a Baby Metal video.

You MUST experience their epic performance on "Road of Resistance" Live in Japan. You will be blown away!

Soo.. Babymetal songs to react to: ANYONE! They literally have not a single bad song. xD

Just bought my tickets today for their September show in St. Louis co-headlining with Dethklok!

I detect _Gimme Chocolate, Karate_ and _Road of Resistance_ incoming......

LOL, I felt the same way when I first heard Baby Metal. It was fun seeing you enjoy them too. Have a nice day : )

RIP , Mikio Fujioka, guitarist, Baby Metal.

No first time watcher expects babymetal. They're kinda lika a cat that decides to adopt you, one day, they're just there

It's amazing how well this works. I've seen the audience for their shows is a mix of K-pop and Metal fans, all getting along and just loving this stuff. It is one of the most positive groups ever.

Once you get over the weirdness of the mash up the band is legit and the drummer is insane.

Welcome to the BABYMETAL Galaxy or now Kingdom. Welcome to my favorite band. Welcome to the most unique, talented, humble, cute, and badass band out there. Enjoy the journey if you continue down the Fox hole. 🤘🦊🤘

Great, authentic reaction! Babymetal is somthing special. As you just saw, they have the coolest song about playing hide-and-seek ever 😀

Welcome! Next songs, in no particular order - Road to Resistance, Gimme Chocolate, Megitsune, Karate. I LOVE this band.

I dont care who you are or how edgy you think you are or how jaded you have become. You can't help but adore Baby Metal. They really are kind of a universal good in music.

So fun to watch you bopping to Baby Metal. They are such a fun and energetic band and very talented. Give Me Cocholate by them is so fun too!

I wanna see them in concert looks like a great show

Babymetal is why Japan must be protected at all costs.

This was the first track I saw of babymetal and I was blown away and speechless like WTF moment then watched their other tracks now I'm addicted

There's an anime movie called KakuRenbo where kids are running through an abandoned part of a city at night, wearing fox masks, trying to outrun demons. As they're picked off, one by one, the city starts coming to life, and in the end its revealed that the city is powered by the souls of children. The last kid standing is then possessed by the fox spirit and goes around recruiting more kids to play the game.

One of the best Metal songs ever :)

thank you for not pausing while reacting., your gorgeus 😚

J Pop + Metal = Perfection. Sui is a godess.

That's the same look we have the 1st time see the AWESOME BABYMETAL.

i was not expecting this... no 1 ever is lol great reaction =]

My first experience with this band was about a year ago, when I scrolled past a video with about 100 million views. I said "what???". Amazing performances!

Can honestly say I've never heard anything like it!!!! Cool vibes!!!! Must be fun to see them play live.

never had so much fun with metal since the glam days

These young girls, now young women are incredible. Su-Metal, the lead singer, has a spectacular voice.

I love the absurdity of baby metal

BABYMETAL is happy metal that cheers everyone up and makes them smile!

🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼Gimme Chocolate and Karate are my favorite songs!! Their other stuff though is also awesome!!! Love this band! LET’S GO BABYMETAL!!!!! Wheeeeeee!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

How am I just seeing this for the first time????? That is AMAZING. They're culture hacking and it's awsome!

BABYMETAL has another song called "chocolate" that is super catchy and probably their most iconic.

OMG thank you for that reaction. You put a smile on my face watching your jaw hit the ground lol. I had a smile on my face the whole time watching you trying to comprehend what the heck you were hearing and seeing. That was great. So I read the comments from the, what I'd call the "leaders" of the Babymetal fans, Grington300 300, Rick Wagner, and Jake Muller. I'll fill in a bit more info for you. If you're interested, you can continue reading, if not, then no worries lol Babymetal was formed in 2010. The entire concept was formed around the main singer, Su-Metal. Su was born in 1997 (thus the Legend 1997 people are asking you to react to next as her birthday was around the time they performed that concert). The other 2 girls who do backup vocals and dancing were born in 1999. So they were performing in huge venues like you saw in that compilation from the time Su was 15+ and the 2 dancers were 14+. As I mentioned, the main singer's name is Su-Metal (Suzuka Nakamoto if you'd like her full name). She'll always perform in a Ponytail, and she'll almost always have the hand mic. The 2 dancers are named Moametal and Yuimetal (Moa Kikuchi, and Yui Mizuno respectively). Both girls will always have pigtails. To tell them apart, look at their cheeks. Moa has huge dimples when she smiles and Yui has chubby baby cheeks. Also, Yui's pigtails stick out more as I think she has curlier hair than Moa does. In 2018 Yui had to leave Babymetal due to medical reasons. To fill in that gap Babymetal introduced what they called the Avengers. 3 girls would take turns filling in Yui's spot in dancing but wouldn't ever sing. You can tell you're watching an avenger and not Yui or Moa as they won't have a ponytail or pigtails, but instead will have their hair down and will have buns where the pigtails would have been. There is also subtle differences between the outfits of Moa and the Avengers. Su has a different outfit as well. They are all very similar, but they do have differences. Babymetal is HUGE on details, which, the more you watch, the more you'll realize. As of a couple of weeks ago, Babymetal announced that they had found a replacement to finally fill in the spot left behind by Yui. The replacement ended up being one of the Avengers. Her name is Momometal (Momoko Okazaki). She's the youngest of the trio being born in 2003. I don't have a good way as yet to tell you how to tell her apart from Moa if you can't figure it out except to say to look at her ears. She has attached ear lobes. That's the best I got right now as during concerts they typically only focus the cameras on Moa and Su and the avengers would receive very little coverage. Anyhow, that's a quick rundown of the girls. The song headbanger that people are suggesting you react to is part of a trilogy (there is a lot of lore with this band). So the girls originally were training to become JPop artists. Su was taken from that route and introduced to metal. From her description during interviews, she had never heard of Metal music before and when she first heard it she had a similar reaction to metal as to what you had to their music based on her description. Eventually though she came to appreciate it and even like it. So the song headbanger is a song about a girl going to her first metal concert. The next song of that trilogy is called Akatsuki Unfinished (there is also the "finished" version which is just called Akatsuki). Akatsuki unfinished was only performed the one time as far as I know. It is a song where she is preparing to end her life as a JPop idol to become the metal goddess. Lastly you have Babymetal Death. This is a song where she is transformed into the metal goddess Su-Metal and Suzuka Nakamoto is no more. There is one other trilogy that Babymetal has, and that is referred to as the Trilogy of Light. It is believed by most of us fans to be a trilogy referring to the death of the lead guitarist and the departure of Yuimetal (they both happened in 2018 months apart from each other, so pretty close to each other). The 3 songs are the different stages of grief. The songs are entitled Starlight for the first song, Shine (my favorite Babymetal song I think), and Arkadia is the last song. The last thing I'll say here is that when you look up the lyrics you'll find that most of the songs have a positive message, although some songs, like this one, are just silly songs that are fun. Gimmie Chocolate is another silly song. That being said, Su has stated that for the most part she doesn't really care if people don't understand the lyrics of the song. She'd rather you can FEEL the music and the meaning. She takes her singing very seriously and tries very hard to convey the emotion when it is called for. It is something she has gotten very good at doing too. So hopefully that helps you out a bit and hopefully you enjoy your journey down the foxhole! Oh incidentally, the people in the crowd are now making the devil's horns like you thought. They were doing a fox sign (they look similar), which Babymetal made up instead.