BRIDEAR - Eyes of Doubt [Official music video] 

I'm torn between them and trident for my top spot, but Kimi's my girl. 😊 Nemophila just had a premier also, Rise. It is badass. Gonna be tough for anyone top it this year.

@@randelldanner8588 Trident is definitely good too. Kimi and the early Bridear members is the whole reason I got into J -Rock, Light in the Dark did it for me ! Oh and I watched Sky Pirates from Fate Gear and I was hooked with the female groups from Japan 💖

Liked Bridear earlier in their career before everyone left except the singer and bassist. Since then they've become more poppy sounding. This song isn't too bad though.

The same, man. I like Nemophila, Hanabie and Bridear too. Let's support each of them! 🤘

Lovebites doesn't make your top 3 Japanese all girl metal bands?

It's literally due to their education system. Music education is compulsory up to middle school - around twice a week. Then in high school, students are not required but highly suggested to join after school clubs (well, them with their goup think). Most boys join sports clubs and the girls join various other clubs including music clubs. (Many anime and manga depicting high school life will show this). The anime "K-On!" also contributed to the cultural phenomenon of all girl bands. So, there are actually more girls joining the music clubs than boys. And many of them pursue the music career after high school. This is why you have so many all girl bands in Japan. And they are highly skilled; their average level is very high.

@@fastskipper777 I think you mean K-On the manga may've had some influence, cause the Anime started about the same time that a small number of all-girl or multi-girl bands had already been a thing and had already released albums or had just formed that same year. At any rate, such bands numbered in the low single digits before 2010 and only blew up into the high single digits in 2014 and into the teens around 2016-2018 and new bands still keep popping up still in 2023. The things you mentioned I'm sure played a part in it, but I think it's no coincidence that these years coincide with the successful explosion of BABYMETAL internationally: headlined and sold out the legendary Budokan in 2014, later the DVD/Blu-ray debuted at 3 and 1 respectively on the Oricon charts. Their first world tour, the historic Sonisphere performance etc. Then in 2016 the historic feat of their 2nd album being the first Japanese album in 53 years to chart in the US Billboards Top 40. Also, interestingly enough Aldious, one of the pioneering all-female bands of the mid-2000s also had their best album sales around the same time. It was also after BABYMETAL's successful British and US tours that BAND-MAID first announced their plans to go international. One of Nemophila's early most viewed videos was a BABYMETAL cover. The skills and talent may've been there, but I really think this level of international success from a band fronted by 3 Japanese girls really emboldened these women into making more and more bands that's really resulted in such a ridiculous concentration of an all-female or multi-female Rock-centric musical movement. Not to mention the the type of themes they seem to almost collectively touch on as Japanese women given the societal expectations and norms of Japanese society towards Japanese women. It always makes me hearken back to the song, "Megitsune." AC/DC famously sang, "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll.)" Well, that road gets even longer in Japan, especially for Japanese women. Sure, there's LOVEBITES, BABYMETAL, BAND-MAID and Nemophila getting and bringing lots of attention, but most of it is outside of Japan and that's just four bands out of the many, MANY bands out there in Japan, and several of who are still active, or have died, come back, dissolved, reformed into other groups or gone into permanent hiatus. It's definitely a concentrated effort, that's really not happening anywhere else as far as Rock (which Metal is a part of) is concerned, but these women clearly are doing it out of passion and love when considering the tiny Japanese halls the majority of these bands play in and rarely progress past no matter how extremely talented they are or how good the music is. It's a movement going on for over a decade now and it sure would be nice if it finally became more mainstream than it is so many more bands could benefit. and modern music as a whole could benefit. Anyway, these are just my humble thoughts on it for whatever that's worth.

More like what's not in the water.

Can't help but notice you didn't mention Exist Trace.

For real, it’s awesome! Just saw hanabie, it’s wicked how much female presence there is in the J metal scene.

I run into your comments on tons of the Jrock I listen to. You're really well versed on what's out here on youtube. Would you want to make a video talking about your favorite bands and why you like Jrock?

Welcome to japanese ladies metal!! It's a whole world, and Bridear is among the shining stars.

@@mysticaloha Thanks!

great 👍👍 please share and recommend them to others ✌🙂

They are all pretty cute.

Reminds me of ignite in all the good ways

The combination of poppier material, heavy stuff and prog works for me.

They were heavy in the beginning. The one guitarist, who has since left, did the harsh vocals

@@aaronslibrary7745 Haru the bassist does the harsh vocals now. I think she does more of them live than in studio versions

​@@aaronslibrary7745 that was the time when I was really into this band... Good to see them still going tho. These girls deserve recognition 🤘