DO NOT miss out on this band (PaleNeØ-aLIVE reaction) 

Paleneo is a fantastic young band. They don’t have an official drummer yet. All their songs are good. I enjoyed your reaction and analysis

just love REOTO -the guitarist with the goggles and the weird ears. she never says anything in their live feeds - stays silent. but then she comes alive with some vocals in all of the songs and she has a great voice. and damn cute to boot !

Liked PaleNeØ a lot even before the Heavier Japan, they're pretty fun :) I just feel like something's not quite right with the mix in this one, I'd have to listen to it from a better digital source to be sure though, something's a bit muddled there. I did see aLIVE on the release day even. I might have said it before, but I do believe you'd really dig Sokoninaru, who do mostly Ling Tosite Sigure-like math-rock/metal that's still super-catchy. Fujiwara Misaki (藤原美咲) is a kick-ass bass player and they do have awesome single-camera and even commentary playthroughs (albeit in japanese, but I dare say one still kind of gets it) for some songs. One song usually packs more musical ideas than most other full albums (with the exception of MtH) :P 'Saitei' would probably be a good starter, that or either 'Gou Ni Moyu' or 'Tenohira De Odoru'. Another suggestion which I see few people rarely do is Onmyo-Za, they've been around for about 25 years and are just ludicrously good. Their singer Kuroneko is cited to be one of the inspirations of Unlucky Morpheus' Fuki and what I especially like is that they sound a bit less "westernized". One difficulty is that all the song titles aren't transliterated so you have to be able to write Japanese (or just copy/paste). '茨木童子' is of their latest album and amazing. Although it sounds like you're pretty fully occupied already, maybe just keep those bands in mind, and who knows maybe you'll even reach tricot, who do music that admittedly breaks my brain (in a good way though) XD

Hey Moto thanks for doing this reaction.If you don't mind I would suggest you make your window a little bigger during the reaction. PaleNeØ started their RU-vid channel with really good covers of BAND-MAID.

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It's not a capo on the bass, it's a string mute wrap to eliminate sympathetic ringing on the other strings and low end rumble whilst playing busy lines. They're more commonly used by the shreddier end of instrumental guitarists, Guthrie Govan uses them for ensuring crazy tapping parts sound more clean and I think Jennifer Batten might've been one of the first exponents back in the late 80s. Noticed in the end clip that your thumb on your right/picking hand was floating (whilst sympathetically flailing a little) rather than anchoring on a pickup surround or muting lower unused strings? Was that a conscious choice or just something that happened cos of your playing position whilst sat down?