LOVEBITES - Judgement Day [ALBUM REVIEW] 

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Lovebites make me to listen metal a lot again ! This guys are just deaf and live in the past cos Japan got best metal scene for over a decade now !

The readers of Metal Hammer magazine voted Judgement Day as the #15 best heavy metal album of 2023.

Guys. According to your conversation, metal should be played by sweaty brutal bearded and tattooed men in leather. And they have to shout into the microphone in a bass voice. You are very strange.

Sad. Desperately sad. Asami is the finest metal vocalist in generations and her range and power are off the charts. Host, you get a pass. The other two…get back under your rock.

People are still trying to gatekeep metal? Metal was all about saying fuck you and doing whatever you wanted, not conformity. Bunch of dudes in this review pretending to be metalheads. If you want role playing check out your local game shops, plenty of D&D groups still around, trashing women far more talented then any of you simply because they don't conform to your standard is a really fucking bad take.

A blatant demonstration of the extreme degree of musical incompetence and limitations. That's probably why these people took up the obviously unbearable task of commenting on the Lovebites album. Lovebites has released four studio LP's, four EP's and seven live blu-ray's in about 6 years of activity (taking into account the break). All releases are simply great in terms of technical sound quality, video and musical content. In terms of the number of blu-ray views, in my collection, they surpassed Dream Theater, which was in the first place for a long time. As for the Judgment Day album specifically, I do not know of any band that could compose and play it, and not a single vocalist who would have the breath and control to sing it. It's just a different level of musical skill.

they are THE BEST METAL BAND IN THE WORLD and before them it was metallica. you guys have not a fkin clue!!!!!!!!!!

Not surprised to hear some of the usual gatekeeper comments...

The main host is quite balanced. His colleagues should watch the Judgement Day videos, plus few of their live songs starting with the Hammer of Wrath, MDO, Set the World on Fire, Break the Wall, Shadow Maker.

🤘🏽LOVEBITES RULES🤘🏽

A lot of assumptions, speculations and accusations without even knowing ANYTHING about the band. The usual gatekeeping towards something new is extremely strong here, especially from the guy on the right. I really do recommend to him staying in his club or pond or whatever dungeon and listen to the same old stuff he probably does for decades. Something not being your taste is ok, but be respectful to the artist and don´t throw clueless, silly accusations on them.

This album rocks!!

Passion is not synonymous with darkness, Satan and his followers, or sweaty solos that make the lightweight seem difficult and heavy. Passion is going to the source to rediscover joy, energy and optimism.

Really???? what a bunch of b.s. guys... 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺💪🤘🤘🤘🤘

Heavy Metal is a club? And you have to basically be like everybody else to get in? Sorry - that sounds like a gatekeeper. LOVEBITES is a unique band - all women, in white, singing positive lyrics yet playing as hard and as heavy as the legendary metal bands at break neck speeds - there is no other band like them today.

Thank you for your reaction to LOVEBITES. I am sure you are all familiar with "LOVEBITES", but for those who are not, I will promote it. LOVEBITES has about 60 songs. LOVEBITES was formed in 2016 by Miho(Ba) and Haruna(Dr), members of the band "DESTROSE", which went on hiatus in 2015. The girls made their major label debut in 2017 (March 24) with "THE LOVEBITES EP". On 18 June 2018, LOVEBITES won 'BEST NEW BAND' at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2018 awards organised by the British metal magazine METAL HAMMER. On 4 August, LOVEBITES performed on the W.E.T stage at WACKEN OPEN AIR 2018, one of the world's largest annual metal festivals in Germany, with the 10,000 capacity venue almost full. "Bloodstack open air 2018(Aug. 10)" also participated. On August 20,2018, LOVEBITES announced that it has partnered with X-ray Touring, one of the largest players in the UK booking agent industry. LOVEBITES toured the Netherlands, Germany, France and UK from November 13-21, 2018. Asami (Vo) of LOVEBITES appeared as a guest on stage at Halestorm "Download Japan 2019(March 21)", singing alongside "Lzzy" Hale on Halestorm's 'Love Bites', which gave the band their name. LOVEBITES performed as a support band for "Arch Enemy's China tour at the Shanghai show on March 23 and the Beijing show on March 24, 2019". LOVEBITES participated in "dowload Festival 2019(June 15)". And Asami of LOVEBITES appeared as a guest on stage at Halestorm Download Festival UK 2019, singing alongside "Lzzy" Hale on Halestorm's "Love Bites" again after Japan. LOVEBITES join DragonForce on UK tour 2019(Nov. 2-14). On 2 December 2019, LOVEBITES was the support act for the Tokyo leg of Halestorm's Japan tour. On January 10, 2020, a headline show was held at the venue "The Colosseum™" in the resort hotel Hard Rock Hotel Singapore Resorts World™ Sentosa. Asami(Vo) Miyako(G - Key ‐ Piano Black hair) Midori(G) Haruna(Dr) Miho(Ba) First Bassist New bassist from 'JUDGEMENT DAY' songs. Fami(Ba) New Bassist On 17 August 2021, LOVEBITES took an extended break after the departure of their leader, bassist Miho. The remaining girls organised an audition for a new bassist from around the world and recruited a new bassist called Fami(Ba). Fami is a five-string bassist who can dance, sing and play and has 692,000 RU-vid subscribers. You will be amazed by new bassist Fami's slapping and fast finger picking. If you watch "Alien Alien" on her RU-vid channel, which was uploaded 4 years ago with 11,130,000 listens on her content, you will be amazed at her world-class slapping skills. RU-vid channel "Fami。" [alien alien Bass cover]" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q_UqztwYAOU.html Fami signed a contact for the "Bacchus Handmade Series signature headless bass WOODLINE5AC-HL Fami" at the age of 19. Fami is currently 21 years old. LOVEBITES, with new bassist "Fami", finally released their fourth original album "JUDGEMENT DAY" on February 22, 2023. LOVEBITES played a revival concert in March 2023. [WE ARE THE RESURRECTION] March 11, 2023 EX THEATER ROPPONGI TOKYO March 12, 2023 EX THEATER ROPPONGI TOKYO [Judgement Day Tour 2023] in Japan 8/26 Fukuoka DRUM LOGOS (Fukuoka) 9/2 Sendai Rensa (Sendai) 9/9 Sapporo PENNY LANE 24 (Sapporo) 9/15 Osaka Namba Hatch (Osaka) 9/16 Nagoya DIAMOND HALL (Nagoya) 9/24 Tokyo Showa Women's University Hitomi Memorial Auditorium (Tokyo) LOVEBITES live performances are currently scheduled as follows. [haruna 360°VIEW DRUMMING] Date: February 23, 2024 Venue: Sound Studio Noah Gakugei University(in Japan) [NEW CROSS INN LONDON] UK performance June 14, 2024 (Sold out) [Zik Zak] Ittre, Belgium LIVE "THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE" June 15, 2024 - Zik Zak, Itre, Belgium [Legend Club] June 19, 2024 Milan, Italy [ROCK IMPERIUM FESTIVAL] June 22, 2024 Spain [Resurrection Fest] June 26~29, 2024 Spain [French metal festival "Hellfest"] LOVEBITES will appear on the main stage on June 28, 2024. [THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE] World Tour Tokyo Garden Theater Performance September 1, 2024 Tokyo Garden Theater Capacity of 8,000 people ＜Arena seats＞ The distance from the stage to the back of the arena seats is 36 meters. ＜Balcony seats (1, 2, 3)＞ The distance from the stage to the back of the balcony seats on the third floor is 54 meters. [ProgPower USA 2024 Atlanta] September 6, 2024 (Sold out)

I understand that you might not like Asami's vocal style. Everyone's entitled to their opinion I suppose, and vocal preferences is extremely subjective. I personally love Asami's vocals, and I have heard analyses done of Asami's vocals done by professional singers and vocal coaches who are very complementary of her control and power. The suggestion that they are "packaged" is just ignorant. Unlike baby Metal (which is 100% packaged), LOVEBITES are an organic band consisting of elite musicians. The guy on the right is (to be frank) a bit of a dick. Their history is public and easily discovered by anyone who can READ and CLICK a mouse. The fact that this clown goes by what he "feels" rather than spending 5 minutes doing some actual research says a lot about him. Very American of him to not let actual facts get in the way of his feelings. Seriously, that "we're in a club" comment is just arrogant gate-keeping. So, in order to be in the club, I suppose you need to cosplay bikers and look angry all the time and sing about depression and death. Barely half way through this video and can't watch any more. The bottom line here is that LOVEBITES are arguably THE most musically talented metal band on the planet. At the VERY least, they are in the top three, along with Dream Theater and Symphony-X.

Nah, don't go "international", just stay in your "pond".

A lot of assumptions going on.

Who the hell listens to the bass intro to Stand and Deliver (Shoot 'em Down) and thinks it's a guitar? What?

Well that was an interesting video. I looked to see what other albums they have reviewed and saw they had done a top 5 albums of 2023. I couldn't resist watching it. Here are my brief observations. The number one picks were interesting. Casey chose Levitation Sessions by GOAT which is a pick that I can't argue with. I am familiar with the album and, although it would not be on my top 20 list, I can understand someone really falling for it. I am a stoner/psych fan myself. Matt chose Homicidal Ecstasy by Sanguisugabogg which is also a pick that I can't argue with. The band is a talented death metal band but I would not have the album in my top 5 death metal albums from last year but likely in my top 10. The vocalist is of the literal one note variety that puts me to sleep despite the music. A few days ago I saw a much better death metal band (Crypta) with a vastly better vocalist that released a superior album last year. Nathan chose the newest album by Rancid. I haven't heard it and probably won't. Rancid hasn't been relevant or released anything good for 20 years. I doubt the new one changes my perception or it would have created at least a ripple of excitement last year (a year when many elder bands released some great material). The rest of their top 5 was enlightening. Casey's other 4 are uncontroversial. I like 2 of them also (Hanabie and Entheos) and Avatar has been on other lists. The biggest headscratcher for me is Powerwolf at 2 (I am not a Powerwolf fan). Matt has the most interesting other 4. I was genuinely pleased he included PJ Harvey and the album by Urne is fantastic. I decided to listen to it again while typing this. Queens of the Stone Age and Paramore are solid picks. I can't really say much about Nathans other 4 since I have never heard of them. I am guessing that they are all of the Hardcore Punk variety which means two things - he needs to listen to a lot more genres of music and his taste in music is polar opposite of the music of a Lovebites type band. As far as this video goes, I have heard the Asami bashing before and I still don't understand it. Her voice fits the genre perfectly and she is one of the best belters in the business. The decision to sing in English was not her decision but her experience with singing in English helped get her the job. The decision regarding English was very likely part of the vision of ex-member and founder Miho. The only thing in this video that I found equal parts arrogant and stupid was that somehow Lovebites isn't genuine. The band was formed by a member who was previously in another metal band who recruited other experienced musicians, one of which (Miyako) was also an experienced composer. Miho and the band's producer brought in another experienced metal composer to help the members with much less songwriting experience because, in the very beginning, Miyako was not yet an official member. Miyako, for the most part, composes alone and around two dozen Lovebites songs are her compositions. With the departure of Miho, the member to step up with the songwriting is the vocalist Asami. Stand and Deliver, the most popular song from Judgement Day, was cowritten by Miyako and Asami. None of the Lovebites albums have been mixed and mastered in Japan - they were done by Finvoxx in Finland who work with many other bands like Nightwish, Amorphis, Kalmah, etc. This decision to use Finvoxx was made, once again, by Miho who wanted Lovebites to have a more European sound. Lovebites made the auditions for a new bassist so public because they new it would excite their fans (which it did) and it would prove to the fans that they were, in fact, coming back as a band. They opened it up to be a worldwide search because I think they genuinely wanted to find a great bassist and weren't sure how many applicants would come from Japan (although I believe the new bassist would always be female and likely from Japan). It was fun guessing who the new bassist would be (my guess was in the top 5). If you watch her final audition, when it was down to 2 candidates, it is clear why she got the job - she is a damn good bassist, not to mention her look fits the band and she has the vocal chops to sing backing (as did Miho). What exactly was the basis for even a suspicion that this band is not genuine??? They are a band of world-class musicians, who write their own music and lyrics, and make their own decisions. How much more genuine can you get? Are Hardcore Punk bands more genuine because they are less known, less talented and vastly less musical??

Not “genuine”? Just because they don’t look like everyone else in the metal scene, does not make them packaged. You are just not used to talented beautiful women being good at metal, metal is not a “club.” Yeah, just stay in your pond -.-

Tia Carrera? LOL!

At one point I said DragonForce is better than LOVEBITES. I listened to the new DragonForce album, and I realized I’m way wrong: LOVEBITES is better for sure.

General suggestions for LOVEBITES... - Holy War - Edge Of The World - A Frozen Serenade - Swan Song (with Chopin intro) - When Destinies Align [OMV] - Set The World On Fire - Break The Wall - Shadowmaker (live) - Shadowmaker [OMV] - Raise Some Hell - Epilogue (another "E" song, next to "Edge Of The World" and "Empty Daydream") - Glory To The World [OMV] - Rising (live) - Rising [OMV] - Rising [Acoustic version feat. Asami & Miyako] - Winds Of Transylvania (VLADLOVE version) - Thunder Vengeance - Don't Bite The Dust [OMV] - Dancing With The Devil - The Awakening / The Hammer Of Wrath - Nameless Warrior [OMV] - Liar - We The United

Dudes have been posting videos for over a year and only have 470 followers. At what point do yall realize that youtube ain't for you?

LOVEBITES: Awarded "Best New Band" worldwide by Metal Hammer 2018 First all women Japanese band to play Wacken, 2018 Chosen from over 120 bands to fill Main Stage vacancy, Bloodstock 2018 Electric Pentagram voted among 20 best Metal albums of 2020 Judgement Day 5th all genre Japanese sales (at release) Judgement Day 1st in Metal releases, all major Earth nations (at release) (Interplanetary ranking currently still being tabulated) All shows sold-out on 2023 Japanese tours, extra show sold-out First USA show sold-out in 30 hours, 11 months in advance (!) Every review by a 'vocal coach' has only praise for Asami's singing My 'review' of your "review" ... (as far as I got, about 8min) seated left to right = increasing ignorance. (ignoring reality) (You didn't identify individual names so can't identify that way) I looked for any of your original music recordings with no success... Your by-far 'most viewed' video is your very first, 2+ years ago. About as many views as a typical LOVEBITES reaction gets in less than a day. (An indication of how many people agree-with/interested-in your 'reviews'?) Obviously you 3 are part of an overwhelmed minority among Metal fans. Get a guitar, drums, learn to play, write a song, sing it, get signed to major-label? What are your accomplishments that qualify you to critically "review" ?? Enjoy your ongoing obscurity ... (?)

Why must someone get in our way? We won't let them We can go 'cause we believe Why must someone put out the light deep inside our hearts? Can you see, we can create a miracle!

As far as I'm concerned, ANY metalhead who disses this album isn't a true metalhead. You can dislike a style but still highly regard the talent and ability.

To see them live, they do a world tour 2024, with many more dates to come! THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE - WORLD TOUR 2024 June 14th, 2024: London, United Kingdom (New Cross Inn) Juni 15th, 2024: Ittre, Belgium (Zik Zak) June 19th, 2024: Milan, Italy (Legend Club) June 22th, 2024: Cartagena, Spain (Rock Imperium Festival) June 26th-29th, 2024: Vivero, Lugo, Spain (Resurrection Fest XIX) June 28th, 2024: Clisson, France (Hellfest 2024) September 1st, 2024: Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Garden Theater) September 6th, 2024: Atlanta, Georgia, USA (ProgPower USA XXIII)

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I think you guys would not recognise talent of the highest order if it stood right in front of you

You guys, have very bad tastes for music, putting 2.x to these ladies. I wonder, who will seek your opinion in future.

Stopped at around 8 minutes ... hearing this nonsense about "not genuine", "soulless" ...🤦‍♂... it's your loss, but totally ok, if Lovebites is not for your taste, but not doing the slightest homework before speculating about that nonsense is just poor ... 👎🤷‍♂

Funny to hear some American guys judge about language skills from a Japanese band as they themselves are not able to speak one single language correctly...... And the comments about being genuine show that they have no idea what they are talking about. You should change your business - what you are doing here is absolutely zero added value !

You guys are weird. I've been listening to metal for 40 years and nothing you say about this band makes any sense.

Lovebites is an acquired taste. Don't like them? Acquire some taste. These girls rip out beats, harmonies, rhythms and melodies harder than 90% of bands ever to exist. I'm sorry it makes you unhappy.

Well, well, well... Seems like you guys have a different opinion than the commenters. Smh... rookie move. Sarcasm aside, the whole "metal is a club" sentiment is very off-putting in the context you're using it in. It's not a club because of exclusion or because you have to earn your way in, it's a club because it's intrinsic to the scene or even culture. You don't "accidentally" find metal. You can accidentally find just about any other genre of music. The super bowl shoves pop down your throat, action movies cram bro-rock up your ass, and Billy Ray Cyrus resurfaces every decade or so to remind you that country exists. Metal IS a club. Not because it's exclusive, but because your friend or brother or cousin showed it to you when you were young, and that's how you first got into it. Maybe it got you through some tough times, it's like a friend that's always there, and you know when you hear someone playing metal, they probably have a similar experience in some way. As you got older, you stuck with the genre because you fell in love with it. Maybe it inspired you to pick up your first guitar or start your first band. To this day, you get eye rolls, groans, and a myriad of negative reactions when you play it within earshot of someone who doesn't appreciate it. This is what makes it a pond, Nathan. Just my 2c. But truth be told, my biggest problem with this review is Nathan saying "a band like THE Deftones" and nobody corrects him. Fucks sake, man. As far as this Lovebites album, the vocals are a low point for me as well. I generally agree with the assessments, but favor this a bit more that Matt & Nate, less than Casey. I'd give it a 3.4 I guess. It'd be higher if the album had a bit more variety. The whole albums plays like one long track. And I'd give it even more points if the vocalist just sang in Japanese - which admittedly does come across as "pander-ish" for the American crowd. If you've read this far, Moon Hooch (2011). Start with the ~12 minute NPR Tiny Desk Concert on youtube, then go listen to the full album. Jazz-fusion, elements of ska, rock.... all wrapped in overtones of garage band and street performance. It's like if the band Seatbelts got addicted to heroine and found dumpster instruments. If this description doesn't make you look into it, then... you've probably never loved me.

472 Follower in 3 years shows your Musical Incompetence. Sry but you got no Idea about Music and Metal