One thing that give me great joy in life is seeing people watching Babymetal and getting it. The metal "purists" don't know what they're missing out on.
I bet majority of those "purists" who are quick to dismiss this group can't even play an instrument. Real musicians 100% will appreciate the musicality of Babymetal - the instruments, the vocals, the song composition.
Purists enjoy Babymetal, either for the talent of the band, the complexities of the song, or the influences used. The biggest draw though is that BM is a gateway drug into the metal scene. Posers dislike BM because they use their metal genre as an identity and dislike anything that visually challenges their choice (which is weird. its not like the girls are out there wearing pink booty shorts or anything, they're in freaking armor like gear and spikes). You can dislike songs, but disliking a band for being different and against the grain is arguably the most anti-metal thing you can do. Old post, but still tracks.
Watching everything that goes into their live shows, and the professionalism of everyone involved, it is, like you said, breathtaking. Even the West Kami Band that was featured in this video are top notch.
@@Jordan-Ramses While I totally prefer the Eastern Kamis - the Western one's are more direct and loud, less subtle and detailed. But that's just my non-metalhead view. :-)
@@hedobannord1184 - well, i think there is more to playing music than playing the right note at the right time. The eastern kami guitarist are very precise and on time. But i don't feel like it sounds very good a lot of the time. I'm only talking about lead guitar. BOH and Hideki Aoyoma are awesome.
@@hedobannord1184 - like you said you're not a metalhead. This is an example of what would consider world class guitar tone. Listen to the guitar and tell me if you hear it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2YV6IJLoBv4.html&ab_channel=%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B6%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E5%85%AC%E5%BC%8F&t=120
@@hedobannord1184 - or here is a classic example. this is Dave Mustaine of Megadeth who was also a founding member of Metallica until he was kicked out for being crazy. I love the way the guitars sound in this song. This is how lead guitar should sound. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K5jvUXij7nU.html&ab_channel=gibsonscottyozzy
Great reaction, I love this song. The drummer in the audio of this compilation is Anthony Barone from the Western Kami Band. In different parts of the video I think we see Hideki, but the audio is definitely Anthony. Su and Moa are still there, just the Avenger is different, we see a couple of them (Riho and Kano) in different sections.
As many already pointed out, the drummer here is Anthony Barone from Shadow of Intent, he has his own YT channel. He's part of the Western Kami Band and played in their US and EU tour, before the abrupted end due to the Covid 19, so he's the drummer also in their Forum show in LA. His solo before Kagerou in their live performance is pretty cool actually! EDIT: BTW this is not the end of the show, which was a two nights event with complementary sets, one for the "bright side", first night with the original Japanese Kami Band , the other for the "dark side", the second night with the Western Kami Band, BUT in both nights, the final songs were played by both bands together, with SU and MOA on stage with the three avengers, that's a lot of people 😅! Just think of having two drums, two bass and four guitars all playing at the same time 🤩😎😏
Good reaction. Su and Moa are ever present, as this was a compilation video I think we saw two of the three Avengers (Kano and Riho). 'Arkadia' is the third song of the "Trilogy of Lights", the first being 'Starlight' which you have already seen. These are three songs representing the stages of mourning we go through after losing somebody close: the initial grief and anger (Starlight); acceptance and coming to terms (Shine) and finally looking to the future and a brighter tomorrow (Arkadia). So 'Shine' is the one you are missing, for me the best song from the third album. There is another well made compilation video for that on the same channel this video came from.
@@IsoIsak Grington300 300 is correct. Momoko must have performed this song at Saitama Super Arena shows on Nov.16 / 17, 2019 but the footage has not been released in any official video. (As far as I know, no fan-cam, either) So I look forward to this song in the setlist for the 3rd concert at Budokan on Feb.16. I will be there ヽ(^o^)丿
This song is about overcoming your obstacles. As what the others said, this is the last song from the Trilogy of Lights. The first two songs are Starlight and Shine. This is a compilation video. The girls who was seen in these video were Su and Moa (the original members of BABYMETAL), and two fron the three Avengers. Those who were here are Riho Sayashi and Kano Fujihira. The other one is Momoko Okazaki (she wasn't in the video but she is the most present/active nowadays). The audio used here is fron their Legend Metal Galaxy Day 2 performance with the West Kami Band playing. The lineup are Chris Kelly (guitar), CJ Masciantonio (guitar), Clint Tustin (5 string bass), and Anthony Barone (drums). They were formed in 2019 to play for BABYMETAL in their western tours. If you want to hear their solos, listen to BABYMETAL - Kagerou. If you want a song of them with consistent double bass drums, check out BABYMETAL - Amore. Just like Rondo of Nightmare, it is a Su's solo. There are also beautiful riffs and bass line here. If you want an epic/unexpected breakdown, I suggest you BABYMETAL - Iine! You'll love how much creativity was put into writing this song. Kitsunes up!
Dare I say ARKADIA is a prime example of modern speed metal. Yes a lot of Dragonforce vibe in this, epic and grand, with dragons, castles, knights and stuffs. Truly a victory song ^^
Nice & welcome back & thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。This is a compilation from 4 shows (1 in USA + 3 in Japan). Avengers (= support dancers) in this video are Kano and mostly Riho. And the audio in this video is from Makuhari 2020, so the instrumental players were West (American) Kamis. This powerful drummer (not Hideki AOYAMA of East) has not been identified officially, but, of course, fans figured out who he was. Anthony BARONE is one of my favorite drummers now. Everything about this song and "Trilogy of Lights" was kindly explained by Grington300 300 below. BABYMETAL's 10 concerts are ongoing at Budokan (武道館) to commemorate their 10th anniversary taking strict countermeasures against the infection. They held 1st show on Jan.19 and 2nd on Jan.20. I witnessed those shows at the venue and almost died for joy. I look forward to this song in the setlist for the 3rd concert on Feb.16. ヽ(^o^)丿
@@ruben_7364 Apparently Yui had health issues that prevented her from performing with the group, but the details have not ever been specified, and media in Japan are generally more respectful of family privacy than they are in the UK or USA.
Hey, it's been a while! Great reaction, thanks! I knew you were going to enjoy this one. I'm not an expert but I guess that playing this song is so demanding, specially for the drummer. I love this song. Very fast tempo and positive lyrics. Very happy on how their power metal sound has evolved through the years since that first "Ijime, Dame, Zettai". Until next time!
"Fucking on point" I love your professional opinion, totally agree it's amazing. :-) Love this part of an interview with BOH: Q : So the feeling I got that Kami Band must have enjoyed at lives from footages and pictures is true, isn't it! B : I bet. But at the same time Babymetal is one of the hardest jobs ever. Its play is severe. And a god of drums and two god of guitar are incredibly good and severe. Once a member play wrong a little bit... even get out of the rhythm a little bit, all others throw a look at the one. (laugh)
This is from 2020. Yui metal left the band in late 2018. They didn't replace her. Instead have a rotating dancer that comes in to provide symmetry. They don't sing at all, just dance. When Yui was missing shows in 2017 it would just be Moa and it looked rather wierd on songs where the interact only having the one and on songs where they sing back and forth to only have Moa and no response was very strange.
Your confusion surrounding the girls is because this video featured two different Avengers as it was a combination of at least two different shows. The two girls you saw were Kano and Riho, both of which have since gone on to do their own thing so really the only remaining Avenger now is Momoko.
@@autohmae Riho is definitely out, especially now that she signed with another agency. Amuse is okay contracting independent artists, but they would have to redo the contract with Riho and her new Agency for her to return. So she is out out and should be considered out until proven otherwise. Kano might have a chance being with Amuse. Momoko is still technically an independent contractor as she left Amuse in April of 2018.
@@jthomas6672 That is a very uneducated theory and meaningless. Kano was in SG, @onefive, and BM with no issue. The chances of another SG member joining most likely will not happen. Kano was the best Dancer SG ever had, even better than Yui. (Sad people with no understanding of dance thinks being a robot at it makes her the best at it. Boston Dynamics can make a robot do that these days.) The only one who might be able to do it is Miki or Miko, they are the only ones good enough.
I very much look forward to your BM reaction videos. I love this band and the message a lot of their songs portray. This song is part of a Trio of Songs called “The Trio of Light” consisting of Starlight, Shine and Arkadia. Some of the most powerful songs on the latest album. They are sort of seen as a tribute to their guitarist who unfortunately had a fall in at the end 2017 and succumbed to his injuries and passed away at the beginning of 2018, and their former 3rd member Yui Mizuno who left the band officially in 2018 after having “health issues” (we don’t really know the whole story as the group and label is very private about their personal lives). Keep up the amazing videos my man! Love reactions from a musicians POV too (guitarist here) :p
Yes the girls are different because the Avengers switch out so big stage with 2 platforms was Riho and the smaller stage was Kano. Can't remember if I saw Momoko in there though 😂 Arkadia in terms of speed is the Road of Resistance of the Metal Galaxy album 🤘🦊🖤
Hey I'm very happy to see you back on Babymetal, with a song as good as Arkadia is. You had some doubts on the girls, well two are the same just on their 20 years now. Su is still the singer, Moa is still one of the dancers (the pigtail girl that was on screen when you stopped). Sadly Yui had to leave due to health reasons that didn't let her continue dancing. So for her spot they signed three girls that shift between shows now. As you were watching a compilation video of the performance in different concerts, the third girl is changing between them. Maybe that is what did bring confussion. And yes as someone has said already, Arkadia is the third of a set of three songs that has been called Trilogy of Lights. It is composed by three songs, Starlight-Shine-Arkadia, and is meant to be an emotional journey through the struggles Babymetal had to fight in 2018 (Yuimetal departure due to health reasons, the death of their guitar player on an accident, Su and Moa's decision to stop their Babymetal career or continue with this...). Arkadia tries to express the will of going ahead and continue doing metal, while Starlight and Shine deal with the emotional pain and dealing with it taking decisions. What I said, glad to have you back on the foxhole, and Aoyama the best.
If you want to see the drummer from the Kami West show off his chops a little bit. Check out "Kagerou" with the Kami intro.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GTUOyNHpvZY.html
This I galaxy’s beyond DF. DF have no hands in this song. ❤❤❤ Arkadia” by BABYMETAL was written by KyotoMETAL & NAKAMETAL. And Anthony Barones drumming is out of this world.
Next Babymetal must be Kagerou at Makuhari Mess second show January 26 2020 with the Kami band intro. The drum solo is amazing and I expect a drum cover for the song as its right up your street. It features the gringo Kami band with Anthony Barone from Shadows of intent.
"Pretty strong Dragonforce vibes" seems to describe all of Power/Speed metal for a lot of people these days. It kinda became like "every Thrash Metal song reminds me of Metallica/Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax". You're probably confused about the members because you didn't do any stuff after 2014 with the members in it, except for Syncopation, which was a compilation that included all kinds of shows and the BxMxC MV. You have to keep in mind they were 16 and 14 in 2014 and this Arkadia video is footage from 2019 and 2020, when they are grown up (between 20 and 23). But, Yui left in 2018, so you're right that the third member is different. The third girl on stage is an "Avenger", the three rotating support dancers I'm too lazy to pick out now because somebody else probably did it already. Arkadia is a kind of utopia where everything lives together in harmony. It's originally a region of Greece that was seen as an unspoiled wilderness in renaissance times. Last point, the drummer in the audio isn't Hideki Aoyama who was the drummer in all the other live stuff you watched (don't know where the audio from the Syncopation compilation was from, so I'm generalizing). It's Anthony Barone from the Western Kami Band, he's the ex-drummer of Shadow of Intent, amongst other bands. Because of the length of the US/EU Tour 2019/2020 they brought on another Kami Band from the US, probably because the Japanese musicians had other commitments in the timespan of that tour.
ARKADIA Lyrics by NORiMETAL (Norikazu Nakayama/Norizo), Music Composed by NORiMETAL (Norikazu Nakayama/Norizo), Arranged by KyotoMETAL(KYOUTOU) Produced by KOBAMETAL( Kei Kobayashi) BABYMETAL 'The Trilogy of Lights' (STARLIGHT - SHINE - ARKADIA) From third studio album “METAL GALAXY” (October 11, 2019). /NORiMETAL(Norikazu Nakayama/Norizo), (Representative past works on BABYMETAL: RATATATA(co-composition),Megitsune, Amore, Syncopation, Arcadia, Night Night Burn!, Road of Resistance (co-composition), Doki-Doki Morning(co-composition),METARI etc.)
It's really incredible how they thought to just hire the best musicians, best vocalists, best choreography, and best producion people that they could find. I know the you know about the vocalists and musicians already, but it's also interesting that their main choreographer did the choreography for the announcement that Japan would be hosting the next Olympics. So they've got Olympic level choreography.
I just wish that Moa had more to do on Metal Galaxy. As a die hard Sakura Gakuin fan, I know she has a beautiful voice. That's why I was so happy to see MoaBanger at Legend M.
@@scottianson5133 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AMy5_3MS1XE.html yes, she slightly cracked, I mean, that's the end of the show and she danced like crazy, as always, pretty cool anyway. Few seconds before, SU nailed probably her most awesome "resistance" ever: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AMy5_3MS1XE.html Yes, I wish MOA will have more space in future than she got in Metal Galaxy as a singer, though I do understand she's focusing on dancing and doing both at that level is insane.
Kano was only 14/15 when she was an Avenger for BABYMETAL and easily kept up with Su and Moa. She is the best Dancer ever to come out of Sakura Gakuin, no one comes close.
Everything is on a track and there is no room for error. The early concerts weren't adjusted as much but it is more noticeable if you see them in close. They are great in a show and a lot of fun. Perfume and One OK Rock are other groups they are partnered with. So many great musicians have played in the group it is crazy and I hope they can keep beilding thier base.
What a great song. Yes, one of the girl (Yui) from the original trio has left the group due to health problem 😭 Good reaction. Could you please react to Syncopation. Another great song by them.
The comment about performing in front of huge audiences is real . We can all be bedroom heroes or small stage champs . But very few have the ability to shine on a bigger stage . That's what makes great bands great
4:01 No, not the same girls, because this video is a compilation of 2 shows (Legend M and Legend Metal Galaxy). I'm not sure if you know, so I'll say it here. Yui left Babymetal in 2018, and in her place there are 3 support dancers named the "Avengers". In this video one of the Avengers was Sayashi Riho, the other was Fujihara Kano.
They were only involved with 'Road of Resistance', one or two more songs (like this one) are power/speed metal so it is their genre but they weren't involved.
Thanks for react to BabyMetal... Nice break down & opinion... Because your a drummer, if you don't mind how about reacting to kagerou with West kami band solo for next babymetal reaction... Here's the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jMIxIG9DuRY.html .. I heard Some machine gun there..yes arkadia is my favorite..
i like this song and the trilogy of lights but my fav one from this album is From Dusk Till Dawn, if you want to check it out, watch the official MV but you won't see the girls in there but you will get the clean sound and spirit of the song, or watch some english lyrics sub of the song but with no official MV because lyricis are in english thou but you might not notice that at the beggining lol, on the other hand you can watch a live version with the girls and the coreo around RU-vid but the sound isn't so clean like the studio version. Anyway glad you comeback with Babymetal, you got a lot of more good songs left, you can finish the trilogy of light watching Shine, or go for some of their old classics one like "Ijime Dame Zettai" live at Sonisphere (this one is official in their channel but is edited a little bit because there was some "hidden" mess around that performance but is an important part of Babymetal's history) or "Road of Resistence" live in Japan (also official) wich is a power metal song colab with Dragonforce and it's a BM anthem since that day, you might have some coypright blocked so you have to make some tricks to avoid that, you know what to do ;) Keep rockin man \m/
You are very confused my friend, take a deep breath and a good cup of coffee ! :-p Arkadia is on Metal Galaxy whereas From Dusk Till Dawn is exclusive to the international version of Metal Resistance. There is no music video or anything else officially released for From Dusk Till Dawn. The only music videos without the girls are Starlight and Distortion (both on Metal Galaxy). From Dusk Till Dawn is indeed all in unintelligible English xD
Great reaction as always. It's not quite on par with Road of Resistance, but it's a worthy companion for it, and it does a great job of ending the Trilogy of Lights. I know you were looking for drum cam footage of Hideki Aoyama at some point, and there was finally something posted on RU-vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vg4tG7U25AI.html
Here you have some videos of Hideki - 1 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vg4tG7U25AI.html 2 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PxBEGMv3JXo.html 3 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3dVse5b7wXQ.html 4 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kMK1mSOwx6Q.html 5 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-83kaRcU67lk.html Hope you enjoy of them ;)
I like the rest of the trilogy better, tbh. But as a cap to the trilogy and that journey, it fits. It satisfies more in that context. I never just get a hankering to listen to Arkadia like I do with Starlight and Shine, tho.
I always found it interesting that in this song, Su and Moa have the mikes but the Avenger there doesn't. As long as the Avenger there doesn't mind and has no resentment, I guess that's cool with me.
Not just this song. The avengers have never had mikes. It’s a non-singing role. That’s one way they’ve drawn a distinction between Moa and the avengers.
@@rickwagner- Thanks for the heads-up my dude. It's now obvious that I haven't been watching close enough in my endeavors to become a BabyMetal fan. Oh and I'm totally a fan of your comments on other YT videos. =)
If you want see a little more close the work of drummers you can see that video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-83kaRcU67lk.html&ab_channel=JMusicFlash