Nemophila / Aces High (Iron Maiden Cover): REACTION!! 

She's a real swiss army knife. Totally reliable in everything she do. More discreet than Saki but essential (and she has a fierce sense of humor!).

@@realdocloco She does have a very ninja play vibe about her. Noticed that before Nemo in her Lisa X material as well. Plays the rhythm like a champ and has zero problems flooring the gas for leads and dual lead support. Rock Solid.

@@ricdale7813 Yes, and it's a bit strange that virtually the only weakness in this song, was that Saki did not complete the backend, of Adrian solo, but simplified it, and I don't know why because she is such an accomplished guitarist.However, Hazuki replicated dave solo note perfect, which is a little easier than Adrians solo, on this song, but also did the "harmonic whammy, without looking at the guitar, during her vocal harmonising, which is commonly done by Adrian in songs. Saki was not harmonising, was not doing anything, except rhythm guitar, so could have done tha more easily.Perhaps was just trying to chill out during the song or something 🤣 For some reason, it seemed like Saki gave all the hard guitar work to Hazuki in this song, playing parts of both Dave and Adrian's work. Also, when they covered the trooper, again Hazuki was covering Dave's solo, which she replicated note perfect and is particularly impressive because that is a difficult solo and is far more difficult than Adrian's solo on that particular song. Maybe Hazuki is better at the legato style, which is predominantly what Dave produceso

Yes, it was a very good idea for them to release the covers 1st,especially during the pandemic lockdowns, and particularly the 2 Iron Maiden covers, which made all the fans in the metal genre aware of them quickly and they have got literally 4,500,000 views together.I think lovebites, Miho, regrets not doing the same thing.She implies it heavily in her recent interview

Hazuki is able to play adorable or melt your face metal... Interesting musician.

yes, and it's got 3,000,000 views (Zoiks!) Other Japanese bands, who been in the genre for a while, must be very jealous of that. I think some of the artists of thinking they should have done the same thing, before releasing original material, to make the market aware of the presence initially

true, but then NicKo in Iron Maiden had exactly the same transition.His father was in a jazz band and Nicko started out for several years as a jazz drummer.In many Iron Maiden songs, there are a lot of drumming fills, that you will not notice, if you are not a drummer, which make them more complicated than it seems to the non-technical.Many people will listen to fast drumming, as if it's the most difficult. But nothing could be further from the truth. One thing is for sure, she is absolutely loving this performance, not only because of the fast pace, but because it's a drum and bass led song, with mainly drumming switch ups e.g. focus on the drumming sections and you will notice that literally every other instrument is dependent on the starts and finishes of the different drum sequences, particularly at the end, watch her face after finishing the last note of the song and notice that all the other band members, at the end are pissing themselves laughing, at how much physicality she has put into the performance, with her hair going everywhere

Judas Priest were awesome too- Midlanders

Yeah, the new song is great.

That’s a great stream with Herman Li. 👍

well, most of the Japanese metal scene, is pretty much grounded in the NWOBMH, and especially maiden and priest, in terms of the musical structure of bass driven, twin guitar feed offs, and operatic vocals, with fantastical themes, e.g. lovebites, bandmaid and Nemo Obviously, with their classical training, these artists are looking to take it to the next level and feed off this basic structure into different genres, e.g. various niches within hard rock , and power, and thrash metal

The cover of Luna Sea's Rosier is about my favourite of theirs. It's a facet of Mayu's voice that's often overlooked. Warmth with a vibrato to die for - buttery and a mile wide. Achingly beautiful

I don't think silent is the right word. They just say the u as quickly as possible. To save time. We do the same thing with English. We often don't say all the words completely but it's understood by context.

Not silent at all. It's vocalized form of "tsuki" meaning "moon" HA-zuki👍

@@Jordan-Ramses you are correct. I wasn’t being specific. But, to many ears, it might sound silent, like with gozaimasu.

@@Vitericus1 there are plenty videos where Mayu is pronouncing Hazuki’s name.

@@mechanicat23 Sure. But I studied Japanese at university. I know how it's pronounced; there are no silent sounds in the language. Us and sometimes Is are just softened a bit between voiceless consonants and at speed it can sound silent, and that's mostly Kato dialect.The trick is all syllables are unstressed, but, lean the stress slightly on the first syllable/mora. More like, HA-zuh-ki and not, huh-ZU-ki

Lovebites "Painkiller". 😉

@@TheCyberMantis 🤘🐺🤘

@@TheCyberMantis . Yes, that is equally awesome.However, love bites rendition of Eagle fly free, is weak vocally. Also, notice that lovebites released their covers several months after the Nemo covers, pretty much indicating that they realise it was a mistake that they didn't do this in the 1st place, to make the market aware of their presence before releasing original material. Nemo's rendition of the trooper has about 3 times more views than any individual lovebites video.If lovebites had released it back when they started, I'm sure they would be getting those kind of views all the videos and would have got a market in the usa, which they don't have now. Unfortunately, their marketing team has let them down badly.Even now, you see several comments on videos with metal fans saying they just heard lovebites for the 1st time, and wondering why they haven't heard of them before, when they've been out for 6 years already

@@Rowlph8888 Asami can sing circles around Mayu. As far as who is "more popular" right now, it doesn't really matter. Both bands will go big if they can stand the test of time. Let's see where everybody is 5 years from now.

@@TheCyberMantis I disagree and so do most people, according to comments on threads. But I won't diss Asami because I think she's great, aswell. What I said is an objective fact, that Mayu, is far more versatile, but it remains to be seen whether she can operate in the higher registers, as consistently as Asami can. Mayu operates brilliantly at the lower registers and also has a better control of "rasp", in her voice than any Female singer I have ever heard and seen. Asami, has shown more weakness, at lower registers As for comparing the bands,I would have thought that lovebites are more popular currently, in both Japan and Europe, as they have toured twice or more, but they didn't break into the American market at all, which has been confirmed, and kind of lamented, in the last interview by Miho, whereas Nemo have. Basically Nemo have made a lot of ground on them, despite having existed 1/3 of the time. This is almost exclusively through their marketing decisions, in the way I described above, which loveBites Marketing team, should have had the sense to portray their brilliant musicians in the same way. I would'nt be surprised if that's part of the reason why Miho has left, because she was so clever in the way she structured the band throughout her time as the de facto leader of musical direction, but having done that, the team they couldn't even make the most obvious good marketing decisions e.g. make your potential market aware of your presence,, before releasing original material Hopefully both bands will because break the American market as well and go on to glory, because they both deserve it as their talent is off the charts

Freak Kitchen 🤟🤟 My son sang Porno Daddy a few times in the car when he was a kid.

Thanks for the link. Checked it and these women rock, and have for a long while. Love the back -stories and history. How professional and able to establish a "sound" at that age impress's me... Beginning to understand how capable, intuitive managers influence showcasing the talent.

No olvides que las madrinas de casi todas ellas es SHOW-YA

"Fry to riv! Riv to fry!" ( Yeah, it's too cute ne! ) ☺

Don't mean to be disrespectful, but they could probably do with Mayu and Tamu, because the latest performances, by Bruce have shown that his voice is struggling with some of the old material and Nicko in his seventies, probably cannot replicate some of the old catalogue It will be very interesting, in the upcoming tour, which songs they choose, as they are, including the "somewhere in Time" album, for the 1st time, since 1986, as part of their set list.That albums songs are the most complex and difficult to replicate, in their catalogue, and they are choosing to do this when they are in their late sixties and early seventies, seems so ridicullous. I for one don't think that they will be including "caught somewhere in time", as well as "loneliness of the long-distance runner", and Alexander the great, because the drumming on those 3, back to back, would probably kill NicKo

@@Rowlph8888 Well. I happened to be joking in my statement.