Author Topic: BABYMETAL - メギツネ - MEGITSUNE (Read 22140 times)

Skeever · « **Reply #70 on:** June 21, 2014, 05:20:32 PM »

Well I am fascinated by Japanese pop culture so this is right up my alley.

However, I'm a bit put off by the Lady Gaga tour. I'm not interested in her. I have nothing against her or pop music for that matter, but I can just imagine tickets being way more expensive for way less BABYMETAL.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #71 on:** July 30, 2014, 11:42:45 AM »

Wall of death!

https://youtu.be/O15zJlqI5vA?t=22m6s

ishak540m · « **Reply #72 on:** July 31, 2014, 09:36:52 PM »

Quote from: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on July 30, 2014, 11:42:45 AM

Wall of death!

https://youtu.be/O15zJlqI5vA?t=22m6s

ariich · « **Reply #73 on:** August 01, 2014, 03:06:04 AM »

Have to say, they were really fun at Sonisphere. The whole idea is a bit ridiculous, but it's a lot of fun and some of the songs (the ones that properly fuse metal with electro J-pop) are pretty cool.

cramx3 · « **Reply #74 on:** August 01, 2014, 07:07:36 AM »

A friend showed me this band a couple weeks ago with the Gimme Chocolate video. I cant believe this is real and they are actually pretty popular for such a young band. I enjoyed it. Wouldnt say I love it, but its catchy and fun. The dancing is really cool too. I like the backing band a lot.

ishak540m · « **Reply #75 on:** December 03, 2014, 03:58:30 PM »

Babymetal is #1: https://www.metalsucks.net/2014/12/02/vince-neilsteins-top-15-metal-albums-of-2014/

"A complete game-changer, and the de facto most-argued about album of the year. Sure, the cute Japanese teenage girl angle is great — and hella entertaining — but it wouldn’t mean anything if the band members weren’t masters of their instruments who write perfect songs. Every track is catchy from beginning to end, and the bizarre presentation makes it impossible to look away. Call me a pedo, call me a troll, but the fact is that I don’t think I listened to any album more in 2014, and there was no band I was more anxious to share with friends both metal and non-metal alike. Sometimes metal needs to be fun, and Babymetal are all about it.
SEEEEEE YOUUUUUU!"

Best Comment:

"At first I was like WTF, but then I realized that he was right, BABYMETAL has been the most disruptive, polarizing band in metal today. I have watched Youtube videos of men with more tattoos then me, literally breaking down and crying, because they were so scared of what 3 little girls will do to the genre. Any group that can scare metalheads more than demons, zombies, or Satan himself gets my respect."

jammindude · « **Reply #76 on:** December 03, 2014, 04:40:39 PM »

I really want to see them live....but they were opening for Lady Gaga. I'm just really not interested in paying Lada Gaga priced tickets just to see the opening act and walk out.

If they get to point where they are headlining theaters....I'm there.

Dark Castle · « **Reply #77 on:** December 03, 2014, 05:49:03 PM »

Walking out on lady gaga oi m8
Had me a giggle

cramx3 · « **Reply #78 on:** December 03, 2014, 06:14:43 PM »

Well yea, no point walking out if you spent the money, but yea I wouldnt want to spend the money for a lady gaga show just for the opener.

jammindude · « **Reply #79 on:** December 03, 2014, 06:26:29 PM »

In a way...I guess I sort of get it. Because, like Lady Gaga, this band is a bit more "theatrical"...but I'm just not into *******THE SHOW******* angle of concerts.

Well, I suppose I don't apply that across the board. Because as soon as I typed that, I immediately thought of the one exception to the rule. The Wall.

Still, for the most part, I really don't dig the theatrics of huge arena concerts. I want to see the unbridled energy of artists with a passion for performing...on instruments.

Babymetal simply has a new and original idea, and I really respect that and I also enjoy this new "hybrid" of metal music. But I could do without the theatrics of the whole thing. I think the music does, in fact, stand up on its own.

ishak540m · « **Reply #80 on:** January 19, 2015, 05:00:03 PM »

New Song: Road of Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi-XFUZ5EL4

rumborak · « **Reply #81 on:** January 19, 2015, 05:21:55 PM »

Power metal must be the only music genre that is its own parody.

Zook · « **Reply #82 on:** January 19, 2015, 05:26:35 PM »

Quote from: ishak540m on January 19, 2015, 05:00:03 PM

New Song: Road of Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi-XFUZ5EL4

This just sounds like DragonForce. What's the big deal?

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #83 on:** August 26, 2015, 12:35:56 PM »

BABYMETAL - Ijime,Dame,Zettai - Live at Sonisphere 2014

cramx3 · « **Reply #84 on:** April 06, 2016, 10:29:25 AM »

Baby Metal made their American TV debut

https://youtu.be/rZApf9c8Tes

Ben_Jamin · « **Reply #85 on:** April 06, 2016, 11:54:29 AM »

Haha, Stephen in the beginning.

lonestar · « **Reply #86 on:** April 06, 2016, 12:14:55 PM »

Very cool

Spent some time the other night randomly checking videos of theirs out, I can say one thing for sure. Su Metal can sing her fucking ass off.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #87 on:** April 06, 2016, 12:57:50 PM »

Awesome!

Glad that the band are good and plays live. Seems to consist of some good session musicians. The guitarist Takayoshi Ohmura have toured with Marty Friedman and done a solo CD with Richie Kotzen, Mark Boals and Doogie White.

Progmetty · « **Reply #88 on:** April 09, 2016, 02:51:00 AM »

I was catching up on Colbert and I saw this thing, thought the music the band played were entirely too familiar, sounds like music from a bunch of thrash/speed metal bands that I'm not into, even as a thrash fan. And I thought the 3 girls gimmick didn't help the band much alas for the comical contrast factor then I came online to find out that haha holy shit the 3 girls are the band baby metal.
I think it works just fine for a good laugh but otherwise:

Quote from: gazinwales on March 04, 2014, 12:00:01 PM

'Pop' "metal" for 6-10 year old's.
Absolute rubbish

Cyclopssss · « **Reply #89 on:** April 10, 2016, 05:58:07 AM »

I´m just amazed that in all the reviews for the new album I´ve read, none of them talk about Tales of the destinies. That track is so freaking bananas it´s out of this world. And a perfect setup for The One.

Lax · « **Reply #90 on:** April 10, 2016, 03:07:13 PM »

Quote from: Cyclopssss on April 10, 2016, 05:58:07 AM

I´m just amazed that in all the reviews for the new album I´ve read, none of them talk about Tales of the destinies. That track is so freaking bananas it´s out of this world. And a perfect setup for The One.

I was preparing an answer about this song, tales, that is sooooo oriented to us DT fans

The Curious Orange · « **Reply #91 on:** April 11, 2016, 02:42:07 AM »

I actually can't quite believe I'm typing these words, but -

Tales of the Destinies is better than anything on The Astonishing.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #92 on:** April 11, 2016, 04:11:12 AM »

Quote from: Cyclopssss on April 10, 2016, 05:58:07 AM

I´m just amazed that in all the reviews for the new album I´ve read, none of them talk about Tales of the destinies. That track is so freaking bananas it´s out of this world. And a perfect setup for The One.

Haven't heard the album but that got me intrigued so I checked out the song. That was quite the trip to say the least 0:29-0:41 sounds more like DT than DT themselfs.

It's just a mix of alot of things 3:48-4:00 is so Lost Horizon and the chorus is Power Metal galore.

Enjoyed that song alot!

kaos2900 · « **Reply #93 on:** April 11, 2016, 07:51:30 AM »

I don't care how good the back ground music is i just can't take this seriously.

cramx3 · « **Reply #94 on:** April 11, 2016, 08:51:01 AM »

Quote from: kaos2900 on April 11, 2016, 07:51:30 AM

I don't care how good the back ground music is i just can't take this seriously.

Then don't and take it for fun. I find it hard to take seriously as well, but I still enjoy it because it's fun music. They are actually playing in NYC fairly soon, but I don't think I'll go out of my way to see them.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #95 on:** April 15, 2016, 04:04:02 PM »

The band shreds

Damn the energy from the band and crowd is pretty intense.

Gromit1710 · « **Reply #96 on:** April 15, 2016, 05:30:37 PM »

Unless you've been living under a musical rock this last year or so, you've probably seen the name Babymetal at least once. I've searched the forums and found that a few of you know of this Japan sensation.

For those that haven't, I'll sum up: Imagine J-pop, Japan Idol culture, and insanely talented metal/rock/industrial musicians all smushed into a corporate project. It's a mix that shouldn't work. But like all genre breaking trialblazers, it has. To huge, sold out arena shows both in Japan and more recently, in America.

Skipping history, the fact that it's front members are young teenage girls who sing and do choreographed dance to death metal beats, and arguments of corporate fabrication ('cause really... there's plenty of argument about this already) I'll get to the connection between this forum and them.

This song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02uq_GQAly0

It's from their second album that just released this last week. Much like their previous album, there is a huge range of rock/metal sub genres represented, and no one specific flavor of anything provided it involves drums, bass, and guitar as the basic instruments.

When I heard this track, I instantly knew who it was a nod to. Everything from the synchronicity of the keyboard and guitar, some of the phrasing of the riffs... and if you're STILL not with me that it's a specific nod to Dream Theater... there's a passage that mimics Jordan's re-occurring use of old timey solo ragtime piano at 2:25.

In fact, the whole instrumental passage from 2:00 on sounds like an omage to DT's Stylings. To me, even the drums sound engineered to echo MP's drum sound of IAW and Awake.

As far as the project as a whole goes, I've been alright with Babymetal since I discovered it a couple years ago. The musical writing is spot on, the ability of the players is top notch, and I'm a sucker for cute things. It's different, refreshing, and something that isn't the standard norm cranked out by the industry these days. The fact that the producers did a massive nod to DT on this album makes it all the more fun.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #97 on:** April 15, 2016, 05:59:51 PM »

We have a thread for the band and that song has already been discussed.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=40910.0

Cyclopssss · « **Reply #98 on:** April 16, 2016, 03:40:02 AM »

Gave it a good spin this morning and although it has some lesser songs, the overall production is better. Su is singing her ass off on this album. This will definetely push them over worldwide, I feel. The Japanese version has one different song in the tracklisting but it´ll cost you an arm and a leg ordering that one.

Lowdz · « **Reply #99 on:** April 16, 2016, 05:50:11 AM »

Had a listen earlier. Take the vocals out and it was ok.

PetFish · « **Reply #100 on:** April 17, 2016, 12:39:52 AM »

Have you guys seen Band Maid yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYN-ri1NPs
This video played as an ad before a BabyMetal one.

Man, the Asian (and European) music scene is so diverse, meanwhile the North American music scene is just... not (I tried to think of something clever to say here but failed). The NA scene is definitely repressed to say the least. There was an interesting clip of Marty Friedman talking about the Japanese music scene and how much he loves it there cuz of how open it is.

This stuff is just so cool. My only wish is that they'd talk more about the bands playing the actual music as there's some spectacular musicianship going on there.

Dark Castle · « **Reply #101 on:** April 18, 2016, 12:58:37 AM »

Whatever you say man, whatever you say.

bosk1 · « **Reply #102 on:** April 18, 2016, 08:20:25 AM »

As already pointed out, there is already a thread for this band. Not only that, but it is on page 1, so I'm not sure how you missed it. This will be merged.

As to the song, I have no idea where "Dream Theater inspired" comes from. There is nothing about the song that reminds me of Dream Theater in any way, shape, or form.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #103 on:** April 18, 2016, 09:09:35 AM »

I would say the only part that's reminiscent of DT for me is 0:29-0:41.

shadystraz360 · « **Reply #104 on:** April 19, 2016, 11:22:53 PM »

Sorry. But who would wanna listen to this group (and i am using that term loosly)....

They are dreadful. I only looked up Babymetal cause someone mentioned it on facebook... and to me it just sounded like a bunch of pikachus on steriods with a very dreadful musical background (again. Using that term extremely loosley) and its obvious that the 44million+ hits are fake...

And how can someone say they remind them of Dream Theater... hahha.... serious comment fail :-D

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Author Topic: BABYMETAL - メギツネ - MEGITSUNE (Read 22140 times)