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"THE CIRCLE" next pls

Nice ear catching that bit of Sol's classic theme! (That one's called "Keep Yourself Alive") Sol Badguy is actually a very popular character, and has probably the most developed and layered story in the entire cast, one that's reflective of the series' themes as a whole (he IS the main character after all) Not gonna go into spoilers toooo much, but here's an overview (mostly focusing on stuff the first game tells us) Sol is first presented to us as a lone bounty hunter who specifically focuses on killing Gears above all other targets. His background wasn't really known to people, and in fact, Sol himself hated being asked about it. He's gruff, but free-spirited, and doesn't like to play by the rules. Towards the end of the Crusades (war between humans and Gears) Sol's skills got the attention of the Holy Order (human army) and he was recruited as one of their knights. At the same time, Ky was also a knight of the Order, despite still being a child (14-15-ish). Ky was considered a prodigy, and due to his skills, was actually the captain of the squad Sol was in. But while Ky was all about rules and working together, Sol hated working with others and tended to step outta line. Ky attempted to set him straight through a duel, but ended up losing to Sol. And Ky could tell Sol wasn't even using hus full power. It's from these events that their rivalry starts to form- Ky wanting to face Sol in honorable combat to get through to him, and Sol wanting none of that, treating Ky like a kid (which, to be fair, Ky was) Eventually Sol decides this whole fighting alongside others in the Holy Order thing isn't working out for him, so he instead decides to desert, but not before stealing one of their treasured magic swords. Ky attempts to stop the theft but is bested by Sol again. The actual games don't start until a couple years later, after the war. Sol still lives a lone life as a bounty hunter, while Ky, now a young adult, tries to adjust to the new world. Throughout the main plot of the Guilty Gear series, the relationship with Ky is a pretty notable one for Sol- he treats Ky like a nuisance, but really all Ky really wants is to connect and understand one another. It takes a while for us to get at it, but it's evident that Sol has experienced great loss in the past, and as such has grown bitter and unable to let himself just, live and be with other people. And a big part of his journey is him finally forging new bonds again and healing from the past.

Left this comment in a video a couple weeks ago but ima do it again. Check out either "Strange Sunset"from Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha, "Rising Dragon" from the same game, "Green Shower" from Street Fighter Ex2 Plus, or "Matador" from Street Fighter Ex 3. The ex series is kinda forgotten but it genuinely has the best soundtracks out of any Fighting Game series out there. Ex Alpha Plus being the best.

You should listen to The Square's "Sunnyside Cruise" or "Night Dreamer" for an intro to them. Also, you should listen to TRIX - 敦煌 (Dunhuang), or 毛根ファンク (Hair Root Funk), or Impact Hair Root Funk. I love the synth part in hair root funk, it's so cool! There another band like Casiopea and T-Square. They have one of Casiopea's ex drummers from the 90s, Noriaki Kumagai, who was with them for a short time while their drummer Akira Jimbo in this video went solo with Tetsuo Sakurai, the original bassist who has now been replaced by Yoshihiro Naruse in this video and still with them now. Mitsuru Sutoh, the bass player with the white bass from t square is also in TRIX.

🍅💀🍅 🤘🏼🦊🤘🏼 You might call this .... Divine

Love OC, just keep them coming! Their newest drop, the EP "Forgotten" has 3/3 masterpieces! 🖤🤘

Orbit Culture has been around for about a decade. They've done a really good job of bringing the melodic death genre into modern metal. I would suggest Black Mountain, same album.

I'm thrilled you've reacted to this so quickly, so thank you. The intensity of the music, and vocal changes are what I like about this band. Orbit Culture has 3 or 4 albums so far. I love all of them. 😊 Thanks Luke!

This performance of Tropic Birds is from the the gig at Yokohama Baseball Stadium in 1981 where Takanaka shared the bill with Santana - the whole concert is available on CZcams and is superb! The quality of sound you mention, and pictures too, may be accounted for by the fact that this was a concert sponsored by Pioneer and must surely have been broadcast on Japanese TV on account of the multitude of ads for their latest Hi-Fi systems that are included in the YT posting. FYI, Takanaka and Carlos performed together in the Finale backed by their combined bands with Brilliant versions of Europa and Ready to fly. Takanaka has made dozens of albums over the years , all worth listening to although I would particularly recommend his earlier work. However, I would urge you to check out some of the myriad live performances on offer on YT. Live music is always the best in my opinion and Takanaka proves my point with his live playing continually outstripping the excellent studio versions of his work. I've been a Santana fan since 1969 (Woodstock), even interviewed him for the BBC and while working for them I was given a copy of the LP "Takanaka" (his second )in 1977 in the hope that I might play something from it on my radio show. In fact I played several tracks over succeeding nights and must therefore be one of possibly only a handful of DJs outside of Japan to give the man air time!! Takanaka does not release albums outside of Japan and rarely, if ever performs anywhere else. As a result, the entire world knows the name of Carlos Santana but outside the Land of the Rising Sun few are aware of the man I consider "Japan's Best Kept Secret". I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction which is helping to spread the word, I look forward to more of the same. Your new subscriber in the UK.

Although Babymetal do have a few songs about battle, it's usually being used a metaphor for other forms of struggle or inner conflict. If there is one continuous thread that runs through the majority of Babymetal's lyrics, it's the idea of perseverance through hardship and resilience. Even so, they also have songs about girl power (Megitsune), eating chocolate (Gimme Chocolate), being late for school (Doki Doki Morning), playing hide and seek with a monster (Catch Me If You Can), an anti-bullying song (Ijime Dame Zettai), and all kinds of other things. By pure coincidence, you have ended up listening to most of the songs that speak very directly about battle.

I remember when i played this game for first time, i was 7 years (now 30) and the zerg themes scared me a lot, especially when i was home alone :( now there are into my favorites :3

Their latest album was a concept album, so you might find several songs battle themed, even if the battle is a representation of something else. Songs like Metal Kingdom really focus on it. In their 3 previous albums, I can't think of any other song about battle, if not maybe battle again youself in Karate and battle agains bullies in Ijime, Dame, Zettai The others cnan have many different meanings: starting from wanting to eat chocolate, to party summer song, to getting ready to go to school, to wanting to stay up late with friends, etc...

Smell of the Game ✔ Find Your One Way ❌ The Roar of the Spark ❌ The Disaster of Passion ❌ Out of the Box ❌ Play the Hero ❌ Armor-clad Faith ❌ Alone Infection ❌ Love the Subhuman Self ❌ Let Me Carve Your Way ❌ Necessary Discrepancy ✔ Hellfire ❌ What do you fight for ❌ Trigger ❌ Rock Parade ❌ Requiem ✔ Crawl ❌ The Kiss of Death ❌ Perfection Can't Please Me ❌ Drift ✔ Mirror of the World ✔ Like a Weed, Naturally, as a Matter of Course ✔ The Town Inside Me ❌ The Hourglass ❌ The Circle ❌ The Gravity ❌ Just Lean ❌ Extras ✔ Symphony ❌ Ups and Downs ✔ The Name of Heaven ❌ Talk About You ❌ Rock and Roll, Rock Hard Maniac ❌

i think u must react to " rondo of nightmare // kami band intro " that so great music

You're going to have a fun journey! One thing I love about Babymetal that you're discovering is their range of moods and styles. They were founded on kawaii metal, deliberately over the top cutesey dancing and acting on top of truly heavy death metal. But as you see, partially due to them growing up, they can put on a very serious intense side which to me, adds even more weight and excitement to the kawaii mode times. They all were VERY good at being comfortable on stage at such a young age, now they're legit superstar status in my opinion!

Great reaction friend 🔥🤘🦊🤘🔥

Time to step out of your mental box with Babymetal 😁 With other bands, you listen to them for their style of metal. With Babymetal, you are listening to what they do with metal. They don't have a set style. You've seen their speed/power metal with Road of Resistance. You want trap metal? try BxMxC. Edm/hiphop/death metal? iine. Indian metal? Shanti Shanti Shanti. Arabian metal? Metalizm. Euro Polka Metal? Oh Majinai. Dubstep metal? Uki Uki Midnight. Dream Metal? From DuskTillDawn.... and the list goes on and on. Have fun exploring. 😁😁😁😁🤘🦊🤘

Babymetal use battle and combat as a metaphor for overcoming challenges that you face in life, the only violence in any of their songs that I am aware of is Sis Anger when Yui and Moa threaten to knock some sense into a boy they are annoyed with

👍👍👍An awesome performance. My eyes and ears are under divine attack, and I love it. Great reaction. 🦊🦊🦊 🖖❤

Su-metal wrote these lyrics for this song. They do sing about combat a lot, their song Road of Resistance is about their fight to carve out a place for themselves in the metal industry, or I should say inspired by their fight; it's abstracted to encourage anyone to follow their own pathless path. . Divine Attack seems to revisit that theme. They also sing about chocolate. What I find interesting about their themes is the fight is never won or lost, it always goes on.

Good reaction /analysis 👊🏽⚡️This was their first song after a long hiatus due to Covid. When I first heard it I knew they where back with a vengeance🦊🤘🏾

Adorei a reação, se possivel reaja a babymetal-akatsuki ou babymetal-rondo of nightmare....sera possivel ver o bateirista la.

You're probably deep enough into the foxhole at this point that it's time to check out "The 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 Extensive Guide to BABYMETAL". It's a fun guide and is (almost) up-to-date. Some reactors are reacting to it, which is fun, but it is ~40 minutes long. If you don't react to it, you should def watch it. As always, love your reactions! 🤘🦊🤘

You will get a lot of answers, but a lot of mysteries too, it's part of the fun and lore. lol 3 out of more than 60... it's a start. ;) Remember that each album is a new era, in music and and age. Fyi, they have a song featuring Sabaton, and they did a European tour together last year, but you can wait for the song.

the combat.. queue the picture of Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy making the slitting throat motion "Metaphor" ;) Most of their lyrics are not about combat at all. Even the ones about combat.

Great reaction (again)! I am sure other commenters have answered your Kami Band questions, so I will just request a video where you can enjoy the "OG" Kami band in this song from the 2014 show at Budokan - Rondo of Nightmare (with Kami band intro) - czcams.com/video/tmMocP99QkQ/video.html. It is a Su Metal solo song, and features the band showing off a bit...I think you will enjoy it!

⚡ 💕 🍑 / 🐎💥 Koba doesn't even have studio musicians per album, it's on a song by song basis. The only Kami Band member with any official studio credits is Leda Cygnus (Shinji Yuuto). He contributed both guitar and bass on 'Arkadia'. He was also in the studio for Metal Resistance songs like 'Amore', and wrote the arrangement for 'No Rain, No Rainbow'.

You'll like Metal Kingdom, too. 🤘🦊🤘

The intros to their live songs are not only to set the mood but also give the girls a little break to catch their breath and get some water as you can see they are giving their all for every song. I do think the intros stand out as their own work of art, I could listen to whole album of just that. You mention Sabaton, Joakim Brodan did a feature on a Babymetal song back in 2019, " Oh Majinai" is one of their lighter songs and has vibes of eastern European folk and a dash of Celtic, fun little tune.

Great reaction! Thank you very much for your appreciation of Su-Metal´s lyrics and the prowess of the Kami Band! The lyrics aren´t about bloody battles in wars like Iron Maiden´s songs, but battles within life itself. A little bit like "Road of Resistance", but still different. To bring in some variety you could try a not-so-serious song of them. There is a live performance at the PIA Arena in 2023 available... - Iine! It is a very early song, released in March 2012, and they didn´t perform it for a loooong time, after Yuimetal´s departure. If you dare to try it, prepare for a wild ride😉 The hand sign is a BABYMETAL thing, right. They mistook the maloik sign (Devil´s hand) for the fox in shadow play during their very (VERY!) early days, and they kept it. Because it´s unique and cool 😄 And you got it right, Su-Metal is the main vocalist. She is the "Queen" 😉 Good performer, very good dancer and outstanding vocalist. She always wears a single ponytail, since around 2012. There are some very early performances where she wears pigtails. Moametal is the one with the sidewards twin tails (I believe this is called "pigtails", too, right?), and she is the smolest 😉 of the three. She has dimples when she smiles. Very easy to recognize 😉 Momometal is the tallest of the three, and she wears double ponytails. She has rather big eyes and smiles A LOT 😊You will encounter her at some point in time, where she is wearing double buns. That was at the time when she was an "Avenger", a backup dancer to fill in Yuimetal´s (former member) empty spot. "Avengers" just danced, but didn´t sing. There are two other "Avengers" made up in the same style, and between all three of them ONE was "chosen" to fill in the third spot at a certain performance, so it´s sometimes quite hard to distinguish between them if you watch a compilation of different performances. The other two "Avengers" were Riho Sayashi and Kano Fujihira.

BABYMETAL has a song about waking up to school early in the morning (Doki Doki Morning), wanting to eat chocolate(Gimme Choco) or having a sleepover party until midnight (Uki Uki Midnight). They also have a song about never ending nightmare (Rondo of Nightmare) or playing hide and seek with a japanese ogre (Catch me if you can) or going to your first heavy metal concert (Headbanger). They also have a song with anti bullying message (Ijime Dame Zettai) So definitely not all of their songs are about combat:D. Their lyrics and songs in general are really diverse.

🦊🤘 Nice reaction

That's one of the big mysteries about Babymetal, we don't really know who plays the instruments in the studio recordings. They could be the members of Kami Band, or they could be someone else 🤷‍♂

Great reaction! Be'lakor took their name after the dark master, Be'lakor, in the Warhammer game. Also worth checking out their song: "The smoke og many fires". It's absolutely beautiful.

Great reaction. When they first heard the demo tape Su-metal liked this song so much - it reminded her of 'Road of Resistance', one of her personal favourites. She said she wanted to write the lyrics ... and that happened, so Su-metal has her first official writing credit. All your questions were already answered in many of the comments below - @Ganimal83 is one that has provided a good and comprehensive response for you. Unlike Sabaton and some Iron Maiden songs, any combat or war references in BABYMETAL songs are not to be taken literally. BABYMETAL will be talking about fighting your own inner demons, getting up and moving forward even when life has knocked you down, fighting through the undergrowth and past obstacles to forge you own path to a better future. Even when BABYMETAL sing about bubblegum it is special bubblegum that can take you wherever you want, the only limits are your imagination and your dreams ... it is "a mint flavoured time machine", step on board and see where your dreams can take you. (This song is 'Awadama Fever'). However, they do have songs about waking up late and rushing to get ready for school, having midnight feasts with their friends and deciding between eating sweets or dried squid arms, magic islands forbidden to adults at the risk of dancing in a happy mosh for ever, coming of age, playing hide & seek with an ogre, tricking parents to buy them all the shiny and delicious things .... I could go on (no seriously, I could, it is taking a lot of self control to stop😁😜).

MomoMetal - on the left of the screen - tallest Su-Metal - center - main vocalist MoaMetal - on the right of the screen - smallest (but absolutely "not small")

This is my favorite song off "The Other One" album, which is their most recent album. This was also the first song that they released from that album. I remember we were all in shock because this was nothing like anything they made before.🤘🦊🤘

Thanks for this reaction. While they talk about battles, I do think they mean: personal battles and personal improvements and working together to reach a common goal. Obviously no official interpretation exists, but these are common themes for Babymetal. Kami band might not be an official part of Babymetal, they are part of team Babymetal who work hard to deliver these big shows or more stripped down shows around the world. The guys are session musicians and session musicians are involved in the recordings of the albums, so sometimes it's them and sometimes it's other session musicians, who ever is the most available and most suitable.

Great reaction! If you wanna see some intensity from Su, I’d love to see you react to “Akatsuki” live at Budokan 2021. One of the most powerful performances I’ve ever seen vocally, instrumentally, and visually. Funnily enough, it does use combat as a metaphor but combat is actually not all that common across their whole discography hahaha.

The largest percentage of babymetal's lyrics are about themes of positivity, growth, moving forward, and living life despite adversity. There are several exceptions, the most notable of which would be "rondo of nightmare", lyrically it is the "darkest" song, making more melancholic, desperate references and constant fear. You also have a live version with a great intro from the band where they demonstrate their skills separately.

Love your very attentive and thoughtful reactions! A lot of Babymetal songs have a positive message but their topics are very diverse. From food, over night parties, to mint flavored time machines, and anything in between. The lyrics about “combat” is never meant literally, it is about either inner struggles (as in “Karate”, or live struggles and fighting tour own fights to clear the path in front of you. The non-vocal parts (or call and response) are specifically incorporated for the interactions with the crowd. The musicians for the studio recordings are rarely credited but I know Leda Cygnus (a member of the eastern Kami band) was credited on a few songs for the bass and/or guitar parts. Check out “Karate” next, please or “Road of Resistance” live in Japan. 🤘🦊🔥

Yeah, BabyMetal has their own hand sigh, Kitsune the Fox God. They mostly follow the Anime themes about never giving up, never surrender, overcome obstacles, if you get knocked down you stand back up. They also say tomorrow will be another day to continue on, very often.

I think it's time for an older yet still extremely popular BABYMETAL song, "MEGITSUNE (OFFICIAL)" music video, which is on their CZcams channel. This song has been performed more than any other song, if I am correct, and is still performed on their current world tour. This song does not have a war/fighting theme to it but instead is about female empowerment. It's heavy still but has more cute elements that you have been recently seeing. It's a great song!🤘🦊🤘

Divine Attack as an early choice for a reaction when many of the more "established" Babymetal reactors (yeah, it's a thing) have yet to see it, I like that. Seems in keeping with your unique style which is good. It is evident that you do have a lot of questions and I know most of the answers will be coming from many key fans who endeavor to educate reactors which is great. It might be a little early for A Fox Song's recent "The not so Extensive Guide to Babymetal," or perhaps it is not. You be the judge. If you choose to do so, some do post a RT reaction to that. No question that Babymetal is a complex group with a complex backstory but I do wonder if getting some of those things answered might not make it easier to just enjoy the songs unencumbered.

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Great reaction! You just happened to watch 3 songs in a row that mention or have a "fight" and persevere theme to them! BABYMETAL songs have a wide variety of topics... trust me, those will shock you, too! For example, Their first released song from over 13 years ago, "Doki Doki Morning", is about getting ready in the morning for school, and even that song is a heavy af banger that is still popular today!🤘🦊🤘

Not necessarily "Combat" but whatever struggle you have, this is your time to go. "Karate" is a good one, not combat, but battle against yourself. "Iijme, Zettai, Dame!" is about stopping bullying. Not advocating fighting or combat in their songs. We are all "The One". Su- Metal can control the audience like no one else, she has been doing this since at least 2013. Keep learning and you will see that most (not all) songs are inspiration, believing in yourself. Babymetal has done various s genres, this is just a small piece.

this quickly became one of my personal favorites of theirs. to me, it has the most well developed/integrated sound and seems one of the most mature offerings. and features Su's writing debut ... i'd be very interested in hearing more of her creations.

Most songs are not about combat per se. A number are about fighting adversity or self doubt, not giving up, etc. You just got lucky in getting some of the more martial songs.