That was not a video I should have watched first thing in the morning.
As a long time metal head, this made me throw up a little.
Where the hell was the metal in that?
Perfect normality.
All told, I donât think that I like it very much. But Iâm glad that I live in a world where this is possible.
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Whackadelic!
Itâs like somebody put electricity in my coffee!
Happy! First time caller. Iâm the only other human in this Baby Metal video. I work as a âtalentâ here in Japan and would love any intelligent questions about, well, this kinda thing!
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I am cool (and you missed an apostrophe) but whatâs that got to do with anything?
I saw them in L.A. about twelve years ago, they were great.
Of course, Ex-Girl is a real band, formed by adult musicians, which helps them a lot. Great band!
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Did you really think metal was just going away? Get your metal legs back by listening to some of the good Euro Symphonic Metal bands like Within Temptation
Dangerous
Try to reduce the moments we publicly resemble our parents. That canât be allowed.
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Ahh Ex-Girl were (are they still going? I must check once i finish typing this comment ^__^) great, I was lucky enouhg to see them live twice back in the day
I can top this: j-pop vs harsh noise: BiS KAIDAN
Yes, itâs legendary japanoise band Hijokaidan collaborating with idol group BiS, doing a cover of a Jun Togawa song, with a video referencing legendary noise moments such as Hanatarashâs venue-destroying bulldozer gig. The japanese subculture postmodernism singularity is upon us.: http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=806326
(and this comes after the equally perplexing Hatsune Kaidan; a âcollaborationâ between Hijokaidan and the fictional hologram/cosplay idol Hatsune Miku. I was sceptical about this but seeing them play live in London recently won me over, it was genuinely great ^u^)
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Finally, a thread where I can post a Megaromania video!
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The Japanese really have no clue what metal is. If you want a reaction post something negative on that video, all the hentai fetish people will attack you. I did it a couple weeks ago on another of their videos lol. There were idiots actually comparing them to legendary bands like Metallica.
To make this more, um, interesting, Babymetal is an offshoot of Sakura Gakuin.
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I canât resist feeding the trollâŚ
Itâs a kawaii metal band, and offshoot of an idoru group. Thereâs something genuinely phony about it. IMHO thatâs part of the fun of the thing.
But the backing band sure sounds like a metal band. Or maybe Nu Metal.
I guess I get annoyed at the people who insist that metal has to sound like, say, Bay Area metal in 1983.
The thing is, there was no one sound to metal. IMHO, Metallica sounded like earlier British bands mixed in with Thin Lizzie, until they changed. Exodus? Metal made by punk fans, IMHO. Donât even say anything about the East Coast to some metal fans. Those metal fans will never acknowledge death metal, doom metal, speed metal, folk metal, Nu Metal, noise metal, symphonic metal, epic metal, screamcore, etc. I had a roomie in college who got on to me for being into metal but liking Napalm Death, because that grindcore was an offshoot of punk.
Some people will insist that Real Metal Has No Keyboards. Iâm guessing those psychos in Black Metal bands would disagree. Or thereâs people who insist that Real Metal is the Florida death metal scene from 20+ years ago. EhâŚokay, whatever.
Who would have ever guessed that the highest concentration of metal bands would be Norway?
But metalâs a global phenomenon. Everywhere youâll find angsty teens, electric guitars, basses, and drums, youâll find metal bands. I listen to this, and yeah, thereâs a certain Menudo phoniness to the group, but the backing musicians sound pretty solid, and I can hear a definite tinge of traditional Japanese music there. It makes it interesting to me in the same way Sepultura was interesting to me, with the definite African/native influences.
Thereâs people who would say that this isnât metalâŚ
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I just found what MIGHT be a full album, which had that hip-hop break that almost floored me.
This is everything I love about speed/death metal without the one thing I donât - the heavy reliance on unintelligible growling.
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GEMA says this is too cool to watch in Germany so Iâm not allowed toâŚor something like that 
You sound fun. /s
in between the trap and the J-eurobeat and the goregrind. Canât miss it.
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Fantastic! The only way this gets better is if they start biting the heads off ofâŚPeeps.
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