@@EdwardBarnes-z4w I won't disagree on that 😉 She's not in cluppo anymore though? I thought that's kind of her project? 🤔

@react-o-mat it is her solo project , not so much anymore , but she is a terrific Singer , KANAMI has taught her much about the rhythm Guitar and she's doing Great thing's ,

@@kicorse I do agree on the more classic rock lead and here it is kind of intentional, but tbh I'm just not good enough to pull of a crazy solo (yet 😜) otherwise I probably would 😅. Thanks a lot for taking a listen and the feedback! Oh and please let me know which song is your favourite (and least favourite?) 👍

@@jamesdavisjr6937 I'll do their full album in a few weeks 👍

A clue here might be that Kanami is playing her Signature PRS Guitar model that was officially shown to the public on November 19, 2024, when Paul Reed Smith personally handed her that gorgeous guitar. It may be likely that the music video was recorded sometime after that event, so it may be relatively recent although the song itself may have been written much earlier to match the anime intro outline.

​@@uffdad8211 Like you said, it's not because they show her playing the new guitar in the MV that she actually used it on the recording of the track (she might have). But yes, in this case it's very possible that it was a pretty recent track. My knowledge of guitars is not even close to good enough to be able to distinguish between PRS models though. It's funny that I think it sounds a bit different from the new album while I have heard multiple people (including Benedikt here) say it fits right in with the new album. It might be my inexcperience with the new album, I wasn't huge on it on first listen so I haven't listened to it all that much to be fair.

@@MaartenT To me, “Zen” sounds more like “Hibana” spiced with a little bit of “Sense”. But the mix sounds very recent. Also, contrary to the usual animes which are adaptions of mangas, “ZENSHU” is an original anime. So, the band certainly had informations for the song very late in the production of the anime. All I’m saying is that it’s impossible to know exactly when they wrote this song. Somebody ask Kanami please 😄🙏🏻

@@2abug Funnily enough, Hibana is my favourite track of that Sense single. The track that got snubbed from the EP they released after it (so they can keep selling that Sense single). If this is an original anime, I would suspect it was written not too long ago to be fair. I don't know that much about anison, but I suspect most bands put pieces of the series into the lyrics and you can't do that if you don't have anything to work with.

@@MaartenT My favorite song of the “Sense” single is “Corallium” 🤗

@@MaartenT Thanks for the recommendation! I'll give it a go 👍

@@react-o-mat I like them quite a bit (also just saw that some people put their name as "Uchikubi Gokumon Dokokai", which is probably easier to read), although it is difficult to give a good track to check out since I tend to listen to full albums a lot and don't know the names. Some of their bigger tracks (the ones with the animated videos) are very different as far as style goes. The majority of their videos seem very over the top funny and that goes for some of the lyrics I can catch as well. Their 17M view top track "日本の米は世界一" seems one that is comparable to this the track you watched in this video though and gives a good idea of their style. The newest video they released (3 weeks ago) is also a good example of that and shows that they are still doing their thing after 20 years.

@@guyubroostercikahuripan1981 pretty much 😁🤘 Thanks for listening!

@@NeonReaperReacts Thanks my guy! ❤️

Or Saikyou Manbou Shura Bou Ya depending on how you want to transliterate it. They seem pretty new though, not a lot of info that I can find.

@@MaartenT There is also Saikyoh Manboh Shura Boya on offer....😁 The band has been around for three years and comes from Kobe. The drummer has a YT channel @mayuchi0330. That's all i know.

@@maidthehormone It always seems that bands that don't come from Tokyo or Osaka generally have a tougher time getting big unfortunately. There are obviously some exceptions, but as an example there are so many fantastic bands in Nagoya who play the streets to get some eyes on them. It's a shame. I will try to keep my eyes on them though, I really liked this.

@@homegnome2429 Wups, I'll change that as soon as I get home 😋

@@homegnome2429 Yes, but I'm not 100% sure how this one turned out tbh, because I tried to go in a much lighter direction/brighter sound, a bit more (punk) rock maybe? You'll have to let me know 😉

@@MaartenT Ah Mao again. I pretty much like everything I heard where he's involved so far 😅 Does he have a solo project or something like that by chance? Would love to hear that.

@@react-o-mat I actually a lot of times am not a huge fan of the tracks he writes or produces with some exceptions like Lovebites Holy War which made me give them a proper look after not liking the first couple of tracks I heard by them. A lot of times he uses a bit too much synth in his tracks (understandable since he is a synth player) and the melodies he writes are a lot of times the kind of power metal melodies that I personally find a bit cheesy. Not this track though, this one is right up my alley. I am not aware that he has a solo project, nowdays he mainly does producing and writing for other artists like Lovebites, Lonesome_Blue, East Of Eden, Fuki's solo work, and I am sure there is a lot more. Sometimes he is also performing with them like on Fuki's 2024 concert Blu-ray. Maybe other people who follow him closer might know of an other project, I can't find any from my quick search.

@@kicorse No worries mate! 😉 You can really recommend anything though, that's what music discovery is all about 👍 (I can't promise I'll do a reaction video, but I remember you told me about one of your favourite discoveries which was some kind of folk if I'm not mistaken. Actually wanted to check that out, but I think you need to tell me the name again 😅)

@react-o-mat That was Light in Babylon. Hinech Yafa was the song that got me hooked (a street performance that went viral a long time ago). Baderech el Hayam (studio live) is my favourite song of theirs. Even if their music is not for you, they're an interesting story, being a band with members from five countries, including both Iran and Israel, but primarily Turkey. My second choice would be the Japanese jazz pianist Hiromi and the most popular video on her KZbin channel, 11:49 pm. Again, possibly not energetic enough for you, but you may at least have other subscribers who like her.

@@maryjbugbee Hey! Cool song and thanks for watching 👍 May I ask you for another song you would recommend from your group?

@ we’re a baby band so we only have 3 atm, but hollybaby is a more pop-punk song of ours if you like that style! ghost is our darker song if youre not into pop. we’ve been experimenting a lot in the studio recently so im psyched for people to see us evolve! thank you again:)

@@maryjbugbee nice, I guess I'll go for Ghost then 😜🤘 Good luck to you girls 👍 I'll keep an eye on unpolished.

@@MattConnell-oq4je My pleasure 👍 Thanks for the recommendation! Not sure if I am familiar with Rai? I only know Rei from ReiRie, Ladybaby ect

@react-o-mat check out Guita-Rei and the song Heaven

@@MaartenT I see the RQ comparison as well. Not super excited about this as well, but these harmonies they throw in really bring it up for me! It's hard to judge their attitude from just this video, but I percieved it as not being super serious and more a bit of a punk-parody (the MV)

I agree with most of that. If their guitarist can play that solo as well as this live, then that's something to distinguish them from The Warning (not from RQ, but being from the west does that).

There will be a couple of interesting reactions for you soon ;)

@@react-o-mat Uh, i'm looking forward to it😁✌

I'd rather have too many small acts like this, than none like I have here where I live lol -.- But yeah it kind of is that typical alt-idol sound. I guess I just really like that ;) (also I'm not hugely familiar with Scooter, but it's unavoidable growing up in germany xD)

@@react-o-mat A lot of people clearly do, which is probably why so many exist. I generally am not a fan, but I can appreciate what they are trying to do and there is no question groups like Babymetal paved the way for this genre to exist maybe together with something like BiS/BiSH, but there might be others I am way out of my dept in these styles. Hopefully you will enjoy the album, I am still undecided if I want to go through the whole journey or not, but I might. This track didn't make me cringe at least, which is not something I can always say about this genre and I agree that the harsh vocals were pretty well done.

@@MaartenT Well they show her in the video playing guitar and I remember seeing a live where she was playing too, so I will say she really does play. The last album wasn't really a rock album as well though. Progressive Pop describes their style pretty well I guess 😉 Also I have to wholeheartetly (is that a word?) disagree about 'The Other One'. Might be my favourite album off all times. Yes I am totally biased towards Babymetal, but still 😋 I know what you mean by the guitar sound though, sounds kind of artificial because it's probably loaded with effects and combined with synth layers.

@@react-o-mat Oh, I have no doubt that she can play, it's more that I don't think it sounds very much like guitar probably because of all the synth layers. But I have ordered the special editions of this album and the first one you reacted to, which both come with a live Blu-ray or DVD so we will see. It might be one of those where I listen to them once or twice and that's it, but you never know. While I typically am not a huge fan of very poppy stuff, I have listened to the Zutomayo and Yuroshika albums plenty of times, so you never know (that said, I own a couple of othr J-Pop albums that I never touched after the first or second listen, like the Tuyu and Miyuna album I own). As far as the Babymetal album goes, I told myself to check out all of the songs since they were releasing videos for them and I did for a couple of the first ones until I didn't any more. I enjoyed the first take stuff they did though even though it sounded "enhanced" at points. I mostly knew their sound from the reactions to live stuff I had seen and I was surprised how extremely produced the album sounded even compared to the pretty post-processed Blu-rays, but that might be the case for the old ones as well but I wish the Kami band recorded on the albums as well. Some of the tracks reminded me more of drum & bass than anything else and while I actually really like drum & bass, I was somewhat dissapointed with how "fake" the instruments sounded in general. But that has probably to do with expectations and taste and I am absolutely not saying it's "bad" since I only heard a couple of the tracks anyway and I don't believe in "bad" art. I believe most Babymetal fans really liked the album, so that's always a good thing. I still have some of their newer Blu-rays in a wishlist somewhere with the idea of maybe taking a plunge on them, but I already own their "Live At Budokan -Red Night & Black Night Apocalypse-" and "Live -Legend 1999&1997 Apocalypse-" which I still haven't watched completely so it's probably not a good idea. Who knows in the future, I got these 2 Cö Su Ni albums even though I wasn't blown away with the previous album you reacted to and this tracks, so there is that.