THIS IS HEAVY! First Reaction - BandMaid - Shambles!

[@DaneBramageROCKS]

Whooooo!! Dude awesome. This was a heavy one eh! What a great jam. To me, this shows Akane at her best, this was my favorite from her....so far 😉 Keepin' it Cheezy! 🤘🏻Thanks so much for the shout out.

[@Cheezyxyz]

100% agree. She killed it! All of them did 🤘

[@goyabv]

Nice! You should listen to their song "Hate?" that they performed during their set at Lollapalooza

[@paulpetersen879]

Love these girls. When they put on their metal hats, they can rip

[@billholder1330]

Never heard of them before. Thanks. Very impressive!

[@surfingasongwave]

Oh man, you have some catching up to do! Have fun!

[@hiawatha.g]

They always mix it up. They seem so comfortable playing with pop, punk, thrash, and even funk, and mixing it all up in a completely new way.

[@davidmejia7908]

That's one of the Band Maid hallmarks, that pop vocal treatment among all the rock/metal/heavy/fusion elements from the guitars and drums. Makes them unique in their ability to seamlessly integrate all of that into a banger of a song.

[@glenkelley6799]

Akane has more rolls than a bakery. They are on fire.

[@GaryHolloway-810]

Haha. Oh so that's why she's too hot to handle :)

[@RobinC63]

Great comment! 👍👍🤟🤟

[@GaryHolloway-810]

Bassist MISA is the Barefoot Assassin but it's drummer Akane who delivers the lethal kicks on "Shambles" :)

[@Cheezyxyz]

Akane is kicking gunfire on this one!

[@DaneBramageROCKS]

100% agreed here! 🤘🏻

[@jkkansasband7056]

As I believe I've heard this song was done a year ago. Can you imagine what their next album will sound like? Unseen World on steroids! Onward and Upward for BAND-MAID. 😎

[@GaryHolloway-810]

@@Cheezyxyz Trigger happy she is :)

[@GaryHolloway-810]

@rogerchance9074 Roger you drink a lot of beers....i like your style. Kanpai 😁🍻

[@realdocloco]

Saiki knew exactly what she was doing with that last breath 😄

[@eberhardjurgalski4554]

It was the "Sigh-Key" 🙂

[@GaryHolloway-810]

Well it sure did it for me Doc :)

[@evilducks3710]

She nails it live too

[@glenkelley6799]

She's just sucking the souls out from all the listeners

[@paulpetersen879]

The Maids have been dropping a few live concert videos from their 10th anniversary concert. Killer stuff.

[@TomClark-Futoura]

The Maids SOLD OUT 2023 US & Mexico tour just wrapped up and was a fantastic success. You made new friends, fans and smiles. And so many great live fancams to watch! Their playing and antics were as fresh and fun to experience from first show to last. BRAVO Band-Maid!!!!! In addition, their Japan tour is starting back up with 13 concerts, AND they’re writing and recording for their new album. Their 10th Anniversary Tour concludes at Japan’s 17,000 seat Yokohama Arena on Nov. 26, 2023! The Maids are one of the hardest working super groups in the business! Their music, their sound, each of the Maids, and the love that permeates their live events is an experience not to be missed. Hope you can catch them LIVE! SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2024!! 🤘🎀🤘Thx, Cheez!

[@Cheezyxyz]

Thanks for the info!

[@ロベルさん菜園]

Well said, Tom (as usual!)!

[@TomClark-Futoura]

🙏@@ロベルさん菜園

[@Raiden-R]

🔥Akane's drum blew fire.🔥🥁🥁🥁🦍🦍🦍 FIRE❗️female gorilla！❤😂

[@RandomDude3047]

Awesome reaction Cheezy! 🤘😎🧀 Band-Maid never misses, they consistently deliver top notch music 🔥 I hope to see them one day, I freakin missed their Pointfest (St. Louis, MO) show 😥 but one day I'll see them live 🙏

[@phaeron]

Welcome to 'The Great Thunder Buddies Show' presented by Akane Freakin' Hirose and Misa! ⚡As always, with the special guest stars Kanami, Miku and last but not least Saiki. :) I wouldn't be surprised if Akane's drumsticks were the kindling for the fire at the end. 🤭🔥 ___________________ 「 "Our rock never dies ever. Forever!" 」 - from BAND-MAID - 'Manners' 🎶🕊

[@Cheezyxyz]

Well said!

[@lurkmerchant]

Saiki did something she hadn't done before at 4:21 ~. No one mentioned it but amazing vocal control and she mailed it live at both sacramento and Anaheim.

[@j.snyder4957]

THanks for pointing that out - never heard that before how she decends out of that verse is ... just ... sexy

[@rikimarudonchelie1229]

This song was written by them for the NETFLIX anime KENGAN ASHURA season 2 which is due next month which is more like a full contact martial art genre, this the closing & ending song of the anime. Probably their second anime song they are credited after they did for opening song of the anime PLATINUM END. Kinda explains the very aggressive and fast paced nature & theme of the song, as Miku said in an interview in Lollapalooza - its for an anime.

[@SamuelR007]

3rd anime song, 4th if you include Cluppo. They did a song for the anime Log Horizon as well. The Cluppo song With You was also made for an anime.

[@omdtdz]

Different was the song for Log Horizon, season 2 I believe. @@SamuelR007

[@metalmark1214]

This is on the heavier side for them. For me it was the drums and bass that stood out the most. Misa always great on bass, but I especially loved the drum work.

[@Cheezyxyz]

100% drum and bass is top notch!

[@sean1728]

Saw the Maids live in Portland for the first time just over a week ago. They absolutely killed it, to the point that I never wanted the show to end. Absolutely unforgettable. 🇯🇵❤️🤘🔥🍻

[@lurkmerchant]

They change their setlist for every show just a little or adding longer/different intro or extend middle section. If you have enough money, you'll end up following them throughout their tours. It's hard to draw a line - but one thing is for sure. Once isn't enough.

[@sean1728]

@@lurkmerchant lacking in the 💰, but if they came back here as soon as tomorrow, I’d likely lay in a bathtub full of ice and carve out a kidney to sell tonight. Anybody wanna sponsor me to follow them on their next US tour? 🤣🍻

[@paulpetersen879]

I like how the chorus brings all of the chaos back to center. Everything comes under control for a few bars then the chaos begins again.

[@douglasbrown1345]

Let’s keep in mind this was written for an anime.

[@_JimS]

That's Band-Maid....blow your face off with hard rock then give you a break with a poppy chorus. Name me a Band-Maid chorus that isn't poppy, That's Band-Maid....plain and simple. But guaranteed that "poppy" chorus is stuck in your head for days.......mission accomplished!

[@Cheezyxyz]

🤘🧀😎

[@Omegastrep]

I don't think the chorus in "Black Hole" is very poppy, and if someone disagrees with me, I'll defend myself by saying I was distracted by the sheer insanity of everything else happening in that song.

[@lurkmerchant]

Not as poppy as beatles😁

[@_JimS]

@@Omegastrep I agree, that's one......

[@ロベルさん菜園]

Mate! Greetings an another blistering day in Shizuoka! I can't wait for tomorrow when I will take some tourists into the mountains to discover wasabi and green tea hopefully under some rain! It has been some time since I enjoyed your reactions! Superb as usual, mate and big kudos! Now, hey will have a "small break" until the next Japanese tour and you can expect a full album being delivered before then! Plenty of work for you, especially now that they are engaging into a more aggressive mood! Looking forward to your next reactions! Until then best regards, Robert-Gilles

[@kent-oveprestberg3578]

Shugga shugga boom! boom! 💥💥

[@GaryHolloway-810]

Me like your avatar Kent. Where did you get that photo?

[@Random-221]

I think you meant that the chorus is too “catchy”😂. At no point in the chorus did the drums, guitars OR bass let up… Relentless

[@VegetaRabbit]

🦍🥁!

[@doraemonnobita2730]

The song was created as the ending theme for an anime show that airs weekly on major network television broadcasts. In such cases, theme songs are produced under the strong control of the advertising agency. BAND-MAID does not have the authority to give OK to theme melodies and lyrics. TV show sponsors have final authority. Within such constraints, I think the extremely hard work of creating great music without losing the spirit of the band would not be possible without Kanami's genius. In the case of a band with top-class sales in Japan, the anime program producer may plan the promotional effect of the anime program and ask the band to create a theme song. . In that case, the production of the song will be led by the band, and the band will have the final decision. For BAND-MAID, whose number of youtube views in Japan is about 1/100 of the number of popular domestic bands, such a form cannot be expected. However, being in charge of the theme song for a new anime program has a tremendous publicity effect. For BAND-MAID, who have to compete with artists belonging to the same label in a fierce "sales" competition, producing theme songs for anime programs is a very desirable job. BAND-MAID, which is not well-known in Japan, has to compete with the rookie groups that copy the K-POP that the company is trying to sell. With BAND-MAID at a disadvantage in that competition, the company stopped releasing the wonderful performance of the "2021 BAND-MAID Christmas Acoustic Concert" and instead released another silly and meaningless "piece". Companies will make such choices. I am deeply moved by the spirit of BAND-MAID, who produce such wonderful works even in such a delicate position. That's what happened until now! ! ! ! By any chance, the anime producers who were planning to spread this new anime program overseas noticed the popularity of BAND-MAID overseas and adopted BAND-MAID as the ending theme. And it's also possible that BAND-MAID made this ending theme quite freely. If that happens, this will be a victory won by BAND-MAID.

[@Cheezyxyz]

Thanks for the info!

[@aaronleesgbclieutenant]

🤘😎🤘🧀

[@lurkmerchant]

Band-Maid offers something for everybody, except for people who are allergic to "poppy" chorus 😂 Oh well, too bad it's part of their signature sound but if you don't like poppy chorus, you can add their instrumentals to your playlist, they definitely will satisfy your eclectic taste in music lol BTW I'm not talking about you cheezy! 😊

[@Cheezyxyz]

I'm here for it! Hahaha

[@denisle13]

Less talk, more intro!

[@dude7816]

Have you heard of Babymetal, or Ladybaby? Ladybaby is weird when they first came out.

[@JayDavisAtHome]

How disappointing this was your last Band Maid song. You've done about 20 and there's about 100 more. 😢 And what's really disappointing is that you still don't know their names??? The one time I heard you refer to one of them you mistook Kanami for Akane. Their names are in the comments of every single reaction you've done to them.