Metal Singer Reacts | Maximum the Hormone – Maximum the Hormone (Small Kimi no Te) REACTION

So the small poppy clip at the beginning was part of a song they released as a joke for their fans. The drummer had a baby so they took off for about a year. When they came back they told their fans that since Nao was a mom now they couldn’t be heavy anymore and were changing their style. They released only the poppy song for about a week before finally releasing the full song.

Another fun fact, the drummer is the older sister of the guitarist Ryu 🤘😊🤘

MTH is a band that influenced many young bands in Japan.
It’s hard to find on YT due to label copyright protection, but their live shows are awesome.

Welcome to the masters of transitions and genre mixing! I highly recommend checking out Yoshu Fukushu, Maximum the Hormone II -Let’s Talk about Menkata Cottelee, and Buiikikaesu. Expect the unexpected and enjoy the ride! 🤘

Chiisana Kimi nonTe (Your Little Hand) is actually great pop song in a style familiar to fans of J-Rock. You heard only the last few seconds of it here; I recommend you seek out a complete version. They all sing, and Nao-san has a featured vocal. The song you actually heard is called Maximum the Hormone (yes, the as the name of the band). You might have noticed the dancers were pregnant, tying into the motherhood theme of Chiisana Kimi no Te. Ramen is featured prominently in several of their videos, in part because MTH endorse Nissin Cup Ramen and provide the music for some Cup Ramen TV commercials.

MtH was co-founded by drummer Nao Kawakita. She’s a wild and crazy lady with a pop-rock singing voice, but a powerful heavy drumming style. She’s got a great sense of humour, too.

There is actually a different version of this video with a pretty much full version of that cheesy pop-song in the beginning. Yes, they actually recorded that! As far as I know it was as a prank after drummer Nao had her baby and they were coming back like “yea, it got us thinking and we changed our style a bit” and you get a full on cheesy mainstream j-pop song for like 2-3 minutes until the video changes in what is the beginning of this video. They like to do shit like that. And I love them for it! Such an amazing band!

Anytime a song gives me long runs of bass and tom action I’m a happy boy haha

Also this is one of their more lets say traditionally structured songs.

Brother I love your reactions, this is exactly how I felt the first time I saw them also!! “A・L・I・E・N” should be next!

Apparently i’m on a MtH react binge after listening to Death Note’s ost, really glad such an amazing show got the band for it’s opening songs.

Apparently not the worst choice to listen to MtH for the first time. Gaz, you seem to have a superb taste:-))) I’ve got to be honest: I’d say all of their stuff is as crazy as this one tune here; MtH always bursts of creativity, it’s insane. And definitely all their songs are massive fun, and they usually have a special twist in their lyrics and plots … but I can’t decipher the hidden message(s) of this song here, by no stretch of my imagination, sorry. Hopefully some other folks can do better …
BTW, I checked out two videos of yours respectively This Dying Hour, “Cornered” and “Fire and Тhe Blind”, and I enjoyed what I heard. Great musicianship and skills of all band members, lyrics with a deep meaning (as far as I understood them with my poor english capabilities)! Your vocals are on spot, in a convincing mixture of harsh and clean tone, the visuals and the show are reduced to the essence, centered on the music, never overblown (thats what I like particularly in the case of many japanese bands, too). Kudos!

Maximum The Hormone are one of those bands that you can’t put a label to, yes they are mainly heavy metal. The thing is Japan is not like the west when it come to labeling music, the the west you have metal the sub categories and then sub categories of that then a bit more sub categories. In Japan it’s more like a sliding scale of rock and metal, where some bands don’t really move around the scale, some do a bit, some do a lot, like Babymetal, SiM, Aldiuos plus others. Then you have Maximum The Hormone that just go any where on that scale, even within the same song at times. And personally I think that is why Japanese music is taking off, it allows the artists to be more free on what they want to do, they are not confined to a sub category, something which I blame on the music industry, whereas in Japan they have, more or less, been left alone by the music industry.

If you want a song where you see how the crowd is at their concerts, try this one. The video is a comp of some of their live concerts with the MV in the top corner, so you can see why the crowd are doing what they are doing. Also the rough translation of the song is cow sperm, (spoiler) may help at the end. And the pics are of them when they were young. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUeRiPyjFH4

So the small poppy clip at the beginning was part of a song they released as a joke for their fans. The drummer had a baby so they took off for about a year. When they came back they told their fans that since Nao was a mom now they couldn’t be heavy anymore and were changing their style. They released only the poppy song for about a week before finally releasing the full song.

Another fun fact, the drummer is the older sister of the guitarist Ryu 🤘😊🤘

その反応が日本人として嬉しいっす！

Yes yes yes!
If you want to see an MTH mosh pit in their video, I recommend their song Hungry Pride. And I know a thousand people are going to mention this, but The drummer Nao is the inspiring drummer for so many drummers in Japan such as Akane Hirose, and Tamu Murata, to name a couple.

This band just kills it. Love how their songs are never predictable but always awesome. THank you for reacting to this video.

MTH
I’ve seen all their videos and listened to all their songs, I still got no clue what I’m listening to,
And that’s great 😃 thanks 🙏

No words to describe this one eh? Can’t wait til you get to “A・L・I・E・N” 😉

I love when metal-people discover this band

Chiisana Kimi nonTe (Your Little Hand) is actually great pop song in a style familiar to fans of J-Rock. You heard only the last few seconds of it here; I recommend you seek out a complete version. They all sing, and Nao-san has a featured vocal. The song you actually heard is called Maximum the Hormone (yes, the as the name of the band). You might have noticed the dancers were pregnant, tying into the motherhood theme of Chiisana Kimi no Te. Ramen is featured prominently in several of their videos, in part because MTH endorse Nissin Cup Ramen and provide the music for some Cup Ramen TV commercials.

Maximum The Hormone are one of those bands that you can’t put a label to, yes they are mainly heavy metal. The thing is Japan is not like the west when it come to labeling music, the the west you have metal the sub categories and then sub categories of that then a bit more sub categories. In Japan it’s more like a sliding scale of rock and metal, where some bands don’t really move around the scale, some do a bit, some do a lot, like Babymetal, SiM, Aldiuos plus others. Then you have Maximum The Hormone that just go any where on that scale, even within the same song at times. And personally I think that is why Japanese music is taking off, it allows the artists to be more free on what they want to do, they are not confined to a sub category, something which I blame on the music industry, whereas in Japan they have, more or less, been left alone by the music industry.

If you want a song where you see how the crowd is at their concerts, try this one. The video is a comp of some of their live concerts with the MV in the top corner, so you can see why the crowd are doing what they are doing. Also the rough translation of the song is cow sperm, (spoiler) may help at the end. And the pics are of them when they were young. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUeRiPyjFH4

There something ells MTH no other band like them and have inspired a lot of the bands coming out of Japan now .Just awesome

One thing about listening to MTH for the 1st time, you willl never know where the song heading, that keep us surprise everytime for their new song.
They are like Freestyle Metal ….lol
next is MTH “Hungry Pride” 🤘😝🤘