BAND-MAID and The Warning unite for empowering single ‘SHOW THEM’

BAND-MAID have teamed up with Mexican female rock band The Warning for their latest single ‘SHOW THEM’. The track comes from BAND-MAID’s upcoming album ‘Epic Narratives’, due for release on September 25th.

‘SHOW THEM’ is a hard rock track with strong vocals from both SAIKI and Daniela, and the lyrics are full of “girl power” and motivation. Lines like “If you don’t try, you’ll never know” and “show the world you can always shine brighter” solidify this feeling, and help the track become an anthem for girls and women everywhere. The track is punctuated with the members of both bands not battling, but rather working together, with bassists MISA and Alejandra getting a mini bass duet, then guitarists KANAMI and Daniela having a brief guitar exchange, and lastly followed by drummers AKANE and Paulina having a short drum solo.

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The video shows both bands performing, with SAIKI and Daniela singing to each other as if to hype the other up. Although it’s not an elaborate story-led music video, the storytelling is in the bands’ performance; we’re led to think this is a battle of the bands situation, when in reality it’s two very talented all-female bands lifting each other up.

The two bands first met at Aftershock Festival in California back in 2022. The Warning vocalist and guitarist Daniela said in an interview with billboard she had been looking forward to meeting BAND-MAID, and their meeting led to this collaboration. In the same interview BAND-MAID guitarist KANAMI said:

“Since this was a collaboration between two all-women bands, we first discussed making the song about rising to the top together by depicting a strong female figure who can fight in the world.”

BAND-MAID’s next album ‘Epic Narratives’ arrives on September 25th. Notably, it will receive 3 different versions, all available to pre-order now from CDJapan.

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