Key Takeaway: BABYMETAL is a Japanese kawaii metal band that fuses J-pop melodies with heavy metal, created in 2010 as a sub-unit of idol group Sakura Gakuin. Currently consisting of SU-METAL and ...

Even sitting politely in a recording studio in the basement of a swank West Hollywood hotel, the trio of teens who front Babymetal are a sensory overload, decked in coordinating black-and-red ...

Sprinkling a sugary coating of teen-idol pop on to the remorseless clamour of death metal sounds like a musical fusion best confined to the imagination of a record industry executive. But Babymetal, a ...

When BABYMETAL first emerged onto the western heavy music scene some eight years ago, it was hard to know what to think. Was this ‘Kawaii metal’ cultural crossover a serious experiment in east-west ...

“Restrained” isn’t a word you can often apply to Babymetal. But with them finally ascending up to London’s 20,000 capacity O2 Arena – making them the first not only to headline the venue, but to sell ...

In the bright and bustling world of Japanese pop culture, idol bands are major. They are music groups consisting of idols — or young stars manufactured by corporations for the sole purpose of ...

Inari Ōkami is the traditional Japanese deity of foxes. According to legend, they descended from Heaven astride a white fox during a time of great famine, sparking the growth of new crops in the ...

The “baby-faced” and kawaii Japanese trio of Babymetal are blazing their debut on American television. The Japanese pop-metal band is set to launch its live-action anime series overloaded with ...