 BABYMETAL at London SSE Arena Wembley (Credit: Taku Fujii) Metal dance phenomenon Babymetal have announced the release of a new 13 track live album on December 9th via earMUSIC / Edel. With a carefully selected track-listing, the CD captures the spectacular performance recorded at Babymetal’s first ever UK Arena show, “Babymetal World Tour 2016 kicks off at The SSE Arena, Wembley”, which took place in London on April 2nd. The show saw Babymetal become the first Japanese artist in history to perform a headline show at The SSE Arena, Wembley. This headline show garnered an attendance of 12,000 people, where Babymetal also broke the merchandise sales record of the venue, creating history once again. A digital version will be released December 30th. Babymetal’s second album “Metal Resistance” was released simultaneously worldwide on April 1, 2016 and ranked in at No.15 on the UK Official Album Chart, which is the highest rank acquired by a Japanese artist to date. The album also charted at No.39 on the US Billboard chart making Babymetal the first Japanese artist in 53 years to have made the charts and second in the history of Japanese artists.
The release coincides with their UK tour as special guests to RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS. Catch them at the following shows: Monday 5 December London The O2 Tuesday 6 December London The O2 Thursday 8 December Glasgow The SSE Hydro Saturday 10 December Birmingham Genting Arena Sunday 11 December Birmingham Genting Arena Wednesday 14 December Manchester Arena Thursday 15 December Manchester Arena Sunday 18 December London The O2 www.en.babymetal.jp/home www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp www.ear-music.net www.facebook.com/earMUSICofficial www.youtube.com/earMUSICofficial
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 The summer's most anticipated metal mash up performance - featuring pop metal icons Babymetal and Judas Priest's legendary vocalist Rob Halford - took place last night at the third annual Journey's Alternative Press Music Awards, Fueled by Monster Energy. The performance, which featured Babymetal's Su-Metal and Halford's duelling vocals on Judas Priest classics "Painkiller" and "Breaking The Law", saw the meeting of the "Fox God" and the "Metal God". Check out the exclusive stream of last night's official footage via RollingStone.com now, where you can also check out exclusive quotes from Babymetal and Rob Halford. Watch here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-rob-halford-cover-judas-priest-with-babymetal-w429794 This year, the Journeys Alternative Press Music Awards, Fueled by Monster Energy Drink took place in Columbus, Ohio - celebrating its third iteration with a night of special guests and electrifying music that transcended generations of music fans. The third annual APMAs took place last night (July 18, 2016) at the Schottenstein Center, located on the campus of Ohio State University. As in both years past, #APMAS trended worldwide on Twitter and Facebook. Fans may view encore presentations of the show via Amazon for a limited window of 48 hours post-event. Go to www.amazon.com/apmas to watch the entire show before 7pm ET, July 20. For recaps and other show information, visit www.altpress.com/apmas.  Babymetal, slated to perform their first ever Tokyo Dome concert on Monday September 19th, have announced that they will be adding another performance the next day on the 20th, to perform 2 days at Tokyo Dome. The two day event will be known as “Babymetal World Tour 2016 Legend - Metal Resistance - Red Night & Black Night”. The attendance over the two days is likely to be 110,000 people, marking the largest number in the history of Babymetal’s head line shows. Babymetal is now touring in Europe on their third World Tour “Babymetal World Tour 2016”, including an appearance on the main stage at Download festival on Friday 10th June. Their new album “Metal Resistance”, released simultaneously worldwide on April 1, 2016, ranked No.15 on the UK official chart, the highest rank in the history of Japanese artists, as well as charting in the Top 40s on the US Billboard chart, being the first Japanese artist in 53 years to have made the charts since Kyu Sakamoto. Since the announcement of the their concert at Tokyo Dome marking the end of their third World Tour, pre sales took off with overwhelming response from fans, hence the decision to add a second date. Marking the end of their third World Tour, Tokyo Dome 2 days headline show serves as a sequel to the 2 days show at the Nippon Budokan "Red Night & Black Night” in 2014. Tickets for the additional performance will be available for pre sale starting August 27th.  ■ Show Information
■ Official Web Sites Japanese http://www.babymetal.jp/ English http://www.babymetal.com  the GazettE, one of Japan’s leading heavy rock bands, will release three track maxi-single 'Undying' via JPU Records on 27 April 2016, the same day as they perform in Canada as part of their world tour. 'Undying' is the 6th movement of 'Project:Dark Age', an artistic venture involving 18 creative professionals spanning Japan’s fashion, design, photography, sound, film and stage industries, with the GazettE’s five members at its centre. 'Dogma', the GazettE’s latest album, was the first movement, and the current world tour makes up movements 7, 8 and 9. ''Undying' is mastered exclusively for iTunes and features crystal clear 24-bit audio. A video preview of all three tracks from the single have been made available from the band’s official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XCBA9GzXtA Since 2002, the GazettE has risen to become one of Japan’s most successful rock bands. They’ve refined and redefined the boundaries of rock music, achieving continual chart success despite their often heavy, ominous sound. In the last decade, the GazettE have earned top-ten chart success with all 20 of their major label albums and singles. Their music has taken them all over Japan on massive, sold-out tours and seen them perform at some of the country’s most prestigious venues. Highlights include sold-out “one man lives” (a Japanese term for shows with a single band on the line-up) at the mighty Nippon Budokan, Saitama Super Arena and Japan’s 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome – not to mention packed-out tours across the globe. The band even managed to bring Shinjuku Station – the world’s busiest transport hub – to a halt when a guerrilla gig got out of hand and tens of thousands of fans arrived within minutes of the news breaking on social media. the GazettE emerged from the depths of “Visual Kei”, a Japanese cultural music and fashion phenomenon. Originally part of its underground scene, performing at tiny venues and self-releasing CDs, they now fill stadiums and have become known as one of the most significant names of the genre, effortlessly rewriting its rulebook with every release.  'Undying' Tracklist 01. UNDYING 02. MALUM 03. VACANT See the GazettE live
USA / Canada: 25 April – Bomb Factory – Dallas 27 April – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto 29 April – Playstation Theatre – New York 1 May – Regency Ballroom – San Francisco 3 May – Wilterm Theatre – Los Angeles 5 May – Vogue Theatre – Vancouver Europe: 3 June – Le Zenith – Paris 5 June – E-Werk – Cologne 8 June – Tonhalle – Munich 10 June – The Circus – Helsinki 12 June – Izvestia Hall – Moscow http://the-gazette.com/ https://www.facebook.com/the-GazettE-Official-255684944526717/  Global phenomenon Babymetal’s new album ‘Metal Resistance’ has crashed into the official UK album charts #15 and Germany at #36 – the highest entry for any Japanese band ever in the UK and Germany. This news comes days after Babymetal became the 1st Japanese artist to headline the prestigious Wembley SSE Arena in London on April 2nd. Here fans were treated to the band’s biggest headline show outside of Japan, complete with a huge production, the likes of which had only ever been seen previously in their home country. Su-metal the lead singer of Babymetal commented : ”Some of you may know that we always say that the UK is our second home and it’s such an honour to know we are 15 and the highest charting Japanese artist ever in the UK Official Album Chart! With the success of our first arena show outside of Japan at London’s Wembley SSE Arena, I feel we were able to become one with all of our fans to realize our mission that revolves around ‘THE ONE.” I wish to create more legendary achievements with all of our fans here in UK and Europe and we would like to thank everybody for their support in making Babymetal to where we are today, We wouldn’t have been able to do this without all of you.”. Read The Guardian’s Five Star Review of Wembley: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/03/babymetal-review-j-pop-teen-metallers-wembley As well as the capacity crowd at the legendary historic London venue, a live stream of the show was broadcast to screens in 7 venues in 5 cities across Japan. Despite the local time being 4:30 AM on Sunday morning, approximately 12,000 Japanese fans turned out to the special screenings, which sold out within an hour of going on sale. Saturday also saw Babymetal break another record; they can now boast the claim of having the highest merch takings for any one day for any production at Wembley Arena in the history of the venue, which has hosted some of the biggest names is music. General manager of the venue, John Drury, confirmed: “The Babymetal show broke our all-time sales record at The SSE Arena, Wembley” New Album "METAL RESISTANCE"
www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp  Credit: Taku Fujii Dance Metal phenomenon Babymetal’s new album ‘Metal Resistance’ has crashed into the official UK album charts with a midweek position of #7 – the HIGHEST entry for any Japanese band ever in the UK. The news comes less than 48 hours after Babymetal made history by becoming the first Japanese band to ever headline the prestigious SSE Wembley Arena, this past Saturday April 2nd. UK fans were treated to the band’s biggest headline show outside of Japan, complete with a huge production the likes of which had only ever previously been seen in their home country. READ: The Guardian’s Five Star Review of Wembley: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/03/babymetal-review-j-pop-teen-metallers-wembley As well as the capacity crowd at the legendary historic London venue, a live stream of the show was broadcast to screens in 7 venues in 5 cities across Japan. Despite the local time being 4:30 AM on Sunday morning, approximately 12,000 Japanese fans turned out to the special screenings, which sold out within an hour of going on sale. ‘With our Wembley show we managed to unite UK and Japan and we all became one together . It was an awesome feeling. The Fox God led us to the start of our 2016 World Tour and on to the path that Babymetal must take from here” - Su-Metal Saturday also saw Babymetal break another record; they can now boast the claim of having the highest merch takings for any one day for any production at Wembley Arena in the history of the venue, which has hosted some of the biggest names is music. General manager of the venue, John Drury, confirmed: “The Babymetal show broke our all-time sales record at The SSE Arena, Wembley”  New Album "METAL RESISTANCE"
Released last Friday April 1st – or FOX DAY – ‘METAL RESISTANCE’ today sees its release on both Ltd Edition Box set and Vinyl formats. The Box Set is available here Vinyl available here www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp http://www.babymetal.com  Japanese phenomenon Babymetal have posted a new song from forthcoming album ‘Metal Resistance’, released this Friday April 1st aka Fox Day via EarMUSIC/Edel. ‘The One' is an epic power ballad, clocking in at over seven minutes. The accompanying video serves as the perfect teaser to this Saturday’s headline show at Wembley Arena – the first by any Japanese band at this legendary venue – showcasing the scale and enormity of a Babymetal live show. Check out the video below:- ‘Metal Resistance’ will be released in three different formats, with a CD, 2LP and special limited edition box set with exclusive T-shirt available. The track-listing for each format is as follows: CD & Limited Boxset incl. CD + exclusive T-shirt: 1. Road Of Resistance 2. KARATE 3. Awadama Fever 4. YAVA! 5. Amore 6. Meta Taro 7. From Dusk Till Dawn 8. GJ! 9. Sis. Anger 10. No Rain, No Rainbow 11. Tales Of The Destinies 12. THE ONE - English ver. - 2LP : Side 1 1. Road Of Resistance 2. KARATE 3. Awadama Fever Side 2 1. YAVA! 2. Amore 3. Meta Taro Side 3 1. From Dusk Till Dawn 2. GJ! 3. Sis. Anger Side 4 1. No Rain, No Rainbow 2. Tales Of The Destinies 3. THE ONE - English ver. – Tickets for the Wembley show are available at www.myticket.co.uk and www.seetickets.com Pre-order bundles of the new album, featuring special, exclusive merchandise, are available here: http://www.mflstores.com/mfl/babymetal.html iTunes Preorder is here and features ‘KARATE’ as an instant grat track: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/metal-resistance/id1087055715 www.en.babymetal.jp/home www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp www.ear-music.net  Babymetal’s latest single ‘Karate’ - which was last month premiered on Radio One’s Annie Mac show before being made available as an iTunes Instant Grat track – now has an accompanying video, the first to be released from the band’s forthcoming ‘Metal Resistance’ album, released via EarMusic on April 1st aka Fox Day. Check it out below. Named after the ancient Japanese Martial Art, ‘Karate’ is themed on fighting on in the face of adversity and difficult situations, pushing on through hard times and never giving up no matter how hard it might seem. The accompanying video encapsulates this perfectly, with Su-Metal, Yuimetal and Moametal facing off against some mysterious masked and robed foes, who show them that the only people who could ever stop them are the girls themselves. Babymetal will kick off the “Babymetal World Tour 2016” with a headline show at the world-famous Wembley Arena, UK on Saturday, April 2nd, making history by becoming the first Japanese artist to headline the legendary venue. Their World Tour will come to an end back in Japan at the legendary Tokyo Dome ‘Metal Resistance’ will be released in three different formats, with a CD, 2LP and special limited edition box set with exclusive T-shirt available. The tracklisting for each format is as follows:  CD & Limited Boxset incl. CD + exclusive T-shirt: 1. Road Of Resistance 2. KARATE 3. Awadama Fever 4. YAVA! 5. Amore 6. Meta Taro 7. From Dusk Till Dawn 8. GJ! 9. Sis. Anger 10. No Rain, No Rainbow 11. Tales Of The Destinies 12. THE ONE - English ver. - 2LP : Side 1 1. Road Of Resistance 2. KARATE 3. Awadama Fever Side 2 1. YAVA! 2. Amore 3. Meta Taro Side 3 1. From Dusk Till Dawn 2. GJ! 3. Sis. Anger Side 4 1. No Rain, No Rainbow 2. Tales Of The Destinies 3. THE ONE - English ver. – Tickets for the Wembley show are available at www.myticket.co.uk and www.seetickets.com Pre-order bundles of the new album, featuring special, exclusive merchandise, are available here: http://www.mflstores.com/mfl/babymetal.html iTunes Preorder is here and features ‘KARATE’ as an instant grat track: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/metal-resistance/id1087055715 www.en.babymetal.jp/home www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp  Babymetal have revealed the cover artwork of forthcoming new album ‘Metal Resistance’. Set for release via earMUSIC on April 1st – also known as Fox Day – the band’s second album comes just one day ahead of their biggest ever show outside of Japan at London’s Wembley Arena on 2nd April. The album will be released in three different formats, with a CD, 2LP and special limited edition box set with exclusive T-shirt available. The tracklisting for each format is as follows: CD & Limited Boxset incl. CD + exclusive T-shirt: 1. Road Of Resistance 2. KARATE 3. Awadama Fever 4. YAVA! 5. Amore 6. Meta Taro 7. From Dusk Till Dawn 8. GJ! 9. Sis. Anger 10. No Rain, No Rainbow 11. Tales Of The Destinies 12. THE ONE - English ver. - 2LP: Side 1 1. Road Of Resistance 2. KARATE 3. Awadama Fever Side 2 1. YAVA! 2. Amore 3. Meta Taro Side 3 1. From Dusk Till Dawn 2. GJ! 3. Sis. Anger Side 4 1. No Rain, No Rainbow 2. Tales Of The Destinies 3. THE ONE - English ver. –  The first single from the album, ‘Karate, will be available as an instant grat from 25th February. On the new album, band mastermind Kobametal stated: “As prophesied by the Fox God, a new album will be released on April 1st, 2016, also known as the Fox Day. Since the release of Babymetal’s debut album in 2014, we have been racing across the globe non-stop on our World Tour. Through the last tour I have come across people from all over the world and have had the chance to feel that miraculous moment when everyone came together via Babymetal. Our new song "The One” contains lyrics that speak of uniting the world, or a crowd favorite at concerts “Road of Resistance” that never fails to bring our fans together, every Babymetal song makes up this extraordinary story. I continue to believe that the songs of Babymetal continue to push them forward to discover new possibilities. All I can say right now is for all of you to wait patiently for the coming of the Fox Day.” Tickets for the Wembley show are available at www.myticket.co.uk and www.seetickets.com www.en.babymetal.jp/home www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp www.ear-music.net www.facebook.com/earMUSICofficial  'Justice' is served - now also for European fans of Matenrou Opera, because Gan-Shin Records is going to release the latest album 'Justice' all over Europe on July 6th. This is great news for every Visual-Kei fan, especially because of the fact that the Japanese band gained already a lot of attention by former releases and tours.
Founded in 2007 by vocalist Sono, Matenrou Opera, almost emerged like the phoenix from the ashes, selling out their first live show ever along with their first single. Already in 2008 the band played their first European tour along with the mighty Versailles, fascinating their western audience with incredible musical capabilities and proving that Matenrou Opera is the biggest name in the up and rising groups of Visual kei. Following their trial of success, the band decided to sign with a major record label in 2009 and shared stages with the GazettE, D'espairsRay and even Marilyn Manson from that date! Matenrou Opera dark outfits accentuate the gloomy atmosphere, delivered by their heavy but melodic Rock sound. Along with vocalist Sono who is able to master even the highest pitch, Matenrou Opera are truly a class of their own! http://www.gan-shin.de/ |
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