News YUNGBLUD, The Offspring and more join Tons Of Rock 2026Next year’s Tons Of Rock is getting even bigger, with YUNGBLUD, The Offspring, A Perfect Circle, Tom Morello and BABYMETAL all set to venture to Norway in the summer.
News Limp Bizkit, Gorillaz, BABYMETAL and more join Rock for People 2026The second wave of names are here for next year’s Rock for People, with Limp Bizkit and Gorillaz joining previously-announced headliners Bring Me The Horizon and Iron Maiden.
Features “We decided, ‘Let’s put in everything we’ve got and move forward’”: How BABYMETAL overcame adversity and shot for the starsAnd then there were two. Following the departure of YUIMETAL, a question mark hung over BABYMETAL. Fox knows what was going on, but SU-METAL and MOAMETAL continued apace. As they approached their 10th anniversary and entered the METAL GALAXY, though, it was clear that whatever the Fox God’s plans were, they weren’t being put off, as the band were reborn, and gained a new member, MOMOMETAL…
Features Remembering the biggest shows of BABYMETAL’s lives: “We want to do new things that no other Japanese band has done”By 2016, the BABYMETAL prophecies were already beginning to come true. As K! joined them in Japan for a set of enormous shows at Tokyo Dome, we witnessed in real-time a giant standing up before us. After that year’s METAL RESISTANCE album made them one of the biggest bands in the universe, things looked perfect. But the golden path would eventually be beset with difficulty…
Features “There are no borders when it comes to music”: The story of BABYMETAL’s breakthroughBefore BABYMETAL took over the galaxy, they were three kids and a fox. With the release of their debut album and first tour with Lady Gaga, they began to break the shackles of the Earth, counting Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica as fans. The birth of a phenomenon? The start of an entirely new shape of things to come…
News Linkin Park, Iron Maiden, Volbeat, Bizkit and more for Rock am Ring / Rock im Park 2026The first bands for next year’s German mega-fests Rock am Ring and Rock im Park have been revealed, with plenty more still to come.
News MCR announce The Black Parade 2026 tour including new dates in Liverpool, Glasgow and LondonMy Chemical Romance have just revealed 17 new global live shows next year, continuing their phenomenal Black Parade celebrations.
Features Fantasy, foxes and flipping the script: Inside BABYMETAL’s extraordinary loreStretching from the ancient earthiness of Shintoism to the unbound futurism of science fiction, BABYMETAL’s complex, often chaotic internal lore can confound even their most fierce fans. Kneeling at the altar of the Fox God, we attempt to unpick what exactly is going on in their narrative, from flaming crucifixions and coffin-shaped spaceships, to the very heart and soul of metal itself…
Features How BABYMETAL broke boundaries and pioneered the kawaii metal genreBABYMETAL are the biggest exponents of kawaii metal. It’s cute, it’s heavy, it’s massive – and it’s got more history than you think. With our heroines having kicked the door open, here we delve into its culture and hyperreal visuals…
News Hear BABYMETAL and Poppy’s collab in the Marvel Zombies trailerWatch the gory new trailer for upcoming four-part series Marvel Zombies, soundtracked spectacularly by BABYMETAL and Poppy’s collab from me to u.
Features “It’s not just music. It’s magic”: The true fandom behind BABYMETALA decade since Gimme Chocolate!! went viral and the world truly took notice of BABYMETAL, the trio now boast one of metal’s most unique and dedicated fanbases. We meet them to find out just why they love the band “to the Metal Galaxy and back…”
Features F.HERO: “BABYMETAL are expansive and never standing still, with energy that can never run out”Having worked with BABYMETAL twice before – on PA PA YA!! and LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND – Thai rapper F.HERO is a huge fan of the kawaii metal titans. So much so that when he was first asked to collab with the band, “I was so happy I almost went crazy…”
Features Electric Callboy on their BABYMETAL collab: “It was one of the best decisions… it made us grow as musicians”Electric Callboy’s Nico Sallach and Kevin Ratajczak reflect on bringing RATATATA to life with BABYMETAL, revealing that they whittled down “20 different versions” of the single.
Features Polyphia’s Scott LePage talks working with BABYMETAL on Sunset Kiss (and 2019’s Brand New Day)Their METAL GALAXY collab Brand New Day was so good that BABYMETAL and Polyphia simply had to team up again this summer. Here, then, is how Sunset Kiss came about…
Features Bloodywood on the importance of BABYMETAL: “Even if you feel like a misfit, you still belong”Having worked together on recent collabs Bekhauf and Kon! Kon!, Bloodywood’s Jayant Bhadula and Karan Katiyar share their appreciation for the “undeniable” BABYMETAL.
Features Sabaton’s Joakim Brodén on working with BABYMETAL: “By the end of that day, I barely had any voice left!”Sabaton frontman Joakim Brodén looks back at his 2019 BABYMETAL collab, Oh! MAJINAI, as well as the time the band shot him through “the floor of the stage with a bazooka and a cigar…”
Features Jordan Fish talks BABYMETAL collabs: “They were really sweet… there was a natural friendship”As K! celebrate all things BABYMETAL and METAL FORTH, we catch up with Jordan Fish to find out what it was like working with the band on from me to u, as well as 2020’s colossal Kingslayer…