Babymetal on Black Metal, 'Amore,' 'GJ!' + More 

+GamerTime1226 verdade kkkkk

Lol

+GamerTime1226 I now want them to do this in every interview from now on hahaha

+GamerTime1226 hahahaha they did it again

+Blood sucker There are people who ship Yui and Moa. They call it Moi.

+Chanelle FT And you're still not that cool as of today :v

My mom says I'm cool so um no *flips hair*

+FlipperWolf Damn lol

+Chanelle FT 16/18/16

+Chanelle FT well to be fair, they never were in front of audiences before hitting their teens (outside of small studio audiences filled with weirdos in early sakura gakuin days). There have been plenty of huge child stars before of course, but metal?...well, you got a number of things. a teen j-pop / metal fusion band with 3 female japanese idols hitting the top 20 charts in the west. They are certainly breaking barriers. God did bless them..well, the Fox god anyhow.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

i know what gives me alot of respect for them is the pics i've seen of them basically being accepted into the world by many bands who could be considered the pillars of metal music.

+Ascent To Zenith Earlier today a metalhead friend of mine hade "They're not playing real metal"-rant. I showed him a cover of Sis Anger I found and asked him if it was metal when a guy growled the same song. He was quite embarrassed after that. So..ehh..yeah.

You understand it rather weirdly. A lot of people don't like it not because it's infused with pop (metal was mixed with plenty of genres before), but because the sound isn't very appealing.

+Evelina999 - by "sound" I'm assuming you mean the girls' (Yui, Moa) voices. I know some Metalheads just can't stand, and get past their little baby/child like, high pitched voices and chants. The music by itself, otherwise is just fine. =)

Bohnzeppelin Yeah, it's the annoying voices and some of their songs are pretty watered down.

+Evelina999 - Not arguin' or being sarcastic but what do you mean by watered down? I'm a Metalhead from the 80's - 90's and Babymetal's stuff is like awesome Deja-Vu to me. I'm not up to date with much of today's Metal. I can't get past the Gutteral, Grunting, Growling vocals! =\. I'm just as puzzled by this, as are current Metalheads puzzled by Yui's and Moa's voices! xD

+agmohdadi Definitely, and Lots of soft, fluffy, seat cushions for their Sore butts.

+agmohdadi The Hover dam couldn't contain the salty rage tears of the fucktard metal elitists.

ahahaha .... bet you that

Same!

Bohemian Rhapsody? Are you drunk? No, it's more like Dream Theater on drugs.

+Toughguysdontdance12 Definitely more DT than Queen... The One is very Queen-y tho

+Junjie ZEROCOOL No. Bohemian Rhapsody actually follows classical music format. We studied it when it was released in 1975 at High School for comparison to form & modern music. Tales of The Destinies reminds me of prog rock from that same era. Defined parts brought together with bridge & sequences tying it all together. TOTD is right up Mikio Fujioka's alley musically. He does Jazz Fusion but I don;t know if the other guitarist (Takayoshi Ohmura) or the bassist (BOH) could handle that. It's a departure from what they normally play very well. The drummer (Aoyama Hideki) would have to step up too, but his counterpart within Kami ranks, Maeta, does Jazz drumming so may be able to do it.

+Ozzy Pete Dude, it's 10% Queen. 90% Dream Theater. If you don't know much of them, listen to their early 90's stuff. TOTAL inspiration for TOTD. Koba would tell you that himself. Even during The One, there's very John Petrucci elements in it. I'm classically trained too. Very obvious that it's more of a TD tribute, than any other band

+Vic Rattlehead619 Leda is a genius!

+Vic Rattlehead619 what songs?

+Hero Yui Akatsuki and Amore, he played bass and guitar on these songs.

+Lorenzo Conti - Check out today's latest Loudwire interview which addresses that. =)

I really can't wait that performed

BABYMETAL is DEATH! ;D

babymetal is love, babymetal is life

Lol why with sakura gakuin flag? they aren't apart of that sakura gakuin anymore.

+HANA CHAN To show that we also support their old group. They once said in their first episode of LoGiRL that they wanted more people to know more about their beloved mother group, Sakura Gakuin through their activities with BABYMETAL. These girls really cherish Sakura Gakuin.

+Nalin X If they don't fall about laughing, they will blow doors off the venue when they do that. I'm sure Su will watch from sidestage to see the reaction!

+Ozzy Pete Amen, brother !

Listening is easier than speaking😁

The mature people will choose Suzuka. The immature people and the anime hardcore fan will choose Yui or Moa.

Yui-chan. Just can't get over how freaking adorable she is.

oh i see. but at the beginning su metal just replied straight away :0

+DethMetLKhaos it's not black metal at all... not that it's a bad thing, not at all, but don't call it for something it isn't

+DethMetLKhaos apologies, listened to the wrong song. it is indeed brutal as fuck!

+216trixie 6 years is quite seasoned, I think. Especially since they started at pre-teen age. They've gradually gotten better at answering international interviews the last couple of years.

+Emanresu Yep. I can see the black metal touch you say but is mostly melodic death and even technical death. And yes, labels can be annoying, but sometimes are helpful if you want to know new music for example.

am I the only one who thought the breakdown in Megitsune sounds exactly like a Cryptopsy song?

Totally. Kind of "slug chug" style with similar gutturals. Also, could be any kind of general similarity between Megitsune and Phobophile, for example? Or am I crazy?

+Corranhorn122 - A good article about Black Metal ritesoftheblackmoon.tripod.com/article21.html

+Bohnzeppelin Thanks, but is there something related to my comment that you are responding to? I'm pretty confident in what I'm saying.

Corranhorn122 Nope, just thought you'd like it. I don't know much about the genres so I did a bit of research and found some interesting stuff. Also, It's kind of confusing to me when tracks w/only Yui and Moa are called black metal. wtf? I guess it's - again - their way of slightly morphing things and making them uniquely their own. (i.e. Fox hand sign vs II Cornuto, Mosh'sh vs MOSH).

+Rafamrkz I like that fast intro riff. I think of "Tales of the Destinies" as a long intro for "The One". They go well together

Koba in an interview mentioned Tales of the Destinies and The One started out as one long song. :-)

+ZEPViK XV 16, 18, 16.

+ZEPViK XV 16, 18, 16.

The Thrawn lolol.

+FlipperWolf HAX!

+Death Twitch Jpop/Metal. Works PERFECTLY!

+Death Twitch Agreed but many people think that the word "Baby" refers to their ages when in actuality it means something new or fresh when I look at it like that I get it! But yes I still agree it doesn't vibe that well hehe

+Vi-king 0936 Popped in my mind aswell, i won't do it but this is just a big let down...

Nakita Whanoo I did ^^

Vi-king 0936 Can't blame you lol.

+Nakita Whanoo You're dumb parents giving birth to you was a real let down :( Find something more productive to do, big baby lol.

+Vi-king 0936 Byeeeee

+Pnugen Rockst4r You see him trying not to laugh? Hillarious

Shieldmaiden they're Japanese not Korean though

+Electronic AIDS Pshhh! REALLY?!!! GTO already, lol!

Bohnzeppelin What has Gran Turismo Omologato todo with Babymetal?

Electronic AIDS = This Guy need HELP!

there is really nothing to get but the fact that people have different Music tastes

+Ludvig R I can respect your opinion on not liking them. To each their own, I'm ok with that. Props to you not $hitting on them because it ain't your thing! I was around during the Golden (& Dark) Age of heavy metal in the 70's thru the 80's. Babymetal brought back so many great elements from that era. Awesome songs, Strong vocals and musicianship, the Shreddin' skilled guitar solos, etc. They even copped most of the chords structure from Master Of Puppets in one of their songs! It was a flasback for me and many others. The Jpop thing was ttly confusing @ 1st but I figured it out and the Girls are great performers. Overall, Babymetal PWNS!

+GreatSmithanon to be fair, they are watered down metal, hence the name 'baby metal'

+GreatSmithanon Stop trying to be so edgy and take a step back. It has catchy parts and it has good heavy parts. Go listen to their song Karate.

+GreatSmithanon - Listen to Babymetal Death and Sis.Anger ... if you don't think that's Heavy Metal - w a slight edge - I suggest you take Heavy Metal 101, and listen to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath for an overall perspective of what Heavy Metal actually is. Also, Babymetal have been accepted by some of the Greatest, Heavy Metal acts in history, and who would know better what "Real" Heavy Metal is. It's a new Genre, simple as that.

Bohnzeppelin yah, just because there isn't screaming and a shit ton have drum bashing don't mean it's not metal

+Good Music Doesn't Have An Expiration Date! - Watered down? Uh, NFW dood!

Metal was cancerous before them, so this is the cure. Deal with it.

If anything at all- this is the breath of fresh air metal needs. It's been stagnant for years.

+Slayze Neither is the synth crap Burzum released. Still you use the nazi arsonist and murderer as profile pic. Go figure.....

Ulla Norakk Varg has nothing to do with this. I just stated that Babymetal has nothing to do with metal, as they are merely a j-pop/rock group.

+taka ku Well, its just that every metal page, magazine writes about them and acts as if they are the biggest metal band in the world. Not that I dont appreciate their talent, its just that its mostly j-poprock, so calling the metal is false advertising.

That's what happens when something is popular. You should have been around when Black Album hit the charts. How DARE "normal people" like Metallica! I have to hate them now.. That's basically what happened..... Not comparing them to Metallica, but people hate when "metal" become mainstream.

Lol, with the (obvious) exception of the 3 girls, the band is metal musicians playing metal music, that's just a fact