BABYMETAL came out of Tokyo in 2010 as an audacious mutation of Japanese pop and muscular heavy metal. With a very young Su-metal singing up front, and two other females dancing beside her, the band ...

“A friend on a wrestling forum shared the video for Gimme Chocolate!!, and I decided to check it out. Afterwards, I spent the next several nights binge-watching BABYMETAL videos – I was completely ...

“We are here to make coffee metal,” Nathan Explosion (Brendon Small) growls in the premiere of the mid-2000s’ Adult Swim series, Metalocalypse. “We will make everything metal. Blacker than the ...

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 ...

Kawaii Metal: A music genre combining cute J-pop elements with heavy metal instrumentation. Fox God (Kitsune-sama): The mystical entity in BABYMETAL's mythology who guides their destiny. The One: What ...

Convenience stores, a very American concept for people on the go, were first introduced in Japan in the 1970s. Today, they’re an intrinsic part of life throughout the country – even more so than in ...

Misa Kimura was still a student from Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, when she visited Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood for the first time. It felt like stepping into a dream. “Every kind of clothing or ...

Le Sserafim embodies the meaning of “Kawaii” in their newest music video. On Tuesday, the K-pop girl group released the MV for their newest song, showing all five members in separate Sanrio-themed ...

July 8 (UPI) --Le Sserafim is back with a new music video. The South Korean girl group released the music video for their song "Kawaii," which will serve as the My Melody & Kuromi theme song, on ...

As country, hip-hop, rap, and acoustic folk rock collide at Summerfest 2025, one band's music style certainly sticks out: kawaii metal, a genre that blends death growl metal and pop sugar vocals.

BABYMETAL is coming back to Hong Kong this September 2025 as part of their WORLD TOUR 2025-2026 IN ASIA. The band is taking over the AsiaWorld-Arena on September 30 for one night only. Don’t miss out ...