Ignore Babymetal at Your Peril

July 30, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments

If you’re not hip to Babymetal yet, better get started. I don’t know where the f**k this is going, but they’ve already bridged the chasms between pop fans, metalheads and hipsters. Witness this review of their first US performance.

Here’s some footage from the gig. It starts off like a typical over-the-top metal show, but then at about a minute in…

http://youtu.be/gDFdO4LbPbA

Something like this could only come from Japan. Hey, I’d go see them.

(Via Metal Sucks)

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