BABYMETAL‘s official twitter account has announced that as part of their BABYMETAL World Tour 2014, the group will be having their first live concert in Canada during the Heavy Montréal Festival that will be held from August 8 to 10. BABYMETAL will perform on the 9th as well as other bands like Metallica, The Offspring, Apocalyptica and many others.
Babymetal World Tour 2014 will be held from July 1 to September 14.
Babymetal will give 3 concerts in Europe which will take place in France, in Germany and in United Kingdom.
They will also hold their first US Tour in July and August and participate in Lady Gaga’s Artrave: Artpop Ball.
The idol group will also perform at Heavy Montreal festival in Canada on August 9.
They will be at Summer Sonic 2014 festival in Tokyo and Osaka on August 16-17.
The trailer has been released.
The album Houkago Anthology from Sakura Gakuin (放課後アンソロジー from さくら学院) will be released on May 5.
This best-of album includes the greatest hits from Sakura Gakuin‘s sub-units Babymetal, Twinklestars, Pastel Wind, sleepiece, Mini-Patissier, Kagaku Kyumei Kiko Logica? and Scoopers.
The trailer has been released.
Babymetal are going to participate in Sonisphere Festival UK in England on July 4-6, 2014.
Sonisphere is a rock festival that will be held at Knebworth Park.
Babymetal will perform alongside famous rock bands such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, The Prodigy, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Alice In Chains…
Babymetal will hold Legend “Y” Moametal Seitansai (聖誕祭) and Legend “M” Moametal Seitansai (聖誕祭) in Europe in late June or early July 2014.
Babymetal announced that they are going to participate in Sonisphere festival in England on July 4-6.
In addition, Babymetal World Tour 2014 will be held on July 1-7. There will be some concerts in France, in Germany and in United Kingdom.
Babymetal will become the youngest artists to perform at Nippon Budokan with their live performance to be held at the famous venue in Tokyo on March 1-2, 2014.
The previous holder of the title was the singer Iwai Sayuri who made her debut at Budokan at the age of 15.1 years old. This record will be beaten by Nakamoto Suzuka (16), Kikuchi Moa (14) and Mizono Yui (14), who have an average age of 14.6 years old.
The trailer has been released.
Babymetal‘s 1st album will be released on February 26.
The CD contains 13 songs including all singles from Babymetal. The new visuals have also been unveiled.
The limited edition comes with a bonus DVD with music videos, audio commentaries by the members of the idol group, and live footage from Legend “1997” Su-Metal Seitansai and Summer Sonic 2013.
A trailer and the MV for Give Me Choco!! (ギミチョコ！！) have been released.
Babymetal posted a video message on YouTube to promote the movie Metallica Through the Never (メタリカ・スルー・ザ・ネヴァー) featuring the famous American heavy metal band.
The members of Babymetal and Metallica met last August at Summer Sonic 2013 in Tokyo. They participated in the live event with several other rock bands.
Check out the video message from Babymetal and the trailer of the movie.
Babymetal Live in Singapore will be held on December 28 at Scape Ground Theatre.
The ticket prices are 138 S$ for VIP and 88 S$ for general access. The VIP tickets include a pre-signed autograph poster.
Moreover, Babymetal will make a special appearance at AFA 2013 (Anime Asia Festival 2013) on November 9 in order to promote the concert. The idol group had already participated in the 2012 edition of the event.
Babymetal Live ~Legend I, D, Z Apocalypse~ will be released on Blu-ray on November 20.
The Blu-ray includes the 3 concerts of Babymetal Legend “I” held in October 2012 at Shibuya O-East, Legend “D” in December 2012 at Akasaka Blitz, and Legend “Z” on February 2013 at Zepp Tokyo.
It also includes the original movie story Kitsune-sama no Mokujiroku (キツネ様の黙示録).
It comes with a booklet featuring photos of the live performances.
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