by Sean Matthews | May 27, 2015 | Interviews, News
A year and a half ago, Babymetal was barely a blip on the radar in America, even though they were headlining festivals in Japan. Fast forward to earlier this month, when the trio of girls and their backing band played at Rock on the Range, one of the largest rock...
by Matt Brown | May 21, 2015 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The debuts are a bit bare bones this week (actually the charts are pretty small in general). That’s partly because of two bands I chose not to include: Incubus...
by Bram Teitelman | May 18, 2015 | News, Video
[youtube]https://youtu.be/m7EIMhdnpRQ[/youtube] It’s hard to find a band that’s a worldwide phenomenon, but having performed at Rock on the Range in the middle of America this past weekend, Japanese trio Babymetal (and, of course, their backing musicians)...
by Metal Insider | May 9, 2015 | Columns, Metal Power Rankings
Welcome to Metal Power Rankings: Our weekly rankings take a number of factors into account: newsworthiness, record sales, internet buzz, word of mouth and overall importance in the genre. Ultimately, it’s subjective, but if a band generates enough buzz, they’ll wind...
by Bram Teitelman | May 7, 2015 | New Music, News, Video
[youtube]https://youtu.be/zTEYUFgLveY[/youtube] Like it or not, Babymetal are a legitimate phenomenon. They’ve sold thousands of copies of their debut album, even though it just recently got picked up by Sony to come out in America. The American version of the...