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Japanese metal group Babymetal lands historic No. 9 ranking on U.S. Billboard 200 music chart

The kawaii overlords are officially taking over the world.

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J-pop…maybe J-metal?…band Asunojokei blends genres, wins fans in Japan and abroad【Interview】

We sit down for a talk with Kei Toriki about making a musical chimera.

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Japanese company develops classy heavy metal band frames for glasses

It’s like a T-shirt for your face.

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Dreaming of a metal Christmas? Osaka hotel offering heavy metal themed festive buffet

All sweets in the buffet are named after a legendary heavy metal band.

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Japanese heavy metal band Maximum the Hormone’s London gig gives our reporter new outlook on life

Intense heavy metal gig leaves our Maximum the Hormone newbie wanting to live life to the fullest.

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Osaka club offers up great heavy metal hand washing song selections

Help seek and destroy germs with these 20-second segments of metal classics.

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Opening theme of popular troll anime Pop Team Epic gets awesome heavy metal cover【Video】

Decked out in a tight-fitting sailor uniform and shades, this singer shows he’s got what it takes to be as metal as the anime.

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Babymetal set to appear in new anime series debuting in the U.S.!

The announcement made today by Warner Bros. and Amuse USA has our imaginations running wild with all sorts of animated idol-metal fusion scenarios.

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Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford joins BABYMETAL onstage for an epic performance【Video】

The Fox God and the Metal God choose their avatars for a collaboration that is pure metal!

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Up the ukiyoe with this Iron Maiden woodblock print featuring Eddie as a hellish courtesan

Forget running for the hills, we’re running to buy one of these amazing prints!

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From looking at his Twitter profile, you might conclude that Hazuki, singer for the Osaka-based Grollschwert, is a pretty metal dude. He describes the unit as a “melodic deathrash metal band,” and his own vocal style as guttural, growling, and screeching.

Still, even the most dedicated musicians can’t be hardcore all the time, and the vocalist has recently been sharing pictures of his adorable newborn baby daughter with his Twitter followers. It looks like metal is in the family genes, though, as the baby has already executed a perfect double devil horn salute.

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Put your kitsune up! BABYMETAL is set to dominate the world with ‘dangerous kawaii’【Interview】

In 2011, the world was first baffled and then enthralled by the release of BABYMETAL’s “Doki Doki☆Morning” music video.

Not quite metal, not quite idol music, the video of three “dangerous kawaii” Japanese middle school girls singing and dancing to heavy metal music was difficult for some to comprehend. Were they for real? Was it okay for us to like them? And why couldn’t we stop listening to this song?

Two years later, the group has proved themselves to be anything but a joke, with legions of fans both in Japan and abroad. This Wednesday (June 19), they released their second major-label single, titled “Megitsune,” so we sat down with the group for an exclusive interview to learn more about them.

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