heavy metal
Dreaming of a metal Christmas? Osaka hotel offering heavy metal themed festive buffet
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Katie Pask
Oct 23, 2022 - Tweet
- Japan
- (buffet • Christmas • cool • crazy • food • heavy metal • hotel • Osaka • Ozzy Osbourne • restaurants • sweets • werid • Yngwie Malmsteen)
Japanese heavy metal band Maximum the Hormone’s London gig gives our reporter new outlook on life
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Katie Pask
Jul 29, 2022
Intense heavy metal gig leaves our Maximum the Hormone newbie wanting to live life to the fullest.
- Japan, UK
- (COK • concerts • heavy metal • Ikuna Kamezawa • london • Maximum the Hormone • music • SNJO)
- Japan
- (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • hand washing • Happy Birthday • heavy metal • Megadeth • Metallica • music • Napalm Death • Osaka • Slayer • songs)
Opening theme of popular troll anime Pop Team Epic gets awesome heavy metal cover【Video】
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Koh Ruide
Mar 7, 2018
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.
The announcement made today by Warner Bros. and Amuse USA has our imaginations running wild with all sorts of animated idol-metal fusion scenarios.
- Japan, USA
- (anime • Babymetal • heavy metal • Japanese idols • music • music videos • pop idols • Warner Bros)
Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford joins BABYMETAL onstage for an epic performance【Video】
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KK Miller
Jul 21, 2016
The Fox God and the Metal God choose their avatars for a collaboration that is pure metal!
- Japan, Music
- (APMA • Babymetal • heavy metal • Judas Priest • Rob Halford • videos)
Up the ukiyoe with this Iron Maiden woodblock print featuring Eddie as a hellish courtesan
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Preston Phro
Apr 25, 2016
- Art, Culture, Entertainment
- (heavy metal • Iron Maiden • metal • music • ukiyo-e • ukiyoe)
Totally metal newborn shows off hardcore cuteness for approving musician dad
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Casey Baseel
Sep 2, 2014
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.
Put your kitsune up! BABYMETAL is set to dominate the world with ‘dangerous kawaii’【Interview】
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Preston Phro
Jun 21, 2013
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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