BABYMETAL Archives

Interview with Jose Mangin: Metal Ambassador on Jrock and Jmetal

18 October 2022

During our coverage of Jrock bands at Aftershock Festival 2022 in Sacramento, CA, we sat down with the official host, Jose Mangin. He is regarded as the most distinguished personality in hard rock and metal tod...

BABYMETAL returns from hiatus with exciting album and side story

NBT

12 October 2022

Releases

BABYMETAL resumes activities with a new album called "THE OTHER ONE", while also teasing a never-before-seen "other side of BABYMETAL"-story that ties in parallel worlds.BABYMETAL is finally about to br...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2021

NBT, Dorian, NoMusicNoReason, Erica, G Andrew White, Sizergyia, Mazohyst_Kyo and Ziggy

30 December 2021

Entertainment

We're not sure if the world has gotten any better this year, however, thanks to the amazing music and related activities that kept our spirits up, we're ready to move on to the next year!To end this unprece...

BABYMETAL ends an era, only the FOX GOD knows when they’ll be back

NBT

10 October 2021

Disband/Hiatus/Revive

BABYMETAL announced back in August that they will be sealed and disappear from our sight after concluding its "10 BABYMETAL LEGENDS" project, and won't be back until that seal is broken.Today on October 10,...

Futakuchi Mana, the screaming metalhead VTuber for you

Mazohyst_Kyo

19 August 2021

New Band

Futakuchi Mana is a VTuber that is new to the scene and is making waves with her music using brutal metal covers and original songs on YouTube. For those who are already into the VTuber world or those looking t...

Best Jrock music of 2020: JROCK NEWS staff picks

Sizergyia, afaenia, Dorian, Mazohyst_Kyo, Midnight, G Andrew White, NBT, NoMusicNoReason and edoh+

19 January 2021

Entertainment, Music Video

The year 2020 saw the coronavirus pandemic take center stage, making this year feel longer than usual as we isolated indoors for months on end. On the bright side, however, releases from our favorite artists ke...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2020

NBT, afaenia, Mazohyst_Kyo, G Andrew White, Ziggy, edoh+ and Sizergyia

30 December 2020

Entertainment

I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite a crazy year, right? There's a lot of canceled concerts and a whole load of things that affected the scene. Despite all the setbacks, we've seen the music indus...

BABYMETAL, Amy Lee featured in EP by Bring Me The Horizon

NBT

18 October 2020

Releases

BABYMETAL, Amy Lee (Evanescence), and other notable artists will be featured in the British rock band Bring Me The Horizon's EP "Post Human: Survival Horror", consisting of nine tracks that will be released on ...

Looking back at 10 years of BABYMETAL in special program

NBT

16 October 2020

New Look, Releases, Videos

BABYMETAL is amidst its preparation for the 10th anniversary and currently holding a "10 BABYMETAL YEARS TOURNAMENT" as we speak, asking fans to vote on Instagram to declare the top 10 fan-favorite songs to be ...

BABYMETAL rap battles to death in single “BxMxC”, now available worldwide

NBT

9 October 2020

Music Video, Releases

One of the songs that stood out from BABYMETAL's latest album METAL GALAXY, released last year, was the rap metal song BxMxC. Unfortunately, it was only included in the Japanese version, and not the internation...

Sakura Gakuin streams 2 special programs worldwide for the first time ever

NBT

17 August 2020

Online Concert, Tour and event, Videos

Sakura Gakuin has scheduled two special streams this month, one which involves a concert and graduation ceremony, and another that reviews the previous year leading up to the graduation. It's a rare opportunity...

Our top 5 Japanese rock interviews

edoh+

28 March 2020

Entertainment

Many of us have picked up reading to pass time, so to help some of us ease our way back into it we've put together a list of the most intriguing Japanese rock-related interviews we've had over the last couple o...

JROCK NEWS predicts Tokyo Olympic ceremony performers

edoh+

9 March 2020

Entertainment

If you've been hiding under a rock and so completely unaware, the 2020 Summer Olympics will be taking place in Tokyo this year! Currently scheduled to kick off on July 24 and ending on August 9, there is curren...

Fans of all ages explain why they like BABYMETAL

NBT

13 February 2020

Entertainment, Interview

The unique concept of "kawaii metal" is something that started spreading with the inception of BABYMETAL. Combining the cute with the contrasting metal has proven to be quite a successful idea, enough so to sel...