Mad About Rock

  Ahead of BABYMETAL’s forthcoming concept album, THE OTHER ONE, due 24th March via Cooking Vinyl, the Japanese metal group are pleased to announce they have partnered with Rough Trade in the United Kingdom for Early Listening Events on Wednesday 22nd March. Fans in attendance will be able to hear the new concept album in full before its official release on 24th March at Rough Trade East (London), Rough Trade Bristol and Rough Trade Nottingham. You can secure your tickets here: https://babymetal.lnk.to/listeningparty . Last week the band released their fourth single, 'Light and Darkness' alongside a video featuring live footage from their recent comeback performance called BABYMETAL RETURNS - THE OTHER ONE - on 28th-29th January at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall in Chiba, Japan, their first performance in almost two years. Watch the music video for 'Light and Darkness' here . Listen to 'Light and Darkness' here . Pre-order THE OTHER ONE here . Last...

  The fourth and final single leading up to the full release of Grimmreaper’s debut album “The Tragedy of Being” is upon us, and he has shared his cover version of Babymetal's “Road of Resistance”, which features Dragonforce guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman on the original recording. Grimmreaper elaborates for choosing the track to cover: “I’ve been a Dragonforce fan forever. I first heard this song by Babymetal and thought ‘That’s Japanese Dragonforce for sure.’ Sure enough, Dragonforce helped write some songs for them, including this one. I’ve been a fan of Babymetal ever since. I re-wrote the lyrics in English in 2018 and recorded the cover in my apartment when I lived in Japan. I lived there for a little over a year. It took almost 2 years of learning, recording, failing, and trying again before it was done. Dragonforce often writes about the hero’s journey, mountains, dragons and archetypes, and this cover sticks with those themes, but also fits in with the album’s story.” ...