BABYMETAL-AKATSUKI-ACOUSTIC DEMO HD

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Footage- Singapore November 10, 2012
Babymetal's first live appearance was on November 28, 2010, at Sakura Gakuin's first solo
concert, Sakura Gakuin Festival ? 2010, In July 2011, Babymetal premiered the song,
"Ijime, Dame, Zettai" ("No More Bullying"), at a Sakura Gakuin concert, but it would only be
performed during live concerts for the time being. The band's first single,
"Doki Doki Morning", originally appeared on Sakura Gakuin's debut album
Sakura Gakuin 2010 Nendo: Message, released on April 27, 2011. A music video for the song was
uploaded to Toy's Factory channel on YouTube on 12 October 2011, and was released as a
DVD single in late 2011, under the independent Toy's Factory sublabel Juonbu Records.
The music video totaled over 1 million views by the end of 2012.
Babymetal's first CD single was a collaboration with the band Kiba of Akiba,
titled "Babymetal / Kiba of Akiba". Released in March 2012 by Juonbu Records,
the single ranked at number three on the Oricon weekly indie chart, and number one in the
Tower Records Shibuya weekly indie ranking. In the summer of 2012, the band
released a music video for their next single, "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!",directed by Hidenobu Tanabe.
In August 2012, Babymetal debuted at Japan's Summer Sonic Festival,
becoming the youngest act ever to perform at the festival, at the average age of 12.
The same year, Babymetal performed outside of Japan for the first time,
Anime Festival Asia 2012, in Singapore.

Babymetal (stylized in all caps) is the debut studio album by Japanese
heavy metal band Babymetal. It was first released on February 26, 2014,
in Japan through BMD Fox Records, and was re-released on
May 29, 2015, in Europe through earMusic, and June 16, 2015, in the
United States through RED Associated Labels (RAL) and Sony Music Entertainment.
Music from the album dates back to the origins of the band in 2010, and incorporates
tracks from their earliest released singles, back when the band was a sub-unit of the
Japanese idol group Sakura Gakuin.

Babymetal received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album managed to
peak at number four on the Oricon Weekly Chart, and has since been certified
gold with over 100,000 copies sold in Japan. In the United States, the album debuted at
number 187 on the Billboard 200—a rarity for Japanese acts in the country—
and managed to top the World Albums chart. Two singles from Babymetal,
"Ijime, Dame, Zettai" and "Megitsune", gained domestic success, charting
within the top ten in Japan. "Gimme Chocolate!!" became an international success,
with its music video garnering attention overseas and becoming the band's most
viewed music video on YouTube.

Prior to the album's release, Babymetal performed as a sub-unit for the Japanese idol group
Sakura Gakuin from 2010 to 2013, and music that would be included surfaced as early as
October 30, 2010, when the members of the band recorded their vocals for their first
song "Doki Doki ? Morning".From 2011 to 2013, the band released five singles inside and
outside Sakura Gakuin, with the most successful single, "Ijime, Dame, Zettai" peaking at
number six on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart.
From late 2012 to early 2013, Babymetal took part in a series of headlining shows,
performing new songs in each performance.The band then embarked on their first tour,
the Babymetal Death Match Tour 2013: May Revolution, in May 2013, and later performed
two more headlining shows that year, each performed near the members' birthdays.
At the end of the latter show, Legend "1997", the band announced a pair of shows to occur at
Nippon Budokan, as well as an album slated for release on February 26, 2014, with a
standard edition and a limited edition bundled with a DVD.

Musically, the album follows Babymetal's fusion of J-pop and heavy metal
(referred to as kawaii metal), at times incorporating elements of
bubblegum pop, hip hop, drum and bass, and dubstep.The opening track
"Babymetal Death" is an instrumental speed metal track, with frequent shouts of "Death!",
while "Gimme Chocolate!!" features "thrashing, grating guitars" that alternate with
"speed-sung, quirky lyrics". Songs like "Megitsune" and "Iine!" are notable for their
sudden genre shifts, while the Su-metal solo "Rondo of Nightmare" is described as a
powerful cacophony.The Black Babymetal song "Song 4" incorporates elements of
reggae,while "Catch Me If You Can" contains elements of "digi-rock"
(digital rock) and industrial metal. "Ijime, Dame, Zettai" begins with a mellow intro
transitioning to speed metal.