BabyMetal Announce Details Of Forthcoming Album ‘Metal Galaxy’ and 2020 Tour

Album Details

BabyMetal’s forthcoming 3rd Album “Metal Galaxy” will be released worldwide simultaneously on October 11 ²⁰¹⁹, three and a half years after the release of their previous album ‘Metal Resistance’ and this new offering is based on the concept of “The Odyssey of Metal Galaxy”.

The forthcoming new album “Metal Galaxy” includes 14 songs, the names of which are all revealed below. As their band name, BabyMetal represents “the birth of a new genre of music that combines Japanese pop with metal”, hence the term “baby” in the name, the new album expresses Light and Darkness, emotions like duality and ambivalence, and “new metal” created by various chemical reactions as other entities evolved and expanded in this album.

Just like the Sun and the Moon changes the appearance of this world with its daylight and moonlight, with evermore new type of various sound, their music paints the metal galaxy in different colours.

Guest Appearances

The album includes 5 songs that feature guest appearances from worldwide musicians who were perfect to the character of each song.

Guitarist Tak Matsumoto from B’z is featured on ‘Da Da Dance’. Vocalist Joakim Brodén from Sabaton is featured on ‘Oh! Majinai’. Guitarist Tim Henson and Scott LePage from Polyphia are featured on ‘Brand New Day’. Vocalist, Alissa White-Gluz from Arch Enemy is featured on ‘Distortion’. Rapper, F. Hero is featured in ‘Pa Pa Ya!!’.

The guest musicians add more colours to the odyssey of the metal galaxy.

On the album release day, October 11^{th 2019}, the band will be performing their first-ever US arena show at The Forum, Los Angeles. The band announced their US tour which will start in September, Japan tour in November, and Europe tour in February of 2020.

Release Information
BabyMetal’s 3rd Album Metal Galaxy October 11^th, 2019

Track Listing

01. Future Metal
02. Da Da Dance (feat. Tak Matsumoto)
03. Elevator Girl – English ver. –
04. Shanti Shanti Shanti
05. Oh! Majinai (feat. Joakim Brodén)
06. Brand New Day (feat. Tim Henson and Scott LePage)
07. Night Night Burn!
08. In The Name Of
09. Distortion (feat. Alissa White-Gluz)
10. Pa Pa Ya!! (feat. F. Hero)
11. Kagerou
12. Starlight
13. Shine
14. Arkadia

Pre-order the album here: https://babymetal.lnk.to/MetalGalaxy

Tour News

In 2020, BabyMetal will also embark on their first ever full European headline tour which kicks off in Stockholm, Sweden on 3^rd February 2020:

Metal Galaxy Tour In Europe 2020:

03/02 – Fryshyset, Stockholm (Sweden)
04/02 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo (Norway)
05/02 – VEGA Main Hall, Copenhagen (Denmark)
08/02 – Große Freiheit, Hamburg (Germany)
09/02 – Elysee Monmatre, Paris (France)
11/02 – Gasometer, Vienna (Austria)
13/02 – Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne (Germany)
14/02 – Huxleys, Berlin (Germany)
16/02 – AB, Brussels (Belgium)
17/02 – O13, Tilburg (Netherlands)
19/02 – Barrowland, Glasgow (UK)
20/02 – Great Hall, Cardiff (UK)
22/02 – Apollo, Manchester (UK)
23/02 – Hammersmith Apollo, London (UK)
26/02 – House of Culture, Helsinki (Finland)
28/02 – M1, St. Petersburg (Russia)
01/03 – Adrenaline Stadium, Moscow (Russia)
Get tickets here: https://babymetal.wun.io/

Pre-order physical
(UK) https://babymetalstoreuk.com/
(US) https://babymetalstore.com/

Links

http://www.babymetal.com/en/

https://www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp

https://twitter.com/BABYMETAL_JAPAN

https://www.instagram.com/babymetal_official/