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“We decided, ‘Let’s put in everything we’ve got and move forward’”: How BABYMETAL overcame adversity and shot for the stars

And then there were two. Following the departure of YUIMETAL, a question mark hung over BABYMETAL. Fox knows what was going on, but SU-METAL and MOAMETAL continued apace. As they approached their 10th anniversary and entered the METAL GALAXY, though, it was clear that whatever the Fox God’s plans were, they weren’t being put off, as the band were reborn, and gained a new member, MOMOMETAL…

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Remembering the biggest shows of BABYMETAL’s lives: “We want to do new things that no other Japanese band has done”

By 2016, the BABYMETAL prophecies were already beginning to come true. As K! joined them in Japan for a set of enormous shows at Tokyo Dome, we witnessed in real-time a giant standing up before us. After that year’s METAL RESISTANCE album made them one of the biggest bands in the universe, things looked perfect. But the golden path would eventually be beset with difficulty…
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