BABYMETAL Will Release Their New Album This Year

A brand-new BABYMETAL revelation has been unveiled to coincide with FOX DAY (which is, of course, April 1).

The announcement not only reveals brand-new BABYMETAL live dates (at Yokohama Arena on June 28-29 and Portmesse Nagoya on July 6-7), but also that a new album – the follow-up to 2016's METAL RESISTANCE – will be arriving at some point in 2019. Exciting stuff!

Catch BABYMETAL live at the following – the dates of which also mark the "beginning of BABYMETAL’s new departure":

June

28-29 Yokohama Arena

July

6-7 Portmesse Nagoya

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