Japanese pop-metal band BABYMETAL has released a music video for the song “BxMxC”. The track originally only appeared on the Japanese version of the band’s third studio album, “Metal Galaxy”, which was released in October 2019 via earMUSIC/Edel. The follow-up to 2016’s “Metal Resistance” is based on the concept of “The Odyssey Of Metal Galaxy”.
“Metal Galaxy” contains 14 songs, including four singles that were released prior to the LP’s arrival: “Pa Pa Ya!!”, “Starlight”, “Distortion” and “Elevator Girl”. The 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.
The album includes five songs that feature guest appearances from worldwide musicians who were perfect to the character of each song. 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!!”
“Metal Galaxy” hit No. 19 in the U.K. official album chart, No. 1 No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums chart, becoming the first Asian act to land at No. 1, and No. 18 on the German chart.
In the U.S., “Metal Galaxy” earned 28,000 equivalent album units (of which 27,000 were in album sales) in its first week of release. The album also topped the Hard Rock Albums chart.
“Metal Galaxy” entered the all-format Billboard 200 chart at No. 13. The group’s previous disc, 2016’s “Metal Resistance”, peaked at No. 39.
BABYMETAL released two live albums in September. Captured on its “Metal Galaxy” world tour, the “Extra Show Legend – Metal Galaxy” was a two-day event held at Makuhari Messe (Japan) on January 25 and January 26, 2020. “Legend – Metal Galaxy [Day 1]” and “Legend – Metal Galaxy [Day 2]” will both arrive on Wednesday, September 9 via Cooking Vinyl.
