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Features, Tours and Festivals

BABYMETAL Announces Largest Headline Show To Date @ LA’s Intuit Dome

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The Press Release:
BABYMETAL have announced their largest US show to date at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome. The show, promoted by Live Nation, will take place on Saturday, November 1. Fans can sign up for the artist presale now through Monday, June 2 at 9am PT at THIS LINK for early access to tickets. The artist presale will begin on Monday, June 2 at 10am PT, and additional pre-sales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale on Friday, June 6 at 10am PT through Ticketmaster.com.

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The announcement comes on the heels of their sold out O2 Arena headline show in London and news of their forthcoming album Metal Forth. Yesterday, they released a new single from it, “Song 3,” a collab track with Slaughter to Prevail. It’s one of the Japanese metal band’s most forceful tracks to date, pairing Slaughter to Prevail’s raw, punishing vocals with BABYMETAL’s soaring, melodic choruses. The result is tense and theatrical, but tightly controlled—a balancing act the band has long specialized in.
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BABYMETAL Announces North American Tour with Jinjer and Black Veil Brides Supporting

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The Press Release:
Japanese metal band BABYMETAL have announced a summer 2025 headlining tour produced by Live Nation with support from Black Veil Brides and Jinjer on select dates, along with Bloodywood. Marking their biggest North American tour yet, the 24-date run kicks off on June 13th in Houston and will hit major cities including Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, and San Francisco before wrapping up on July 23rd in Phoenix. Tickets and exclusive VIP packages will be available starting with an artist presale today at 1 PM ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale, which begins Friday, March 21 at 10 AM local time at BABYMETAL.com (linked below).

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Over the past Two years, BABYMETAL have released collaborations with Tom Morello, Bloodywood, and, most notably, Electric Callboy with “RATATATA”—a track that quickly amassed hundreds of millions of streams across all platforms. The new collaborations offer a peak into what should be their forthcoming album, following 2023’s THE OTHER ONE, their first concept album.
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Japanese Rockers Scandal Announce “LOVE, SPARK, JOY” North American Tour Dates

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Though I didn’t receive or find any kind of a proper press release with the news, it would appear that the Japanese Pop-Rock band Scandal will be returning to North America for a handful of dates on their “LOVE, SPARK, JOY” tour. The poster and limited appearances are down below for you to peruse and start watching for tickets. I caught them back in 2022 and you can read all about that experience by clicking HERE.

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Events, Reviews

Scandal @ Sony Hall (7/11/2022)

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Though the ladies in Scandal from Japan have been a band since their formation in 2006, tonight’s performance at the Sony Hall in Hell’s Kitchen would be my first time witnessing them in action. I had heard them a few months earlier when the press releases were discussing upcoming music and a live-streaming show. I didn’t participate in the streaming event because after doing a couple of them during the pandemic craziness I found that I couldn’t keep my attention to them. Let’s not forget that folks like myself are glued to the computer all day long which always made escaping the cyberworld for a live show very appealing. Despite some absolute favorites doing streaming shows like KISS and Trans-Siberian Orchestra I only managed to watch two of these kinds of things for the purpose of show review and that fell to Anthrax and Hollow Mellow, the latter one also being a Japanese artist that was very interesting.

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Scandal Cancels Remaining North American Dates Due To COVID-19 Exposure

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The Announcement:
Thank you so much for all your warm messages to Tomomi. Unfortunately, now Mami and Rina have testing positive and Haruna also have some throat pain although their tests are negative for now. We are very emotional and there is no easy way to say this, however, we have no choice but we need to cancel the rest of the North America tour including Seattle, Anaheim and Dallas.

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