BABYMETAL rocked the Space Zebra Stage on the third day of the Louder Than Life Music Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, September 23, 2023.
“Louder than life… we’re so happy to see you,” Su-metal, the lead singer for the band, told the Louisville crowd.
Here are a few photos of their performance by Steve Thrasher:
Here are some more details about the band:
BABYMTAL is a Japanese kawaii metal band consisting of Suzuka Nakamotoas “Su-metal”, Moa Kikuchi as “Moametal” and Momoko Okazaki as “Momometal”.
According to producer Key “Kobametal” Kobayashi, BABYMETAL’s name is a play on the words heavy metal-as, in Japanese, the word baby rhymes with heavy.
Originally formed in 2010 as a fusion of the heavy metal and Japanese idol genres, BABYMETAL has twice won Metal Hammer magazine’s Heavy Metal World Cup.
In 2016, they performed at London’s Wembley Arena, becoming the first Japanese artist to headline the venue.
Their album Metal Resistance debuted at No. 15 on the UK charts, making them the highest-charting Japanese band in British history.
Metal Galaxy was the first recording by an Asian artist ever to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.
To celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2021, BABYMETAL released a greatest hits compilation and scheduled ten shows at Tokyo’s famed Budokan arena.
Follow the band on their officials website https://babymetal.com/.