BABYMETAL/Quotes

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That music, but those voices, BUT THAT MUSIC, but those voices... BUT that music BUT...... AAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
—YouTube comment on Gimme Chocolate!!", circa 2014
I bloody love Babymetal. I realize that they are a band that consistently polarises opinion and sends a small minority of metal purists into a state of incandescent fury, but I think they're fucking great: stupidly entertaining live, always surprisingly brutal on record and, assuming you have a sense of humour, endearingly batshit crazy, both in theory and practice.
—Dom Lawson, "Metal Hammer" column 25 October 2018, on loudersound.com

Babymetal is everything, all at once, really loud

—Headline of Chicago Tribune article, May 7, 2015

...the weirdest and most terrifyingly adorable hard-rock band in the world...

Chicago Tribune article, May 7, 2015