Metal Galaxy

Before there was kawaii metal there was just kawaii, a strand of distinctly Japanese popular culture that revels in all things cute and lovable, and is perhaps best exemplified by the eternally popular Hello Kitty franchise.
Babymetal: Metal Galaxy album art work

Absolutely nobody thought what it might sound like if Kitty White fronted Slayer. Or so it seemed. Because then came Babymetal, a group that fuses kawaii with heavy metal orchestration, as well as elements of J-pop, video-game music innovators such as Yuzo Koshiro, and the metalcore ragings of Ronnie Radke. Operating in a sub-genre so high-concept, it would be easy to dismiss Babymetal as a gimmick, depending on how receptive your ears are to their musical mashup. But the band’s third record, Metal Galaxy, is an opus of the form. Call it the kawaii metal My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.