NEWS 2020/03/20
It’s about an hour before BABYMETAL are due onstage at Hammersmith’s historic Eventim Apollo. In a room deep within the venue’s labyrinthine warren of backstage corridors, the pair have just been surprised with a blue, glittery cake so large that singer SU-METAL is struggling to hold it up on her own. Presented to the duo by their team to celebrate selling out tonight’s show, it looks like it has landed straight from a bakery on Neptune. The fact that they’re moments away from performing to thousands of fans doesn’t appear to have fazed SU-METAL or MOAMETAL in the slightest. Dressed in their black and silver space-age battle armour – featuring the kind of sharp shoulder pads you wouldn’t want to mess with – the pair seem light and focused as they pose together for Kerrang!’s photographer, ...