Album review: BABYMETAL – THE OTHER ONE

BABYMETAL spent a year seemingly floating in the aether, filling the void with pitch black silence. Presumably, only the FOX GOD knew where exactly they were, and he’s not exactly a blabbermouth; the rest of us mere mortals were left to assume this band’s story was finished. Fortunately, however, we know now that not to be the case, and it’s all the better for it when the Japanese kawaii metallers have crashed back to Earth with some of their strongest material to date.  Judging by the sound of THE OTHER ONE, SU-METAL and MOAMETAL’s intergalactic gap year evidently bought them space to grow up gracefully. There’s not as much on their fourth album that will raise eyebrows or provoke a laugh, but BABYMETAL could never iron out all their eccentricity completely. Time ...

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