Later the band shot a music video for the song and in October 2011 released it as a DVD single intended for limited (live-venues-only) distribution. They stated their brand of metal was a newborn genre, and that was what "baby" in "Babymetal" stood for.īabymetal's first live appearance was on November 28, 2010, at the first Sakura Gakuin's solo concert. Their first song, " Do・Ki・Do・Ki☆MORNING", was originally released in April 2011 on the Sakura Gakuin album Sakura Gakuin 2010nendo: Message. Also, he has come to like interpreting it as "newborn metal". In an interview for Razor TV while in Singapore in late 2013, the band members also used the latter interpretation. "Baby" may indicate cuteness, "metal" – intensity. It is a play on the words "heavy metal", as, in Japanese, the word "baby" (ベビー bebī) rhymes with "heavy" (ヘビー hebī). "What if other children were dancing around her like angels?", he thought, and so asked Mizuno Yui (Yuimetal) and Kikuchi Moa (Moametal) (both were just 10 years old at the time) to participate. None of the three members knew what metal music was before the inception of the band. Suzuka Nakamoto (Su-metal) once said in an interview with MTV 81, "The first time we heard the idea for Babymetal, we were like 'What the?!'".Īccording to Kobametal, Babymetal's name came to him by revelation (as a "divine message"). Kobametal looked around for more members and finally decided that because of Suzuka's unique stage presence, the other members should contrast her. The group was initially formed in 2010 as a subunit of the female idol group Sakura Gakuin, aiming to realize a "fusion of metal and idol ". J-pop, Kobametal (Babymetal's producer) says that he had been envisioning the creation of a group around Nakamoto Suzuka (Su-metal)'s lead vocals ever since 2009, since the time when Suzuka's group Karen Girl's disbanded. 1.4 2015–present: Touring and second album.
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