Babymetal - Metal Galaxy (Japanese Edition) (2019)

The Japanese pop-metal group’s third album, which arrives October 11th, will contain 14/16 songs and feature a bevy of guest artists. The musicians appearing on Metal Galaxy include Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz; Sabaton singer Joakim Brodén; Polyphia guitarists Tim Henson and Scott LePage; B’z guitarist Tak Matsumoto; and Thai rapper F.HERO.

Along with revealing the tracklist, the band offered more insight into the album, explaining, “As their band name, BABYMETAL, represents ‘the birth of a new genre of music that combines Japanese pop with metal’, hence the term ‘baby’ in the name, the new album expresses Light & Darkness, emotions like duality and ambivalence, and ‘new metal’ created by various chemical reactions as other entities evolved and expanded in this album.”

The statement continues, “Just like the Sun and the Moon changes the appearance of this world with its daylight and moonlight, with evermore new type of various sound, their music paints the metal galaxy in different colors.”

Tracklist
CD1
01. FUTURE METAL (02:05)
02. DA DA DANCE (Feat. Tak Matsumoto) (03:50)
03. Elevator Girl (English Version) (02:45)
04. Shanti Shanti Shanti (03:10)
05. Oh! MAJINAI (Feat. Joakim Broden) (03:12)
06. Brand New Day (Feat. Tim Henson & Scott Lepage) (04:08)
07. ↑↓←→BBAB (03:05)
08. Night Night Burn! (03:40)

CD 2
01. IN THE NAME OF (04:30)
02. Distortion (Feat. Alissa White-Gluz) (03:04)
03. PA PA YA!! (Feat. F.HERO) (03:55)
04. BxMxC (03:03)
05. Kagerou (03:30)
06. Starlight (03:37)
07. Shine (05:52)
08. Arkadia (05:18)