BABYMETAL To Release 'Live At Wembley' Album In December

Japanese pop-metal sensation BABYMETAL will release a new 13-track live album, “Live At Wembley”, on December 9 via earMUSIC/Edel. A digital version will be made available on December 30. With a carefully selected track listing, the CD captures the spectacular performance recorded at BABYMETAL‘s first-ever U.K. arena show, “Babymetal World Tour 2016 Kicks Off At The SSE Arena, Wembley”, which took place in London on April 2. The show saw BABYMETAL become the first Japanese artist in history to perform a headline show at The SSE Arena, Wembley. This concert garnered an attendance of 12,000 people, where BABYMETAL also broke the merchandise sales record of the venue, creating history once again.

“Live At Wembley” track listing:

01. Babymetal Death
02. Awadama Fever
03. Yava!
04. GJ!
05. Doki Doki * Morning
06. Meta Taro
07. Amore
08. Megitsune
09. KARATE
10. Ijime, Dame, Zettai
11. Gimme Chocolate!!
12. The One (English version)
13. Road Of Resistance

Total running time: 1:17:26

The release coincides with BABYMETAL‘s U.K. tour as special guests to RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS.

The breakout all-girl-fronted Japanese heavy metal/teen-pop hybrid group features 18-year-old Su-Metal and 17-year-olds Yuimetal and Moametal, backed by a four-piece band,

BABYMETAL‘s new album “Metal Resistance”, released simultaneously worldwide on April 1, ranked No.15 on the U.K. official chart, the highest rank in the history of Japanese artists, as well as charting in the Top 40 on the U.S. Billboard chart, being the first Japanese artist in 53 years to have made the charts since Kyu Sakamoto. The 12-track second full-length CD, featuring tracks “Road Of Resistance”, “Karate” and “The One”, is available as a standalone CD, vinyl and limited-edition bundle package.

Following the release of the official video for the new album’s lead single “Karate”, BABYMETAL unveiled the second video for the new album, for the song “The One”. The seven-minute live video features singer/dancers Su-Metal, Moametal and Yuimetal performing within a triangular enclosure that’s suspended above an arena-size crowd at Yokohama Arena in Japan on the final date of the 2015 world tour.

BABYMETAL made its U.S. late-night TV debut on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in April, performing “Gimme Chocolate” off their debut album.