The band released their first single in 17 years on April 13, 2016.
On April 5, Babymetal made their U.S. television debut, performing “Gimme Chocolate!!” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert .
On April 2, one day after the release of Metal Resistance , Babymetal became the first Japanese act to headline Wembley Arena, with the largest sale of merchandise for a single day event in the venue’s history, coinciding with the highest ever entry for an album in the UK charts…
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Yuki and Masashi left Jupiter in April 2016.
Early in the morning of 20 March 2016, coldrain was involved in a bus crash while traveling from their recent stop in Texas to the next scheduled concert (support of ” Silverstein 2016 USA Tour”) in Oklahoma .
On March 13, the band’s producer, Kobametal, received an Excellence Award from the Association of Media in Digital (AMD) in Japan for his success in promoting the band internationally.
In March 2016, they released live DVD and Blu-ray, Eizo Sakuhin Shu Vol.12 that contains their tour concert in Tokyo International Forum .
Man With a Mission performed the theme song for the anime The Seven Deadly Sins , titled “Seven Deadly Sins”. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and stayed for 9 weeks. Their single titled “Raise Your Flag” was featured as the opening song for the…
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On February 3, X Japan announced the postponement of their album release and March 12 concert at the Wembley Arena for a whole year
On January 15, 2016, the album’s title was revealed to be Metal Resistance .