For years Perturbator has been at the heart of the burgeoning synthwave scene that has crept into the heavily-guarded world of denim and leather. Here we talk to the man himself about why his dystopian, sci-fi electronics are the perfect fit for the corpsepainted masses.
The 20 greatest BABYMETAL songs – ranked
From 2014’s self-titled debut to 2019’s METAL GALAXY and beyond, we rank BABYMETAL’s most brilliantly bonkers tunes…
Words: Sam Law
When BABYMETAL first emerged onto the western heavy music scene some eight years ago, it was hard to know what to think. Was this ‘Kawaii metal’ cultural crossover a serious experiment in east-west musical fusion that demanded to be taken seriously? Were we supposed to enjoy the antics of SU-METAL, MOAMETAL and YUIMETAL (the latter pair only 13 at the time) with a sense of absurdist irony? Did these strange, schizoid sounds belong in the conversation with outfits like Mastodon, Slayer and Iron Maiden, or should they be confined to discussion in extreme music’s bizarro outer realms? And what the hell did it all mean?!?!