wonderful, endearing delirium. Heavy music meets J-pop: a bug-eyed happyslap rending the biggest cultural divide since Crazy Frog. We’re nine years and three records on from their debut, the Japanese troupe having long shaken off the ‘novelty’ tag. But does their shtick still work? The synchronised dance moves, the fever-dream concepts about an imaginary Fox God, the audible rustlings of caution hurled into the wind? Obviously, it still works. If Babymetal’s fourth release were a movie, the tagline would read: ‘They ain’t babies no more.’ Vocalists Su-metal and Moametal are 25- and
