Kawaii Metal: A music genre combining cute J-pop elements with heavy metal instrumentation. Fox God (Kitsune-sama): The mystical entity in BABYMETAL's mythology who guides their destiny. The One: What ...

<i>Guitar Hero: Metallica</i> could have been terrible, but it's saved by an amazingly cohesive collection of tracks, a clear love for the band, and engaging note charts for guitar, bass, and drums.

In Metal, longevity has always been part of mythology. Only a rare few bands who grind it out across multiple albums, tours, and (I'll just say it), years of failure, before finally breaking through.

Metal benefitted greatly from the mainstream in the 80s and, to some degree, in the 90s. There were a lot of bands that gained a lot of popularity thanks to the historical context. This doesn’t mean ...