I found this in an FYE on Tuesday for seven goddamn ninety-nine. As unfortunate as it is that Japanese acts only seem to get popular abroad when they're marketed as novelties, especially in this day and age where everything "weird" gets memed to hell and laughed at, the bright side is that Babymetal's album got released in the US, where I was able to get it at an honest to goodness brick and mortar retailer. Life is great sometimes.
I know a lot of metalheads who will explode with rage at the very mention of Babymetal, which I can understand to a degree-- metalheads demand authenticity, and the thought of heavy metal being created and packaged as J-pop by a team of pop producers is as inauthentic to the concept of "true metal" as one can get. However, I just don't consider this a genuine metal album, moreso a genuine J-pop album, which it's excellent at. There really isn't a moment on this album that feels like it's dragging the entire effort down. It also gets pretty close to being genuinely great metal at times, just with young Japanese girls supplying mostly clean vocals.
This is one of many releases of the new international edition of the album, where you sacrifice the lovable luxury to get a couple nice bonus tracks instead. Road Of Resistance holds up with the quality of the regular album, although I wish there would've been a second studio track instead of the live version of "Gimme Chocolate!!" they threw on. It looks like one of the other international releases of this album, one from Europe, was given the digipak treatment, which I may try to seek out at some point. Hell, I still want a Japanese copy of this for the obi. But for the moment, this will suffice for all my Babymetal needs.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Babymetal Death
2. Megitsune
3. Gimme Chocolate!! (produced by Takeshi Ueda!)
4. Iine!
5. Akatsuki
6. Doki Doki ☆ Morning
7. Onedari Daisakusen
8. Song 4
9. Uki Uki ★ Midnight
10. Catch Me If You Can
11. Rondo Of Nightmare
International Edition Bonus Tracks:
15. Gimme Chocolate!! (Live at O2 Academy, Brixton, London)
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