“I was giving it everything I had to keep up with the song's intensity, and just making it through to the end was already a challenge:” Babymetal reveal the story behind one of their earliest fan favourites

Babymetal posing for a photograph in 2026.

Babymetal have revealed the challenge behind making early fan favourite Akatsuki.

Speaking exclusively in the brand new issue of Metal Hammer, the band – who release a deluxe edition of their 2025 album Metal Forth on June 26 – reveals that co-vocalist Su-metal struggled to make it to the end of the power ballad-style song, which appeared on their self-titled 2014 debut album.