“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

Babymetal posing for a photograph in 2015.

Babymetal are one of the biggest success stories of the last 15 years - and one of the most unexpected. Metal Hammer caught up with the Japanese sensations in 2015, at the start of their meteoric rise, to find out just how three girls from Japan had become metal’s most exciting new band.