Album Review: Babymetal - Metal Resistance

The very definition of a guilty pleasure, nothing divides the opinions of metalheads more than the respective merits of Babymetal.

It's like a great metal sea parting. They're either a genius inversion of metal tropes or mega-corp slaves. Not too many surprises here on their second album; complex, rangy tunes and a vast, mechanoid production that obliterates all in its path. The songs stand up reasonably well next to those of their debut, but in trying to write stadium anthems they make the patented Muse mistake of pushing the 'apocalypse' button a bit too hard.