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[OMFG] Babymetal Is Back!

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Babymetal is back! The Japanese pop-metal group fronted by three preteen girls has a new song entitled Like, which will hit iTunes on March 7th. In anticipation of this release, the group has released a video of a shortened version of the song. You can check it out below.

Okay, so I know that a lot of you who watched that video are probably thinking that this is the most ridiculous garbage you’ve seen in a while. While I won’t argue with you, I think there is another way to look at this group. We should honestly be encouraging them! We should be siding with them and lauding them. 
Want to know why? Because kids at that age are only just beginning to build their musical foundation. They latch onto what is popular and exciting and share it like crazy amongst their friends. It’s only later into the teenage years that people start making their own decisions regarding music instead of what is most popular. 
So if young kids are getting into some form of metal, why not encourage it? They’ll grow out of it and move along to bands that produce metal for the sake of the music, not the gimmick. It is there that they will find the bands that are worthy and deserving of respect and admiration, be it bands such as Slayer and Metallica or groups like Opeth, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, or even over to Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, or Cannibal Corpse. 
Just as important as setting the foundation for enjoying metal, it also sets the foundation that women in metal works. Sure, these are preteen girls, but, again, it sets the standard for these children who listen to the group that women can be just as important to the genre as men. 
Basically, what I’m saying is let these kids enjoy the music because it sets the foundation that metal isn’t bad. Quite the opposite actually.
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‘The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live’ Concert Event to Make Streaming Debut Next Month

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AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.

Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24. 

Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”

Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.

The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.

Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.

The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.

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