This year it's Babymetal "Babymetal". If it's weird to You just listen to it, try not thinking about all the hate those guys and girls get and open Your mind a bit. It's a masterpiece, both in mixing and production, all songs are catchy, the guy which arranged them on the album was a genius- we have a shitload of hit songs and still they managed to place them in an order of an awesome album- You won't be bored by listening to the whole thing.
Don't think about it as a specyfic genre metal, there are many pop and j-pop elements, usually one song bows to other genres like hip hop, dubstep, reggae and typical anime soundtracks. We have all mixes of metal, I can clearly hear many power metal elements, heavy metal, progressive metal, even symphonic and death metal. Oh, and it's worth to mention about 90% songs is catchy as fuck, hell, shit, cuntjuice and others. Really, it will drill Your head with "heado-bang" and other weird sounds you have no idea how to write down but know how to sing.
Favourite song from the album? Well, impossible to choose for me, but I think most live shows show that Headbanger is nr. 1.
Oh, and I wanna thank the band behind the music of Babymetal- girls are awesome but the guys are talented and skilled beyond my expectations, and I watched enough live shows to notice these guys are a real deal (not the skeletons, they are only a visual fake band, I'm talking about mental patients :P ).
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Ok, Galneryus guys are better, and I wish the world will notice one day.
Lyrics? Yeah, a bit simplistic, that's the charm. Omnium didn't have very deep lyrics too. So yeah, sod off.
Score? If You care enough- ok! 100% . Yes, more than Wintersun's Wintersun had from me. Haters gonna hate.
Just joking, not as good, some songs were only "fucking awesome", not "musical blowjobs awesome" so 96%. But for getting the metal scene so alive and fucking with so many genres without a condom they deserve a 100%, I'm just not as generous as You think :P
Rhod out, drunk as fuck, shout out to Grolsch beer, I had many too many
