SUZUKA NAKAMOTO

Our aim is to bring everyone together through BABYMETAL's music.

The Fox God created Babymetal by coming to us in a dream and telling the three of us to form the band. It is because of the Fox God that we are able to be who we are and perform all over the world.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

The surprising thing is when we met Judas Priest, they all recognized us. They knew our songs. They knew 'Gimme Chocolate!' and started dancing along with the music.

Our fans are made up of different groups of people: people who enjoy this Japanese idol scene, versus metal fans. The crowd is disorganised because everyone is reacting to the band in a different way.

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.

Babymetal's music is kind of - no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, 'What the heck?!'

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.

In the beginning I thought that metal was something scary, but I learned how thoughtful and amazing metal is. I'm so honored to be a part of it.

My mum wasn't the sort of person who would ordinarily listen to heavy metal. But she thinks Babymetal's songs are cool. She's a big fan.

It's always fun to see fans getting into the rhythm, enjoying our performance, and seeing them sing along with us!

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren't that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them, they were really nice to us.

For me, every time I step on the stage it feels like a battle is about to start. It's not like we're going on stage to fight against our audience obviously, because for me, when I go on stage, I'm always trying to reach a new level of how am I going to make today a great night for everyone that's present.

We already knew that Glastonbury is one of the largest music festivals. We always wanted to perform here, and it's like a dream. It's really amazing.

We never imagined ourselves in this unbelievable situation that we're in today such as having concerts all over the world and we believe this is all given to us by the Fox God.

Yuimetal has been someone very special to us.

The American audience has always without fail shown us very real emotions. We always try to just be ourselves and show them who Babymetal are.

We always do this fox sign that appears in our choreography very often. Our fans enjoy doing this sign together at our shows.

Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national boundaries. It was a huge revelation when we realized that our music has such power.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

We want to gather everyone together as one, transcending any barrier of language and culture.

We are pioneers of creating a new genre of metal.