Deal With It, Headbangers — Babymetal Is Here — npr.org

Babymetal perform during the first day of the 2014 Heavy Montreal festival. Tim Snow hide caption Babymetal perform during the first day of the 2014 Heavy Montreal festival. On Saturday, August 9, more than 40,000 people descended upon Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau for the first day of Heavy Montreal, North America's biggest heavy metal festival. The main draw on this day was headliner Metallica; respected veterans in Anthrax, Voivod and Overkill and upstarts like Municipal Waste and Protest the Hero featured on the eclectic undercard. Early in the day though, it was a performance by a trio who performed a confounding, surreal fusion of bubbly Japanese pop and edgy heavy metal that attracted the crowd's attention.

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