Babymetal World Tour 2015

The Babymetal World Tour 2015 was a concert tour by Babymetal, which began on 9 May 2015 in Mexico City, Mexico and ended on 13 December 2015 with a performance in Yokohama Arena at Yokohama, Japan. The tour was announced on 10 February 2015, with dates for Mexico, Canada, United States, Germany, Austria and Japan. Additional dates was announced on 25 February for France, Switzerland and Italy. On 20 April, it was revealed that Babymetal would play at the Reading and Leeds Festivals as part of the tour. They performed at METROCK festival in Tokyo on 24 May.^[1] Following the concert at Rock Im Revier, Germany on 30 May they announced two additional solo dates for Germany. After the concert at Makuhari Messe on 21 June, they announced the Babymetal World Tour 2015 in Japan, with ten new dates for Japan.^[2] This concert was also their biggest solo show yet, with 25 000 people in the audience.^[3] On 9 July, Babymetal announced that they will perform at Ozzfest on 22 November.^[2]

During this tour, Babymetal made a surprise guest appearance at Download Festival, where they performed their song "Gimme Chocolate!!" with prominent power metal band DragonForce during their set on 12 June.^[4] They also performed two songs at the 2015 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards together on 15 June.^[5] In September, Babymetal appeared briefly on stage with Skrillex at Tokyo's Ultra Music Festival.^[6]

Broadcast and recording

The concert held at Makuhari Messe on 21 June was broadcast live across 24 theaters in Japan with 5000 viewers in total.^[3] WOWOW broadcast the Summer Sonic concerts held on 15 and 16 August,^[7] and will also broadcast the first concert held in Yokohama in April 2016.^[8]

Set list

This setlist is representative of the first show in Chiba, Japan.^[3] It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.

1. Babymetal Death (BABYMETAL DEATH)
2. Gimme Chocolate!! (ギミチョコ！！)
3. Doki Doki ☆ Morning (ド・キ・ド・キ☆モーニング)
4. Uki Uki ★ Midnight (ウ・キ・ウ・キ★ミッドナイト)
5. Awadama Fever (あわだまフィーバー)
6. Catch Me If You Can (Catch me if you can)
7. Onedari Daisakusen (おねだり大作戦)
8. Akatsuki (紅月-アカツキ-)
9. Rondo of Nightmare (悪夢の輪舞曲)
10. Song 4 (４の歌)
11. Yava! (ヤバッ！)
12. Iine! (いいね！)
13. Megitsune (メギツネ)
14. Ijime, Dame, Zettai (イジメ、ダメ、ゼッタイ)
15. Headbanger (ヘドバンギャー！！)
16. Road of Resistance

Tour dates

Festivals performances

^A This concert was a part of "Rock on the Range"

^B This concert was part of "Metrock"

^C This concert was part of "Rockavaria"

^D This concert was part of "Rock Im Revier"

^E This concert was part of "Rock in Vienna"

^F This concert was part of "Summer Sonic Festival"

^G This concert was part of "Reading and Leeds Festivals"

^H This concert was part of "Ozzfest"

References

External links

• Official Babymetal website