With Special Guests: Bloodywood & Magnolia Park
A dazzling global force to be reckoned with, in 2026 Metal sensations BABYMETAL are set to tour Australian arenas next March joined by Indian metal behemoths BLOODYWOOD.
Opening on Thursday 12 March in Perth, BABYMETAL will blaze their way through Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
Hailing from Tokyo, BABYMETAL's origin story stems back to 2010, with the group forging their own unique sonic sound via heavy metal and Japanese idol cues. Swiftly evolving into a global sensation that has embraced genre-defiance, five studio albums, countless award wins, millions of global followers, tours around the world, chart success and collaborations with the likes of Tom Morello, Electric Callboy, Spiritbox and countless others, BABYMETAL continue to reinvent themselves and what it means to be a heavy band in the 21s century; a fact robustly on display with each new performance and release.
Most recently flexing their wares via their 2025 fifth studio album METAL FORTH, which saw the group become the first all-Japanese act to reach the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and also contained a feature from BLOODYWOOD on Kon! Kon! amongst other collabs, BABYMETAL have also spent the better part of 2025 on the road, from performing in Australia at Knotfest in February and March, through to headlining in Europe, the UK, North America, and, earlier this week, ticking off a special arena show in Mexico.
Closer to home, BABYMETAL made their first ever Australian live performance in 2018 at Good Things Festival, before returning in 2023 for their debut headline run, and enamouring once again earlier this year in a festival setting as part of Knotfest Australia. Renowned for their high-octane heaviness, infectious choreography and dazzling-yet-blistering charisma, BABYMETAL's earlier Aussie performances have relentlessly captivated crowds, with Everblack Media dubbing their Brisbane headline show earlier this year "a meticulously crafted fusion of precision and power", while Volume Media enthused of the band's debut 2023 headline shows that "it transcended cultural boundaries, generational boundaries, and genre boundaries. We entered the metalverse with BABYMETAL, and none of us came out the same."
Balancing guttural metal, Indian folk elements, hip hop hues and lyricism that span humour, culture and social issues, BLOODYWOOD are a band like no other. An act who have proudly flown the flag for Indian metal increasingly on a global scale since first forming in 2016, becoming India's first metal act to chart on Billboard, the group initially gained traction via uploading YouTube cover songs before harnessing their signature sound, and ultimately beginning their journey towards world domination. Releasing a new album Nu Delhi earlier this year, BLOODYWOOD gifted a searing love letter to Nu Delhi and its thriving music scene, with the album also boasting a memorable collab with BABYMETAL on the track Bekhauf. With inescapably charismatic songs sung in Hindi, Punjabi and English, sold-out tours and performances at the likes of Hellfest and Download Festival, BLOODYWOOD's long-awaited journey to Australia in 2026 will be the stuff heavy music dreams are made of.