Jun 17, 2014

Lady Gaga Announces New artRAVE Support Act


Lady Gaga has officially announce that the Japanese pop and heavy metal girl group BABYMETAL will be the new extra support act for some dates at the North American leg of her current artRAVE: the ARTPOP ball tour.

Formed in 2010 by Suzaka Nakamoto (SU-METAL), Moa Kikuchi (MOAMETAL) and Yui Mizuno (YIUMETAL), the 3-girl group is based on the theme of "Kawaii Metal", mixing the genres of J-Pop and Heavy Metal. BABYMETAL's first album, self-titled BABYMETAL, was released in February 2014, achieving the #1 spot on the iTunes Heavy Metal chart in the US, UK and Canada.



The band continued to gain worldwide success, becoming the youngest Japanese artist to break into Billboard's Top 200 Chart and reaching #4 spot on Billboard's 'Heatseekers Albums' chart.

   Date
                        City
                                 Venue
           
Jul 30
                   Phoenix, AZ
                  US Airways Center 
          
Aug 01
                  Las Vegas, NV
                       MGM Grand Garden Arena
           
Aug 02 
                 Stateline, NV
                       Harveys Lake Tahoe
               
Aug 04                
Salt Lake City,UT
                     Energy Solutions Arena                

Aug 06
                  Denver, CO
                          Pepsi Center
                            


For additional info and the full tour dates click HERE