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We present our review of Babymetal - Metal Forth and more!Babymetal’s Metal Forth, released August 8th, 2025, on Capitol Records. It’s officially their fourth canonical album — they set The Other One aside as a concept project — and it’s the first full record to feature Momometal as a permanent member alongside Su-metal and Moametal.The title is a play on words: “Metal Forth” as in moving forward, and “Metal Forth” as in pushing beyond the genre itself. And that’s exactly what they try to do. This record is built almost entirely on collaborations. Only three of the ten tracks are just Babymetal. Everywhere else you’ve got guests: Poppy, Spiritbox, Polyphia, Electric Callboy, Slaughter to Prevail, Bloodywood, even Tom Morello dropping in with that unmistakable guitar attack.Clocking in at just over 35 minutes, it’s lean, polished, and loud. You get flashes of nu-metal, deathcore, alt-metal, even EDM crossover, all stitched together by Babymetal’s trademark pop-metal energy. It’s maximalist by design — a chaos