Английская Википедия:Babymetal World Tour 2016: Legend Metal Resistance

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The Babymetal World Tour 2016: Legend Metal Resistance (stylized as BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2016 LEGEND - METAL RESISTANCE -) was the third worldwide concert tour by Japanese band Babymetal. Supporting their second album Metal Resistance (2016), the tour ran from April 2, 2016 to September 20, 2016, taking place in Japan, the United States, and several countries in Europe. The tour commenced the day after the worldwide release of Metal Resistance on April 1, 2016.

Background

On Шаблон:Start date, a YouTube video was posted on the band's official channel for the previously untitled album, announced with its April 1 release dubbed "Fox Day". Simultaneously, a 2016 world tour was also announced, with its planned final performance date at Tokyo Dome. The tour was set to begin at Wembley Arena on Шаблон:Start date, the day after the album's worldwide release, and end at Tokyo Dome on Шаблон:Start date. On June 3, 2016, another date was announced for Tokyo Dome, extending the tour to September 20. The first American leg of the tour was confirmed shortly afterwards, with the band announcing tour dates set on the East Coast and planning later dates on the West Coast.

Tour dates for the European leg and second American leg of the tour were announced on the band's website on March 1, 2018, including a performance at Download Festival in Paris. Prior to the commencement of the American leg, the band made their first appearance on American television, performing "Gimme Chocolate!!" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As of May 6, 2016, most shows for the North American leg were sold out, with the remaining shows limited in tickets, notable since Japanese music, despite being the world's second-largest music industry, has little international following.

Development

As stated by Moa Kikuchi, the band's goal for the tour was to bring metal music to people regardless of their nationality, gender, or age. According to Yui Mizuno, the band members will "grow as a bigger band by experiencing this upcoming world tour so that [they] can come back to Japan and play at a huge venue as Tokyo Dome". Suzuka Nakamoto stated the desire to develop the new songs from Metal Resistance.

We think our songs and performances are developed by experiencing how the audience react and get excited at our shows. In our world tour, we'll be performing new songs from the new album so we're looking forward to see how we brush up and grow by taking in everything from every new performance we do.

Critical response

Graham Hartmann of Loudwire positively reviewed the band's performance in New York City on May 4, 2016. Describing the concert as "stripped-down" and featuring highlights from their first two albums, he called the show "refreshing" how little production was put on the performance, noting how the vocal performance was not perfect. Regardless, he praised the girls' choreography and the instrumentals of the supporting Kami Band. Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described the set list as becoming "a little more knowing, though no less weird", calling "Amore" a highlight of the show, while noting that the appeal for the band was "energy and melody, and the work of skilled songwriters". Jason Roche of L.A. Weekly described the show in Los Angeles on July 15 as "more of a community center lock-in party than a Friday night out getting drinks and watching a band", highlighting Nakamoto's vocal performance. Although he praised the vocals that of Mizuno and Kikuchi, he stated that their stage presence is highlighted more by their "endless energy". He also noted that the show ran for a full 80 minutes with no break between sets, while the audience "stuck with the band through every song, their energy level never wavering".

Broadcast and recording

The concert at Wembley Arena on April 2 was broadcast live to 24,000 people in Japan at Zepp Sapporo, Zepp Fukuoka, and delayed to Tsutaya O-East, which screened for an audience of 12,000. Japanese television station WOWOW broadcast the concert at Wembley Arena, as well as the performance at the 2016 Rock in Japan Festival on August 6, and both shows at Tokyo Dome on September 19 and 20. These shows were also released as live audio and video albums Live at Wembley and Live at Tokyo Dome. The concert at Wembley Arena then premiered on television in the United Kingdom on Sky Arts on July 6, 2019.

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets, and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
Europe
April 2, 2016	London	England	Wembley Arena	12,000 / 12,500	Шаблон:N/a
Asia
April 20, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Tokyo	Japan	Studio Coast	rowspan=2 Шаблон:N/a	rowspan=2 Шаблон:N/a
April 21, 2016Шаблон:Efn
North America
May 4, 2016	New York City	United States	PlayStation Theater	2,150 / 2,150	$103,010
May 5, 2016	Boston		House of Blues	2,425 / 2,508	$92,050
May 7, 2016	Philadelphia		Electric Factory	rowspan=6 Шаблон:N/a	rowspan=6 Шаблон:N/a
May 8, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Concord		Charlotte Motor Speedway
May 10, 2016	Silver Spring		The Fillmore
May 11, 2016	Detroit		The Fillmore Detroit
May 13, 2016	Chicago		House of Blues
May 14, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Somerset		Somerset Amphitheater
Europe
June 2, 2016	Pratteln	Switzerland	Z7	rowspan=7 Шаблон:N/a	rowspan=7 Шаблон:N/a
June 3, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Vienna	Austria	Donauinsel Wien
June 5, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Nijmegen	Netherlands	Goffertpark
June 7, 2016	Cologne	Germany	Live Music Hall
June 8, 2016	Stuttgart		LKA Longhorn
June 10, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Derby	England	Donington Park
June 11, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Paris	France	Longchamp Racecourse
North America
July 12, 2016	Seattle	United States	Showbox SoDo	rowspan=5 Шаблон:N/a	rowspan=5 Шаблон:N/a
July 14, 2016	San Francisco		The Regency Center
July 15, 2016	Los Angeles		Wiltern Theatre
July 17, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Bridgeview		Toyota Park
July 18, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Columbus		Value City Arena
Asia
July 24, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Yuzawa	Japan	Naeba Ski Resort	rowspan=12 Шаблон:N/a	rowspan=12 Шаблон:N/a
August 6, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Hitachinaka		Hitachi Seaside Park
August 8, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Osaka		Namba Hatch
August 9, 2016Шаблон:Efn
August 12, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Otaru		Ishikari Bay New Port
August 17, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Tokyo		Zepp Tokyo
August 18, 2016Шаблон:Efn
August 21, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Osaka		Sonic Stage
August 24, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Nagoya		Zepp Nagoya
August 25, 2016Шаблон:Efn
September 19, 2016Шаблон:Efn	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome
September 20, 2016Шаблон:Efn

External links

• Official Babymetal website