page_title: Headbanger (Babymetal song)
section_title: Live performances
hierarchical_section_title: Headbanger (Babymetal song) / Live performances
caption_attribution_description: English: Babymetal performs live at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
context_page_description: "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!" is a single by the Japanese heavy metal band Babymetal. Released in Japan on July 4, 2012 in promotion for the album Sakura Gakuin 2012 Nendo: My Generation, the single serves as the third single from the debut album Babymetal. It is also the band's first solo audio release to be released commercially.
context_section_description: "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!" was first performed at the Pop'n Idol 02 venue at Zepp Tokyo on June 23, 2012. To promote the release of the single, the band performed the song during their promotional event "Headbang Pilgrimage!!" (ヘドバ行脚ー!!, Hedoba Angyā!!) at Tower Records/Tsuyata stores, first at Namba Rockets, Osaka on July 7, and at ell.Size, Nagoya on July 8. On July 14, the band performed in the concert Uki Uki ☆ Afternoon at Tower Records, Shibuya as a part of the Tower Records event No Music, No Idol?. The band also played the concert Legend: Corset Festival at Meguro Rock May Kan on July 21, 2012, where the song "Uki Uki ★ Midnight" was first performed live, and fans accepted into the concert were required to wear the corsets.
  Yui Mizuno and Moa Kikuchi also performed some of the lead parts of “Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!” for their fifteenth birthdays, although not on the exact days; Mizuno's performance was on July 1, 2014 at La Cigale in Paris and Kikuchi's was on July 3, 2014 at the Live Music Hall in Cologne, respectively, during the Babymetal World Tour 2014. In both instances, Su-metal ceremoniously handed over her microphone during the breakdown after the first chorus and then took over the singer's position in the choreography. In the Legend S: Baptism XX show at the Hiroshima Green Arena, which took place in the month of Nakamoto's twentieth birthday, most references to "fifteen" (一五, ichigo, literally "one-five") were replaced with "twenty years old" (二十歳, hatachi).
  Unlike in contemporary heavy metal performances, the members of the band dance to "Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!" with a variation of headbanging called "baby headbanging", where the three lightly jump while swing their heads from shoulder to shoulder. A second variation known as "dogeza headbanging" involves kneeling and bowing deeply. Su-metal considered the unison of choreography for "Uki Uki ★ Midnight" to be difficult and strange, with elements of monster-like movements, falling asleep in the real world, and once more in a dream world.
caption: Babymetal performing "Uki Uki ★ Midnight" on the Babymetal World Tour 2014.
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