Terrifyingly, no. In fact there’s a lot more strangeness where they came from.
**Who: **Band-Maid
The schtick: Five Japanese girls playing aggressive arena-metal while dressed in frilly maid outfits.
**Weirdness factor: **Their YouTube page greets visitors with the phrase ‘Welcome home master’ and female fans are addressed as ‘princesses’. Hmm…
Who: LadyBaby
The schtick: Chirpy ‘kawaii (cute) metal’ delivered by cross-dressing Australian wrestler LadyBeard – who claims he is a five-year-old girl – and two teenage girls from Tokyo.
**Weirdness factor: **A cross-dressing Australian wrestler who claims he’s a five-year-old girl? Oh no, nothing weird about that.
**Who: **Man With A Mission
The schtick: Apparently these nu metallers were created in “the farthest away land of Ladyland”, and frozen in glacial caskets at the South Pole until global warming thawed them out in 2010. Right…
**Weirdness factor: **All five members wear wolf heads on stage. Frankly, they’re not trying hard enough.
**Who: **Doll $ Boxx
The schtick: All-female power-metal quintet who look like Kiss-meets-the Spice Girls.
Weirdness factor: Low, although the opening 30 seconds of their Take My Chance video suggests they’re aware that their fan-base consists largely of middle-aged men with a deficit of social skills.
**Who: **Fear, And Loathing In Las Vegas
**The schtick: **Hyperactive blend of emo, metalcore and rave beats. Enter Shikari-meets-Alvin & The Chipmunks.
Weirdness factor: For anyone under 25 there’s nothing weird at all here: half the bands on alt.rock roadshow the Warped Tour sound like this. For everyone else it sounds like a migraine and aneurysm all at once.
