An internationally popular multiplayer online battle arena video game, League of Legends was created in 2009 by Riot Games. Commonly called "League," the game and its myriad offshoots include music videos, comic books, short stories, and the animated series Arcane.
In 2014, Riot's in-house music team created the virtual heavy metal group Pentakill, a League tie-in project that included cameos from Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe) and Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails). The band's 2017 album, Grasp of the Undying, was a streaming hit. K/DA, a virtual K-pop girl group, also League adjacent...