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See Metallica warmup before their first show at the Wiltern benefit show for friend Flea from RHCP in Los Angeles, May 14th 2008.  See the practice session with Flea playing his favorite song ‘Fight with Fire’ which they played later on in the night together.

William Goodman of Spin.com conducted an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich earlier today (Thursday, May 15) about the group’s much-anticipated new record, which, according to Lars, the outfit will cap next week with “a couple of nips and tucks” for release this September.

Here are some bullet points from Lars‘ comments about the forthcoming CD:
(Listen to audio of the interview here)

* The yet-to-be titled new record will drop sometime in September.
* The quartet will wrap production on the record next week, “by Wednesday or Thursday,” Ulrich confirms. (more…)

See video here: The first Mission Metallica winner hangs backstage with Lars at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. See Video after the break.

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Metallica is “a couple of nips and tucks” away from completing its next album, which is still on target for a September release, according to drummer Lars Ulrich.

During a conference call yesterday (May 15) promoting this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival, which Metallica will headline on June 13, Ulrich told reporters that the group hopes to wrap up work on the album in time for the Memorial Day weekend holiday. Metallica recently met with a graphic designer to begin planning the package, though there’s no confirmed title for the album yet and the songs still have working names. (more…)

This latest Rock Band download offering is a special collection of singles featuring the nine tracks showcased in the Euro version of the game including some of Europe’s heaviest hitters: UK’s Blur, Muse and Oasis, German rockers Tokio Hotel, Die Toten Hosen, H-BlockX and Juli, and French natives Les Wampas and Pleymo. In addition to having the best localized European content available to both continents, Harmonix and MTV Games are also giving European users complete access at launch to the entire Rock Band downloadable content catalog of more than 110 songs to date, which includes tracks from some of the greatest U.S. rock bands such as Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Boston, The Grateful Dead, Queens of the Stone Age and more. (more…)

Metallica has tapped Greg Fidelman — an engineer/producer who has worked with current METALLICA producer Rick Rubin on albums for the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLIPKNOT and AUDIOSLAVE, among others — to mix its much-anticipated new album, due out in September.

During a May 14 interview with The Pulse of Radio, Ulrich said that the group hopes to wrap up work on the album in time for the Memorial Day weekend holiday. “It’s pretty close,” he said. “We’ve got four studio days next week to just patch up. If there’s a last minute, you know, ‘that needs this…’ or — but pretty much done. Yeah, it’s pretty much done. And then they start mixing the week after.” (more…)

Metallica has been saying for months that their new record will harken back to some of their older material, and drummer Lars Ulrich reiterated that point in a conference call yesterday. “It’s definitely pretty all over the place: a lot of variation, a lot of fast, slow, melodic, hardcore, nutty, super-fast speed stuff,” he told reporters. “It’s more like some of the earlier records, which were a little more dynamic within the songs. And on those records, there were a lot of long songs that were - without sounding too corny - journeys. You’d go here and then you’d go over here and then this, and then that would happen. It feels like kind of a lot of that stuff. It’s difficult for me to sit down and brand it yet, because I’m still so close to it.”Ulrich also said the band hopes to have the album finished by Memorial Day and they have already met with a graphic designer about the artwork. They plan to release it in mid-September and start touring in October. (more…)

*This was the first time Metallica played the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. The show was a benefit concert for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music and all profits from the sale of this recording will be donated to the school. *Flea, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the reason for this whole concert (he co-founded the Silverlake Conservatory of Music), performed his favorite Metallica song with the band. He performed Fight Fire With Fire, which was last played on November 17, 2004 in Dallas, TX. *The last time Metallica played in Southern California was on November 27, 2004 at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, CA. *This was the first time No Remorse had been performed since playing in Quebec City on October 14, 2004. *This was the first time in 19 years that …And Justice for All was performed in the US. It was last performed in the US on September 23, 1989 at Irvine Meadows in Irvine, CA.  Download Now!

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The History Channel will telecast new series of History Rocks with some of the world’s best rock musicians and legendary performers.

Showing the greatest moments of rock, History Rocks will be telecast every Thursday at 9 pm from 5 June to give viewers a slice of the glory that marks these legendary performers. The series was first aired in 2004 and has been telecast at regular intervals since then. With decades of multi-platinum success and sold-out tours, some of the greatest musical icons like Metallica, U2, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones and Deep Purple are featured in this series that fusedm music and history together. (more…)

Video footage of the RHCP bassist jamming out on his favourite Metallica track with the band. Metallica were joined onstage at their LA performance last night by none other than Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. The Chili’s man, who is responsible for putting on the Silverlake Conservatory of Music show that Metallica played last night, got up with the Metallica chaps to have a run through ‘Fight Fire With Fire’ from 1984’s ‘Ride The Lightning’. In the clip’s intro, frontman James Hetfield describes the song as ‘Flea’s favourite Metallica track’. The band can still f*cking rock the house!

“We have this phrase in Metallica land, which is ‘no-brainer,’” drummer Lars Ulrich told Spinner backstage of why the band returned to the stage after a near four-year absence at a benefit for the Silver Lake Conservatory, a music school for kids, spearheaded by Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea. “It’s for Flea and it’s for inner-city, underprivileged kids who need access to instruments and to be around musical education,” he expounded. (more…)

“That was the first show of the tour,” announced Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, who, along with his bandmates, shredded through a nearly two-hour set with such hits as “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Fuel,” “Master of Puppets,” “…And Justice for All,” “Enter Sandman,” and “Seek and Destroy,” at Los Angeles’ 2,300-capacity Wiltern Theatre. (more…)

Metallica got extra loud in their first live set in a year on Wednesday, headlining a benefit concert in Los Angeles for Flea’s music school for kids, the Silverlake Conservatory. That meant no ballads and no new songs from the band’s upcoming Rick Rubin-produced album. Instead, for nearly two hours at the Wiltern Theater, Metallica erupted with big sludgy riffs and epic speed metal going all the way back to the early Eighties.

“Now that’s a beautiful sound right there,” singer James Hetfield told the crowd, responding to the cheers from 2,000 fans who had paid $300 (or $500 for VIP seats) for a rare chance to see the band in a smaller venue. “It’s great to be playing live again.” (more…)