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According to the official band website, they filmed a music video for the first single from the new Metallica new album, Death Magnetic, named “The Day That Never Comes”. It’s refered to as a “short film” instead of a music video. Is there acting involved? I don’t think so .The director was Thomas Vinterberg, and they filmed in the middle of dust and smoke, just outside Los Angeles, CA. The video will apparently be released at the end of the month. See what the boys had to say..

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Front-man James Hetfield: “It started out as kind of a tribute to people that have fallen in our business, like Layne Staley and a lot of the people that have died, basically – rock and roll martyrs of sorts. And then it kind of grew from there. Thinking about death… just like a magnet, some people are drawn towards it, other people are afraid of it and push away. The concept that we’re all gonna die sometimes is over-talked about and then a lot of times never talked about – no one wants to bring it up; it’s the big white elephant in the living room. But we all have to deal with it at some point.”

Metallica have just announced that they will be hosting a couple of bashes in September, via their websites http://www.metallica.com/and http://www.missionmetallica.com/

To celebrate the release of their new album “Death Magnetic” in September (actual date still tbc) the band thought it would be cool to hang with a few of their closest friends in some of their favourite cities.

On September 12th in Berlin, Germany and on September 15th in London, England they will be hosting a little bash to celebrate the blessed event of the upcoming addition to the Metallica family/catalogue.

There will be a live band (that would be them!) and tickets will only be available to MetClub members and Mission: Metallica members.

The band headline the Leeds (August 22nd) and Reading (August 24th) festivals.

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The one title sure to set off discussion among Metallica faithful is “The Unforgiven III.” The original song appeared on the band’s famed 1991 “Black Album,” while “The Unforgiven II” surfaced on 1997’s “Reload.”

Here is the track list for “Death Magnetic” in running order:

“That Was Just Your Life”
“The End of the Line”
“Broken, Beat & Scarred”
“The Day That Never Comes”
“All Nightmare Long”
“Cyanide”
“The Unforgiven III”
“The Judas Kiss”
“Suicide & Redemption”
“My Apocalypse”

Looks Like the new Metallica album, Death Magnetic, has been relisted on Amazon.com and they are taking preorders. Not much description up on the site, and no there is no specific release date…yet.

It’s already #2 in the Death Metal category and #491 over all in music. Not bad I would say for an album that is not even released yet and has already been available to pre-order on the missionmetallica site. Check out the listing.  Where are you going to buy it from?

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New Metallica website deathamgnetic.com. For now it’s just a link to Metallica.com. Im sure there will be more on this site soon dedicated to the new album. I’m starting to get pretty psyched up for this. It’s becoming more of a reality every day.  .COM

A five-minute interview with METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield conducted yesterday (Wednesday, July 16) by VG TV at the opening show of the second leg of the band’s European summer tour in Bergen, Norway can be viewed below. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

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Metallica has released the new cover art for their anticipated ninth studio album, Death Magnetic.

The album, scheduled to be released this September. You can grab wallpapers, icons and avatars of the artwork here.

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Wikipedia Entry: Death Magnetic^[3] is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is scheduled for release in September 17th 2008 by Warner Bros. Records.^[4] The album will be the band’s first to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo and the first to be produced by Rick Rubin.^[5] It will also be their first studio album released through Warner Bros. Records, although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which owns their previous label, Elektra Records. (more…)

According to the Norway’s Platekompaniet, METALLICA will release a Deluxe Box Set of their new album, Death Magnetic in September which includes the Death Magnetic digi, ten-track demo CD, making of Death Magnetic DVD, Death Magnetic flag, Death Magnetic plekter, t-shirt, USB memory stick (enabling digital download of Death Magnetic) and more.

The retailer also lists a five-LP version of Death Magnetic which will be available.

Death Magnetic is “a stunning, overdue return to the shock and rush of the band’s speed-metal monuments, 1984’s Ride The Lightning and 1986’s Master Of Puppets,” according to Rolling Stone.

UPDATE: Apparently the original page on the site has been removed. I’m sure ‘you know who’ had something to do with it. (more…)

It’s all Metallica this week at 411mania.com, as Mitch, Dan H., Dan M. and Ben C. discuss the legendary band’s upcoming album, past discrepancies and “Guitar Hero” rumors. Plus, two Metallica live cuts and a sexy contest winner! Listen here..

DasDing.tv conducted an interview with METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo at this year’s Rock am Ring festival, which took place June 6-7 in Nürburgring, Germany. Watch it in two parts.

Part 1

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Following a rip-off claim on Irish metal forum www.metalireland.com, which then spread to other international forums, made today in response to the newest METALLICA ‘Fly On The Wall’ documentary clip reported by Blabbermouth ERA VULGARIS frontman Chris Rob has made the following statement through their MySpace to clarify the band’s position on the matter and dispel any rumours about legal action.

” …so Metallica just release a new clip from the ‘Fly On The Wall’ documentary thing with a very brief excerpt from the end of a song.

An excerpt which bears no small resemblance to the chorus to Brittle (about 45 seconds in to the song www. myspace. com/eravulgaris ) from our debut album What Stirs Within.

Now, without any context given in the song it’s kind of hard to know what to make of this.  (more…)

According to Finland’s Record Shop X, the Finnish release date for the new Metallica album, “Death Magnetic”, is Wednesday, September 17. Although no official release date has yet been announced, it is likely that the Cd will be issued in the U.s. on September 16, with most of continental Europe receiving the album on Monday, September 15 (except Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where fans will presumably be able to purchase the Cd on Friday, September 12).

Metallica’s ninth studio effort, “Death Magnetic” will contain either 10 or 11 tracks. No song titles have been confirmed, although “My Apocalypse” was cited as one by Rolling Stone magazine. The band did not play any new songs at the recent Bonnaroo festival, although a selected group of U.s. and U.k. journalists have had a chance to preview six tunes from the upcoming release. (more…)