Archive for the Appearances Category

The Day That Never Comes

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METALLICA frontman James Hetfield joined reactivated NWOBHM legends SWEET SAVAGE (based in Belfast, Northern Ireland) on stage at their August 20, 2008 concert at Marlay Park in Dublin, Ireland (where they supported METALLICA) for a rendition of the SWEET SAVAGE classic “Killing Time”. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below.

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…footage of King Diamond’s colloboration with Metallica at this past weekends Ozzfest event has posted online… (more…)

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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Win Flights, Hotel and Vip Tix to Ozzfest from ESP Guitars!

ESP Guitars is running a contest where you can win flights, hotel stay and tickets to OZZFEST 2008. One lucky entry will win:

    • Fly with a friend to Dallas, TX
    • Picked up by Limo
    • Stay in Hotel
    • Meals and Drinks on us
    • Clothing from Affliction, including hand-signed Ozzy items
    • ESP LTD KH-602 Guitar
    • Randall RM100KH Amplifier
    • Two premier VIP tickets to Ozzfest
    • Access to “Ozzy’s Lair” VIP area
    • Meet-and-Greet members of Shadows Fall, Devil Driver, and other ESP bands

Sign up and get more info now at http://www.espguitars.com/contests_ozzfest.cf

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Not the greatest quality, probably recorded on a cell phone. Crowd looks huge and the band seems to play pretty damn hard here. They always say they love playing for the European crowds.

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METALLICA just finished the first show of their 2008 European Summer Vacation in Chorzow, Poland at Slaski Stadium. The setlist was as follows:
‘Creeping Death’, ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’, ‘Ride The Lightning’, ‘Harvester Of Sorrow’, ‘The Unforgiven’, ‘…And Justice For All’, ‘Devil’s Dance’, ‘Disposable Heroes’, ‘Welcome Home (Sanitarium)’, ‘Master Of Puppets’, ‘Whiplash’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘Sad But True’, ‘One’,
‘Enter Sandman’. Encore: ‘Last Caress’, ‘So What’, ‘Seek and Destroy’.

Upcoming Metallica tour dates:

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The last three shows (Wiltern*, Tucson, and Irvine) are now available for download at LIVEMETALLICA.COM. The European shows are next and you can pre-order any or all of them at a 10% discount right now.
*All profits from the sale of the Wiltern show will benefit the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

We’re psyched to play a large festival here in the States (for a change!), so we thought it would be fun to have a fun contest where you can win tickets to Bonnaroo . . . For your chance to win Bonnaroo tickets, provide a thoughtful answer to the following question:

If you can share a tent with anyone at Bonnaroo, who would it be and why?

Please e-mail your answer in 50 words or less to bonnaroo@metclub.com. You have until 11:59pm Pacific Time on Thursday, May 29 to submit your answer. Winners will be chosen by the Metallica HQ staff based on creativity and if we actually like the damn person you pick! In your e-mail, please include your full name and contact phone number. Only one e-mail entry per person. Winners will be notified via e-mail by Friday, May 30.

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Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Kiss among 1980s acts leading genre’s resurgence

Turn the volume to 11 and set the pyrotechnics to stun. For those ageing fans about to rock, perhaps less energetically than before, the concert promoters and marketing men salute you.

This summer will see a slew of 1980s heavy metal acts releasing new material and playing live to hundreds of thousands of ageing rockers keen to swap their suit jackets for faded denim. (more…)

Following months of rumors, Ozzfest organizers confirmed earlier this month through a post at the official web site that the festival, a touring event for more than a decade, will transform into a “destination festival” this summer. OZZY OSBOURNE and METALLICA will headline a one-day show on August 9 at Pizza Hut Park in Dallas. Also appearing on the main stage are SERJ TANKIAN, KORN singer Jonathan Davis, HELLYEAH, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, SHADOWS FALL, APOCALYPTICA, IN THIS MOMENT and what’s being billed as an “all-star tribute” to slain PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. (more…)

To headline Glastonbury? To start a huge mosh pit? To be Shakin’ Stevens? Jaimie Hodgson (music.guardian.co.uk) puts the questions to some of the festival season’s biggest stars

Lars Ulrich
Drummer, Metallica

What is it like soundtracking the world’s biggest mosh pits?

When you’re put in front of a crowd of 60,000 who have been partying and living in tents for three days, and generally been reduced to a more primal level of existence, there’s very little rhyme and reason to what goes on both on and off stage. No matter how drilled you are as a band, or how prepared you are, you never feel like you’re more than a second away from something insane happening. When you show up at these festivals there has to be a certain amount of rolling with the punches and going with the flow, whether you’re opening or headlining, and that suits us great. We consider the festivals in Europe the highlight of the year. When you play in a band with as much energy as Metallica, performing in such an unhinged environment, the spirit of what we do really comes into its own. After 25 years of doing this crazy thing non-stop, we feel very privileged to be the last band on at a festival that spans so many genres.

· Metallica play Reading / Leeds on 22 and 24 August (more…)

Music fans who can’t trek to Tennessee for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival still have a chance to see the action: Fuse TV is televising parts of the three-day extravaganza, its first national TV exposure. Acts ranging from Kanye West to Metallica to Pearl Jam are slated to perform at Bonnaroo, the yearly event that is held on a farm in Manchester, TN. The event will also feature comedians including Chris Rock and Janeane Garofalo. Fuse plans to televise six hours of programming from the festival, ranging from performances to interviews with the artists. The network will also broadcast live from the event. “We couldn’t be more excited to be working with Fuse as our broadcast partner,” said Jonathan Mayers, Bonnaroo Co-founder, Superfly Productions, said in a statement Monday. (more…)

Metallica continued the sumer warm up series at KROQ’s weenie fest in LA. The set was pretty standard full of the classics. Again no new material was played. Different with this show was that it was broadcast live on KROQ.com for the whole world to see. Oberall there were no significant technical issues and the sound and mix seemed pretty good. They seemed pretty tight and seem to be getting into the groove. See the setlist and a lot of videos  and setlist from the show. UPDATE: Youtube seems to have taken down the videos. Some video still available here.

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Mission:Metallica has set up a booth to let people sign up for a chance to meet the band.