New Metallica Album.com

See setlist and more video. 

(more…)

If you don’t make it to the KROQ Weenie Roast Y Fiesta you don’t have to miss any of the action! Listen to the show streamed live on KROQ.com. Metallica to go on 9:20 PST (12:20 EST) for a 90 minute set.

On Saturday May 17th, log on to KROQ.com to hear the whole festival beginning at 12:30PM to check out complete uncut performances, backstage interviews with the bands and more in our exclusive Webcast! See set times.

(more…)

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.

*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!

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!

Concert fans in Southern California are getting a lesson from the old school these days. First, Roger Waters brought his floating pig and Pink Floyd laser show to the desert grounds of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and today KROQ-FM (106.7) will announce that Metallica, those graybeards of thrash metal, will co-headline the station’s annual Weenie Roast on May 17 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.

Other performers include the Offspring, the Raconteurs, Rise Against, Pennywise, Bad Religion, the Bravery and Flogging Molly.

It was 25 years ago this summer that Metallica released “Kill ‘Em All,” the album that announced that this intended to be the hardest, fastest and loudest band in the world. (more…)

For a Ramones tribute album, Metallica joined the ranks of U2, Mrs. Beasley Waits, Garbage, Eddie Vedder, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Corgan, Offspring, Static-X, Rancid, Motorhead, Green Day and Marilyn Manson. The whole project was helmed by shock-rocker, Rob Zombie. According to Zombie in an interview with Rolling Stone, “The whole thing started with Johnny Ramone. He really wanted people to do the tracks in their own way, not like they’re trying to imitate the Ramones. ” Listen to all 6 covers Metallica recorded after the break.

(more…)

Sure, we’ve known that classic music and rock mix well, but when these two chicks translate classics such as “One” and my personal favorite “Master of Puppets” into lush lullabies, it messes with your head instead of actually banging it. But it’s pretty.

According to its blog, the duo kicked off its Spring 2008 tour last week paying many cover band gigs. Stopping in Dallas on May 21, they will be sandwiched between rockers Lame and Alcohollica, most likely bring the show to a screeching halt, but then probably end up as the surprise of the night. Chicks and instruments — you guys love that stuff, right? Or is just guitars? Listen after the break.

(more…)