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Lars: “We’re psyched to play some new songs,” he laughs. “In fact, if we don’t, then I give people permission to come and find me and slap me across the face!”

Metallica is yet to play any new songs from the new album. Will we hear something before Aug 22th. In the following interview in Kerrang magazine from March ‘08, it is unclear if Lars is refering to this specific concert in Leeds to reveal any of the new songs live for the first time. Should we have heard something by now? 

Kerrang: Joining Metallica are Rage Against The Machine – who make their first UK appearance in the UK for eight years – Slipknot, Queens Of The Stone Age, Serj Tankian, Feeder and Pendulum. In addition to their Download 2008 appearances, Bullet For My Valentine and Biffy Clyro have confirmed they’ll appear at the three-day festival. More acts will be announced over the coming months.

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This was the band’s seventh visit to Poland. Fans from Poland and abroad, 60,000 people in total, were gathering around the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow from early morning. In the afternoon  members of Metallica’s Polish fan club Overkill started collecting signatures on a giant Polish flag, 3 metres in width and 40 in length, which was given to the band later during the concert. The band arrived in Poland as early as on Monday to rehearse as the Chorzow concert was the first one during the band’s European tour. Both fans and critics were enthusiastic about the gig, saying that Metallica was back in shape after its last mediocre album “St. Anger”, which they also promoted with a concert in Poland in 2004. - polskieradio.pl

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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NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE — Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has selected KickApps, the leading on demand social media platform, to power the online community and media management system for its recently re-launched website, Bonnaroo.com. The community allows people from around the World to meet fellow Bonnaroo fans and attendees, share stories about their experiences at the festival, upload videos, photos and audio files, and engage in discussions about upcoming and past performances. The site was designed and developed by Threshold Interactive in Marina Del Ray. 

Bonnaroo is a multi-stage, camping festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee from June 12 – 15, 2008. The annual festival features some of the best performers in rock and roll, along with dozens of artists in complementary styles such as jazz, Americana, hip-hop and electronica. Rolling Stone(R) magazine has named Bonnaroo one of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll. Performers scheduled to appear in the 2008 festival include Kanye West, Pearl Jam, Metallica, B.B. King, Chris Rock, Death Cab for Cutie, The Raconteurs, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson and Widespread Panic.

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Tickets for Ozzfest this summer will go on PRE-Sale this friday through MYSpace. There will be two password boxes to choose from when you follow the link below to the Ticketmaster page. One ALL ACCESS password box for purchasing regular event tickets and one ALL ACCESS password box for the purchasing the VIP packages.

Both boxes will be marked ALL ACCESS. One will be noted as all access VIP packages. The password OZZY will work in either of those ALL ACCESS boxes. There is a 4 ticket limit on the VIP packages – 1 Parking Pass per VIP order.

ALL ACCESS PRESALE:

Start: Fri, 05/30/08 10:00 AM CDT
End: Fri, 05/30/08 10:00 PM CDT

PASSWORD – OZZY    (non case sensitive)

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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.

According to Metallicapage.de, the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung BZ reported this past Wednesday (May 21) that METALLICA will be the first band to perform at the new O2 World arena in Berlin on September 12. It should be noted, however, that METALLICA has not yet officially announced any shows beyond its August 24 appearance at the Reading festival in Reading, UK. – Blabbermouth

One of Internet’s leading ticketing portals TICKETFINDER.com™ has announced the immediate sale and delivery of Metallica concert tickets for all the scheduled shows, across all venues. Tickets can be ordered online by visiting ticketfinder.com/ metallica_tickets.html#tickets or via telephone by calling the ticketing website’s office at 1800-523-1515.

Metallica concert tickets are accompanied by free shipping and lowest price guarantee options and are priced for above face value according to supply and demand. “Metallica concerts have always been a huge sell-out and tickets disappear even before fans realize it. This is where we come in. As long as we are around, fans don’t have to worry at all. As always, we have tickets to get you right to the heart of all the action”, says David A. Boitano, CEO of TICKETFINDER.com™. (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.

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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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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.

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