New Metallica Album.com

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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A five-minute audio interview with Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett conducted on August 15, 2008 at the 23rd Pukkelpop music festival in the village of Kiewit, near Hasselt (Limburg province), Belgium

James talks about ride the lightning…and the good ole days

Born to push you around
You better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground
Mouths so full of lies
Tend to black your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting

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

It’s a sun-drenched Thursday afternoon in Acton, California, which is about an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles, and the air’s nothing if not arid.

Here, we find the members of Metallica — frontman James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. They’re all milling about, wearing shades, waiting. All of a sudden, a Hummer painted in desert camouflage and topped with a .50-caliber machine gun rolls by.

The vehicle’s carrying a group of what look like U.S. soldiers across the dusty terrain when, out of nowhere, there’s an awesome blast. One of the soldiers is wounded; he’s bleeding. Another soldier rushes to his aid, with a medic kit in hand, and starts tending to his wounds. Minutes later, a helicopter approaches, and the bloody soldier is flown to safety and into the capable hands of a military medical team.

Of course, this isn’t Iraq. It isn’t Afghanistan. It’s the set of Metallica’s video for their track “The Day That Never Comes,” the first single from Death Magnetic, the band’s first studio effort since 2003’s St. Anger (due in stores this September). (more…)

Metallica have denied that ‘The Day That Never Comes’, the first song from their new album, is an attempt to send a political statement about America’s ongoing involvement with the war in Iraq.The video for the song, which is due to be released in early September, depicts a solider aiding a wounded solider.

Speaking about the track, frontman James Hetfield said he hoped the band could put “the human element in what is an unfortunate part of life.

“There are people over there dealing with situations like this, and we’re showing the human part of being there,” he said.

“There are so many celebrities that soapbox their opinions, and people believe it’s more valid because they’re popular. For us, people are people — you should all have your own opinion.” (more…)

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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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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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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by Christopher Beaumont

I am not, never have been, and never will be a metal historian. I would be willing to take that statement a step further and say that I will never be a historian of any sort on any subject. That said, I will always have at least a little knowledge about the subject of music; not much mind you, but enough to get by.

I guess this lack of true historical perspective dates back to my initial interest in music. I started late and therefore missed a lot of metal’s roots. The fact that I heard any of the true metal of the ’80s is thanks to my childhood friend Matt Byrne (now of the band Hatebreed), who was into the heavy stuff. This is where I first heard bands like Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Testament, Exodus, Mercyful Fate, Suicidal Tendencies, and others. Still, I did not become a real fan until years later, after I cut my teeth on hair and glam metal. What does that have to do with Aural Amphetamine? Well, it is a documentary about the emergence of thrash and the importance that Metallica played in its growth in popularity. (more…)