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Metallica: The Complete Story, New DVD

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:10:15 +0000

Release Date: October 28 2008

Metallica - Death Magnetic (Paperback) Guitar Tab

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:04:38 +0000

Play like a real guitar hero with the music to Death Magnetic. The matching folio to the highly anticipated CD by these heavy metal masters - the first to feature bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first produced by Rick Rubin. Includes artist-approved notes and tab for the hit single “The Day That Never Comes” and [...]

Vinyl versus the rest: Which is best?

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:48:56 +0000

5 LP + CD Set or 2 LP Set or Guitar Hero Version Does vinyl really sound better? The short answer is, “It depends.” That’s not a cop-out, because sound quality depends on how the music was originally recorded and mixed, not just on the medium (compact disc, MP3 file, vinyl album, 8-track tape, cassette) on which it is played. Analog [...]

Ulrich Fears Drumming Drama Could End Metallica

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:47:33 +0000

The rock star insists the group has no plans to split in the near future, but touring will become a problem if he can no longer keep up. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich fears his health will be the catalyst that eventually leads to the end of the heavy rock group - because he won’t be able [...]

Metallica Nominated In MTV Europe Music Awards

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:44:36 +0000

Metallica has posted the following message online via their official website: “We’re honored to be nominated by our friends at MTV Europe for two awards in the “Rock Out” and “Headliner” categories. The show will be broadcast live from the Liverpool Echo Arena in Liverpool, England on Thursday, November 6. We wish we could be there, [...]

Compression Ruins New Metallica Album, Some Fans Say

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:40:14 +0000

Some Metallica fans are complaining that the band’s ninth studio record, ‘Death Magnetic,’ is — to borrow from Huey Lewis’s ‘Back to the Future’ character — just too darn loud, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since some folks might figure that the pioneering metal band’s recordings are supposed to be loud, this grievance warrants clarification. Metallica [...]

Lars Defends Sound of New Metallica CD While Mixer Disowns It

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:50:59 +0000

We told you last week about a bit of a controversy surrounding the audio quality of the new Metallica CD, “Death Magnetic” and how some fans have started a protest petition against the “maxed out” and “distorted” mix. Now the man who gave us the “pots and pans” drum sound on the band’s last album [...]

Metallica Drummer Speaks Out On Sound Quality Controversy

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:39:42 +0000

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has spoken out in an interview with Blender magazine about the controversy over the audio quality of the band’s new album, Death Magnetic. Some fans and publications have accused the group and producer Rick Rubin of mixing the album at such a loud volume that the music is distorted and difficult [...]

Metallica Spends Third Week On Top

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:37:30 +0000

Metallica’s Death Magnetic is the best selling album in the country for the third week in a row, moving another 132,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Death Magnetic is only the second album this year to claim three straight weeks at #1, after Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static managed the same feat in February. Metallica also held off [...]

Metal Hammer Metallica Metal Sleeve Out Now!

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:12:01 +0000

Selected branches of HMV are now stocking this limited-edition collectible. Metal Hammer are proud to announce that selected branches of HMV are now carrying the latest issue of Metal Hammer in a limited-edition Metallica metal sleeve. Limited in number and highly collectible, these very special sleeves are sure to sell-out very quickly so be sure to get [...]

Kirk Hammet Interview MTV Brazil

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:25:02 +0000

Engineer: Metallica mix better in Guitar Hero than on CD

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:10:42 +0000

According to one audio engineer, the best listening experience for Metallica’s new Death Magnetic album may be the one you create for yourself … in Guitar Hero III. Engineer Ian Shepherd compared the two on his blog, and said that the version from the game has a lot less clipping and more dynamic range. What’s the [...]

Q&A: Metallica’s James Hetfield

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:09:01 +0000

You have been in Metallica for your entire adult life. Have you ever felt restricted? I made myself feel restricted: “I’m tired of arguing. I’m not gonna argue for another five hours about something little and stupid. You win. This is Lars’ band. When I’m able to be me, it’ll be the side project, the solo [...]

Q&A: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:07:29 +0000

Which is better — traveling to Metallica shows with your family or the way you used to do it with the band? Four on the bus, like a fist. The four fists on the bus, one fist and four beers on the bus [laughs] — that was a lot of fun. But if you’re going to [...]

Q&A: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:05:11 +0000

What do you remember about Metallica’s first European tour in 1984? We played with a band called Venom — masters of black metal! [Smiles] We were super-psyched. I thought I was worldly, because I’d stayed in New York for a few months. But to go to Europe, for James, Cliff and I, the culture shock hit [...]

Q&A: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:03:33 +0000

You joined Metallica in February, 2003. How much did you know about the dynamics within the band at the time? They were in the middle of a bunch of transitional things. They were recording the album [St. Anger], still doing tracking and mixing, and also trying to find a new bass player. I received a phone [...]

Louder Faster Stronger

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:03:10 +0000

A paper sign taped next to a door backstage at SKK Hall in St. Petersburg reads “Tuning and Attitude.” On the other side of the door, the attitude is deafening. The four members of Metallica — singer-guitarist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Lars Ulrich — are playing the death [...]

So will they still play concerts for all the fans that downloaded the CD?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:02:52 +0000

Rock band METALLICA cancelled an interview with a Swedish newspaper after discovering a journalist had illegally downloaded their new album. The Seek and Destroy hitmakers - who are famously opposed to file-sharing websites - pulled out of a chat with reporters from Sydsvenskan in protest at the publication’s review of their new LP Death Magnetic. In the [...]

Metallica’s new old edge: ‘Death Magnetic’

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:41:28 +0000

With producer Rick Rubin, the band returns with a new album and a reassuring sense of danger. By Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 24, 2008 DALLAS — IMAGINE THE smell of barbecue and methamphetamine under the Texas summer sun. This year, the Ozzfest festival — an all-day celebration of brawny and sinister heavy metal music [...]

Metallica That Was Just Your Life Tab

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:39:34 +0000

Metallica That Was Just Your Life tab intro tab. I love this song, Metallica is opening up their shows now with the intro tape rolling on the first 30 or so seconds just like they do with Blackened and Battery. I was playing this last night on my Marshall TSL half stack cranked halfway to [...]

Metallica return to top of albums chart

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:36:03 +0000

Metallica have returned to the top of the UK albums chart after twelve years. Death Magnetic is the US rock outfit’s ninth studio release and their third UK chart-topper. They previously reached number one with Metallica in 1991, then again five years later with Load. The self-titled debut from acclaimed Scottish four-piece Glasvegas has to settle for [...]

Metallica uses Coca-Cola’s design agency for new album

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:33:22 +0000

LONDON - In an unusual move for the rock music industry, Metallica engaged consumer design agency Turner Duckworth to create the artwork for new album, ‘Death Magnetic’. Turner Duckworth, better known for designing logos for brands like Coca-Cola than for working with rock groups, was engaged to create a package that would rekindle interest in CDs. The [...]

Wanna be the real guitar hero? Buy this.

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:55:35 +0000

We proudly present the matching folio to the highly anticipated CD by these heavy metal masters - the first to feature bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first produced by Rick Rubin. Includes artist-approved notes and tab for the hit single “The Day That Never Comes” and 9 more: All Nightmare Long * Broken, Beat and [...]

Rubin delivers a great album for Metallica

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:46:36 +0000

Is there anything Rick Rubin can’t do? It’s been a good 15 years since Metallica started losing it, five since St. Anger helped globally popularize the idea of its retirement. Even the band – down Jason Newsted and awaiting ex-Suicidal Tendencies bassist Robert Trujillo’s absorption into the group – admitted that its last album, tunelessly [...]

Metallica took over the GUF record store last night, and signed 840 copies of Death Magnetic!

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:22:41 +0000

So what will you be doing tonight? We’ll be celebrating the release of “Death Magnetic” by visiting one of Lars’ favorite record stores, GUF in Copenhagen, Denmark. Located near the Townhall Square at Vestergade 17, GUF will be open at 11pm to start selling Death Magnetic one hour before anyone else in continental Europe! We’ll [...]

Metallica Drop September 12th Sales Embargo On New Album

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:17:51 +0000

Metallica appear to have dropped the sales embargo on their new album ‘Death Magnetic’. The band’s first studio album since 2003 is officially released worldwide on Friday (September 12th) – but as Gigwise reported first, a number of UK stores began selling the record yesterday. The band’s record label, Vertigo, is now understood to have relaxed the [...]

I got mine! How and when did you get yours?

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:15:34 +0000

Wel we can finally talk about it legally. I gor mine at about 12:45 am on Friday. I waited in line with about 45-50 other people just to see what it was like. The mix quality is not that actually and whole package pretty cool. I gotta say that hearing it before kind of took [...]

Metallica - Death Magnetic: Kirk Hammett Has His Revenge

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:50:38 +0000

Call Death Magnetic Kirk Hammett’s revenge. Famously browbeaten into accepting Lars Ulrich and producer Bob Rock’s dictum that guitar solos were “dated” and thereby verboten for 2003’s St. Anger — a fraught recording chronicled on the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster — Metallica’s lead guitarist dominates this 2008 sequel, playing with a euphoric fury [...]

Metallica’s ‘Death Magnetic’ Arrives Earlier in UK

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:48:31 +0000

Metallica’s new album, “Death Magnetic,” has hit the shelves in the United Kingdom earlier than planned. The famous rock band’s highly-anticipated 12th album was due out on Friday, but Vertigo (Metallica’s record label) gave the green light to U.K. shops to sell before the planned date after some retailers broke the sale restriction. One of the retailers [...]

HETFIELD On Use Of METALLICA’s Music To Torture Guantanamo Bay Prisoners: ‘Part Of Me Is Proud’

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:41:51 +0000

The German-language television network 3SAT recently conducted an interview with METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield about the band’s new album, “Death Magnetic”, the “Some Kind of Monster” movie and the use of METALLICA’s music to torture Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prisoners. “Part of me is proud is because they chose METALLICA,” Hetfield said about the reports that [...]

Metallica admit ‘we’re bad at ‘Guitar Hero”

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:38:26 +0000

Metallica have admitted to being bad at playing Guitar Hero. The metal titans’ new album ‘Death Magnetic’ will be the first to be released simultaneously on normal formats and on the hit computer game this Friday (September 12). The band have revealed they’ve struggled to get to grips with the plastic guitar-based game, however. “We’re all bad,” bassist [...]

Metallica - A Culture Show Special - BBC - Interviews/Behind The scenes - Bergen Norway 2008 - Part 3

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:33:28 +0000

Metallica - A Culture Show Special - BBC - Interviews/Behind The scenes - Bergen Norway 2008 - Part 2

admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:32:02 +0000

Metallica - A Culture Show Special - BBC - Interviews/Behind The scenes - Bergen Norway 2008 - Part 1

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:31:57 +0000

Metallica’s Death Magnetic: Early Impressions

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:11:12 +0000

by Jeff Kitts at guitarworld.com Before we go any further, let me just admit something here: Yes, I steal. While I haven’t actually shoplifted since my days as a pre-teen klepto, I do steal things off the internet on a fairly regular basis. And the truth is I don’t feel that bad about it, mainly because [...]

Metallica The Apocalypse Box Set - Own The Very Last One

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:15:30 +0000

Buy this very rare 3 disc box set now. There is only one copy left. It was issued in 1995 by Planet Records and pressed by Trichant in Japan. This 3 disc set includes early Metallica demos, studio outtakes from the “Black” album, as well as Jason Newsted’s death metal side project, IR8! Any true Metallica [...]

Oasis’ Noel Gallagher Slams Metallica And Bloc Party

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:48:46 +0000

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has hit out at Metallica and Bloc Party, three years after branding the latter “appalling indie rubbish”. Gallagher said he liked everything about Metallica, who release their new album next week, “except their music.” Asked why he didn’t like the group, he replied: “Metal is not my thing. Wanna know why? [...]

20th Anniversary For ‘…And Justice For All’

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:47:21 +0000

20 years to the day. In just a few days we will be treated to another masterpiece by the ‘tallica boys. Its been a long journey but in many ways they are back to where they started. At the time one of the most anticipated albums, ‘…And Justice for All’ is arguably their best album (bass [...]

Metallica Stream Radio Show With Grohl And Hawkins

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:48:16 +0000

Foo Fighters men Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins have hosted a radio show with the members of Metallica, entitled ‘Metallica: The World Premiere Of Death Magnetic’. The program clocks in at 60 minutes and gives fans a chance to hear tracks from ‘Death Magnetic’ as well as hearing Grohol and Hawkins shoot the breeze with James [...]

Metallica Make 60 Percent of Death Magnetic Available To Hear Now

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:44:33 +0000

A Feast Of Death Listen Metallica have made most of the album available to stream and listen to online on their official website. With their new attitude they are essentially allowing the world to listen to almost the whole album for free, and before the official release. Maybe it’s an attempt to decrease early downloaders of the leaked [...]