October 29th, 2009 by Hannah
After a young fan and Virginia Tech student, Morgan Harrington, went missing during one of Metallica’s concerts on October 17, the band is now adding $50,000 to the reward being offered for her safe return. The girl’s parents have already announced a $100,000 reward for her return or information leading to the arrest of the party responsible for her disappearance. Along with the campaign website FindMorgan.com, Metallica also put a plea up on their official website asking fans to look at their video and photographic footage from the concert to see if she can be seen, along with a description which read “Morgan has blond hair and blue eyes, is 5′6″, 120 lbs., and was wearing a black ‘Pantera’ T-shirt, black skirt, and black boots. She was not carrying ID or a cell phone. Morgan was separated from her friends shortly before 9:00 pm at the venue.” I hope they find her soon.
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October 16th, 2009 by Hannah
Today, and for the next 3 weeks, AOL’s Noisecreep.com will be releasing an exclusive and/or unheard audio clip from the amazing FMQB Metallica/Alice in Chains interview, “Inside Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue.” This week’s clip features Metallica talking to Alice in Chains about their collaboration with Elton John on the song “Black Gives Way To Blue.” “It’s a really intense song, and a really open-hearted song to Layne and the experience that we went through,” Cantrell says to Hetfield and Ulrich about the title track. “Facing up to all of that stuff, and owning all the good, and owning all the bad, and moving forward together. It was a lot of big steps…things were pretty black for us. It’s pretty literal to that, and things are starting to get a little lighter.” Keep checking back in the coming weeks for parts 2 and 3 of this classic interview.
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March 11th, 2009 by Hannah
Metallica was forced to cancel their second on two shows in Stockholm this past weekend. Lead singer James Hetfield has gotten really sick and he was even taken to the hospital. The band’s rep is blaming the illness on dehydration, the result of a stomach bug they claim affected him right before the start of the concert. The rest of the band only got on stage to inform fans that the show was being canceled. Drummer Lars Ulrich took the mic and said “As you can see, one of us is missing tonight.” He added how they were sorry for the literal last minute cancellation. Lars continued saying “Trust me, none of you guys wanna hear me, Rob [Trujillo] or Kirk [Hammett] sing.” It sucks for the 16,000 people in attendance but fortunately for them, the band posted a message on their website recently saying that the show will be rescheduled sometime this spring.
January 20th, 2009 by Hannah
The legends who make up the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are getting some diversity forced upon them from the group of inductees this year. The newest members include Run DMC, Metallica, the Imperials, soul singer Bobby Womack, guitarist Jeff Beck and doo-wop group Little Anthony. In a recent interview, Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels said “I’m a rap dude, I’m an MC from Hollis (a neighborhood in New York’s borough of Queens), just rockin’ the mic, and to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the Beatles, and (Bob) Dylan, and the rock ‘n’ roll gods? It’s ridiculous! Ridiculous in a good way.”
November 24th, 2008 by Hannah
In a new interview with Blender magazine, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich gets a little misty-eyed about the days he spent on the road with Guns and Roses.
When asked about the craziest thing he saw on the road Lars said:
“Axl’s a friend, and I don’t want to compromise that. But as for “fun” crazy: He wrote his (half) brother, Stuart, a $25,000 check every day to throw these lavish theme parties. It was like, we’re in Indianapolis, so there were Formula One cars everywhere, with all the girls dressed up in pit-crew uniforms. It was decadence at the highest level I’d ever seen, a Caligula kind of outlandishness. There were orgies, sure. Was I involved? Yes. Well, I was in the same room — we’ll leave it at that.”
Ahhhh, the good ol’ sex and rock & roll combo.
November 19th, 2008 by Hannah
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is filthy rich and he has no problems showing off just how rich he is. The rocker recently purchased a Jean Michel-Basquiat painting at an auction in New York City for a cool $14 million, easily outdoing the $12 million it was estimated to go for. The piece is called ‘Untitled (Boxer)’ from 1982 and depicts an abstracted black heavyweight fighting with arms outstretched against a white graffiti background. The painting was the center of a 2005 traveling retrospective of the artist’s work. Basquiat died in 1988 of a drug overdose at the age of 27, just 6 years after the piece Lars bought was created. It seems that the drummer is also a big art collector.
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October 3rd, 2008 by Hannah
Official release of Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic.
For many fans, the wait has been unbearable, since Death Magnetic is the band’s first studio album since 2003’s multi-platinum St. Anger. With over 90 million records sold over their 25 year career, Metallica proves they are more powerful than ever.
Head over to iTunes to purchase Death Magnetic, and don’t forget to sign up at MissionMetallica.com, for your chance to enter contests, and receive exclusive Metallica content.
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September 19th, 2008 by Hannah
Metallica’s first album in over five years, Death Magnetic, is projected to be doing fairly well.
According to statistics, the album is well on its way to top U.S. album charts this week.
The official data will be released before the week ends, but according to preliminary estimates, their new album will make it big.
According to many sources, Death Magnetic is said to have sold 450,000 – 500,000 copies last week, even though the album was only on sale for three days.
Good job, oldies!!!
Their last album, St. Anger, also sold very well during its first week of release, selling 419,000 copies in just three days as well.
A good reason why the sales are up is because some stores, like Best Buy, are bundling the album with Guitar Hero and even with some Metallica headphones.
Ticketmaster is also offering a ticket/album deal for buyers.
Hmmm… Are you gonna buy a rock album by a bunch of old guys?
July 14th, 2008 by Hannah
Metallica has a new marketing ploy for the more sombre of you.
It’s a “Death Magnetic” coffin box that will have a copy of the actual album, an additional disc of demos, a “making of the album” DVD, an exclusive T-shirt, a flag, guitar picks and a fold-out poster.
Plus, the box includes a collector’s credit card embossed with a code to redeem a free download of a special European show that’s happening in September.
The Metallica Website tells us that the band is in the process of wrapping up the artwork for the coffin-shaped box and items in it, but it will come out the same day the album does this fall.
It’s only going to be available online through Metallica’s web site.
May 14th, 2008 by Hannah
Forget Ozzfest as you know it because the annual summer heavy-metal rock concert is changing things up this year by no longer touring the country and performing nonstop. Instead, they will be making Ozzfest a one-day mega event. It will take place in Dallas at the Pizza Hut Park on Saturday, August 9th with headliners Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Manager Sharon Osbourne commented on the change saying “Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour, so I think he deserves a summer off. We’re going to be a stadium destination festival for now — we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We’ve given everyone else the blueprint and we have to keep evolving Ozzfest.”
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