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Metallica Light Up 'The Late Show' With 'Now That We're Dead'

Metallica hit 'The Late Show' this week for a live performance with a song from their latest album 'Hardwired... to Self-Destruct', which they are currently promoting on a massive worldwide tour. 'Now That We're Dead'...

Korn Recruit Metallica Bassist's 12 Year Old Son For South American Tour

Korn have announced that they have recruited a 12 year old bass player for their upcoming South American tour, in the shape of Tye Trujillo, the son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.The youngster is a...

Metallica Are Getting Europe Wired Over New Tour Dates

With Spring and Summer 2017 set up for their extensive North American dates, Metallica have finally announced the schedule for the European leg of their WorldWired Tour which will take them into 2018. Also, they...

Metallica To Takeover America In The Coming Months For Worldwired

Metallica are heading to North America for the next leg of their WorldWired Tour, marking their first major US comeback in eight years. They'll be setting out in Spring, and the name of the tour...

Young Drummer Thrills Metallica With Flawless 'Atlas, Rise!' Cover

Metallica sure have some talented young fans out there. They recently put out a request to all their social media followers to send them their own cover versions of songs from their tenth studio album...

James Hetfield: Adele 'Blows My Mind'

Metallica's James Hetfield says Adele ''blows his mind''.The 'Nothing Else Matters' hitmaker has gushed about the 'Hello' singer's ''unbelievable'' live shows and praised her ''candour and coolness'' up on stage.He told BBC Radio 6 Music:...

This Is What Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' Sounds Like On Classroom Instruments

Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' is super fun to try and play on any instrument, but nothing compares to watching James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich try and re-create it with The Roots on only classroom instruments. Alas,...

Metallica Are Finally Set To Return With A New Album 'Hardwired... To Self-destruct'

Metallica announced yesterday (August 18th 2016) that they will be releasing their long-awaited new album 'Hardwired... To Self-Destruct' this Fall, and have now unveiled the very first track from the new collection. It's been eight...

Red Hot Chili Peppers Had To Pretend To Be Metallica At Airport Customs

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea was stopped at customs and forced to sign Metallica merchandise after a mix-up at an airport in Belarus over the weekend. Despite the fact that he tried to insist...

Gloria Gaynor Anthem Will Survive In U.s. Song Library

The track, which was adopted as an anthem by the gay community after its 1978 release, was joined by Metallica's album Master of Puppets and Billy Joel's song Piano Man among the 25...

Tributes Pour In For MotöRhead Frontman Lemmy, Who Has Died Aged 70

Tributes are being paid to Motörhead frontman Lemmy, who died yesterday after a short battle with an extremely aggressive form of cancer. The rock legend’s passing was announced in a post on the band’s official...

Vince Neil Hangs Up On Radio Host Over Motley Crue/metallica Feud Questions

Neil's bandmate Tommy Lee reignited the war of words with the heavy rockers earlier this month (Sep15) when he poked fun at fellow drummer Lars Ulrich's talents on social media. The feud...

Keith Richards: 'Metallica And Black Sabbath Are Jokes'

The guitarist is not a fan of heavy rock and he cannot understand the appeal of the genre's top acts. He tells the New York Daily News, "(Rock music) sounds like a...

Disturbed Make U.s. Chart History As Immortlized Debuts At Number One

Only Metallica and Dave Matthews Band have previously achieved the chart feat. Immortalized, the band's first album since ending an 18-month hiatus, opens with 98,000 equivalent album sales, including 93,000 pure album...

Metallica Return To Reading Festival With Triumphant Set

After arriving onstage to music and footage from the classic Western movie The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the rockers opened with Fuel while 40 fans danced in a huge pen onstage....

Kirk Hammett Close To Giving Up On Missing Phone Packed With Guitar Ideas

The rocker spent weeks trying to track down the lost phone, but despite the best efforts of friends around the world, he has accepted he'll never see it again. Appearing on The...

Lars Ulrich Got Thick-skinned After Napster Furore

The Enter Sandman hitmakers declared war on online file-sharing services when they launched a lawsuit against Napster in 2000 for copyright infringement, which contributed significantly to the site's closure the following year (01)....

Lars Ulrich Wanted Free Skis From Snow-wear Deal

The Enter Sandman hitmakers revealed in February (15) that they had teamed up with designers at Armada Skis to create their own line of equipment and cold-weather clothing, including windbreaker jackets and gloves....

The Libertines Performed Secret Glasto Gig

The Libertines performed a secret set at Glastonbury last night (26.06.15).The London-based band took to The Pyramid Stage - which had simply read 'To Be Announced' to fill the gap left vacant when Florence +...

Marilyn Manson: 'I Will Never Play Glastonbury'

Manson, who performed at Download Festival in n, England on Saturday (13June15), insisted he would never follow in the footsteps of metal legends Metallica, who headlined Glastonbury last year (14). He tells...

James Hetfield And Daughter Sing Duet For Charity

The Metallica frontman and former Van Halen star Sammy Hagar hosted their second annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure event in San Francisco, and recruited some of their famous friends to perform at the concert. Hetfield...

Justin Bieber And Kanye West Merchandise At Centre Of Legal Battle

Bosses at Bravado International Group Merchandising Services have filed a lawsuit against the executive of clothes store Joyrich for allegedly selling and advertising unauthorised products such as shirts, socks and backpacks bearing images...

Kirk Hammett Loses Metallica Riffs

Kirk Hammett has ''lost'' 250 new Metallica riffs.The 'Enter Sandman' rockers have been working on a new album but progress was hindered six months ago when ''something very unfortunate'' happened to the guitarist and he...

David Bowie Reckons Lou Reed's Metallica Collaboration 'Lulu' Was His "Masterpiece"

Never one to back away from a controversial opinion, David Bowie has pretty much a unique opinion on Lou Reed’s career. Believe it or not, he reckons that the late singer’s greatest musical work was...

David Bowie Brands Lou Reed's Metallica Album His Greatest Work

Reed's experimental project with the metal band was his final album prior to his death in 2013, but the 2011 record flopped in the charts and received a slew of negative reviews from...

Kirk Hammett Loses Phone Containing Metallica Album Ideas

The rockers are currently working on a follow-up to their hit 2008 record Death Magnetic, and Hammett admits he was devastated when he misplaced his cell phone and lost around 250 song concepts....

Lars Ulrich Performs With Royal Blood

The veteran drummer took over from Royal Blood star Ben Thatcher for a rendition of Out Of The Black at the end of the group's show at the city's Slim's venue. Thatcher...

Metallica Making Progress On Album

Metallica have completed around ''25 percent'' of their new album.The 'Enter Sandman' rockers have been working hard on the follow-up to 2008's 'Death Magnetic' but, with ''two to three hundred riffs'' to choose from, they...

Paul Mccartney, Metallica And Florence And The Machine Lead Lollapalooza 2015 Line-up

Paul McCartney and Metallica have been announced as the headliners for this year's Lollapalooza Festival, taking place at Chicago's Grant Park on July 31st through to August 2nd. The legendary Beatle’s heading slot marks his...

Metallica Offering Free Download Of Private Surprise Gig

The heavy rockers were the main event at a surprise party for tech company Saleforce's CEO Marc Benioff, and the whole set was caught on film. Metallica played hit tracks such...

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