Some sites prefer to steal our news and pointers PLEASE give a link and line of credit if you use our News stories.. that's all we ask! Check News Archive at the bottom of this page for last month updates. Got a scoop? E-mail Zach, our News Director and fill us in!  DECEMBER 1999 NEWS
HOW TO GET IN THE SNAKE OUT
A little info regarding entrance into the resurrected Snake Pit...Snake pit passes are said to be reserved for the first few hundred people admitted to the GA area, who receive a wristband and are admitted into the "pit." Thanks to King Step NICLAS UPDATE
MetOnTour's Niclas, star of Fan Can 1 and you're favorite Met Club On Tour Rep starred in the Swedish television program "Sajber" as they followed him on tour recently. Thanks to Magnus TONIGHT WE PARTIED LIKE IT WAS 1999
More than 100 people crammed the banquet room of the Silverdome for the party before the last party of the millenium. Thanks to all those attended, we appreciate you being there and your support! EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS "A" and Samantha for assembling this, it worked out amazingly!! SPECIAL THANKS Amy from the Main Event for setting up a cool place for us to have fun, and of course: The Metallica Club and Metallica Direct for supplying the cool prizes!! THANKS for coming: Frank, Toby, Drue, Niclas, Steve (and happy birthday), Chris, Limp, Bangin, BombayGirl, Dave, Dan C. and to everyone else, unfortunately we don't have enough room to list everyone!! WINNERS Congrats to: Dawn & Steve won 2 Backstage passes for the M2K show! Winners of other cool stuff included: Bill, Barry, Ronald, Clark, David, Stephen, Marianne, Sean, Len, Rob, Matt, Jaka, Katina, Aaron and Bostian!!
ST. PETERSBURG SHOW
Click here for a review of last night's show from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL. The only change in the setlist was the addition of Ecstacy of Gold as an intro. As always, check out MetOnTour for complete tour coverage. Just a reminder that our M2K party will be held tonight...Click here for more. MIAMI SHOW
Click here for a review by the Miami Herald of last night's show...The new setlist from last night was as follows:
The Snake Pit has apparently made it's way back on tour as well...If you're going to be or have attended any of the M2K shows, please send us your reviews! Be sure to check out MetOnTour for pictures and more from the show! NEW TOUR
The M2K tour will kick off tonight in Miami, FL at the Orange Bowl, with Sevendust, Creed, and Kid Rock. Look for a new setlist that should include some surprises! For the latest on the tour, be sure to check out MetOnTour. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Our wishes go out to Lars for a happy birthday today! CTHULHU VIDEO GAME!
Gamecenter reports: "Headfirst Productions, a Birmingham, U.K.-based game developer, has announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing deal with Chaosium, granting it full rights to H. P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu brand. Using this license, the company is currently working on a first-person-perspective horror adventure entitled Dark Corners of the Earth." The Metallica song, The Call of Ktulu is based on the same Lovecraft story. Read the whole article here. Thanks to Miroslav. S&M VIDEO WORLDWIDE RELEASE
The Metallica Club has posted release info for the rest of the world for the release of the S&M video. The video will be released in VHS worldwide, and WILL include the limited edition that was available in the USA on January 24th. Read the whole story here! KIRK'S XMAS GIFTS
So what is Kirk Hammett giving away as a Christmas gift? Kirk's been saying that if he were to give away CD's as presents, Chris Cornell's Euphoria Morning and Carlos Santana's Supernatural would be tops in his list. TIDBITS
What Nascar driver will be attending the M2K show?? Click here to find out!...CDworld.com says Ride the Lighnting 24K Gold CD coming out February 1, 2000 ...Metallica music can be heard in the locker-room scene in the new Al Pacino flick, Any Given Sunday, when a player puts 'Motorbreath' on the stereo and declares that "Hetfield is God"...
In the new documentary called American Movie, which is tells the story of a really messed up guy with a mullet trying to make a cheap horror movie, in a couple different scenes, the background music is a really crappy accoustic version of "Fight Fire With Fire" as played by a friend of the main guy. The guy is so timid sounding when he sings, and has a little drunken-Wisconsin accent in his words.
UPDATE: A little more about the Any Given Sunday clip: Andrew Bryniarski's Madman character plays the music and screams "Metallica Rules... bow down before the kings of rock.. Hetfield is god!" in response to another player calling it "nazi music;" the CD for Kill 'Em ALl is clearly visible on the CD player; a Metallica poster is shown briefly earlier in the movie; no vocals can be heard, music only; the song is creditted in the credits.
METCLUB CHANGES UPDATE
An update has been posted by The Metallica Club, clarifying that the new membership levels will indeed continue the "seniority" standings of the past. METCLUB CHANGES
The Metallica Club has updated their Membership levels. There are now three different membership levels:
The only drawback is that the old "seniority levels" seem to now be history. It's nice to have a "cheap" package for those who'd like to give SO WHAT a trial run... although we think the extra $15 is well worth it (heck, most t-shirts are at least $15, you're getting the shirt plus the other goodies!) MET-TV
Stay tuned for another broadcast tonight - go here! TOP SONGS IN DENVER
Denver radio station KBPI counted the top 1,000 songs of their existence (from 1972). Here's the top seven...
7. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) ALBUMS OF THE 90'S
Billboard reports for their Decade Review of the 1990's that Metallica scored quite well... Metallica (the black album) reached #8 for the 90's and the only other Metallica album in the TOP 100 was Load at #81. Metallica was also named to the Top Pop Duo/Group Of The Decade list, reaching #8. MET TV
NiclasOnTour reports that Met TV should see its premeire on Saturday 12-18, in the afternoon-evening hours. MetOnTour has also posted some images from the "secret" location. We just hope the "Metalli-fridge" shown is available from Metallica Direct soon! 2000 WILL BE A STUDIO YEAR
Wall of Sound has a story about the future of Metallica. Some key quotes:
Read more cool quotes and the whole story here. '99 CHARTS
Billboard reports for their 1999 Year Long Charts, that Metallica scored at #7 for Turn The Page and #8 for Whiskey in the Jar for Mainstream Rock tracks. CHARTS
This week on the Billboard Charts: S&M, the album, drops to #13 and is the #3 in terms on internet sales. No Leaf Clover is the #2 Mainstream Rock track. MISSION TO LARS
The Spark, online parody site has an interesting tidbit on a mission to our favorite drummer. Check it out here. Thanks to Kyle's Mom. JASON SPEAKS
Triple MMM radio in Australia had a telephone interview with Jason last night, while the band was in the studio to record the new Mission Impossible song. He said that the song is still untitled, but that "it was very, very heavy and evil" and that he likes it a lot. When asked about what direction the new studio album, with a tenative release year of 2001, would head, he answered that it would continue with the same basic formula as always and that it will be similar to 'No Leaf Clover' and '- Human.' He also said that "we will continue to be
very heavy for the first few years of the millenium." After the release of studio album #8, he said that there would be a massive world tour and they would play everywhere that they possibly could...Doesn't sound like the small broken up touring schedule that Lars alluded to in previous interviews, but lets hope its true!
NEWS ARCHIVES
|