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Email accounts can now be activated from Metallica.com. This system enables fans to sign up (FREE) for a metallica.com e-mail address. The e-mail system is browser based, that means you will be able to send/read e-mail directly from your browser anywhere in the world. Go sign up now before your username gets taken!
Sonic Net has posted several Real Player clips from Woodstock '99. Included are clips of Jason talking about playing Woodstock and about Rage Against The Machine. More importantly we have this from James: "You can't not think about writing, that's always coming out, it's always happening. But, really looking forward to getting some new material, cause it's really has been a long time. Again, ya know, from writing all the stuff for the Load stuff to come out, it's almost four years again. So, it's time to get it out. (scary voice) Get the evil out, man, we're really looking forward to that and really, We know what we do best: play heavy stuff, and they'll be some experiments thrown in there as well." Check out the clips here.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Metallica has "submitted" a song for consideration in the next Mission Impossible movie starring Nicole Kidman's husband Tom Cruise. The soundtrack, and movie are set for release in May of next year. Read the story here.
The Metallica Club has posted a message from Tony Smith: Dear All, We at Inter Sandman would like to express our most heartfelt condolences to the Smith family. Our deepest sympathy's are with you in this sad time. James dedicated Turn The Page at the Woodstock show to Amanda. Dedications have been very rare in Metallica history.... We were aware of this story, and out of respect to the family held it until we felt it was okay to do so, with Tony's message, we feel this is now acceptable. We hope other websites show the same discretion and respect for privacy in the future.
Primus has posted a "sampler" MP3 for their new album called Anti-Pop. James and Kirk appear on separate tracks on this album, we're not sure if they appear on this clip that runs three minutes and 43 seconds, but we think so! James appears on the song called Eclectic Electric, the Kirk song's title is of yet unknown (although rumored to be a cover of a Bowie song!)
An interview with Metallica at the Woodstock show confirmed a few things. The band hits the studio to work on the Symphonica tapes for a release this November along with another performance with the SF Symphony in New York.
Check out Metallica's performance at Woodstock by clicking here.
Click here for more of our Woodstock coverage. (updated as needed)
ARTISTdirect, operators of the Internet's premier music vertical, today announced exclusive long-term partnerships with 44 of the world's leading music stars, including Metallica. The deal allows the artists to generate significantly increased revenues from product sales online and participate in the success of the company as equity shareholders via stock options. Says Marc Geiger, CEO/Co-founder of ARTISTdirect and a 15-year music industry veteran, "The implications of this are far-reaching. Most importantly, this marks the first time that artists have absolute control over media - they control their own web sites, online stores, images, and downloadable music - and have a direct ownership interest in the net result." According to the article from PRNewsWire, "Each artist will have a retail presence in the ARTISTdirect Network in the form of a superstore, which will offer CDs and merchandise, rarities, news, information, MP3 downloads or similar digital music files which are unavailable elsewhere. Twenty-three artist stores have already launched; others are currently in production and will roll-out on the ARTISTdirect Network through the end of the year." Says Lars, "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line...ARTISTdirect gives us a straight line of communication to our fans, and vice versa."
The Metallica Club has re-opened their Members area! Check it out along with the all new Metallistore!
UPDATE:Having problems accessing the new Members-Only area of the MetClub site? Click here.
Guitar.com featues an interesting interview with Dave Mustaine regarding his band's upcoming release, 'Risk'. Says Mustaine, when asked about the title of the CD being appropriate "since you've taken some significant chances":
While Limp Bizkt was in St. Paul, MN, apparently they turned their creative energies into producing a cover of 'Master of Puppets'. All this before "Fred
Durst kicked a security guard in the head and was thrown in the "gray
bar hotel!" Many thanks to Nate for the story!!
Jim lets us know that the latest issue of TV Guide gives a partial lineup of the bands playing the festival, including the times they will be playing. They have Metallica slated to play 11:15pm - 12:45am on Saturday, July 24. Be sure to check out Woodstock.com where you will be able to listen to them play their set online if you're not able to make it down to Rome, NY!
Metallica influence, rock legend, Detroiter and performer at Metallica Y2K gig, Ted Nugent is featured on tonight's edition of Rockline.
MetOnTour tells us that the quickly scheduled show in Gijon, Spain was cancelled due to stage technical problems.
Thanks to Jessica for the heads up.
AliMetal let's us know that clips from Metallica's performance at Rock Am Ring are being played on Germany's music channel Viva-2.
M.HENRIXON let's us know an interview in an Swedish newspaper with a Michael Kamen, who told he had been asked to do a show with Metallica in sweden on November 8th, he turned it dowm, cause he didn`t have time at the moment!
Duane tells us: In the most recent issue (summer edition) of "The Musician's Planet" (the free official magazine of Mars: The Musician's Planet), the results of a survey to find out what musicians the best band on the planet would consist of were posted. James Hetfield was voted as the vocalist for this "dream" group. Others include Eric Clapton on guitar, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen tied for second place, Paul McCartney on bass, Neil Peart (of Rush) on drums/percussion, Elton John on piano/keyboards, and Clarence Clemons (of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) and Tower of Power in a tie for horn player/section.
Just a reminder that the DCC Gold edition of Master of Puppets goes on sale today!
Check out this picture from MetOnTour.
John sent us an interesting quote from Slayer, taken from the Ozzfest website. Says lead singer and bassist Tom Araya, when asked if there were any bands that they haven't toured with or would like to tour
with, he responded, "I dunno, it'd be kinda cool to tour with Metallica and Pantera. That'd
be pretty heavy. A very hairy lineup. Just throwing Metallica in there
makes it a big thing with them on the bill."
German radio station EINSLIVE will have a one hour broadcast of the Metallica show from Minden, Germany 6-26-99 this coming week on Friday, July 16, around midnight. The show is called KULT UND CHAOS and starts around 3 minutes past midnight.
Metallica will be in the upcoming August issue of Guitar World magazine. GW will have a feature about the SymphonicA show. Says James, in a quote on their site, "This is what I've wanted to do with our stuff for a long time, to be grand and sound giant. It's always been in my head to create giant pieces of music."
Rock Radio Network, who will be broadcasting the Big Day Out (July 10) gig live via their site, will also be bringing a webcam along for the trip, so therefore the live webcast will now include pictures too. Metallica will be on the main stage from 8:50pm to 11:00 pm BST (3:50pm to 6:00pm EST). Thanks Jinny!
MetOnTour says, "The band just walked on stage. According to the setlist we are in for a surprise :)...Stay tuned." The band is in Dublin, Ireland, playing an indoor gig at the Point for 8500 crazy Metallica fans. We'll keep you up to date...
UPDATE: Nigel let us in on the surprise: "Whiskey in the jar was switched to second last on the bill and Eric Bell, Thin Lizzy's original guitarist and the man credited with writing parts of the song (which is a traditional Irish
arrangement) joined Metallica on stage to play lead guitar for the song. The
song was also dedicated by James, who said it was one of his favourite of
all metallica's covers, to Phil Lynott, bass player of thin Lizzy, now sadly
disceased, and to Phils mother, who was in the crowd." Thanks Nigel!
Unfortunatley, I talked to the owner of the Monster Magnet tribute site today and he told me that he met with the band yesterday and they told him that Metallica will NOT be going with them to Australia nor Japan. All the dates they have listed are now headlining dates for the stoner-rockers from New Jersey.
Apparently there is a music video out for Die, Die My Darling. It's live footage from the Roseland Ballroom Garage Inc. promo show that hetfield_4 saw at 1:30am on Australian TV on a show called Rage. UPDATE: Joao lets us know that the same thing has been shown on Portuguese TV as well.
Last night in Estonia, Metallica added Seek & Destroy and Whiskey in the Jar to the setlist. Removed from the setlist was Wherever I May Roam and The Four Horsement. Whiskey In The Jar should especially be quite a treat with the band in Dublin, Ireland on Monday July 5th. Thanks to and make sure to check out a video clip of the Whiskey rehearsal at MetOnTour.
UK metal radio station RRN will broadcast live for 12 hours from Metallica's Big Day Out show in England on July 10th. The show will include interviews with the bands and loads of backstage guests and liggers PLUS live music from both stages. The show can be heard from www.rocknetwork.com and will be broadcast in Shoutcast MP3 and Real Audio 5.0 & G2 streams. Don't miss The Big Day Out live from 12.00 to midnight UK time (0700 to 1900EST)
Rudy lets us know that CD Now now reports the release date of the 24K Master of Puppets gold CD, which will cost $25 a pop, to be July 13.
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