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Danny let's us know that
little-watched UK show on Channel 5 called "100%" featured the question "Who had a hit single with song Enter Sandman?" Only one contestant of the three got the correct answer.
The Belgian Folk Festival has no mention of Metallica. Thanks to Davy and Jessica.
Metallica makes it to Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Moments in Rock at #99 with: Jethro Tull Wins the Grammy... for Heavy Metal! Pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly #487 or check the website here. Also in this issue is a fold out "June '99 Viewing Guide" for VH-1 promoting Metallica (and others) as part of their "Bad Boys Week" for Behind The Music, look for the boys on June 1st.
According to Tixx, Metallica will be playing November 20 & 21 is San Antonio, TX at the Majestic Theater, Edinburg, UK on August 7th at the Lennoxlove House and in Belgium August 8th at the Folk Festival. thanks to: Jessica.
Music 365 tells us that Metallica will be producing a LIMITED EDITION sinlge for Die Die My Darling, b-sides will be Sabbra Cadabra and the Mercyful Fate Medley both live! Read the story here.
Music 365 also has a story about the Big Day Out show that happens July 19th at Milton Keynes and club shows leading up to it. Also including a chance to win VIP passes! Read the story here.
The current standings from Billboard shows Metallica's Garage Inc. at #83 on the Hot 200. Whiskey in the Jar down to #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The Black album at #1 and ...And Justice For All at #18 in Pop Catalog album sales.
Elektra's Metallica site: Metallica Mania has opened a e-mail subscription service.
Today's show in Germany at Rock-Am-Ring will be webcast. You can listen my using the webradio located SWR-3. PLEASE NOTE: this site is in German, it may take some surfing to the find the right area! Metallica hits the stage at 9:30 Nurburgring time; which is 6 hours ahead of US Eastern Time. Thanks to Griin. UPDATE: Jessica let's us know that there are several pictures of the band available at the SWR-3 web site as well an interview (although in German!)
Jessica lets us know that Kirk is joining Primus on a cover of a David Bowie song for Primus' new album. It is unknown if this the same track Kirk recorded with Les Claypool awhile back.
Metallica was a question on gameshow Hollywood Squares. TV's Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Battlestar Galactica) was asked "What special project did heavy metal band Metallica just complete?" She answered correctly about the Symphonica project, however the contestant disagreed! No word on Squares regular Whoopi Goldberg's reaction! Thanks to Jim.
Jessica checks in again to let us know that MuchMusic does not plan to repeat the Metallica Egos & Icon show until August 5th!
VH-1's Rock Show is showing clips from Symphonica. Tune in weeknights at Midnight (EST) for more clips in the coming days, alread shown were parts of "Of Wolf And Man" and "One." Thanks to Yanks9596.
MetOnTour has an interesting banner up that links to this page on the Metallica Club website that says:
"Well, your chance to sign up for the Metallica browser based e-mail system is on it's way! Check the page out here. Of course, as soon as we know more we will pass it along!
The Metallica Club and MetOnTour have confirmed two more dates: July 20 - Tel Aviv, ISRAELL (Rishon Le Zion)
The Whiskey in the Jar video will be featured on the show "Rock of Ages" on VH-1 at 10:00pm ET/PT on Monday, May 17. The Marianne Faithfull Behind the Music episode airs Sunday May 23rd 11am ET/PT and again at 9pm ET/PT this features an interview with James Hetfield. The Behind the Music Metallica episode will air again May 19th 5pmET/PT. Thanks to Jess for the update!
The Metallica epsiode of MuchMusic's "Egos & Icons" series will air repeat Sunday May 16th at 3pm & 8am ET (12pm & 5am PT). Thanks to Jessica for the update!
Plans for pay-per-view access of Woodstock 1999 have been announced. Pay-per-view feeds for the full three days of the festival as well as single one-day are available. Woodstock '99 in Griffiss Park in Rome, NY will be available from Viewer's Choice, Direct TV and TVN. Check your local cable company for details, prices are as follows: 3-Day $59.95 Pay-per-view of Woodstock 1994 raised more than $9 million. Ticket sales have surpassed both single event sales and single event online sales records for Ticketmaster.
Metallica along with an "all star lineup" of today's biggest music, film and television stars will visit The Skywalker Ranch for an exclusive screening of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." MTV will broadcast this as "An MTV Private Screening" on Tuesday, May 18 at 10:00pm, the show will include exclusive preview clips from the movie, an inside look at The Skywalker Ranch and interviews with talent about the movie. Other attendees inlcude Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, Ginuwine, Korn, Hanson, Limp Bizkit, Maxwell, 'N Sync, Rob Zombie, Third Eye Blind, Usher, Shannen Doherty, Edward Furlong, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seth Green, Katie Holmes, Alyssa Milano, Luke Perry and many others.
The Misfits, who originally recorded "Last Caress," "Green Hell" and "Die Die My Darling," told Kerrang! in recent interview that they plan on covering an undetermined Metallica song for their album Fiend Club, which should be out this summer.
According to MetOnTour, Jason joined Sepultura on stage for two songs at the Rio de Janerio, Brazil concert on the 9th of this month. Fan reviews cite "Roots Bloody Roots" and "Refuse/Resist" as the songs performed by Newsted & Sepultura. Thanx to John for the correction. UPDATE: Rodrigo reports "The correct
songs they played together were Refuse/Resist and Territoy (not Roots
Bloody Roots, which was the last song on the concert)."
Rocktropolis reports that the Metallica/Victoria Secrets dispute is heading to court. A pre-trial conference is set for March 27, 2000 and a trial scheduled to begin on April 25, 2000.
The current standings from Billboard shows Metallica's Garage Inc. at #76 on the Hot 200. Whiskey in the Jar down to #5 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The Black album at #1 and ...And Justice For All at #15 in Pop Catalog album sales.
The Metallica Inc. website has posted sound clips from MTV's 1515. If you missed 1515, you can listen to very small sound bites of Until It Sleeps, Enter Sandman, Call of Ktulu and The Thing That Should Not Be.
MetOnTour has a facelift. Check out the new look and continue to follow Metallica On Tour, get the latest setlists, fan reviews and pictures at http://www.metontour.com.
MuchMusic will air its Metallica segment of "Egos & Icons" May 13th at 9pm. You can also catch the Space Ghost Coast To Coast rerun tonight (May 2) and 12:30 AM. Thanks to Yanks9596.
ESP Guitars has released a new James Hetfield signature guitar: the JH-3. The JH-3 is a Les Paul-styled ESP Horizon set to James' specifications. The guitar has a black mahogany body with rosewood fingerboard, gold hardware, custom flags inlays, the pick-ups are James' standard EMG-81 & 60 humbuckers, Creme binding on the body and neck, and custom Pinstripe graphics on the body. This is the third James Hetfield signature series; the JH-1 was a flying V with red flames, the JH-2 was modeled after James' D-Tuned Explorer complete with diamond plating. The JH-3 retails for $2699. Thanks to Josh. Read more about it here.
Pantera frontman Phil "Animal" Anselmo joined Metallica onstage in Mexico City on April 30th. The quintet performed Creeping Death to the delight of 50,000 Mexican fans. Check out the entire setlist (The Four Horsemen and Die Die My Darling added!) and reviews of the gig at our newly revamped ISOnTour.
The latest standings from Billboard shows Metallica's Garage Inc. up nine spots to #66 on the Hot 200. Whiskey in the Jar holding at #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The Black album still at #1 and ...And Justice For All at #15 in Pop Catalog album sales.
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The house that Metallica built albums like Ride the Lightning and Master Of Puppets is up for sale. The house in El Cerrito, California has not been owned by any band members for quite some time, but served as the bands headquarters from the time they moved up to the San Francisco Bay Area. Lurk the same hallways and bedrooms as James, Lars, Cliff, Kirk, Dave and house dog Clive for an asking price of $250,000.00.