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The Recording Institute Association of America has re-certified several of Metallica's albums. These new figures now make the band the fifth best selling hard rock artists of all time, behind only Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Van Halen and AC/DC.
source: www.riaa.com
The new Metallica home video, Cunning Stunts has been released in Europe. The cover features a Corbjin photo from the Re-Load booklet.
Garage Inc. debuts on the US charts at #2, Garth Brooks continues to hold the #1 slot after smashing the record for most albums sold in a debut week.
Garage Inc. sold 426,000 copies its debut week, not bad for a double CD with no original songs and very little promotion. This spring Metallica will launch another world tour in late April.. the first show will be a concert featuring a full orchestra in San Francisco. The will coincide with an album of Metallica songs featuring orchestra. The band will then carry the tour (minus orchestra) to South America, Europe and possibly some North American dates (including the postponed Hawaii, Alaska and Mexico City dates).
The band also hopes to start recording a new album before the year 2000, probably in late 1999. To welcome the year 2000 the band plans a New Years Eve Party in Michigan, probably at the Pontiac Silverdome. Look for Ted Nugent on the bill. Jason says: "Yeah, there'll be a big show on New Year's Eve, with big pyrotechnics and stuff,'' "we're gonna blow a hole right out of the center of Michigan.''
Source: Gary Graff the "Rock N Roll Insider" UPDATE: Metallica finished the videoshoot for 'Whiskey in the Jar' in Brooklyn, NY, not Los Angeles as previouslyreported. MetOnTour has more picturesand info! MORE COVERS According to the Dutch magazine Aardschok,Kirk is quoted as saying that the covers that did not make Garage Inc wereas follows: Sonicnethas a review up of the latest music video, "Turn the Page". The articlecontained concern about the video from various groups like the Children'sRights Council in Washington, DC, who say that "Metallica should be prosecutedunder the child-abuse laws, because kids are watching that at home on MTV.Any parent knows that you don't have sexual relations in front of a child,especially not with a stranger. The doors are open, she has easy accessto the suite." You can read the entire article by clickinghere. Thanks to al770415@mail.mty.itesm.mx The New Morty Show has performed a coverof 'Enter Sandman' for the upcoming big band compilation entitled JumpUp and Boogie. The album comes out on December 8, the same day as CunningStunts. Thanks to fixxxer259@hotmail.com Metallica has added online bookstore Amazon.comto the list of those being sued - which includes the record label OutlawRecords, distributor Dutch East India Trading, and N2K, the parent corporationof Music Boulevard - over the unauthorized sale of Metallica—BayArea Thrashers, the Early Years. While Music Boulevard is no longer sellingthe album, Amazon.com still lists the album, and has therefore has beenadded to the suit. Thanks to DM13DM@aol.com TURN THE PAGEIS #1 Turn the Page came in at numero uno onthe Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks for November 21, 1998, beating tracksby Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie, The Offspring, and Kiss, among others. ROSKILDE FESTIVAL Metallica will be headlining the RoskildeFestival in Denmark on Thursday July 1, 1999. More information can be foundat http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/ UBL EXCLUSIVE The Ultimate Band List - www.ubl.com- is doing an exclusive advance promo for Garage Inc. Check out http://content.ubl.com/store/listening_room/for clips to ALL the songs on the new album in Real Audio and be sure tocheck out one of the best sites on the 'net while you are there. Checkout their assortment of contests and news, as well as information suchas web sites, mailing lists, etc compiled on almost any band imaginable. Metallica Goodies for 20 lucky winners! "A pair of drumsticks actually used byand autographed by all of Metallica for the lucky winner plus copies ofthe band's top new video 'Cunning Stunts', Metallica stress balls (rubberballs which you squeeze when yer stressed, apparently), copies of theirnew album 'Garage Inc' and other Metallica related stuff. All you need to do is answer the followingmoderately easy question: Which ensemble recently arranged Metallicasongs for violin, cello and viola? Was it? Click on the link below to go to the NMEsite and enter: DYNAMO FESTIVAL According to Aardschok, a Dutch rock &Metal magazine, Lars said they will headline the Dynamo Open Air-Festivalin Holland on Sunday, May 23. As soon as more information is known, we'lllet you know. Thanks to zombie@club.tip.nl VIDEO SHOOT According to CBLRecords, Metallica will be in Los Angeles shooting the second videofor 'Garage Inc', "Whikey in the Jar". MTV MTV is inviting Metallica fans down to45th Street and Broadway, Shubert Alley, at 3PM on Wednesday. Metallicawill be making an appearance outside and a bunch of lucky fans will geta free copy of their new CD. From AOL Keyword: Metallica LIVE WEB CAST Check the show out at: www.jamtv.com From AOL Keyword: Metallica METALLICA FILESLAWSUIT Metallica and Creeping Death Music fileda lawsuit on Thursday in the U.S. Central District Court of Californiaagainst Outlaw Records, Dutch East India Trading, Music Boulevard, amongothers, over the release of a bootleg album entitled "Bay Area Thrashers:The Early Days." Metallica claims that the album was marketed anddistributed without their knowledge or consent and that the album consistsof live recordings released and approved by the band. The plaintiffsclaim that the CD is simply incomplete demos dating from 1982 that havebeen altered with the addition of crowd noise and vocals to make them seemlike live recordings. Metallica is demanding a trial by juryand lists nine complaints in the suit including unfair competition andvarious copyright and trademark infringements. UPDATE FROMPOLYGRAM AUSTRALIA Tonight at 12:01, Australian Eastern StandardTime, PolygramAustralia will have a small clip from each song up from GARAGEINC.!!! Check it out!!! Also, the website had this to say aboutan "alternate" version of Turn the Page to be released: "A second format of TURN THE PAGE is goingto be released November 30th. Tracklisting is as follows: VIDEO NEWS The video for Turn the Page supposedlywill make it's world premiere on Monday, November 16, a Swedish newspaperreports. No details are known and the date may change to Wednesday,November 18 to coincide with Metallica TV on MTV. As soon as more informationis known, you can be sure to find it here. Also, the director, Jonas Åkerlund,had this to say about working with Metallica: "I'm doing Metallica's nextvideo also. Lars Ulrich told me that as far as he's concerned, he wouldn'tmind me doing all Metallica's of videos as of now." The new video is supposedlyfor the song "Whiskey In the Jar". Says Jonas on the new video: "Theidea is based on the guys in the band themselves. More than that I won'ttell." A special thanks goes to Ulrik and theNo Remorse Metallica Page forthe story. GARAGE INCPASSES Information regarding backstage passesfor the Garage Inc promo tour has been released from the Club: "Due to the nature of the upcoming showsie. smaller venues with very limited facilities, we will not be attemptingto initiate any backstage meet and greets for Club members. We have nodoubt whatsoever that to attempt anything, given the limitations, willend up a very frustrating and unrewarding experience. We hope that Clubmembers understand our reasons for this decision." Source: AOL Keyword: Metallica On November 18 at 4:30 pm EST, Metallicawill be interviewed by an MTV VJ in an informal atmosphere. The first75 fans who emailed to go will be allowed in the studio to be audiencemembers. Plus, 200 people will be outside the building and free copiesof the new CD will be given out. Audience interaction is likely,but has not been determined yet. The show will be 30 minutes in lengthand will be live. KIRK UPDATE Official news regarding Kirk has been releasedfrom the Club: "On Friday 6th Nov whilst in the midstof a European press and promotion tour, Kirk was rushed to a London hospitalsuffering from severe abdominal pains. Investigation revealed thathe was suffering from appendicitis. Within a couple of hours surgeons hadperformed an appendectomy to remove the cause of the problem. All wentwell, and after a couple of days rest and recuperation Kirk flew back toSan Francisco. Subject to no adverse reactions or infections, this shouldhave no effect on the planned US 'tour' later this month." Source: AOL Keyword: Metallica SINGLE UPDATE More details are known about the releaseof the Turn The Page single. First, the two CDs will have the followingtracklistings: CD 1 CD 2 Clickhere for the cover art for the new single Thanks to TheNo Remorse Metallica Page for the info and pic! KIRK HOSPITALIZED Kirk was rushed to a London hospital overthe weekend and is recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Heis expected to make a full recovery and will return home to the US nextweek. This is not expected to have any effect on the upcoming promoshows. IS would like to extend our best wishes to Kirk for a fulland speedy recovery. Thanks to MotloNews TURN THE PAGEEDIT The radio version that most of you haveheard of Turn the Page is most likely the radio edit. The edit differsfrom the album version in that the album version contains over a minuteof soloing and such that was cut out for the edit. The solos bring thelength of the song to about 6:00 minutes. SOLD OUT Tickets are no longer available from theMetallica Club for the Metallica Garage Inc. shows: GARAGE INC.NEWS Check out the GarageInc. Report for new news posted about the album. GARAGE INC.TOURDATES "Metallica will perform live at the followinglocations to support the release of Garage Inc. November 17 November 19 November 20 November 23 November 24 Source: AOL Keyword Metallica Tickets are no longer available from theMetallica Club for the Garage Inc. show on November 20th. Source: AOL Keyword: Metallica PROMO DATES "Members of Metallica will appear at thefollowing cities, we will pass along more information as it becomes available: European Promo Tour Nov 2 Lars & Kirk in Paris South American/Mexico Promo Tour Nov 3 Jason in Sao Paulo Source: AOL Keyword: Metallica HOME VIDEORELEASE "We've already mentioned Metallica's latesthome video, we can now confirm that it will be released on December 8th. Titled "Cunning Stunts," it will be available on video tape and DVD. Cunning Stunts promises to be an even biggerevent for those of us with DVD players. While it will still be availableon the regular video tape formats, those without DVD will be missing outon some special features." Clickhere to learn more about DVD! Source: AOL Keyword: Metallica VIDEO INFO Apparently, Jonas Åkerlund, directorof the video for Turn the Page, has pornstar Ginger Lynn starring in it. He says not only was he was a fan of hers, but "I kinda grew up with her."The choice was between her and another pornstar, Nina Hartely. Noinformation on her role in the video as of yet. Thanks to abyss@algonet.se MOST SEARCHED If you searched for "Metallica" on YAHOO,you would be searching for the 59th most searched word on the immenselypopular search engine. The sheer number of hits that represents is amazing. Thanks to: EZRACA@aol.com |
