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METALLICA: Pro-Shot Footage Of 'The Small Hours' Performance From Leipzig Available

Professionally filmed video footage of METALLICA performing the HOLOCAUST cover "The Small Hours" on May 7, 2009 at the Leipzig Arena in Leipzig, Germany can be viewed below. Also available is footage of METALLICA frontman James Hetfield "messing with a security guard" during the same concert. The g...

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EARTH CRISIS Offers High Praise For Going Vegan In New PETA2 Ad

As their much-anticipated album "To the Death" (Century Media) dropped today, all five members of the defining straight-edge hardcore band EARTH CRISIS appear in a brand-new pro-vegan print ad for peta2, the world's largest youth animal rights organization. In the ad, the guys appear next to the tag...

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METALLICA Gives Away Thousands Of Free T-Shirts At Stockholm Concert

METALLICA resumed their European tour earlier tonight (Monday, May 4) when they returned to Stockholm, Sweden to make up for the concert on March 8 which was cancelled after guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield was hospitalized with a stomach bug and dehydration (reportedly caused by eating "a bad oyst...

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MASTODON's BILL KELLIHER: 'I Always Looked Up To' METALLICA

Kristen Dunleavy of myYearbook.com recently conducted an interview with MASTODON guitarist Bill Kelliher. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. myYearbook.com: Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Kelliher: Yeah, the one I can remember best is when I was playing with [my old band]...

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GEEZER BUTLER: Why I'm A Vegan

BLACK SABBATH/HEAVEN & HELL bassist Geezer Butler has teamed up with peta2 — the world's largest youth animal rights organization — to shoot a brand-new pro-vegetarian ad featuring Butler as he picks at his bass next to the tagline "I'm Geezer Butler, and I'm a vegan." (See video below.) "I used...

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Learn To Play Like METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT

Lick Library has released a comprehensive teaching series of guitar tuition DVDs focusing on METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett's playing: Introducing the two-part "Learn To Play Metallica" double DVD sets, coming in at a weighty combined six hours of in-depth tuition. From the juggernaut "Enter the S...

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ABSU's SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST XII Performance Pushed Back A Day

Proscriptor McGovern from the Texas-based mythological occult metal outfit ABSU has issued the following statement: "We regret to announce that due to a massive flight cancellation from Madrid to Porto, our performance originally scheduled for Friday, May 1 at the SWR Barroselas Metalfest XII has be...

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HERMAN ZE GERMAN AND FRIENDS: Tour Dates Announced

HERMAN ZE GERMAN AND FRIENDS, the band led by former SCORPIONS drummer Herman Rarebell, has scheduled the following dates: July 10 - Rocklahoma - Pryor, OK (Retrospect Stage Headliner) July 17 - Mississippi Mud House - Cape Girardeau, MO July 18 - Heartbreakers - St. Louis, MO The group's current li...

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HACKNEYED Checks In From The Studio

German death metal lunatics HACKNEYED have entered Weltraumstudios in Munich with producer Corni Bartels (DIE ÄRZTE, KILLERPILZE, END OF GREEN, MEGAHERZ etc.) to begin recording their new album, "Burn After Reaping". Commented drummer Tim: "The last few days meant nothing but hard work to us and we...

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Working Class Rock Star

As LAMB OF GOD's Randy Blythe bluntly states on "Working Class Rock Star" about those desiring to "make it" in the hard scrabble world of extreme (or perhaps eclectic in the case of TUB RING) music: "you better be prepared to eat shit and suffer; otherwise, you're a punk-ass" (or words to that effec...

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OPETH Frontman Issues Post-South American Tour Update

Guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH has issued the following update: "Where have you been all my life??? "Buenos Aires? I love you! Yeah, kinda fell in love with the city...absolutely stunning! I could definitely see myself and my fam having a few weeks on holi...

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JASON NEWSTED Talks About METALLICA's ROCK HALL Induction; Video Available

Ken of MetalFanzine.net conducted an interview with former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted on Sunday, April 5 after Jason was inducted, along with the current members of METALLICA and the band's late bassist Cliff Burton, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Watch the five-minute...

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Updated: METALLICA Performs With Two Bassists At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME; Video Available

METALLICA played "Master Of Puppets" and "Enter Sandman" at tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, with the band's former bassist Jason Newsted and his replacement, Robert Trujillo, both taking part in the performance (the group played as a five-piece). They also led a "surprise ja...

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METALLICA's Private Party In Cleveland; Photos, Video Footage Available

Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPELIN),Flea (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS),Joe Perry (AEROSMITH),Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) and Scott Ian (ANTHRAX) are among the musicians who attended METALLICA private party last night (Friday, April 3) at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio ahead of the band's induction into the...

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SAXON Frontman Performs With METALLICA In Paris; Video Available

Vocalist Biff Byford of British heavy metal legends SAXON joined METALLICA on stage earlier tonight (Thursday, April 2) at Palais Omnisport de Bercy in Paris, France to perform the SAXON classic "Motorcycle Man". Watch fan-filmed video footage of the performance below. METALLICA's second-ever gig wa...