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METALLICA's ULRICH Defends Snare-Drum Sound On 'St. Anger'
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich called into "The Cane Show" on 92.3 K-Rock on Wednesday (August 20) to announce the band's upcoming club gig at New York's 500-capacity Bowery Ballroom on Aug. 29. During the conversation, Ulrich was asked to comment on the incessant criticism leveled at the group over...August 22, 2003
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BRAZEN ABBOT To Release Live DVD In The Fall
BRAZEN ABBOT, the brainchild of Bulgarian guitarist Nikolo Kotzev, recorded their recent live appearances in Bulgaria for an upcoming DVD, tentatively due in the fall. As previously reported, the band's lineup for the gigs consisted of Kotzev, Joe Lynn Turner (vocals, ex-RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE),Lars...August 19, 2003
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METALLICA's Therapist Urged LARS ULRICH To Meet With DAVE MUSTAINE
METALLICA's "performance coach" Phil Towle, a 64-year-old former psychotherapist who was brought into the picture in January 2001 to help James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich repair their relationship with Jason Newsted, recently spoke to Classic Rock magazine about his work with the group t...August 18, 2003
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Review: METALLICA Blows Away Competition At San Francisco Event
Mark Whittington of The Mercury News reports that METALLICA returned home to San Francisco on Sunday (August 10) as rock's triumphant warlords. "The band that brought heavy metal to the mainstream was greeted by 45,000 loyal subjects at Candlestick Park. They reveled for eight hours as the 18-city S...August 12, 2003
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LARS ULRICH Says LIMP BIZKIT-Haters In Chicago Were Disrespectful To METALLICA
Bean of KROQ's "Kevin & Bean Show" in Los Angeles spoke with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich on Friday (August 8),the day before the group's appearance at L.A. Coliseum as part of the Summer Sanitarium Tour. Among the topics that were discussed during the interview was the much-publicized LIMP BI...August 11, 2003
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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: 'FRED DURST Is An Innovator'
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke to Metal Edge magazine about how the lineup for this year's Summer Sanitarium Tour came together. "When Summer Sanitarium was conceived three years ago, the idea, in a nutshell, was to recreate all the shit we grew up on, which was Day On The Green and Te...August 9, 2003
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Review: Heavy Metal's Best Ignite Seattle Crowd On METALLICA's SUMMER SANITARIUM Tour
Tina Potterf of Seattle Times is reporting that METALLICA, the elder statesmen of metal, assembled an untouchable lineup of acts for their Summer Sanitarium appearance at Settle's Seahawks Stadium Thursday (August 7): MUDVAYNE and the DEFTONES, LINKIN PARK and LIMP BIZKIT. "The real heavyweights of...August 8, 2003
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Review: METALLICA Heavy, But Fan Turnout Light
Dave Ferman of Star-Telegram reports that METALLICA, the biggest name in heavy metal throughout the '90s, "didn't even come close to filling Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas Sunday night (Aug. 3). The floor was crowded but much of the upper deck sat empty. "Far-short-of-capacity houses have been the r...August 4, 2003
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Writer Attempts To Explain How METALLICA Spoof Turned Into Marketing Campaign For Canadian Band
Gary Marshall of The Guardian recently attempted to explain how a METALLICA spoof turned into a hugely effective viral marketing campaign for an obscure Canadian rock band. "When news of METALLICA's latest lawsuit hit the web, music fans across the globe were outraged," he writes in an article publi...August 4, 2003
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PHILIP ANSELMO Says PANTERA Would Eat METALLICA Alive
PANTERA/SUPERJOINT RITUAL singer Philip Anselmo has once again slammed METALLICA over their apparent refusal to take out more extreme metal bands on tour with them, saying that if Lars and Co. were to play a show with SUPERJOINT RITUAL or PANTERA, "we would crush 'em." Anselmo had previously challen...August 4, 2003
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JASON NEWSTED: ' METALLICA's New Album Is Not Very Pleasing To The Human Ear'
Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted called into The Blitz 99.7 FM in Columbus, Ohio Thursday afternoon (July 31) to talk about touring with VOIVOD and OZZY OSBOURNE on this year's Ozzfest and to answer a few METALLICA-related questions. When asked for his opinion of the new METALLICA album, "St....August 1, 2003
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METALLICA's HETFIELD On Lawsuit Hoax: 'That's So Awesome'
Mark Brown of Rocky Mountain News reports that "even though METALLICA's battle with Napster is fading into the past, critics of the band still hang on to it. Just last week, someone started an Internet hoax story — that METALLICA had copyrighted the chords D and F and would sue anyone who used ...August 1, 2003
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LARS ULRICH, The Film Composer?
According to Internet Movie Database, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich is one of the three original music composers contributing material to the soundtrack for the new Quentin Tarantino movie ("Pulp Fiction", "Reservoir Dogs") "Kill Bill Volume One" (web site, trailer, poster). The film, which will rec...August 1, 2003
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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH To Take Over Airwaves
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich will be taking over local radio station KBPI in Denver, Colorado Thursday night (July 31) from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Mountain Time. This show will be broadcasted live to various stations across the U.S. (11:00 p.m. EST, 8:00 p.m. PST) Here is a partial list of partici...July 31, 2003
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Reality Check
Forever the industrious bunch, you have to take your hats — sorry, bandanas — off to KONKHRA. For all their toiling, touring and unwavering self-belief, they are the perpetual nearly men who have the audacity to have once boasted such big-hitters within their ranks as one-time MACHINE HEAD drummer C...July 29, 2003
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