Metallica:
Our new lyric video for “Screaming Suicide” is here!
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Metallica: NEW SONG ⚠️ NEW VIDEO ⚠️ SCREAMING SUICIDE
“Listen well, better listen well…”
Watch the Video!
Video Directed by Tim Saccenti
Greta Van Fleet:
If you can’t be in Los Angeles tomorrow for our very special performance at Metallica’s Helping Hands Concert, the entire show will stream live, including the opening set from Greta Van Fleet, on Paramount+, Pluto TV, and MTV’s YouTube channel (via the embedded video clip below) starting at 5:30PM PST. We can’t wait to see you there and support such a worthy cause.
One of our most sought-after collabs is up for grabs at the @AWMHFoundation #HelpingHands2022 auction – the Metallica x @Vans SK8-Hi!!
Featuring artwork from Pushead, this signed pair is up for auction benefitting #AWMH.
Bid through 12/20 at 12 PM PT ➡️ https://t.co/33cHnXzAvj pic.twitter.com/OUJ128AOJv
— Metallica (@Metallica) December 16, 2022
TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES!
The @AWMHFoundation #HelpingHands2022 Concert & Auction hosted by @JimmyKimmel!
Poster Art by Miles Tsang pic.twitter.com/5R15fuYqnm
— Metallica (@Metallica) December 16, 2022
Metallica: In the wake of last week’s exciting news of our new song, new album, and new tour, unfortunately the ugly side of social media made an appearance. Many of you have let us know about YouTube channels and live streams, as well as websites, claiming to offer Metallica Crypto giveaways in conjunction with last week’s announcement.
Let’s be as clear as possible. These are scams. They’re being streamed on fake YouTube channels posing to be ours and all pointing to websites that we do not run. Please remember — all of our official social media channels are verified. Always look for official verification before believing something wild and crazy to be true. We thank all of you who have been vigilant in reporting these live streams to YouTube and to us… please don’t let up!
As a reminder, these are the official Metallica channels:
Website: metallica.com, livemetallica.com
Instagram: @metallica
YouTube: @metallica
Facebook: @metallica
TikTok: @metallica
Twitter: @metallica
Be familiar with the symbols that indicate an official channel and report anything that is a scam!
Metallica:
Enhanced Experience packages will be available during the M72 Tour presales starting tomorrow morning! Offerings include a backstage meet & greet with band members, production & stage tours, Snake Pit passes, & early access to the floor.
Get more info @ ➡️ this location.
This is the show that the “Metal Up Your A**” live tape was recorded. It was to be included in the expanded release of No Life til Leather but…well y’all know what happened.
November 29th, 1982: Metallica played their first headlining gig in San Francisco.
The lineup was James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Ron McGovney & Dave Mustaine.
Kirk Hammett’s band Exodus supported on that same gig.
The New Yorker: “I get up there and sing, and I watch people change,” James Hetfield, the lead singer of Metallica, told Amanda Petrusich. Today the band announced plans to release its 11th record.
The New Yorker posted a really great, in-depth profile on Metallica. You can read the entire feature @ this location. An excerpt has been provided below.
James Hetfield was born in Downey, California, in 1963. His mother, Cynthia, had two sons from a previous marriage. His father, Virgil, had fought in the Second World War and started a trucking company when he returned to California. “He did not have a great childhood,” Hetfield said of his father. “My grandfather was some crazy musician who came through town, and then off he went—imagine that,” he added, laughing. His parents were devout Christian Scientists, and had met in church, where Virgil helped lead a weekly service. But Hetfield never connected with the religion.
“It felt lonely,” he said. “When my dad was up there reading from the Scriptures, he was getting tears in his eyes. It moved him. I didn’t get it. I thought something was wrong with me.” Hetfield recalled being embarrassed when he wasn’t allowed to attend health class or receive a physical to play football. “I still carry shame about that,” he said. “How different we were to people.”
When Hetfield was thirteen, his father left. “I went off to church camp, and I came back, and he was gone,” he recalled. Two years later, his mother developed cancer, but refused medical treatment on religious grounds. “We watched her wither to nothing,” he said. “She had religion around her, inside her. She had practitioners coming over. But the cancer was stronger.” Hetfield is still not entirely sure what type of cancer she had. “Probably something really curable,” he said.
For a long time, Hetfield was angry that his mother had rebuffed doctors. “I thought she cared more about religion than she did her kids,” he said. “It wasn’t talked about, either—if you’re talking about it, you’re giving it power, and you want to take power away from it. So admitting that you’re sick, that’s a no-no. We just saw it happening.” Cynthia died when Hetfield was sixteen. “There was nothing solid to stand on,” he said. “I felt extremely lost.” On “The God That Failed,” an angry, punishing cut from “Metallica,” Hetfield sings about the experience: “Broken is the promise, betrayal / The healing hand held back by the deepened nail.”
You can read the entire feature @ this location.
Stern Show:
Lars Ulrich joins the Stern Show to announce Metallica’s new album, “72 Seasons,” the band’s upcoming “M72” world tour, and why Metallica said yes when Stranger Things asked to use “Master of Puppets” in the latest season.
Volbeat:
Sweden! We’re excited to be joining our friends Metallica in Gothenburg on 16 June 2023 at Ullevi Stadium. Get tickets this Friday at 9am CET 😈
Pantera will be joining Metallica for the US dates of their M72 World Tour, No Repeat Weekend. 2 Nights, 2 Different Opening Acts, In The Round at the 50 Yard Line. Tickets on sale: Dec 2, 2022.
NIGHT ONE METALLICA w/ PANTERA & MAMMOTH DATES/TICKETS:
Friday, August 4, 2023 – New York, NY Metlife Stadium – TICKETS
Friday, August 11, 2023 – Montreal, QC – TICKETS
Friday, August 18, 2023 – Dallas, TX – TICKETS
Friday, August 25, 2023 – Los Angeles, CA – TICKETS
Friday, September 1, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – TICKETS
Friday, November 3, 2023 – St Louis, MO – TICKETS
Friday, November 10, 2023 – Detroit, MI – TICKETS
Friday, August 2, 2024 – Boston, MA – TICKETS
Friday, August 9, 2024 – Chicago, IL – TICKETS
Friday, August 16, 2024 – Minneapolis, MN – TICKETS
Friday, August 23, 2024 – Edmonton, AB – TICKETS
Friday, August 30, 2024 – Seattle, WA – TICKETS
Got questions about the #M72 Tour? Here are a few answers! For a more detailed list, check out our FAQ at https://t.co/3WJGXl7zsR pic.twitter.com/Q0vvmC9g9L
— Metallica (@Metallica) November 29, 2022
Metallica:
⚠️ NEW METALLICA SONG ⚠️ NEW METALLICA ALBUM ⚠️ NEW METALLICA TOUR ⚠️
NEW METALLICA ALBUM // 72 SEASONS // COMING APRIL 14, 2023
Pre-Order & Pre-Save @ this location.
The NEW VIDEO for the NEW METALLICA SONG “Lux Æterna” has been embedded below.
⚡️ @Metallica ’s first album since 2016, ‘72 Seasons,’ is now available for pre-order in our shop on 2LP vinyl and CD.
⚡️Pre-Order yours now ! — 🔗 https://t.co/JBqHRePMpb pic.twitter.com/sDKcC0LU66— revolvermag (@Revolvermag) November 28, 2022
Got questions about the #M72 Tour? Here are a few answers! For a more detailed list, check out our FAQ at https://t.co/3WJGXl7zsR pic.twitter.com/Q0vvmC9g9L
— Metallica (@Metallica) November 29, 2022
Metallica:
We’re looking forward to celebrating the achievements of All Within My Hands at this year’s Helping Hands Concert & Auction and we’re psyched to tell you that it will be streamed live, thanks to our friends at Paramount+! The show, hosted by our friend Jimmy Kimmel, will kick off at 5:30 PST on December 16 on Paramount+, PlutoTV, and MTV’s YouTube channel.
Greg Prato: My interview w/ Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine for Songfacts…
You can read the entire interview @ this location. An excerpt from the conversation has been provided below.
INTERVIEW EXCERPT:
Songfacts: Recently, there was talk that you’d like to collaborate again with James Hetfield. Have you actually discussed that with him?
Dave Mustaine:
The last time we talked it didn’t end very well because we have some memory of a couple of things that took place when I was in the band. I remember it one way and he is saying that it happened another. But it’s about somebody else – it’s not even him. He’s talking to me on behalf of “you know who” [Lars Ulrich].
They wanted to release No Life ‘Til Leather [the early Metallica demo Mustaine was on] – 27 songs, posters, flyers, pictures, everything. I said I would love to do this thing, and James said, “Look, we fucked up. The last three things we’ve done failed abysmally.”
He said it was Lulu [Metallica’s collaboration with Lou Reed, released in 2011], something called Orion [a festival called Orion Music + More that took place in 2012 and 2013], and there was one other thing… I think it was a film about a fan or something [the 2013 film Metallica: Through the Never]. I don’t know. I don’t see them as a failure.
But I had said, “Yeah, I’d be interested.” And he said, “We’d like to get everything right with all the history, the publishing and stuff.” And I said, “Good.” Because part of the reason why we haven’t been able to really reconcile is because I had songs that when I left, I didn’t want them to record, and they went ahead and recorded them, but they didn’t pay me what my share of the songs were.
James and I wrote “Metal Militia” and “Phantom Lord” – every note. And somehow, on the record [Kill ‘Em All] it says Lars gets 10%. And on “Metal Militia” that Kirk gets some of it, and he wasn’t even in the band!
So I’ve come to terms with it, and when he said, “We’d like to get this right,” I said, “Great. Let’s do it. I have no problem.” And when I said, “This is what it is,” he said, “No. It’s kind of what it was, and that’s how it is.”
And I thought to myself, you know what? When you guys did that to me before, it was not cool. I said, “Don’t use my stuff” and you did it, and then didn’t give me my fair share. So why would I want to willingly enter into something like that? I wouldn’t. So that’s where we stand right now.
I would love to work with James. I’d like to work with Lars again, too, but I think the real talent in Metallica has always been around the guitar – everybody makes fun of the drums.
Lars is a really great song arranger. And believe it or not, I watched him on a piece-of-shit acoustic guitar write the opening riff to “Ride The Lightning.” [Sings riff, which turns out to be “Master of Puppets”… keep reading. We’ve included the audio below so you can hear it.]
You know what that was? It was a guy with a guitar that doesn’t know how to play, and he’s going [mimics playing a chromatic run] on the neck. It wasn’t anything really mind-blowing by any means. The way James played it made it mind-blowing.
Songfacts: The melody of the riff you just hummed; it sounded more like the song “Master Of Puppets.” Was that the song you meant?
Yeah, whatever that is. I don’t fuckin’ know their song names. I don’t listen to them. I totally respect them; I just don’t listen to them. It’s not out of me not liking them. When they come on the radio in my car, a long time ago I would change the channel, but I don’t anymore. It’s just music, and I’ve been able to put all that stuff behind.
That’s why when I saw James talking bad about himself, I was thinking, “Fuck that, man. Don’t buy into that.” I don’t know if he’s back in the bottle or not, but I love that guy. I fought somebody because of James. Somebody was going to beat his ass in San Francisco, and I got in between them – and got knocked around a bit myself. But I would never let anything happen to those guys.
Somebody picked on Lars, and I snapped his leg – you remember that, right? And I’m not a violent person, I’m just very protective of the people I love. And when I see James saying stuff like that, I don’t like it. I want to help him. He probably wouldn’t want my help, but maybe if a couple of guys with guitars and a bag full of chips can get through a conversation and become friends again, who knows?
You can read the entire interview @ this location.
Ron McGovney:
I remember when James first sang that line in Whiplash during practice. I stopped everything and said, “Did you just say ‘We’ll never stop, we’ll never quit cause we’re Metallica’?” He said “Yeah, so?” I said “Ok. Carry on then”.
Metal Hammer: Ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted looks back on the highs and lows of his epic career.
You can read more from this interview @ this location. An excerpt from the conversation has been provided below.
Did you feel like you had an ally in Bob Rock when you were recording the Black Album?
“I don’t think I ever earned his respect like he had for James and Lars – because of what they had achieved, and they were writing the cheques – but I think he was firing on all cylinders. I wanted to get his respect, to show him I knew what I was doing.
I brought in a tenth of my bass collection, ‘Hey, let’s try this one or this one,’ sort of showing off a little, because you get told that this is the way to be a proper musician, where actually it’s the opposite. He knew that one bass was malleable, and we could get every sound out of it. I started messing with multi-string; he supported me in the way of tough love. He already had five or six kids, and none of us had any kids at that point; he was just adding to his brood. We were just kids, man!”
Did any of you guys realize you were sitting on something special back then, when the record was being made?
“I’m going to go back to Sad But True, because that’s my highlight of the whole project, because of the weight. I struggled with Nothing Else Matters; I knew it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up – it was undeniable – but I was kinda scared of it, to be honest, because I still wanted ‘CRUNCH!’ Sandman, I thought, was kinda corny, honestly.
The beautiful thing was that we all sat in the room together and played it out; 70 takes of Nothing Else Matters. After a while, you’re too close to it. ‘How much more delicate can I make it?’ It’s crazy I’ve just realised this: our softest song ever took down the biggest walls to allow our hardest songs ever to penetrate the world. When it was No. 1 in 35 countries in one week, and seven of those countries we hadn’t even been to yet? Dude, that doesn’t happen to a band who go ‘Die! Die!’ most of the time.”
Tell us about the IR8 stuff with Devin Townsend. That’s where the problems with Metallica started, right?
“This was the very origins. I had just established the Chophouse in ’92, and by ’94 we had all the gear. Devin came down at the age of about 22 and was an absolute fucking maniac… dude, an hour-and-a-half of sleep a day for a whole week! And every time he would pick up a guitar you get, ‘Widdle widdle widdle,’ and you’re like, ‘Dude, where in the hell did that come from?! Now play it backwards!’
It was the first real project we took time to track in the Chophouse. It’s just drums and bass, Devin doing some mad guitar solo over the top, I go in and scream the vocal – done. Raw production, but an incredible accomplishment, because I always wanted my own studio. “The guys got wind of it and Lars said, ‘You gotta come up to the house.’
I didn’t really know what it was for, so I take my bass and go up there: ‘What’s up, guys?’ ‘Dude, you know you’re in Metallica now, don’t you? You can’t just be making music and sending out tapes to whatever fucker with whichever fucker. You do understand that, right?’ ‘Oh!’ I didn’t realize at all! I didn’t know about the politics; I was just sharing some metal with my friends! I pretty much broke down on that day in front of Lars and James. I was like, ‘I’m sorry, it won’t happen again!’ And that was the first time.”
You admitted to us that you didn’t feel satisfied by being in Metallica at that time. Do you remember that quote?
“I’m proud of myself! That’s perfect! Absolutely, that is what is still real for me, and I think it was throughout the 90s. After the Black Album tour, we had some money, but it was a totally different direction for me. I liked playing the songs and I could raise myself up for the people to play the songs for them. But Enter Sandman for the 1,000th time… it kinda wears on you.
I wanted to be that person who I knew myself to be on and offstage with Metallica. When they saw me, they knew they were getting everything, every fucking ounce of sweat left on that stage. The reason they were getting that, and the way I was able to do that, was because of the wacky music that I was playing offstage with my friends.”
You can read more from this interview @ this location.