Formed: 1981
From:
San Francisco,
CA,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Background
Metallica was first formed by Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, and future Megadeth member Dave Mustaine and Ron McGovney. They first played in L.A., but later found themselves at home playing in the San Francisco Bay area. The band later replaced Ron with Cliff Burton and Dave with Kirk Hammet as late as 1983.
On September 27, 1986, on the European leg of the Master of Puppets tour, Cliff Burton was killed in a bus accident in Sweden en route to their next show's location. Tragic as this event was, Metallica continued on and Cliff was replaced by Jason Newsted, who remained part of the band until 2001, when he finally annouced he would leave Metallica because of the damage he had done to his body touring and headbanging for fourteen years.
More than any other band, Metallica and their albums have been the yardstick with which to measure other heavy metal releases. Metallica practically defines "heavy metal" as a sub-genre of metal itself, although their music ranges from NWOBHM to Thrash in their earlier days. However, in the 1990s and beyond 2000, Metallica evolved a more mainstream sound, which helped them become a household name and the seventh biggest selling act in history.
Latest Metallica News
Below is our complete Metallica news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Note: We began associating news directly with bands in late 2003. Therefore, earlier band news may not be listed on this page.
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More Details On "Guitar Hero: Metallica" Revealed
Billboard.com reports: Several new gameplay twists emerge for the first time on "Guitar Hero: Metallica," which arrives in stores March 29 from Activision.
As previously reported, players have a double bass option on drums for the difficult and expert levels, which can be enabled by using a splitter and an additional pedal for the kick drum. In addition, all of the songs will be "unlocked" from the beginning of the game as opposed to them not being available until players reach certain levels, as in previous versions of "Guitar Hero."
"It was time to change it up a bit," Neversoft lead designer Alan Flores says. "Guitar Hero: Metallica" will be available for Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. Aerosmith was the first artist to star in its own version of the game, which was released last summer.
This time around, in Career Mode, instead of taking players through the band's career chronologically like in "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith," gamers take on the role of a band that rocks its way onto a Metallica tour as the opening act, a premise based on a true story as relayed by frontman James Hetfield.
Read the full article at Billboard.com.
Headline News
Metallica Wins Two Grammy Awards
Metallica's latest album, "Death Magnetic," picked up four Grammy nominations, has official won "Best Recording Package." "My Apocalypse" also won for "Best Metal Performance."
Additionally, Rick Rubin won the Producer of the Year Grammy. In addition to working with Metallica on "Death Magnetic," Rick produced Neil Diamond, Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy, Jakob Dylan, and Weezer.
Metallica Announces Sonisphere 2009 Festival
Metallica has issued the following statement about headlining the 2009 Sonisphere festival:
"Summer is around the bend and what would summer be without Metallica playing a few European festival shows?? This year we're going to be part of the brand spankin' new Sonisphere festival, the first and only touring European Rock festival which hits six cities for a total of seven shows. We hear that while the usual festival madness will be going on, Sonisphere will have two alternate stages so you don't have to miss a minute of the music.
"Lamb of God and Mastodon are along with for the fun at all the shows and on August 1 Linkin Park will headline the first of the two Knebworth shows (we take the stage for the second one on August 2).
"As you can see below, our friends from Slipknot and Die Toten Hosen are hitting a few select cities, with Linkin Park also joining us in Finland: More...
Metallica Confirmed For Optimus Alive! 09 Festival
Metallica is filling in the blank dates between their European tour dates and festival appearances by confirming additional festival appearances. The latest additions are (some previously reported):
July 5 - Rock Wercter in Belgium
July 9 - Lisbon, Portugal @ Optimus Alive!09 festival
June 19 - Nickelsdorf, Austria @ Novarock Festival
First Bands Confirmed For Nova Rock Festival 2009
The first round of bands have been confirmed for the 2009 Nova Rock Festival in Austria. The festival will take place from June 19th - 21st. The following bands have been announced so far:
Metallica
Slipknot
Disturbed
Trivium
Mastodon
Killswitch Engage
Black Stone Cherry
Bring Me The Horizon
Placebo
Gogol Bordello
In Extremo
The Living End
Black Tide
Metallica To Perform At Rock Werchter
Metallica has been confirmed as one of the headlining acts for this years edition of the Belgian festival, Rock Werchter. A statement from the band reads as follows: "We're also heading back to Rock Werchter in Belgium on Sunday, July 5th. Tickets will go onsale on Saturday, February 14th at 9 AM local time (12 AM - PST) via www.rockwerchter.be and www.proximusgoformusic.be. For more details, click here."
Guitar Hero: Metallica Tracklisting Revealed
Metallica has now revealed the tracklisting for Guitar Hero: Metallica. As previously reported, Guitar Hero: Metallica will be hitting the streets on March 29 with some really cool features like different classic venues such as the L.A. Forum, Tushino Airfield, and The Hammersmith Odeon, the ability to play as us or in single instrument mode, and even the Expert+ setting with double bass drum kick pedals.
Here are the songs on the game, both from Metallica and other bands that they "admire and even call friends": More...
Metallica Confirmed For Novarock, More Euro Dates
Metallica has announced their plans to perform at the Novarock Festival on Friday, June 19, 2009 in Nickelsdorf, Austria. Three day tickets are already on sale at www.musicticket.at and currently you can only purchase a pass for the entire weekend. Other headliners are Placebo and Die Toten Hosen.
The band states: "As you probably noticed, there are a few open dates on the calendar this summer and we'll be filling them by visiting some of our favorite spots in Europe and hitting the annual music festivals."
Here are the latest Metallica European tour dates: More...
Guitar Hero: Metallica w/ Bonus Drum Pedal
Joystiq.com reports that Gamestop pre-orders of Guitar Hero: Metallica will come with a bonus drum pedal and input splitter. Their announcement was pretty entertaining though:
"There's a thick cloud of fear hanging over fans of faux-drumming in games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero: World Tour -- fear inspired by the near-impossible rhythms which will need to be kept when Guitar Hero: Metallica hits store shelves. We're not sure how familiar you guys are with the speed with which Mr. Ulrich is capable of producing percussion, but we assure you, his work will be most unpleasant to attempt to mimic.
"Thankfully, an uncharacteristically useful pre-order bonus from GameStop will give the game's quick-to-act reservers an extra bass drum pedal and input splitter. This will allow the player to use both pedals to tackle the game's more heel-punishing tracks. It's certainly a better option than splitting your foot down the middle, and training yourself to control both halves independently, which, now that we think about it, would be pretty rock-and-roll."
Metallica Possibly Heading To Knebworth
Whtimes.co.uk is reporting:
Plans to host a massive summer rock festival at Knebworth remain on track, the WHT has learned.
In November, we reported American metal giants METALLICA were rumoured to be headlining a new rock festival, to take place at the stately home in July, writes Chris Richards. More...
Read the full article at Whtimes.co.uk.
Metallica To Tour With Guns N Roses?
According to Contactmusic.com, METALLICA would consider a rock supertour with GUNS N' ROSES - after hailing the group's comeback album "Chinese Democracy."
The "Enter Sandman" hitmakers are big fans of their rock counterparts, who they rose to fame alongside in the 1980s.
And drummer Lars Ulrich admits he would jump at the chance to tour alongside Axl Rose's legendary group. He says, "We're road dogs. We love to tour. So we'd never say no. We've learned never to say no to anything, and all four of us love 'Chinese Democracy'."
But guitarist Kirk Hammett admits he doesn't see the rockers making an offer in the near future, adding: "The real question is whether they would tour with us."
Headline News
Metallica To Be Inducted Into RnR Hall of Fame
Metallica has reacted to their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction with a message on their site:
"Wow... what a great way to start off 2009! We are beyond proud to let you know that we will indeed be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in a ceremony held in Cleveland (Ohio) on April 4th, 2009. As a refresher, it has to have been 25 years since your first record was released to be eligible and while it certainly doesn't feel like it's been that long, we hear that's the case!
"So here's the other cool part. For the first time in the 24 years that the Hall Of Fame has been around, tickets to the ceremony will be available to YOU! The induction ceremony will be held at Public Hall in Cleveland, and if you're a member of the Hall Of Fame and Museum, you can buy tickets in a pre-sale on January 22nd and 23rd. There is a walk-up sale on Saturday, January 24 (that means you have to find your way to the box office at the Hall Of Fame that day), and finally they will be available through all Ticketmaster outlets starting on Monday, January 26th. Met Club members should check www.metclub.com for info about a special ticket sale for them. More...
Guitar Hero: Metallica Release Dates Announced
Activision has confirmed that their forthcoming new game, "Guitar Hero: Metallica" will be released in Europe in May, however gamers in North America won't have to wait quite as long as the game will be released on March 29th there. As the title suggests, the game centres arounds the music of Metallica but includes other bands such as Slayer, Alice In Chains and Judas Priest in addition to including new features such as double kick drums and a higher difficulty setting. The game also features some of the most well known venues in the world such as The Stone nightclub in San Francisco and the Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollp) in London.
Metallica Hosts All Music Videos In One Location
Metallica has issued the following statement about hosting all of their music videos on their official website:
"In case you've been having a hard time finding and watching your favorite Metallica promo videos on other websites (!!) or trying to dig through our own website to find them, we've made them more accessible, actually downright hassle free, right here on the front page of your friendly neighborhood Metallica.com. If that wasn't enough, how about watching the videos through our brand new Flash Video Player!?
You'll find all of our Music Videos dating back to 1989's 'One' all the way up to our latest clip for 'All Nightmare Long.' You'll also find a few alternate edits of some of our videos such as an 11-minute theatrical cut of 'The Unforgiven' and a naughty little version of 'Whiskey in the Jar.' Since we upgraded to our new Video Player, all the Music Videos are crisper, clearer, and much higher quality than the clips that were living on the site before.
Kick back at your leisure and check out your favorite videos, past and present, by clicking here."
Just For Fun
Enter Kazoo Man
"Mister Tim" has posted a hilarious video of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" performed on kazoos. You can watch the video below (after the jump). More...
Metallica Finally Confirms Guitar Hero Game
Metallica has finally confirmed the heavily rumored all-Metallica Guitar Hero game. Here's the announcement from the band:
"Yes, we know, it's the worst kept secret in rock-n-roll but we're here now to finally confirm that there will indeed be an all-Metallica Guitar Hero game released in the first half (!?) of 2009. Guitar Hero Metallica allows you to play as us in either single instrument or band career game modes in your choice of some famous settings (Tushino Airfield anyone?) or new venues with in the round staging. Included are 28 Metallica songs along with a few from some of our buddies like as Alice in Chains, the Foo Fighters, Slayer, Machine Head and Queen. There is also an all new Expert+ difficulty setting featuring two bass drum kick pedals (!!!) along with all the gameplay modes from Guitar Hero World Tour.
"Over the next few months, we're going to be updating you with track listings, more features, of course how and when you can get the game, and some cool previews of the game right here on the site. As you've heard us say before, keep checking back for more details!"
Metallica Posts "All Nightmare Long" Video Online
Metallica has posted their new music video online for the song "All Nightmare Long." You can check it out at the bands official website. The video is the second to be released from the bands latest album, "Death Magnetic" following "The Day That Never Comes."
Metallica Cancels Australian Tour
Metallica has been forced to cancel their tour of Australia due to the country's financial crisis which has seen the Australian dollar drop from 98.49 U.S. cents (a 25 year high) in mid-July to about 65 cents. Metallica aren't the only act to cancel their tour of Australia as Green Day, Madonna, Paul McCartney and Neil Diamond have also been forced to pull out.
Metallica, Slipknot And More Nominated For Grammys
The shortlists have been announced for the 2009 Grammy Awards which will be held at the Staples Centre In Los Angeles, California. The nominees and categories are as follows:
Best Hard Rock Performance
Disturbed - "Inside The Fire"
Judas Priest - "Visions"
The Mars Volta - "Wax Simulacra"
Motley Crue - "Saints Of Los Angeles"
Rob Zombie - "Lords Of Salem"
Best Metal Performance
Dragonforce - "Heroes Of Our Time"
Judas Priest - "Nostradamus"
Metallica - "My Apocalypse"
Ministry - "Under My Thumb"
Slipknot - "Psychosocial"
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
David Gilmour - "Castellorizon"
Metallica - "Suicide & Redemption"
Nine Inch Nails - "34 Ghost I-IV"
Rush - "Hope (Live For The Art Of Peace)"
Zappa Plays Zappa - "Peaches En Regalia"
Best Rock Album
Coldplay - "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends"
Kid Rock - "Rock And Roll Jesus"
Kings Of Leon - "Only By Night"
Metallica - "Death Magnetic"
The Raconteurs - "Consolers Of The Lonely"
In Flames Nominated for Three Bandit Rock Awards
In Flames have been nominated for three Bandit Rock Awards in the categories:
Best Swedish Band (Bästa Grupp/Artist)
Best Swedish Album
Best Swedish Live Band
Bands also in the running include Opeth, Sonic Syndicate, Metallica, Slipknot and Iron Maiden.
The Bandit Rock awards will take place at Tyrol-Gröna Lund, Stockholm on January 30, 2009.
Go here to vote.
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