Metallica returned to San Francisco’s Oracle Park Tuesday as the Giants celebrated their first in-stadium Metallica Night in three years. For nine seasons, the baseball team has honored the native heavy metal legends with an evening’s worth of festivities, highlighted by Metallica’s annual rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” However, due …
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Metallica and My Chemical Romance will headline the 2021 Aftershock festival. Both bands had been scheduled to topline this year’s edition before it was canceled over safety concerns; Metallica will play two unique sets during the four-day event. Rancid, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, L7, and Limp Bizkit, among others, will …
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Metallica have refigured their crushing hit, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” with the San Francisco Symphony, for their upcoming S&M2 release, due out next Friday. In the intro, Robert Trujillo plays the track’s apocalyptic descending bass line as the string section swells around it, while conductor Edwin Outwater jumps up …
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Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony rock out on “Moth Into Flame” in the latest preview from the metal legends’ upcoming S&M2 concert film, due out August 28th. For the faithful, subtly strings-laden rendition of the Hardwired… to Self-Destruct track, guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett venture off the stage …
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Metallica are streaming their rainy 2019 set from Manchester, England for the latest installment of the #MetallicaMondays concert series. The show, part of the quartet’s lengthy tour promoting 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, took place June 18th of that year at the city’s Etihad Stadium. The free stream kicked off at …
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UPDATE:Miley Cyrus, Fiona Apple and Chris Stapleton have been added to the Chris Cornell “I Am the Highway” tribute concert, which is set to take place tomorrow, January 16th, at the Forum in Los Angeles. The latest lineup additions also include Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and …
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Former Oasis mastermindNoel Gallagher talks about performing, songwriting and his love of U2 in a new interview with Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich on the latest episode of It’s Electric. The program airs on Sundays via Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio, but a 20-minute excerpt is available to watch above. Gallagher was …
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Metallica‘s WorldWired Tour will return to North America in September for a fall/winter arena jaunt in support of the heavy metal legends’ latest LP Hardwired… to Self-Destruct. The 34-date trek finds Metallica heading to cities the band didn’t visit during their 25-date North American stadium tour in 2017, including some …
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