Nov 28, 2022: Pitchfork: Metallica Announce Huge Tour and New Album 72 Seasons, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Metallica are back: A new album and tour are coming in 2023, and, today, they’ve shared a song called “Lux Æterna.” Produced by Greg Fidelman, James Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich, the album, 72 Seasons, arrives April 14 next year. Their tour dates kick off in Europe the same month, before a string of North American shows later in the year. Extra stints are scheduled for Europe and America in 2024.
Metallica are back: A new album and tour are coming in 2023, and, today, they’ve shared a song called “Lux Æterna.” Produced by Greg Fidelman, James Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich, the album, 72 Seasons, arrives April 14 next year. Their tour dates kick off in Europe the same month, before a string of North American shows later in the year. Extra stints are scheduled for Europe and America in 2024.
Sept 22, 2013: New York Daily News: Metallica rocks Yankee Stadium, performs ‘Enter Sandman’ at ceremony for Mariano Rivera
Metallica gave Mariano Rivera the ultimate "Exit Sandman" tribute, blowing the doors off Yankee Stadium with a live version of the closer's signature entrance music — "Enter Sandman" — during the Yankees' farewell party to salute the retiring pitcher.
Metallica gave Mariano Rivera the ultimate "Exit Sandman" tribute, blowing the doors off Yankee Stadium with a live version of the closer's signature entrance music — "Enter Sandman" — during the Yankees' farewell party to salute the retiring pitcher.
12.20.12: Orion festival in Detroit in June
Metallica's Orion Music + More festival is heading to Detroit next year. Details are scant at the moment, but they will stage the festival somewhere in the Motor City on June 8th and 9th, 2013. The group promises to announce the exact location, the lineup and ticket information in February. The metal giants staged the inaugural Orion festival in Atlantic City this past June. They headlined both nights, staging complete performances of 1984's Ride the Lightning and their self-titled 1991 disc. The festival featured a wide range of other acts, including Eric Church, Modest Mouse, Best Coast, Avenged Sevenfold and Arctic Monkeys. (SOURCE: Rolling Stone)
12.19.12 Jason Newsted working on his own project
While Metallica’s busy starting their own label, promoting the Quebec Magnetic film, and skating around with Tony Hawk, former bassist Jason Newsted is also tackling new projects. Newsted recently started Newsted the band, and the outfit will release its four-song debut EP, Metal, on January 8th via iTunes. (SOURCE: Consequence of Sound )
12.06.12 Metallica will be availible on Spotify
Metallica is making its entire catalog of music, spanning 30 years, available on Spotify, the band and digital music service jointly announced Thursday at an event in New York. Fans can now head over to Spotify to stream music from every Metallica album including Kill 'Em All, Master of Puppets, Metallica (The Black Album), …And Justice for All, among others. Metallica isn't exactly known for embracing digital music services in the past. The band in 2000 filed a $10 million lawsuit against Napster, accusing the file-sharing network of copyright infringement It appears that Metallica has now has made up with Napster, whose co-founder Sean Parker is a Spotify investor. Parker joined Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek on stage for the announcement today. As a sure sign that the feud is in the past, Ulrich and Parker reportedly hugged it out on stage. (SOURCE: PC Mag )
11.30.12
Metallica announced on Friday that it has officially left its longtime home, the Warner Music Group, taken its master recordings and formed a new independent label, Blackened Recordings. All forthcoming Metallica projects -- including future studio albums, reissues, live recordings and long- and short-form video work -- will come out via Blackened. The label will also handle its own marketing and promotion, and be distributed by WMG reissue subsidiary Rhino Entertainment. The timing of the announcement is notable. Under an agreement that Metallica signed in 1994, when the band was at the peak of its commercial powers and the phrase "illegal downloading" sounded more like trucker slang than a music biz concern, the band negotiated that ownership of all of its master recordings would revert to them on Nov. 30, 2012. That day has come. (SOURCE: LA Times )
10.14.12
Metallica have stepped in for Green Day at the Voodoo Music and Art Experience later this month. The band will headline the October 27th date for the festival, Kirk Hammett told Fuse. Green Day was forced to pull out of the festival due to Billie Joe Armstrong checking into rehab. "We discussed it between the four of us and we all said, 'Yeah,'" said Hammett. "It would be a great thing for us to do and it would also be great to help out Billie Joe because he's a friend of ours and we love Green Day. If we can help them out in any way possible, we're always happy to do it because we love those guys." (SOURCE: 411 Mania )
02.11.12
Called the Orion Music & More Festival in honor of the band’s late bassist Cliff Burton, (whose most memorable musical expression is thought by Metallica to reside in the track "Orion" off Master of Puppets) the festival will be a two-day event that Metallica will headline both days, planning to cover one of their classic albums in its entirety each night. Adding a bit of eclecticism to their festival, Metallica has handpicked more than 20 other musical acts to perform at the festival, including Modest Mouse, Best Coast and Fucked Up. The fest is scheduled for June 23 and 24 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (SOURCE: TG Daily )
