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Is Lars Ulrich playing better live now? That’s a question James Hetfield addressed on a recent episode of The Metallica Report podcast. Co-host and So What! fan club magazine editor Steffan Chirazi suggests that Ulrich has been playing some of his best shows of the last 10-20 years, asking Hetfield if he agrees with that sentiment. “I’d say this tour in general — the last two years — we’ve been building up to it,” Papa Het begins, asserting, “[He’s] absolutely playing great.” Ulrich’s ability to reliably keep time live has been a hot topic throughout his career, but performance is one part of ...
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Were Metallica hacked by crypto scammers? While there has been no official word from the heavy metal giants, it’s suspected that their official X account may have been compromised. The account was promoting a Solana token with the ticker METAL. The suspicious activity began on Metallica’s X account around 8PM ET Tuesday (June 25) with a flurry of Tweets promoting “a dynamic new token on the Solana blockchain poised to revolutionize how you experience events and shop online.” The posts claimed this was in collaboration with Ticketmaster. Posts also claimed a firm called MoonPay was involved, bu...
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At the June 18 world premiere of Ghost‘s Rite Here Rite Now film, Tobias Forge emerged with a brand new look — one resembling ‘Black Album’ era James Hetfield. The premiere took place at Picturehouse Central in London, where Forge was in attendance with director Alex Ross Perry, among others tied to the movie and rock community. Wearing a Venom shirt underneath a gothic suit jacket with white stitching for a gothic aesthetic, complemented by flashy silver lapels adorned by two small silver skulls near the clavicles. The clean-shaven, short and spiky-haired Forge (seen in the photo below) is ye...
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Would Metallica ever consider writing another “Unforgiven” sequel? That’s a question James Hetfield addressed on a recent episode of The Metallica Report podcast. The three installments of the song have been spread out across ‘The Black Album’ (1991), Reload (1997) and Death Magnetic (2008), all carrying over similar elements musically and lyrically. The lyrics have all been written by Hetfield and there’s deep, personal meanings behind each of them that reveal self-reflection and vulnerability. The podcast episode features fan-submitted questions and one asks if the “Unforgiven” trilogy is fi...
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During a fan Q+A on The Metallica Reportpodcast, James Hetfield named the two deep cuts that Metallica discuss adding to their setlist the most often, but don’t. The frontman joined the podcast’s host Steffan Chirazi for the latest episode, where he answered fan-submitted questions. One fan specifically asked which of the band’s “rarely played or deep cut songs” come up in discussion to play live the most often, yet fail to make it onto the setlist. “‘The Frayed Ends of Sanity,’ most of the time, or ‘Dyers Eve.’ Those are the two,” Hetfield responded. “We have played them in the past, and they...
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Metallica wird im Videospiel Fortnite auf der virtuellen Bühne auftreten. Unter dem Titel «METALLICA:FUEL.FIRE.FURY» werde es am 22. und 23. Juni jeweils drei Live-Performances zu unterschiedlichen Uhrzeiten geben, teilte Universal Music am Donnerstag mit. Diese seien innerhalb des Spiels nur für die Spielerinnen und Spieler zugänglich. Die US-Amerikaner seien zudem die erste Band, die bei Fortnite durch alle Welten hindurch zu erleben sei «James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett und Robert Trujillo sind die Ikonen von Fortnite Festival Season 4». In dem Spiel können Spielerinnen und Spieler...
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Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen has revealed that his favorite rock/metal song of all time is actually a ballad — Metallica‘s “One.” “[It’s] such a brilliant composition and lyric and music video. And that was around the time that I found metal music altogether, so it brings back a lot of memories,” the keyboardist and composer told Germany’s Rock Antenne (the video has since been set to private, transcription via Blabbermouth). The …And Justice For All hit was a massive breakthrough for Metallica, who were rising to the ranks of superstardom. The band had previously refused to shoot mu...
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Who are the real “architects” of heavy metal? It’s a question that has routinely come up over decades and Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett has his answer — not Black Sabbath. Although Black Sabbath are largely credited with pioneering heavy metal for having driven it further away from the hard rock standard of the time and into new territory. However, that notion has been challenged a bit in recent years as more have come to look back at metal’s origins in terms of the style that was later popularized. Hammett and Robert Trujillo took part in a recent Q&A session in Germany at a book signing event for...
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Flemming Rasmussen, the producer who worked on a few of Metallica‘s albums in the 1980s, has a theory on why the bass was turned down on …And Justice for All. Rasmussen first worked with Metallica on their sophomore album Ride the Lightning, and the band worked with him again on Master of Puppets and …And Justice for All. The latter is known for having an infamously low bass volume to the point where it’s hardly audible at all. Metallica brought Jason Newsted in as their new bassist in October of 1986, just a month after the death of Cliff Burton. Newsted has admitted in interviews that he “wa...
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Elton John provided inspiration as James Hetfield continued writing sessions for Metallica‘s next album. They performed John’s “Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding” during the March ceremonies where he and longtime co-composer Bernie Taupin received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Hetfield came away “challenged” – and inspired. Metallica then took a break, only getting together for a few loose jams, before preparations began for ongoing European dates in support of 2023’s ‘72 Seasons. READ MORE: Ranking Every Metallica Album “The time off has been pretty fantasti...
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