Metallica Takes Ownership of Masters, Launches New Record Label
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – Metallica announced today that they have taken ownership of all their master recordings including all music and long form videos, a move almost unprecedented for musicians signed to recording contracts. Under provision of their renegotiated joint venture agreement with the Warner Music Group in 1994, all masters revert back to the [...]
Metallica To Release “Quebec Magnetic” Live DVD
(LOS ANGELES, CA) – Metallica today announced that they will release a live DVD entitled Quebec Magnetic on December 10, 2012. The DVD captures the two World Magnetic live shows which took place in Quebec City in the fall of 2009. The setlist for the DVD was voted on by the over 35,000 of the [...]
Orion Music + More Announces Schedule Of Performances
(LOS ANGELES, CA) – The full schedule for Orion Music + More, the new annual music and lifestyle festival created by Metallica and their friends at C3 Presents, was announced today at www.orionmusicandmore.com. For those fans that aren’t able to spend the entire weekend, Orion Music + More has just announced that there are single [...]
Lou Reed and Metallica To Release ‘Lulu’ on November 1st
(Los Angeles, CA) – Lou Reed has teamed up with best-selling hard rock band Metallica to record a brand-new album, entitled Lulu, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records on November 1st, 2011. The album was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner who has produced albums for Reed, Marianne Faithfull, and Laurie Anderson, among [...]
Metallica Announce 30th Anniversary Shows in San Francsco
From metallica.com: Thirty years of Metallica… can you believe it? We think it’s cause for a major celebration! You’ve been asking for a while now “just what the hell are you going to do to mark 30 years as a band?” closely followed by “why don’t we have more exclusive shows for Fan Club members?” [...]
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax Announce The Big 4 Festival
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax announce The Big 4 Festival on April 23rd, 2011 in Indio, California. Tickets go on sale on January 28th. http://thebig4festival.com/ http://www.facebook.com/TheBig4
The Big 4 Announcement Tuesday
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax (a.k.a. The Big 4) to make tour announcement on Tuesday January 25th at 8am PST via Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/TheBig4
Metallica Live Video Clip Premiere
(Burbank, CA) – A live video clip of Metallica’s “Sad But True” premiered today on MySpace Music. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=106862097 The video is a clip from The Big Four Live From Sofia — a DVD that captures a legendary concert featuring metal’s “Big Four,” Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, that took place on June 22nd, 2010, in [...]
Metallica To Release Live at Grimey’s
Burbank, CA – On June 12th, 2008, on the eve of their headlining performance at the Bonnaroo Music Fesival, multi-platinum rock band Metallica played an intimate, surprise performance at The Basement, an 150-capacity venue below Nashville record store Grimey’s New & Preloved Music. In attendance were ecstatic Metclub fan club members, Grimey’s staffers, a few [...]
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Concert DVD Due This November
Burbank, CA – When the “Big Four,” Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, shared a stage together on June 22nd, 2010, in Sofia, Bulgaria, it was the moment their fans had waited decades for. That monumental show was beamed live into over 1000 theatres worldwide via satellite in a special HD cinematic event. On November 2nd, [...]
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Present A Special HD Cinematic Event
(NEW YORK, NY) – The “Big Four”, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are bringing their historic European tour to the global stage by beaming the event via satellite to movie theaters around the world in a special HD cinematic event. These four legendary acts broke out of the underground thrash movement in the 1980’s to [...]
Metallica Nominated For "Best Hard Rock Performance” Grammy Award
(Burbank, CA) – Warner Bros. Records’ Metallica were nominated for a Grammy Awards today for “Best Hard Rock Performance” for “The Unforgiven III,” a track from their two-time Grammy Award-winning album Death Magnetic. The band’s ninth studio album, Death Magnetic debuted atop the Billboard Top 200 Album chart at No. 1, Metallica’s fifth consecutive album [...]
