Metallica fans have a lot to be happy about. Not only is the heavy metal band about to start working on their 10th studio album, but producer Rick Rubin, who was behind their last album “Death Magnetic”, is returning to produce. Bassist Robert Trujillo expressed his excitement on getting back into the studio with Rick in a recent radio interview, saying “Yeah. I love working with Rick. Rick, to me, he’s sort of a Zen guru spirit that Metallica needs right now. Not to say that we need it, because we’re getting along incredibly well, we’re really excited to write some new music. There’s no shortage of riffage in Metallica world right now. And I think it’s only gonna get better.” Are you excited for some new Metallica music?
The woman accused of stalking Justin Timberlake has also once stalked Guns N Roses lead singer Axl Rose. But the two singers aren?t her only victims. Alleged stalker Karen McNeil has also been banned from getting anywhere close to the members of Metallica, when the band got a restraining order against her back in March. The documents were filed in LA County Superior Court by drummer Lars Ulrich, who requested that the crazy woman stay at least 150 yards away from all members of the band, their families and the people who run the Metallica fan club. Talk about being a professional stalker!
Tune in to The Ellen DeGeneres Show on October 20th to catch a performance from OneRepublic. The band will play their current single “All The Right Moves” which appears on their forthcoming album Waking Up due out on November 17th.
OneRepublic recently premiered the Wayne Isham (Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Metallica) directed video for the track which can be seen here.
Today, and for the next 3 weeks, AOL’s Noisecreep.com will be releasing an exclusive and/or unheard audio clip from the amazing FMQB Metallica/Alice in Chains interview, “Inside Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue.” This week’s clip features Metallica talking to Alice in Chains about their collaboration with Elton John on the song “Black Gives Way To Blue.” “It’s a really intense song, and a really open-hearted song to Layne and the experience that we went through,” Cantrell says to Hetfield and Ulrich about the title track. “Facing up to all of that stuff, and owning all the good, and owning all the bad, and moving forward together. It was a lot of big steps…things were pretty black for us. It’s pretty literal to that, and things are starting to get a little lighter.” Keep checking back in the coming weeks for parts 2 and 3 of this classic interview.
If you find yourself in New York City this fall, you?ve got two amazing concerts to get to which will commemorate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?s 25th Anniversary produced by Tom Hanks and Cameron Crowe. The concerts? roster includes acts such as U2, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Simon & Garfunkel, Metallica, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills Nash & Friends and Eric Clapton, as well as some special guest presenters. The acts will be divided into 2 nights of performances on October 29th and 30th. The show will also be broadcast on network television two weeks later.
Metallica has just released another song off of their upcoming record, Death Magnetic.
The new song; ?The Judas Kiss? is the fourth, and final song to be made available before the album is released in its entirety last Friday.
Rounding out the preview of the album, ?The Judas Kiss? joins ?The Day That Never Comes?, ?My Apocalypse?, and ?Cyanide?, to give fans a full understanding of what Metallica has in store for them.
Metallica have just unveiled a new widget that the band will frequently updated with news, music, video content, and other Death Magnetic related material. The widget can be embedded onto most social networking sites and blog applications.
Death Magnetic will be out Friday, September 12th.
No nature loving hipping is going to take a nice stroll in James Hetfield?s backyard but the fence he built to keep them and everybody else off of his property is really pissing off the locals. Several hikers and cyclists in Northern California have been getting their spandex in wads because the Metallica front man has blocked access to a hiking trail by putting up a 10-foot high fence around his property. According to KTVU, the rock star supposedly put up a fence to stop vandalism on his newly purchase land (on which the trail runs through) but the fence itself has been vandalized with the words shame and disgrace.
