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Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria: Tres Noches En La Ciudad de Mexico Metallica DVD

Marko — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:20:40 +0000

Metallica played 3 sold out shows on the World Magnetic tour in Mexico City on June 4th, 5th and 7th for more than 150,00 fans in total. Metallica has now released a DVD from this great experience entitled Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria: Tres Noches En La Ciudad de Mexico or in English language Pride, Passion, and Glory: Three Nights in Mexico City.

Buy Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria: Tres Noches En La Ciudad de Mexico here.

Metallica played at Foro Sol in Mexico City the second most populated city in the world, with over 22 million people. Wayne Isham was there to film the shows and this is the DVD. See the setlist and pictures from Metallica Foro Sol Mexico show.

DVD’s and CD’s include songs from all 3 Mexico shows where each show had a unique set list, in total of 34 different Metallica songs. Everything is available on the two DVD set along with interviews with Metallica band members.

Other versions of Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria that will be available include one DVD (18 tracks), Blu-ray version of the DVD, a digi-pack with the DVD and two CD’s, and the aforementioned deluxe version in a slip case with two DVD’s and two CD’s.

Buy Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria: Tres Noches En La Ciudad de Mexico here.

Metallica DVD Francais Pour Une Nui Live DVD in France

Marko — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:06:45 +0000

Metallica has now released a live DVD from the World Magnetic tour. The DVD is entitled Francais Pour Une Nui, which means French For One Night. DVD has been filmed in Nimes, France and includes the full show, interviews with Metallica, and five videos shot by the fans from the audience. Buy the DVD here!

There are three formats available:

Standard Francais Pour Une Nui DVD in a digipack including a 16 page booklet

Blu-Ray Francais Pour Une Nui DVD, also in a digipack with the booklet

The deluxe limited edition box set includes the Francais Pour Une Nui DVD, a copy of Death Magnetic album CD, a large Metallica t-shirt, laminated pass, and 5 exclusive Metallica band photos

Buy the DVD here!

This is the setlist of Metallica’s Nimes France show:

Blackened
Creeping Death
Fuel
Harvester Of Sorrow
Fade To Black
Broken, Beat & Scarred
Cyanide
Sad But True
One
All Nightmare Long
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Dyers Eve
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Stone Cold Crazy
Motorbreath
Seek & Destroy

Metallica Magnetic World Tour Dates 2010 South America and Europe

Marko — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:48:47 +0000

Metallica keeps on touring the world in support of the Death Magnetic album. Early 2010 is time for the South American leg of the World Magnetic tour while summer 2010 is another Metallica tour of Europe.

Rumors are that late 2010 will be in the sign of Metallica tour in Australia and Asia. We will see…

Here are the confirmed Metallica 2010 tour dates at this point in time.

Metallica World Magnetic South America 2010:

January 19 Lima, Peru Estadio San Marcos
January 21 Buenos Aires, Argentina River Plate Stadium
January 26 Santiago, Chile Club Hipico
January 28 Porto Alegre, Brazil Zequinha Stadium
January 30 Sao Paulo, Brazil Morumbi Stadium
January 31 Sao Paulo, Brazil Morumbi Stadium
March 1 Guadalajara, Mexico Estadio Tres de Marzo
March 3 Monterrey, Mexico Estadio Universitario
March 5 Guatemala City, Guatemala Estadio Mateo Flores
March 7 San Jose, Costa Rica Saprissa Stadium
March 8 Panama City, Panama Plaza Figali
March 10 Bogota, Colombia Park Simon Bolivar
March 12 Caracas, Venezuela La Rinconada
March 14 San Juan, Puerto Rico Coliseo de Puerto Rico

Metallica World Magnetic Europe 2010:

April 13 Oslo, Norway Telenor Arena
April 14 Oslo, Norway Telenor Arena
April 17 Riga, Latvia Riga Arena
April 18 Riga, Latvia Riga Arena
April 20 Vilnius, Lithuania Siemens Arena
April 21 Vilnius, Lithuania Siemens Arena
April 24 Moscow, Russia SK Olimpiisky
April 25 Moscow, Russia SK Olimpiisky
May 11 Belfast, N. Ireland Odyssey Arena
May 12 Belfast, N. Ireland Odyssey Arena
May 14 Budapest, Hungary Puskas Ferenc Stadium
May 18 Lisbon, Portugal Pavilhao Atlantico
June 16 Warsaw, Poland Bemowo Airport
June 19 Prague, Czech Republic Mimon Airport

No opening acts have been announced yet but you can expect to see a Metallica setlist very similar to this. Few songs chance each night but the basic structure always stays the same:

That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Shortest Straw
Fade To Black
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Cyanide
Sad But True
One
The Judas Kiss
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Battery
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
- – - – - – - -
Too Late, Too Late
Trapped Under Ice
Seek and Destroy

Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett top 25 albums and songs of the decade

Marko — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:18:18 +0000

Year 2009 is about to end, and it is also end of the decade, which means it is time for the top lists. It is not only Metallica fans that are deciding their favourite Metallica songs of all time, it is also the Metallica band members that get to make their own favourite songs and albums lists.

Rolling Stone has asked Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett on their favourite 25 albums and favourite 25 songs of the decade so here they are.

Both Metallica members have recognized some of their old friends including Alice in Chains, Guns’n'Roses and Motorhead, they also found place for some of their tour supporters like The Sword, Mastodon and Machine Head, but there are also some surprising pop names like Sean Paul and Afroman.

Lars Ulrich’s top 25 albums of the decade

Kirk Hammett’s top 25 albums of the decade

Lars Ulrich’s top 25 songs of the decade

U2 – Moment of surrender
Eminem – Cleaning out my closet
Arctic Monkeys – From the ritz to the rubble
Rage against the machine – How I could just kill a man
The sword – Freya
Oasis – Lyla
Arctic Monkeys – Fake tales of San Francisco
Green Day – Boulevard of broken dreams
Slipknot – Duality
Oasis – Falling down
Johnny Cash – Thirteen
White Stripes – Seven nation army
System of a down – Toxicity
Zwan – Number of the bent
Wolfmother – White unicorn
Kings of Leon – Sex on fire
U2 – vertigo
Pink – Get the party started
Alice in chains – Check my brain
Stand – It’s been a while
Sean Paul – Get busy
System of a down – B.Y.O.B.
Kid Rock – Picture
Lamb of God – Redneck
Kasabian – Club foot

Kirk Hammett’s top 25 songs of the decade

Radiohead – Everything in its right place
Dengue Fever – One thousand tears of a tarantula
Mastadon – Oblivion
Afroman – Becuase I got high
Kings of Leon – The bucket
Lamb of God – Set to fail
U2 – Beautiful day
The Mars Volta – Intertiatic E.S.P.
Muse – Stockholm Syndrome
Damian Marley – Welcome to Jamrock
Gojira – Vacuity
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – How long do I have to wait for you?
Queens of the stone age – Tension head
Alice in Chains – Check my brain
My morning jacket – Mahgeetah
System of a down – Violent pornography
The Sword – Freya
Outkast – Hey ya!
Sigur Ros – Svef-g-englar
Lamb of God – Now you have something to die for
At the drive-in – One armed scissor
Korn – Here to stay
Kid Rock – American bad ass
The black keys – You’re the one
Amy Winehouse – Back to black

What do you think? Do you agree with Lars’ and Kirk’s choices? Are there any specific albums and songs that you liked in this decade?

The Life, Near Death and Rebirth of A Rock Star

Marko — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:14:06 +0000

Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich has contributed an introduction to Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes autobiography. Legendary singer and bassist of Deep Purple autobiography will be released in 2010 and was co-written with Joel McIver.

In the introduction, Lars Ulrich tells of the massive influence which Deep Purple had on his life and his decision to become a musician. As you probably know, Lars first saw Glenn play in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 1973. Lars was 9 years old, and the gig had a massive influence on him.

Here are a few quotes from what Lars writes:

Deep Purple has played a huge role in my life. I saw Purple twice with Glenn Hughes. When I saw Glenn up on stage in that white satin suit, with that Fender Precision bass, and the fuckin’ mane of hair, he looked like a rock god! He had that aura. I was just ‘Oh my God… this guy is so cool!’

At that point, pretty much anything Purple did was godlike. …Glenn had become a major, major player in what was going on.

I first met Glenn in 1996 when Metallica were playing at the NEC in Birmingham. … It was really cool to have him and Tony there at the same time. It was exciting. I got my picture taken with them!

See more details here.

Metallica’s Marin County debut concert review, setlist and videos

Marko — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:00:11 +0000

Metallica warmed up for the next leg of the World Magnetic tour with a concert in their backyard. Metallica played for the very first time in their home town of San Rafael, CA, just north of San Francisco.

Metallica’s Marin County debut at the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium was an appearance as part of a fundraiser for the Marin Museum of History’s Marin Rocks exhibition slated to open in 2010. The Marin Rocks museum is set to open summer 2010 in downtown San Rafael, and will include exhibits celebrating Marin’s rock music heritage, performance spaces and educational programs for young people in music and the arts.

Metallica’s James Hetfield has lived in Marin since the mid-’80s. He bought a 500-acre spread in San Rafael, he lives there with his wife, Francesca, and three children, Cali, Castor and Marcella, ages 11, 9 and 7.

James Hetfield lives a quiet, low-key life in Marin County, and is always content to stay under the radar. But as the museum plans hit financial trouble, James Hetfield came to the rescue and offered to hold a Metallica concert with proceeds going to the museum. Tickets for the 2,000 seat Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium venue went between $100 and $350 and sold out in ten minutes.

“We’ve never done a public show. I don’t know why. Probably because there aren’t that many places to play in Marin that are large enough to satisfy enough people,” James Hetfield said to the Independent Journal. “But in the last few years, basically after ‘St. Anger’, we started getting more into public service, giving back to the community, discovering how good that feels.”

“Growing up struggling in a dysfunctional family and being able to turn to music as my escape and therapy and savior is dear to my heart,” James Hetfield of Metallica said. “So introducing kids to music and having a safe clean place for the youth of Marin to come in and jam, talk about their problems and write songs together really excites me.”

“It’s very easy in Marin. Most of the people who stop me are very polite, saying things like, ‘Hey, James, what’s up?’ That’s pretty much it. The people who get star struck or clingy are tourists, and they associate their trip to Marin with me. Everyone else sees me as a resident of this county. It’s very easy to kick back and be an equal.”

Moonalice, featuring Marin musicians Pete Sears and Barry Sless, opened the show. Metallica came out a little after 9:30 p.m., James Hetfield thanked the crowd, saying: “We appreciate you coming out to support the ancestry and the history of music in Marin County.”

The setlist of Metallica’s show:

Creeping Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fuel
Harvester of Sorrow
Fade to Black
Broken, Beat, and Scarred
Cyanide
Sad But True
One
Master of Puppets
Battery
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Hit the Lights
Seek and Destroy

Metallica’s World Magnetic tour rolls on beginning in Nashville!

Metallica concert setlists, reviews World Magnetic USA tour dates 2009

Marko — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:23:15 +0000

Metallica is continuing their World Magnetic world tour with concerts to support Metallica’s latest album, Death Magnetic. The tour started back in October 2008, with a Metallica concert in Glendale, AZ.

The Metallica setlists for this leg of World Magnetic tour is supposed to be similar to this every night:

That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Holier Than Thou
One
Broken, Beat And Scarred
My Apocalypse
Sad But True
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The Judas Kiss
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Dyers Eve
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Stone Cold Crazy
Motorbreath
Seek and Destroy

These are the tour dates for ongoing Metallica USA Death Magnetic tour 2009. Gojira, Lamb of God and Volbeat are supporting acts from concert to concert. See more on the schedule of Metallica’s opening acts.

9/11/2009 San Rafael, CA Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Metallica concert review
9/14/2009 Nashville, TN Sommet Center
9/15/2009 Cincinnati, OH US Bank Arena
9/17/2009 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
9/19/2009 Montreal, Canada Bell Centre
9/20/2009 Montreal, Canada Bell Centre
9/28/2009 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
9/29/2009 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
10/1/2009 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center
10/3/2009 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
10/4/2009 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
10/12/2009 Winnipeg, Canada MTS Centre
10/13/2009 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
10/15/2009 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
10/17/2009 Charlottesville, VA JPJ Arena
10/18/2009 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
10/26/2009 Toronto, Canada Air Canada Centre
10/27/2009 Toronto, Canada Air Canada Centre
10/30/2009 New York, NY MSG – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – 25th Anniversary
10/31/2009 Quebec City, Canada Colisee Pepsi
11/1/2009 Quebec City, Canada Colisee Pepsi
11/3/2009 Ottawa, Canada Scotiabank Place
11/9/2009 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
11/10/2009 Buffalo, NY HSBC Arena
11/12/2009 Albany, NY Times Union Center
11/14/2009 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
11/15/2009 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/5/2009 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay
12/7/2009 Boise, ID Idaho Center
12/8/2009 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena
12/10/2009 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
12/12/2009 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion

Metallica on Later with Jools Holland rerun US Debut Sept 7th

Marko — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:11:45 +0000

On September 7th, Ovation TV will broadcast the American debut of the British sensation, ‘Later… with Jools Holland’. What better way to introduce this incredible, name-making musical series than with Metallica!

Metallica originally performed in the show on November 2008 as a promotion for the latest album Death Magnetic. Metallica played Cyanide, Enter Sandman and The Day That Never Comes. It is a rerun of this episode that Ovation TV will show on September 7th.

Jools Holland knows music and now Ovation TV can share all the latest and greatest with US viewers. Labor Day kicks off with a “Later…with Jools Holland” marathon and marks the beginning of new partnership. Ovation TV will be showcasing the latest episodes of this music series every night at 7pm ET/10pm PT with premieres and highlights on several Thursdays.

Dave Mustaine: To be better than James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett means so much

Marko — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:32:21 +0000

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is out promoting his new album Endgame with an interview in Classic Rock. As usual, since he was fired from Metallica in 1983, Metallica is the topic of many of his interviews.

How did it feel to be No.1 in Joel McIver’s recent book, The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists?

It was especially sweet when I found out that Joel has written books on Metallica. I looked at my copy of the book – I wasn’t on the cover or the back. I figured I’d be somewhere like No.69. So I thumbed through it; it’s a really comprehensive, good book. I got to No.50 and I thought, ‘Am I in here?’ I’d been told that I was, but not which position. So I got No.16 and I saw Hetfield. I thought, ‘Wow’ because I respect James. I’m a better lead player than he is, but he’s one of the three best rhythm players in the world.

The other two being?

Malcolm Young [of AC/DC] and myself. Malcolm kept it basic but brought a whole new style of rhythm playing to the world. So I got to the Top 10… I still wasn’t in there. Every page I turned, I became more excited. I get to No.5 and it’s Kirk [Hammett], and I thought, ‘Thank you, God’.

At that point it didn’t matter [which position I was]. To be better than both of them [Hetfield and Hammett] meant so much – it’s been one of the pet peeves of my career and I’ve never known how to deal with it. I didn’t realise that it has had so much bearing upon my life. Then I got to No.2 and it was John Petrucci [of Dream Theater] and I froze. I was No.1.

What made it better still is that the guy wrote: ‘This isn’t about Dave as a person because he’s been a cock’ – [interjects with a bray of laughter] – ‘These four pages are about his guitar playing, which is the best. There are people who are better at one thing that Mustaine does, and others that are better than another, but no-one who’s as good at everything’. All I thought was… I win!

In a way did it represent closure?

That’s it exactly. I’m not addicted [to anything] anymore. And I’m no longer struggling with past demons from another band [Metallica]. That game has ended. Lars [Ulrich] called me up and offered the chance to come to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing and not be inducted, to sit in the audience [instead].

‘It’s only for people who’ve been on the records’ is what I was told. That would have been awkward. So I didn’t go. There are obviously some unresolved issues on Lars’ part. But you know what? If God wants me in the Hall Of Fame, I will be there.

James Hetfield plays Fade To Black after tape intro to One in Madrid, Spain

Marko — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:08:43 +0000

Very interesting thing happened at the second Metallica concert in Madrid, Spain in Palacio De Deportes on 14th of July 2009. After the intro tape and all the bombs for Metallica’s song One, James Hetfield came on stage and started playing Fade To Black instead. He went on and the guys ended up playing full version of Fade To Black and not One.

Joeytpg from The Metallica Club was at the show and he reports:

“At the end of the song he said “Surprised? Even I was” so he just fucked it up and knowing James, he went with it.

It’s funny because as you know Kirk’s intro solo in One is clean guitar, and Fade To Black is distorted, so you could hear the first couple of notes in clean then Justin (Kirk’s tech) stepped on the Overdrive. I guess they weren’t sure if James would stop.

Also funny that Rob had to change bass quickly and then Lars came in to sit on the drums with his head down as in “Jesus man, what an epic FUCK UP!” hehehe I could almost hear him thinking about it.

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich has already started a joke. On the following show, at Hallendtadion in Zurich, Switzerland, Lars wrote One (Not Fade To Black) on the setlist. This is the setlist thanks to MetOnTour:

This is the video of the whole incident: