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Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, respectively – have formed a new project under the moniker Blu Weekend.The band, fleshed out with guitarist Anthony Laurie and drummer Jackson Morris, made their debut at the iHollywood Film Festival last weekend, where they performed as part of the premiere festivities for Charvel documentary The Original Charvel Gang.Weiland and Trujillo previously played together in Suspect208 alongside Slash’s son, London Hudson,

Metallica have shared a classic performance of ‘Sad But True’ – you can check it out below.The footage was captured during the metal icons’ concert at Gentofte Stadion in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 10, 1991. According to an official description, the appearance marked the band’s first “proper” show of the ‘Black Album’ tour.“Can you hear us out there?” frontman James Hetfield asks the crowd to rapturous applause and cheers.

Sam Fender and St Vincent have both shared their new take on Metallica‘s ‘Sad But True’, taken from the band’s landmark 30th anniversary celebration of ‘The Black Album’.Announced last week, ‘The Metallica Blacklist’, will see over 50 artists each contributing “a unique interpretation” of their favourite song from the 1991 album, with profits from the tribute record being split between charities of the artist’s choice and Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation.The record was initially

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich paid a virtual visit to a two year old child suffering from cancer, following a Twitter campaign by the hospital treating him.Milan Rossignol, who turns three next month, is currently being treated at the intensive care unit of the Montreal Children’s Hospital.Due to his condition, Langerhans cell histiocytosis, Rossignol is unable to communicate verbally, however pediatric oncologist at the hospital Dr.

Metallica have announced a special pair of releases to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of their album ‘Metallica’, AKA ‘The Black Album’.The long-running band’s self-titled fifth studio album was released in August 1991 and featured such songs as ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘The Unforgiven’ and ‘Nothing Else Matters’.‘The Black Album’ is set to be remastered for the “definitive” new reissue, which will be released on September 10 on the band’s own Blackened Recordings.Among the formats that will

Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N’ Roses and Scorpions.After being cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the French hard rock festival, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, is set to make a return next year with a seven-day, two-weekend event featuring 350 bands across six stages.Taking place in Clisson, the first instalment of the festival will be held on June 17, 18 and 19, with headliners Deftones, Faith No More and Avenged Sevenfold.

NOS Alive has announced the first wave of artists for their 2022 festival, including Metallica, Imagine Dragons and Royal Blood.The Lisbon festival is aiming to return next year after it was forced to cancel both its 2020 and 2021 events due to the coronavirus pandemic.NOS Alive has confirmed this morning (June 16) that their 2022 festival – which will run from July 6-9 – will feature the likes of Metallica, Imagine Dragons and Royal Blood.Phoebe Bridgers, Faith No More, Caribou, Tom Misch,

Metallica, Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Muse and Twenty One Pilots have all been confirmed for Mad Cool Festival 2022.The Madrid festival was forced to abandon its 2021 edition due to ongoing coronavirus concerns, but it will now return to the Spanish capital from July 6-9, 2022.Mad Cool’s new line-up sees a total of 104 artists across all genres, including a selection of returning names from previous editions.Other acts added to the line-up today (June 16) include St.

Metallica have filed an insurance lawsuit against Lloyd’s Of London over losses suffered as a result of postponing its South American tour due to coronavirus.The band were due to embark on a six-date tour of South America with support from Greta Van Fleet in April 2020, with the shows planned before the global pandemic shut down the live music industry.Metallica rescheduled the shows for December 2020, but with the pandemic showing no signs of slowing down, those dates were also postponed.

Metallica have announced that they are expanding their Metallica Scholars Initiative into a wider number of community colleges in the US.Launched back in 2019, the venture is a partnership between the band’s All Within My Hands foundation and the American Association of Community Colleges with the goal of “reinvesting in communities that have supported the band over the last four decades”.In a statement issued yesterday (May 25), All Within My Hands said that they were expanding the reach of

Metallica have announced the return of their streaming concert series ‘Metallica Mondays’ for one night only.The band will air a 2018 gig in Lincoln, Nebraska on YouTube next Monday (May 24) at 1am BST in honour of their charity All Within My Hands Foundation’s Month Of Giving.From March to August 2020, Metallica relived shows from 1983 to 2019 from around the world through ‘Metallica Mondays’, in a bid to entertain fans during the coronavirus lockdown.Previous instalments saw footage from some

Download Festival has announced a special free-to-air TV event called Reloaded which is set to air this summer.The two-night show will feature clips from ​some of “the best Download headliner performances from the past 10 years” including Linkin Park, Metallica, Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Guns N’ Roses and more.Reloaded will air on Sky Arts on June 5 – 6 (which is the weekend that should have marked Download 2021) and will be available free for all to watch.

Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Jane’s Addiction, Judas Priest, Rise Against, Staind, Cypress Hill, Machine Gun Kelly, Snoop Dogg and Mudvayne, who have been on hiatus since 2010.

Metallica wrote as many as 10 songs while quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic, frontman James Hetfield has revealed.Speaking in a new interview, the singer said that isolation proved productive for the metal legends who linked up on Zoom from different locations to write new material.Hetfield shared the news with The Fierce Life, a podcast made by gun manufacturer Fierce Firearms, which focuses on Hetfield’s hobby interest of hunting.He told the podcast: “Because of COVID, just sitting

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has spoken of how he’s “sceptical” of getting the coronavirus vaccine.Speaking in a new interview, Hetfield was asked about the prospect of Metallica touring again soon, and how they would make potential live shows safe for fans.“I have no clue,” he told The Fierce Life podcast. “It’s not up to me.

Corey Taylor has said that Lars Ulrich was “so right” to take legal action against Napster back in 2000, while explaining that he’s now “made peace” with streaming services’ unfair payments model.Ulrich claimed over 20 years ago that Napster had “hijacked [Metallica’s] music without asking” before going to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee to speak about the issues of music downloading software.Since then, the arrival of YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and other platforms has

Metallica‘s James Hetfield has made a special appearance at this year’s Little Kid Rock virtual benefit, where he stressed the importance of music education.The metal icon is known for his work with the music charity, having previously performed with children who have benefitted from their work at the Little Kids Rock Rockin’ the Bay Benefit in 2013.“Music has saved my life daily,” Hetfield told the virtual benefit on April 14.

Metallica‘s classic single ‘One’ has sold for $112,500 (£82,000) at auction.The ESP 400 series instrument, which was described as being ​in “excellent” condition, was purchased yesterday (April 11) by an anonymous buyer via Heritage Auctions.Hammett’s signature appears in silver ink at the bottom of the natural solid body, with the guitar also coming with a signed certificate of authenticity and original hard case.An official description reads: “Very clean and all-original ESP Strat-style

Dave Grohl‘s upcoming new documentary What Drives Us – check it out below.The documentary was first announced last year upon the news of Foo Fighters’ 25th anniversary ‘Van Tour’, which ended up being cancelled due to COVID-19.With the film originally set to premiere before each night of that tour, it will now come to The Coda Collection in the US, and Amazon Prime Video overseas, on April 30.

Taylor Swift feels about the songs that she wrote and recorded for Big Machine Label Group over six studio albums — from her 2006 self-titled debut to 2017’s “Reputation.” But after Swift failed to negotiate a deal to buy her masters (the original recordings) from high-profile music manager Scooter Braun, who purchased Big Machine and its assets in 2019, she decided to embark on a journey to reclaim her music.“Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to

Metallica‘s classic single ‘One’ has gone up for auction.The ESP 400 series instrument, which is said to be ​in “excellent” condition, is now available to bid on through Heritage Auctions for a limited period. Its current bid price is $26,000 (£18,900).Hammett’s signature appears in silver ink at the bottom of the natural solid body, with the guitar also coming with a signed certificate of authenticity and original hard case.

Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi has waded into the “rock is dead” argument first kicked off by KISS bassist Gene Simmons.Simmons first courted controversy in an interview back in 2014 stating that he believes the genre has no future, and doubled down on the remarks in a recent new interview.“Rock is dead. And that’s because new bands haven’t taken the time to create glamour, excitement and epic stuff,” Simmons told Gulf News.“I mean, Foo Fighters is a terrific band, but that’s a 20-year-old band.

Elton’s Apple Music show “Rocket Hour” about the upcoming project — which he revealed in no specific terms. “I’ve just done something with Metallica, during this lockdown period,” Elton said.“I haven’t been doing any Elton stuff — but I’ve been doing great stuff with other people,” he continued.

Elton John has teased an unlikely collaboration with Metallica, after the singer joined forces with the metal icons during the latest coronavirus lockdown.It is yet to be revealed if the two acts teamed up to record a new song, but Elton briefly discussed the team-up during a recent chat with SG Lewis on ‘Rocket Hour‘, his Apple Music show.“I’ve just done something with Metallica. During this lockdown period.

the Smiths broke up — and fans have been bummed about it ever since. Now, in the new film “Shoplifters of the World” (in theaters and on demand Friday), Joe Manganiello is held hostage by one of them.

Ozzy Osbourne has paid tribute to his old tourmate, Eddie Van Halen, following his death, crediting the rocker for “making guitar playing exciting”.Eddie passed away at the age of 65 on Tuesday after a long battle with throat cancer, prompting a host of music’s biggest names to pay tribute.In his own eulogy to the star, published by Rolling Stone magazine, Ozzy recalled touring with the legendary guitarist when his band Van Halen supported Black Sabbath.“The last time I spent any serious time

Metallica are digging deep to aid firefighters battling blazes in California, Washington, and Oregon.The heavy rockers have pledged to donate $250,000 to help the ongoing wildfire relief efforts via their All Within My Hands non-profit foundation, which was launched in 2017.“Wildfires have become a cruel and unwelcome annual benchmark in California, and this year we have seen them tragically extend across the entire west coast of our country,” a statement from the band reads.

Encore Drive-In Nights series.Other musical heavyweights like Blake Shelton, 44, and Gwen Stefani, 50, already participated in the series last month.“As many of you know, we’ve not played together in quite some time — actually since the ‘S&M2′ concerts last September,” drummer Lars Ulrich, 56, said in a video posted on Twitter and Instagram.

Metallica will be promoting worthy causes via their Month of Giving initiative this month.

With much of the concert industry grinding to a halt due to coronavirus concerns, a Twitter search for the phrase “Couch Tour” offers reassurance that live music has already found one comfortable way to exist outside physical venues. Over the last decade, the Couch Tour phenomenon—where fans join together online to experience performances in real time—has proven itself as both a business model and community builder.

Metallica have launched a new subscription service. The Metallica Vinyl Club will offer fans a chance to hear Metallica rarities and demos, pressed on 7" vinyl records. The inaugural year will feature four releases. Signup for the 2020 Vinyl Club Subscription is open through Tuesday, March 31 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Learn more at the Vinyl Club website.

Metallica have inspired the naming of a newly discovered deep-sea crustacean, as the band has announced on social media. Macrostylis metallicola is a tiny worm-like creature that grows up to 6.5 millimeters long and inhabits the Clarion Clipperton Zone, a submarine region between Hawaii and Mexico, at depths where the pressure is equivalent to 400 times that of the atmosphere.

Metallica has paid tribute to Ray Burton, the father of late bassist Cliff Burton, who has died at the age of 94.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has led the tributes to Rush drummer Neil Peart following his death at the age of 67.

Musicians around the world have pledged to donate funds to support bushfire relief efforts in Australia, including Metallica, Elton John, Kacey Musgraves, and more. Metallica and their foundation All Within My Hands have focused on fighting the fires, pledging $750,000 to the NSW Rural Fire Service and to the Country Fire Authority in Victoria. At a recent concert in Sydney, John pledged to donate “$1 million to support the bushfire relief fund.”