Metallica have announced the official winners of their first ever ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ marching band competition.The band launched the contest last April, with over 450 US colleges and high schools applying to enter.Bands were challenges to create “their most exciting, unique and impressive performances of some of the band’s most beloved songs”, with the band supplying them with musical charts of songs including ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘Master of Puppets’, ‘Fade to Black’ and others.The band chose the winners themselves in a number of categories, based on the school age groups. The biggest winners, in the College (Division 1) category, were Auburn University in Alabama, who will receive $75,000 (£58,800) worth of musical instruments and gear for their school.Other winners include Eastern New Mexico University, Dobyns-Bennett High School in Tennessee, Boerne High School in Texas, Malverne High School in New York and Oakton High School in Virginia.Check out footage of Auburn University’s prize-winning halftime Metallica marching band show above.Earlier this month, the band’s frontman James Hetfield said that he would love somebody to create a microphone with a built-in straw.Speaking on the band’s in-house podcast The Metallica Report, he said: “Being able to maybe sip some water while I’m playing, you know, some kind of straw on the microphone…that could be cool.”Metallica will hit the road again in May 2024 for another leg of their M72 World Tour, for which they’ll play two nights in each city with two unique “no repeats” setlist and different support acts.
‘The Death of Superman’ and ‘Reign of the Supermen’ Double Feature Review (2018)
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Until very recently with the release of James Wan’s Aquaman, the film side of the DC Universe has had patchy track record to say the least. Warner Bros are clearly still finding their feet, while also chasing the tail of their Disney competitors. On the animated side of the spectrum however, things have always looked a little brighter. DC have always been comfortably reliable in terms of their animated output, dating all the way back to the critically acclaimed Batman series of the 90’s. Now, Warner Animation have taken another stab at the renowned ‘Death of Superman’ comic storyline.The well-documented and heavily-adapted plotline of the early 90’s is something even casual audience members will have an awareness of by now.
It was previously given the spotlight in 2007’s ‘Superman: Doomsday’, and infamously rushed as part of the controversial ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice’. Thankfully, it has now finally been done justice (pun intended) as a two-part extravaganza.As per usual, the animation is spectacularly brought to life with some truly beautiful visual displays of DC’s finest heroes in all their glory. There are even moments of spectacle and aw-inspiring action that surpass the their live-action, CGI-filled counterparts.
The biggest fight sequence of the two films undoubtedly comes from the brutal clash between Superman and Doomsday. This does feel somewhat weighed down by the fact that we are fully aware of the battle’s outcome. But, the emotional impact somehow manages to hit much harder than when Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel bit the dust.While both parts are superbly written, ‘Reign of the Supermen’, the concluding chapter of the two is the far more interesting story.
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