The definitive re-release of Metallica’s 5x platinum sixth studio album Load, is out today, June 13, via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. Featuring previously unreleased material including demos, rough mixes, video, live recordings, and more! Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set is available now at the link below.Continue reading
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Watch Kirk Hammett of Metallica Unbox The “Load (Remastered)” Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set
Metallica previously announced the definitive re-release of the band’s 5x platinum sixth studio album Load, out June 13 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. Guitarist Kirk Hammett unboxed the different versions of the set on the band’s YouTube, which you can see below. Pre-orders are live at the links below as well, where full package details and track listings can be viewed. Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the set features previously unreleased material including demos, rough mixes, video, live recordings & more. Pre-orders of the Deluxe Box will receive instant grat tracks “Until It Sleeps (Remastered),” “Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix),” “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix),” and “Until It Sleeps (Live at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA – June 10th, 1996).” Watch the new lyric video for the first single from Load “Until It Sleeps!”Continue reading
Metallica to Release “Load (Remastered)” Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set Out This June
Metallica has announced the definitive re-release of the band’s 5x platinum sixth studio album Load, out June 13 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set is available now for pre-order at the link below where full package details and track listings can be viewed. The set features previously unreleased material including demos, rough mixes, video, live recordings & more. Pre-orders of the Deluxe Box will receive instant grat tracks “Until It Sleeps (Remastered),” “Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix),” “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix),” and “Until It Sleeps (Live at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA – June 10th, 1996).” Watch the new lyric video for the first single from Load “Until It Sleeps!”Continue reading
CONCERT REVIEW: Metallica – Pantera – Mammoth WVH – Prong Live at MetLife Stadium
The Metallica Family descended on New Jersey from all around the world for the kickoff date of the 2024 North American tour of Metallica’s M72 tour. On the back of the excellent 72 Seasons album released this spring on Blackened Recordings (read our review here). Reports from the European tour were high, especially their impressive turn at Download Festival. The two shows, per city, no repeats in the setlist is matched only in its ambition by the incredible in-the-round staging and all weekend-long Metallica Takeover events, including pop-shops, a Metallica film festival, side concerts with Metallica-related bands, a Ross Halfin photo book Q & A book signing and more.
ALBUM REVIEW: Metallica – 72 Seasons
And so the Metallica riff machine rolls on! forty years after their debut album Kill Em All (1983) laid the blueprint for the Thrash Metal genre, they return with record number … well that’s kind of up for debate depending on how you view their discography, and whether you count live albums, covers album and erm collaborations. But 72 Seasons (Blackened Recordings Inc) is here, their latest artistic statement four decades into a career that has seen them rise from the US West Coast underground, to become the most successful Heavy Metal band of all time. Continue reading
Robert Trujillo Joined Metallica 20 Years Ago Today
Today (February, 24th, 2023) is the 20th anniversary of bassist Robert Trujillo joining Metallica. Metallica marked the occasion by sharing a post on social media with a throwback photo from the day, with the caption: “20 years of @robtrujillo and counting! Our brother joined the band #OnThisDay in 2003.” Robert has played on the last three Metallica releases: 2009’s Death Magnetic, 2016’s Hardwired… to Self Destruct, S&M 2 (2020), and the upcoming 72 Seasons (Blackened Recordings).
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Metallica Cancels Its Vinyl Subscription Club for 2023 Due to Global Vinyl Delays
Metallica has sent a message out to subscribers of their vinyl Subscription Club that they are suspending the club for 2023, with no idea when it will resume in the future. Citing the demand for vinyl and global level delays, they canceled arguably the most successful vinyl subclub for rock or metal. You can read the band’s statement, and watch unboxing and review videos below. Continue reading
Kirk Hammett of Metallica Releases Debut Solo Single – “High Plains Drifter”
Heavy Metal legend Kirk Hammett of Metallica has released his first single as a solo artist, from his upcoming debut solo EP as the track – “High Plains Drifter.” The track opens the second side of Portals, Kirk’s four-song EP out April 23, 2022, via Blackened Recordings across digital platforms, on CD, and as a Record Store Day Exclusive Ocean Blue Vinyl EP (including a download card). Jam it out now! Continue reading
Kirk Hammett to Release His Debut Instrumental Solo EP – “Portals”
Kirk Hammett of Metallica makes his solo debut with Portals, a four-song instrumental EP to be released April 23rd, 2022 via Blackened Recordings across digital platforms, on CD, and as a Record Store Day Exclusive Ocean Blue Vinyl EP (including a download card). It will be the first release on the label that is not a Metallica release. True to its title, Portals is a collection of gateways to myriad musical and psychic destinations. Recorded in multiple locales ranging from Los Angeles to Paris to Oahu, Portals is both the result of musical and metaphysical journeys. An invitation to inner worlds accessible only by music and the psyche it fuels.
Metallica Takes The Top Five Slots in Billboard’s Vinyl Charts in The USA
has earned the top 5 best-selling vinyl album releases in the USA this week as ranked by Billboard on the strength of the six new vinyl reissues of the band’s albums at Walmart. The band the first artist to claim all top 5 slots of the vinyl sales chart since the chart’s debut in 2011. Continue reading