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Watch Metallica’s Career-Spanning Interview with   Zane Lowe of Apple Music

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To celebrate 40 years of Metallica, the band joins Zane Lowe for a career-spanning conversation exploring the group’s early days, seminal moments,  lineup changes, and the secrets to longevity. They also discuss why their 2004 documentary ’Some Kind of Monster’ was so ahead of its time, gratitude for former bassist Jason Newsted, the status of new music on the way, and more. The band will perform two 40th anniversary shows at The Chase Center in their hometown of San Francisco, CA this December 17th and 19th. 

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Metallica Shares Episode 8 of Their New Podcast

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Metallica has launched their very own all-Metallica Podcast, starting out with eight episodes in a row celebrating The 30th anniversary of The Black Album. Listen to Episode 8 here and follow wherever you listen to podcasts.  

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Metallica Shares Episode 6 of Their New Podcast

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Metallica has launched their very own all-Metallica Podcast, starting out with eight episodes in a row celebrating The 30th anniversary of The Black Album. Listen to Episode 6 here and follow wherever you listen to podcasts.  

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Metallica Shares Episode 2 of Their New Podcast

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Metallica has launched their very own all-Metallica Podcast, starting out with eight episodes in a row celebrating The 30th anniversary of The Black Album. Listen to Episode 2 here and follow wherever you listen to podcasts.  

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Metallica Launches Episode 1 of Their New Podcast

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Metallica has launched their very own all-Metallica Podcast, starting out with eight episodes in a row celebrating The 30th anniversary of The Black Album. Listen here and follow wherever you listen to podcasts.  

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CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISITED: Metallica – Thirty Years Of The Black Album

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Arguably the most divisive album in the history of metal, no other record seems to split opinion quite likeMetallica’s The Black Album (Elektra). Otherwise known simply as Metallica, whenever the San Franciscan act’s fifth studio album is mentioned even in passing, the results are usually the same. Like a red rag to a bull, loud and vociferous “true fans” are still guaranteed to leap straight in with comments like “only the first four albums are real”, “sell-outs” and “commercial bullshit” etc.  

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ALBUM REVIEW: Flotsam and Jetsam – Blood In The Water

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It’s been a long time coming but Flotsam and Jetsam finally look to have reasserted themselves among the top of the speed metal elite. After arriving on the scene with two undisputed classics back in the late ’80s, the Arizona thrashers fortunes dipped and for a while it seemed that they would only be remembered for those releases and supplying Metallica with bassist Jason Newsted.

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Former Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Shares Home Video from Quarantine

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Jason Newstead, former member of Metallica, has shared a home video with fans while self-quarantining with his wife, Nicole.due to the coronavirus in his home in Jupiter, Florida. To date, Newsted has been part of the Jupiter community for nearly 20 years. He captioned the clip: “Just having some fun during Social Distancing”.Newstead who has had other projects post-Metallica such as Echobrain and his solo Metal band Newstead as well as a member of Ozzy Osbourne’s touring band and Voivod. More recently he has done some charity shows with The Chophouse band of which he is the frontman. He also famously quit all social media in 2014, and didn’t comment on it publicly until 2017. Jason was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, along with Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo, in 2009.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind

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With everything Slipknot has been through in the last few years, you’d have thought they would have explored enough darkness and misery to last a lifetime, wanting to escape the cold expanse of unrelenting blackness with a renewed sense of optimism.

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Watch Jason Newsted Perform With His Band The Chophouse

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Former Metallica bassist Jason Newstead has been keeping a low musical profile the last few years, and focusing on his artwork.Jason and his band The Chophouse (which doubles for the name of his studio and production enveours) the Norton Sculpture Garden in West Palm Beach, Florida recently. Watch them perform the song ‘Blackbird’ below.  Continue reading →