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| The Metallica Club has written the following: "The Metallica Club is deeply saddened to have to announce that Lone Ulrich, mother of Lars Ulrich passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 22nd." |
| On Saturday 4th April, The Metallica Club in conjunction with Online Tonight will kick off an online chat with the worlds biggest Rock band Metallica. Chatting LIVE from the Australian leg of their upcoming ReLoad tour, the band will be joining us to answer your questions. The band members will also be announcing the winner of a fantastic competition to win an original Metallica guitar, signed by the band members. To enter the competition, all you have to do is fill in the form on the Online Tonight website and send in your questions. A winner will be picked from the entrants and announced on the night. The URL for Online Tonight is http://onlinetonight.uk.msn.com PST (Los Angeles) - 7.00pm Friday 3rd EST (New York) - 10.00pm Friday 3rd GMT (London, UK) - 3.00am Saturday 4th Australia (Sydney, NSW) - 12.00 midday Saturday 4th |
| Metallica is battling back against bootleggers by taking legal action to halt the release of an unauthorized new album entitled "Bay Area Thrashers." According to Metallica's management company, the material on "Thrashers" originates from demo recordings an earlier line-up of the band made in 1982. Metallica, who owns the rights to the demos, is upset with the bootleg's poor sound quality, as well as the way the demos have been fraudulently altered to make them appear as if they contained material from a live show. "Metallica considers the album to be an inferior product, illicitly acquired and sonically butchered," states a press release for the group, which also claims that the album "attempts to exploit the Metallica name ... at the expense of its fans." The band has also contacted the anti-bootlegging arms of the British Phonograph Institute and the Recording Industry Association of America to help stop the distribution of the "deceitful release." Credit goes out to MTV News for this story. |
| The opening acts for the Summer Tour through the United States will be Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) and Days of the New. |
| Metallica is now the fourth best selling artist of the 90's with more than 22 million units sold this decade. Only Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey and the Beatles have sold more units. |
| On March 21st, MTV will air a live 90-minute special: 'Metallica Unrehearsed' (working title). This will be shot in Bay Area during the band's rehearsal for the upcoming Pacific Rim tour. This special will air live at 10pm EST and again on West Coast at 10pm PST. The Metallica Club will be distributing a small amount of tickets, please do not send in requests, the Metallica Club will allocate in appropriate manner. |
| Radio stations all over the country are participating in a contest to send winners to San Francisco to see Metallica in a small club. Listen to your favorite station and see if they are participating. |
| More dates have been confirmed by The Metallica Club at the AOL Keyword: Metallica. This is not yet a complete list of tour dates as more are confirmed. The Metallica Club hopes to have information on premium ticket sales for club members in the near future. For all the tour info, see the tour page. |
| In a recent radio interview, Lars confirmed that they would be back in the studio after the summer tour working on another project. With a projected release date sometime in November, the band will be compiling a collection of the covers that they have done in the past along with a couple added surprises. |
| In six-degrees-of-separation news, there appears to be a unique, if not immediately obvious, connection between Oscar nominee and Hollywood golden boy Matt Damon and metal mainstays Metallica. Damon recently told "Movieline" magazine that the love of his life was a doctor with whom he had carried on a long-distance relationship for years. Damon would not reveal the name of the woman, but did tell the magazine that she went on to marry "a fucking rock star who's got $80 million and his own jet... a bad rock star too." Those who have seen Damon's multiple Oscar-nominated film "Good Will Hunting" will recall that the actor/screenwriter's on-screen love interest in that movie is also a doctor played by Minnie Driver. Damon has denied that the character is not named after anyone in real life, but Driver's character (named Skylar) shares the same first name and occupation as the wife of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. A publicist for Metallica confirmed that the drummer's wife is in fact Damon's old flame. For the record, the normally loquacious Lars had no comment on being dissed by Damon. |
| The first Metallica US date is confirmed.
It is unsure whether this is the first date of the tour or not, but they will be playing in West Palm Beach, Florida, June 24th at the Coral Sky Ampitheatre. UPDATE: 03.16.98 Metallica will also be playing the Winnebago County Fairgrounds in Rockford, IL on July 5th and they'll be in Milwaukee, WI on July 26th. Tickets will be available on Saturday. For an up to date list of U.S. tour dates, check out the Tour page! Always acurate, always up to date! |
| "The Unforgiven II" was released worldwide EXCEPT in North America (as usual!), in the various formats on February 23rd. It is due for release in North America on March 17th in just the one format. |
| The April '98 issue of Guitar World presents their annual
Readers' Poll which sees Metallica take
home several "medals." Also in
this Guitar World features an excellent interview by James with Gov't Mule and a Hetfield poster. James takes home Gold for Most Valuable Player, Kirk places fifth. Kirk takes home Gold for Best Rock Guitarist. Kirk for Silver and James takes Bronze for Best Hard Rock/Metal Guitarist. Re-Load takes Gold honors for Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock/Metal Album. They also take medals home for Biggest Disappointment and fourth for Worst band. |
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