Metallica has shared a pro-shot video of the band performing their classic cut “Sad But True” from The Black Album (Elecktra/Blackened Recordings). The concert took place at the new Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood Florida. Watch the clip now!
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Watch Metallica Perform “Battery” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Metallica celebrated thirty-five years of their landmark album Master of Puppets (Elektra/Blackened Recordings) by performing the opening track, “Battery”, live on the show. Watch the clip now!Continue reading
Metallica Released Their Thrash Classic “Master of Puppets” 35 Years Ago
Metallica released their Thrash Metal defining moment thirty-five years ago today with Master of Puppets (Elektra Records/Blackened Recordings). While 1986 gave us many legend-status albums from top-tier bands, this is still the one that stands above all the others. Taking the NWBHM influence of Kill Em All, and the improved thrash stylings and songcraft of Ride The Lightning, and moving leaps forward, MoP rules from start to finish. Sadly, this was to be their final album with Cliff Burton who died during the tour cycle promoting this album, but Master of Puppets is a genre classic through and through. Jam it loud and proud today! Continue reading
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
Metallica to Release Exclusive Color Vinyl Editions of their Classic Albums via Wal-Mart
Much banter has gone down in the press this year about the pandemic legit ruining the industry, but one band that seems somewhat bulletproof is Metallica. The biggest Rock/Metal band ever in terms of sales dominates streaming with 1 Billion Spotify streams in 2019 (the band has not released 2020 data yet) and over 6000 units (usually over 2k physical copies) of The Black Album alone sold weekly. They also sell tons of music via their website and www.metallicalive.com too and had a new release in 2020 with S & M2 (Blackened Recordings). Now the band is teaming up Wal-Mart for a series of limited edition color-vinyl variants of six albums: Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …And Justice for All, Metallica (aka The Black Album), and Hardwired… to Self-Destruct. Pre-orders are available now, with delivery expected in February of 2021!
Watch Metallica in Dallas 20 Years Ago for #MetallicaMondays
Metallica continues their #metallicamonday’s series tonight with a 2006 show on 6/6/6 show in Berlin! The band was celebrating 20 years of their classic “Master pf Puppets”! Make sure you’re subscribed to the Metallica YouTube channel to receive a notification when the show/charity drive begins is about to begin. Generous donations like these help AWMH provide grants like those announced last week to Feeding America, Direct Relief, Crew Nation, and the USBG National Charity Foundation in support of COVID-19 relief efforts.
Metallica Performs “Master of Puppets” in Full for The Latest #MetallicaMondays Live Stream
Metallica continued their #metallicamonday’s series with a 2006 show on 6/6/6 show in Berlin! The band was celebrating 20 years of their classic “Master of Puppets”! Make sure you’re subscribed to the Metallica YouTube channel to receive a notification when the show/charity drive begins is about to begin. Generous donations like these help AWMH provide grants like those announced last week to Feeding America, Direct Relief, Crew Nation, and the USBG National Charity Foundation in support of COVID-19 relief efforts.
Watch Metallica Perform All of “Master of Puppets” in Berlin for #MetallicaMondays
Metallica continues their #metallicamonday’s series tonight with a 2006 show on 6/6/6 show in Berlin! The band was celebrating 20 years of their classic “Master pf Puppets”! Make sure you’re subscribed to the Metallica YouTube channel to receive a notification when the show/charity drive begins is about to begin. Generous donations like these help AWMH provide grants like those announced last week to Feeding America, Direct Relief, Crew Nation, and the USBG National Charity Foundation in support of COVID-19 relief efforts.
Metallica Fans Vote ‘Master of Puppets’ as Their Best Song
Metallica fans have voted the titled track from their 1986 album Master of Puppets as the best song by the band in a poll. Starting in lat May 2020, fans were able to vote on 32 pairs of songs battling against each other and advancing in a total of five rounds in a knockout competition they dubbed ‘Some Kind Of Bracket’. The original 64 tunes included in the bracket were selected based on the highest Spotify plays, multiplying them by how many times those tracks have been played live. ‘Master Of Puppets’ defeated ‘Dyers Eve’, ‘Atlas, Rise!’, ‘Ride The Lightning’, ‘Sad But True’ and ‘Fade To Black’. Eventually, ‘Master Of Puppets’ beat ‘One’ land the top spot of the greatest Metallica song of all time.Continue reading
Watch Metallica Perform “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” Live in Italy
Metallica has shared another pro-shot video of them performing their classics from their “Worldwired Tour”. Watch the band perform ‘Welcome Home (Sanitarium)’ live in Turin, Italy last summer! Continue reading