Jon Pardi adds his distinctive twang and country instrumentation to a brooding cover of Metallica’s “Wherever I May Roam,” which appears on the upcoming Metallica Blacklist, accompanying the metal legends’ 30th anniversary Black Album reissue. Pardi has flirted with heavy music on his albums, most recently infusing “Me and Jack” …
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Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony announced a concert marking the 20th anniversary of their 1999 live LP, S&M. The show, dubbed “S&M²,” is scheduled for Friday, September 6th, and will be the debut concert for the city’s Chase Center venue. A Chase pre-sale runs from Tuesday, March 19th at …
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Alice in Chains vocalist-guitarist Jerry Cantrell reflects on how his band reunited in a new interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for the latter’s Apple Music/Beats 1 radio show It’s Electric. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT. In an exclusive clip from the show, Cantrell …
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Following fully-loaded reissues of their first three albums, Metallica will put out a souped up box set edition of their 1988 commercial breakthrough, … And Justice for All, this fall. It will feature the original album, remastered by engineer Greg Fidelman, along with a selection of demos, rough mixes and …
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Metallica‘s 2000 lawsuit against Napster, the pioneering and controversial file-sharing service, epitomized a disoriented music industry in the new millennium. And while some fans criticized the metal band for their legal action, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett maintains that they made the right choice. “The whole Napster thing – it didn’t …
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