Rina Sawayama and Idles have shared their renditions of “Enter Sandman and “The God That Failed,” respectively, from Metallica’s upcoming Black Album covers comp, The Metallica Blacklist. Sawayama’s version of “Enter Sandman” takes the song’s classic riff and filters it through a towering dance beat to create a cover that …
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Rolling Stone’sEssential Albums guides survey an iconic artist’s discography, breaking down their finest LPs into three tiers: Must-Haves, Further Listening, and Going Deeper. We also recommend key songs from other releases. When James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica in 1981, they were a couple of pimply faced, adrenaline-starved teenage …
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Metallica will celebrate their 40th anniversary this December with a pair of fan club-only concerts in the band’s native San Francisco. Set for December 17th and 19th at San Francisco’s Chase Center — where Metallica staged the arena’s first-ever concerts in 2019 with their S&M2 shows — both gigs will …
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Metallica delivered a cover of Alice in Chains’ “Would?” during a special livestream ceremony Tuesday night, December 1st, honoring the grunge pioneers, who received the Museum of Pop Culture’s Founders Award. The entire stream is available to watch, and Metallica’s performance starts at the 2:07:48 mark. The performance was recorded …
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Metallica will show off their lighter side this fall when they livestream an acoustic concert that will benefit their charitable foundation, All Within My Hands. The group’s Helping Hands Concert and Auction will take place at 5 p.m. ET on November 14th. Tickets to watch the performance cost $15 and …
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Lars Ulrich faced a conundrum when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited him to be a guest for one of his company’s fireside chats this week. Usually Benioff’s musical guests have been playing a song at the end of the interviews, which are broadcast on Salesforce’s social media channels, and the …
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Ten hours. Five continents. Talent that ranges from Metallica to Lizzo. 2020’s Global Citizen Festival has it all. Following a year-long initiative dubbed Global Goal Live: The Possible Dream, the seven-year-old philanthropic organization is primed to stream performances by top talent around the world. “Our goal, to put it simply, …
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Earlier this month, Metallica played a rare acoustic benefit concert in San Francisco to raise money for their nonprofit All Within My Hands Foundation. They played a few hits that translated well to acoustic instruments (“Unforgiven,” “Nothing Else Matters”), reworked some classics to fit the format (“Disposable Heroes”) and attempted …
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