I can't help but wonder just how many famous people came out of Downey High School to warrant a hall of fame but I dare say Hetfield would have to be the most famous by far. Listening to his speech, you can hear how much his high school years influenced his musical direction
I'm sure on paper this looked like a "dream team". Put Star Wars together with Metallica and you have a "rockin' spectacular". Uh no, you have a giant flabby wiener of a production that sucks harder than a Dyson 360
It's not like a random bride just jumped up to play the trap set, there's a little more to the story, but it still kicks ass. Click through for details.
Looks like we'll get to witness the search for former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy in the same fashion as Metallica when they were looking for bassist Jason Newsted's replacement in their epic letdown of a movie "Some Kind Of Monster"
30 years in the making, and only a hand full of lucky fuc$%ers out in Indio, Cali got to experience "The Big 4"! Last night history was made in the USA with the bands sharing the stage and at least we are lucky enough to get some footage of all in together now performing "Am I evil?"
This is the 30 Years of Metallica fan made documentary.
This is Hesher, the badass looking movie that Metallica let use their music, including The Shortest Straw used here in the trailer.
Readers of Rolling Stone voted U2's Joshua Tree the Number 1 album of the 80's followed by Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction in a recent poll conducted by the magazine. Usually I ignore anything that comes out of Rolling Stone because I just don't feel like they're in touch with the times and when they do finally get around to covering a band magazines like Decibel and Revolver have been covering for years they act like they broke the band. But, since we're talking about the 80's then I guess
I can't help it man...I've been obsessed with metal since I was fourteen years old when I first heard Metallica and I gotta say right now is an excellent time to be a metal fan. I've never seen so many quality releases in such a short period of time
So, Gibson recently conducted a poll of the Top 50 Metal Songs of All Time. According to said poll, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath are the "most metal" with seven songs each.
Kirk Hammett spilled the beans to Rolling Stone on an upcoming Metallica project and it sounds like it could be a little "iffy". Then again, Metallica has pulled off some big surprises during their career. Read more and check out some Met Videos after the break.
