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  • Metallica releases new song

    Metallica releases new song

    MUMBAI: It was in March, this year, that Metallica first debuted the song at a concert in Bogotá, Colombia.

     

    The new recording dubbed ‘First Pass Version’ clocks in eight minutes and 20 seconds and recalls the group’s 80s offerings, with a fiery solo from lead guitarist Kirk Hammett.

     

    Drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone that the song is “fairly representative of where our creative headspace is at right now.” 

     

    Whether the track makes the final cut of Metallica’s next album remains to be seen, but it will by synching with all ESPN’s programming in the US on 21 June 2014.

     

    The band is currently on their ‘Metallica By Request’ run of dates, and are due to headline the main stages at Glastonbury Festival on 28 June, and Sonisphere Festival on 6 July.

     

    They recently took time out to play the MusiCares MAP Fund gala in California where they paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, whilst frontman James Hetfield joined forces with former Van Hale frontman Sammy Hagar at a benefit concert Acoustic-4-a-Cure.

  • Metallica’s 3D film to arrive on the big screen in August this year

    Metallica’s 3D film to arrive on the big screen in August this year

    MUMBAI: Heavy metal band Metallica has announced that their 3D film Metallica Through The Never would finally open in August this year.

    The band comprising of James Hetfield Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo confirmed on their official site that the film would release in the theatres in US on 9 August.

    Directed and written by Nimrod Antal, the film will be distributed by independent film marketing and distribution company Picturehouse.

    The New York-based company, founded by Bob Berney, was the same one behind Oscar-winning Pan‘s Labyrinth and La Vie en Rose. The film will mark Picturehouse‘s first new release after the company was re-launched this year.

    The upcoming film will star Dane DeHaan, who has recently lapped up a role as Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He will play a young band crew member who is sent out on an urgent mission while the band is playing a rousing live set in front of a sold-out crowd and unexpectedly finds his world turned completely upside down.