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Last year, Metallica curated the surprisingly indie-heavy first installment of their Orion Festival, and they've just announced that the second of the festivals will come to Detroit's Bell Isle…   Read Story »
Over the weekend, thousands of fans flocked to this year's Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park. Overcast and chilly weather was offset by the fire from the Metallica pyrotechnics and warm vibes from…   Read Story »
In 2009, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was murdered after leaving a Metallica show in Charlottesville, Virginia. The killer hasn't been caught, but since then, the murderer…   Read Story »
On Monday night, at a show in Prague, Metallica played all of their self-titled 1991 "Black Album" for the first time ever, starting it with the last song and ending it with album opener "Enter…   Read Story »
You'd think that when a band called Metallica books itself a weekend-long music festival, most of the bands on the bill would be metal. You'd be wrong. As Rolling Stone reports, the thrash overlords…   Read Story »
Plenty of magazines are willing to let you know their picks for the year's best albums. But as far as we know, only one rag regularly runs its list of the worst. Entertainment Weekly's year-end issue…   Read Story »
Given that the ill-fated Lou Reed collab Lulu was, by some order of magnitude, 2011's most hated album, this is a pretty good moment for Metallica to remind the world that they are motherfucking…   Read Story »
When Loutallica met with director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) in the Bay Area last month, they were supposed to shoot a video for "Iced Honey." Instead they made a video for single…   Read Story »
It's become clear that basically the entire world actively despises the Lou Reed/Metallica clusterfuck Lulu. So obviously we're all going to want to own a box-set edition of this thing, right?…   Read Story »
On the latest episode of Jools Holland, the legendary bad-idea tandem of Lou Reed and Metallica came through, and the styles clash at the heart of their ill-advised collaboration only deepens when…   Read Story »