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Metallica

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More

    Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

  • Music

    December 14, 2011

    Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore

    Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    In Print: Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore, and More

    From SF Weekly's latest print music section: Metallica at the Fillmore​Metallica at 30: Text messages like the one I got from a friend before the third Metallica show last week -- "You are dead to me" -- were exactly the reason I decided to go to all four of the Bay Area metal band's 30th ann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    'James Hetfield Is a Rapper,' and Other Awesomely Blasphemous Metallica Mashups

    Onemoredisco.comOne More Disco's Metallica remix contest drew intriguing entries.​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Brings Out Lou Reed, Kid Rock, Mercyful Fate, and More as the 30th Anniversary Party Continues Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    10 Actually Good Songs on Metallica's Despised Load and Reload Albums

    It's not that bad. Really.​ As we celebrate Metallica's 30th Anniversary, it's time to reexamine a popular mindset among critics and fans of the most enduringly popular band in metal history: Many believe that that all four of Metallica's 1980s albums were unimpeachable classics, and that afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Metallica Brings Out Lou Reed, Kid Rock, Mercyful Fate, and More as the 30th Anniversary Party Continues

    Metallica at the Fillmore Wednesday night. Notice that James Hetfield isn't wearing a shirt.​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture

    ​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene

    Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica

    ​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows Instead Popular music is fixated with jumping-off points, springbo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows Instead

    slaughterbythewater.comWitchaven headlines MetClub's 30-year celebration.​If you aren't a member of Metallica's fan club and didn't succumb to a scalper, chances are that you aren't going to catch the Bay Area metal titans' 30th Anniversary concerts at the Fillmore this week. But even if you c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    We're Celebrating Metallica's 30th Anniversary All This Week

    Metallica fans lined up outside the Fillmore on Monday afternoon.​ See also: We're Looking for a Few Metallica Superfans in the Bay Area -- Are You One? Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows Instead All this week, we're excited to bring you special ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    We're Looking for a Few Metallica Superfans in the Bay Area -- Are You One?

    Does this ever happen to you? In a casual conversation, you nonchalantly mention that, despite Napster, Lulu, and James Hetfield not having long hair anymore, you still like Metallica. Then the person you're talking to goes, "You still like Metallica? Who likes Metallica!?" It happens to us, and fr ... More >>

  • News

    November 16, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Does this ever happen to you? In a casual conversation, you nonchalantly mention that, despite Napster, Lulu, and James Hetfield not having long hair anymore, you still like Metallica. Then the person you're talking to goes, "You still like Metallica? Who likes Metallica!?" It happens to us, and fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    New Book Murder in the Front Row Tells the Story of Bay Area Thrash Metal in Pictures

    Metallica, way back when.​ Everyone knows Metallica. But not everyone knows that Metallica was the product of a full-blown '80s thrash metal scene in the Bay Area -- a scene that fostered other notable local bands like Testament, Death Angel, and Exodus. These weren't the makeup-wearing pretty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Metallica to Celebrate 30 Years with Fan Club-Only Shows at the Fillmore

    Metallica: Pushing 30.​ Metallica, the biggest heavy metal band in the world, turns 30 years old this December. How old does that make you feel? Considering we were young enough when ...And Justice For All came out to be truly frightened by the "One" video (like, call our mom at work scared), ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Metallica Recording with Lou Reed: Hitler Is Not Happy

    ​ "Maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever," is how former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed described his upcoming collaboration album with Metallica. Rolling Stone's David Fricke had kind words for it, too. We, however, are skeptical. And so is, uh, Hitler. In this hilarious video, som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Lou Reed on Metallica Project: 'Maybe the Best Thing Done by Anyone, Ever'

    Reed with Metallica's James Hetfield: The creation of a new planetary system?​ Lou Reed is not one for modesty, ladies and gentlemen. We told you last week about his new collaboration with Metallica, which was recorded right up the road from S.F. at Metallica's studio in San Rafael. The as-ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Rick Rubin Says Metallica Is About to Record a New Album, Plans S.F. Show

    Rick Rubin: Now this is what Metallica's producer should look like.UPDATE: In more local Metallica news, a posting on the band's websit​e today indicates the band will perform at the annual Salesforce.com convention at Moscone Center on Wednesday, Aug. 31. Turns out Kirk Hammet's next-door neighbo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Shocker: Metallica and Lou Reed Team Up for New Album

    Now just imagine a tall, skinny Lou Reed in there somewhere...​ Well, we certainly didn't see this coming: Bay Area metal giant Metallica and former Velvet Underground frontman/living god Lou Reed are about 90 percent done with a new album they've recorded together. Lou Reed and Metallica? Yes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Is Iron Maiden Really Better Than Metallica?

    ​ Iron Maiden is better than Metallica. We don't necessarily agree, but that was the contention made by Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson in a recent interview with UK magazine Metal Hammer. "You've just got to have a sense of fearlessness," the singer said, according to a posting on NME. "I got in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Kill, or Rather Own, 'Em All: Metallica Monopoly Is Coming Next Week

    Consequence of SoundIt can be yours next week, crappy cartoons and all!​ Hit the lights, 'cause we're about to do some damaging incorporation: Bay Area metal megalith Metallica is following the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and, uh, Kiss next week and releasing its own Monopoly boa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    So Metallica's Cliff Burton Inspired Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Character in Hesher

    ​Which isn't totally surprising: The Bay Area foursome was pretty darn hesher, especially back in the days when bassist Cliff Burton was in the band, before he died tragically in a 1986 bus accident. Back then, Metallica was drink, grow hair, play metal. Repeat. Maybe add a little drugs and wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Big 4 Tour: Are More U.S. Dates Likely for Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth?

    Richard HaickWide-eyed Kirk Hammet, coming soon to a major city near you?​ Pretty much since the moment we heard about the Big 4 tour, we've been wanting to see it hit the U.S. Interstate system. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax have played dates all over Europe, so when they announced ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Metallica Fans More Likely to 'Do It' on a First Date, Dumb Survey Says

    "Nice to meet you. Wanna do it?"​Surprise! Metallica and Nirvana fans are more likely to have sex on a first date, while those who like Coldplay and Adele are the least likely to go all the way.Those are the findings of a not-entirely-scientific survey by online dating site Tastebuds, which matche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Metallica Plans New Record That's Not Actually a New Metallica Record

    ​The latest less-than-clear-message from the Metallica camp: Cigar aficionado/lead guitarist Kirk Hammet has let slip that the band is planning to head back into the studio in May -- but not exactly to record a new Metallica record. Hammet said the new project will only take the band two weeks -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth Announce Plans to Play Together. Once. In Indio.

    ​It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time -- and the fact that as of today's announcement, the long-awaited Big 4 Tour (sorry, make that " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Metallica Might Possibly Begin Work on New Album Next Year, Maybe

    "This is boring, let's write some songs!"​After nearly two years of touring in support of the 2008 album Death Magnetic -- the return-to-form-of-sorts that followed the musical and image disaster of 2003's St. Anger -- the Bay Area's own Metallica is discussing plans to record its next album. Of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Slayer's Kerry King Talks Messing Up Guitar Solos, the New Metallica, and Playing with the Beastie Boys

    Mark SeligerSlayer, with Kerry King at far right​Los Angeles thrash-metal juggernaut Slayer has been kicking ass so ferociously for so long that the word "fucking" has practically been appended to the front of the band's name. Raising the metal bar for brutality and blasphemy over the course of ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Video of the Day: Metallica Stirs Up Another Riot

    What is it about Metallica shows in South America that makes the fans so crazy? Today Spin reported that the Bay Area legends caused a second riot in two months, this time in Bogota, Columbia, where police sprayed overeager metalheads with tear gas and water canons. At the end of January, the band ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Over the Weekend: SF Winter Fest w/ Battlehooch, Judgement Day and The Hot Moon

    Judgement Day​Battlehooch, Judgement Day and The Hot Moon SF Winter Fest Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 Bottom of the Hill Better than: being force-fed sand while Metallica's "Load" blasts through headphones at full volume; Megadeth. Tell a friend, "Hey there's this band that plays metal with just a ce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2009

    Last Night: Metallica at HP Pavillion

    ​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Remember Your Local Record Stores April 18

    GeorgHHFrom the time I was old enough to drive down to the malls and used vinyl shops to my adult addiction to scouring Aquarius' newsletters and getting the local lowdown from Amoeba employees, record store clerks are still one of my favorite ways to hear about undiscovered music. But, as you may h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Metallica's Hetfield Hospitalized, Spinal Tap Rolls On

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2009

    Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

    By Phil FreemanIn a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Saturday Night: Metallica at the Oracle Arena

    MetallicaOracle ArenaDecember 20, 2008Notes and Photos by Karla Rivera Better than: EVER! Rapid, loud, head-banging metal - so amazingly clean and clear - the band was on fire from the get-go and so were we! The stage, set in the center of the arena (which later became a moat of multiple mosh pit ... More >>

  • Music

    September 17, 2008

    Metallica

    Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Metallica vs. the Nature Types

    Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2007

    Smart Pop Loop

    Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

  • Music

    February 9, 2005

    Bouncer

    The best place to ponder the Metallica movie Some Kind of Monster: Zeitgeist, of course

  • Film

    July 7, 2004

    Head Trip

    Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

  • Music

    July 9, 2003

    Metallica

    St. Anger

  • Music

    December 24, 2002

    Love Plus One

    Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

  • Music

    May 10, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Free Lars Ulrich!; New Groove; Sound Off

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Just a Freight Train Coming Your Way; On the Waterfront

  • Music

    January 27, 1999

    Air Canada

    Behind his back, Kevin Dabbs' home-brew tape of his air drumming has drawn a growing cult in San Francisco

  • Music

    December 18, 1996

    Hear This

    Behind his back, Kevin Dabbs' home-brew tape of his air drumming has drawn a growing cult in San Francisco

  • Music

    July 24, 1996

    Recordings

    Behind his back, Kevin Dabbs' home-brew tape of his air drumming has drawn a growing cult in San Francisco

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