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'Death Magnetic' certified double platinum in U.S. |
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Jul 22, 2010 - 8:41 AM - by Sailing home
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"Death Magnetic", was officially certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 28, 2010 for shipments in the United States in excess of two million copies.
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Metallica to delay their ‘Pink Floyd’ tour? |
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Jul 21, 2010 - 2:17 AM - by Sailing home
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By gbarton
Metallica’s plans to stage a show to rival Pink Floyd’s The Wall may be on hold following the success of the recent Sonisphere festivals featuring thrash metal’s Big Four.
Earlier this year, in March, Metallica manager Peter Mensch told Classic Rock the band had a major surprise lined up for 2011.
“Let’s just say that next year you will see a Metallica tour that will blow your mind,” Mensch said.
“They will only play in 10 cities but it will be a huge undertaking. It will be Metallica’s equivalent of The Wall.”
However, Lars Ulrich now tells Classic Rock that further Big Four shows – featuring Metallica along with Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax – could be in the offing.
“There’s a lot of exciting things that happen in the mind of Peter Mensch and sometimes they’re not easily understandable by the people who surround him,” the Metallica drummer chuckled.
“But the vibe on this thing [the Big Four tour] is so big, we’d be stupid to ignore it. You know on your iPhone, you can move the weather maps up and down? Well, the Big Four is quickly moving up to the top in terms of potential occurrences for the... [Read More]
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Lars Ulrich: 'Things are real easy and borderline pleasant' |
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Jul 15, 2010 - 1:08 PM - by Sailing home
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By Cameron Adams | Herald Sun
ALL it took was one sentence for Russell Brand to confront the elephant in the cinema.
Still strong ... American heavy metal band Metallica (L-R) Lars Ulrich,
James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo. Source: The Daily Telegraph
It's the midst of Get Him to the Greek, where Brand plays chemically enhanced rocker Aldous Snow.
His wife, played by Rose Byrne, is having an affair with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who makes a fairly effortless cameo playing himself.
After a bit of argy-bargy post some hanky-panky, Brand as Snow hits Ulrich, as Ulrich, where it hurts by stating, "Why don't you go and sue Napster you Danish twat?"
Napster has been a dark digital cloud hanging over Metallica, and in particular Ulrich, for 10 years.
Napster was an online music file-sharing site that became the face of the illegal downloading world that has crippled the music industry since.
Back in 2000 when their lawyers found an early version of one of their as-yet-unreleased songs traded on Napster, as well as their entire back catalogue, Metallica swung into action.
Ulrich handed... [Read More]
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