Death Magnetic was a massive hit, it debuted at number one in the States, and it sold a whacking 490,000 units in its first week. That was a bit of a record because it made Metallica the first band to have 5 consecutive studio albums to make it to number…
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Metallica scheduled the release of Death Magnetic for September 12 2008 & also made a music video for the albums first single ” The Day That Never Comes “
This meant that the band’s UK distributor Vertigo Records had to bring the album out a couple of weeks early – officially on the 10th of September 2008.
A record store in France managed to get their hands on Death Magnetic & started selling it on September 2 2008 – two whole weeks before its worldwide release date. As a result the album started getting passed around on peer to peer clients.
Metallica recorded a guitar-based interpretation of Ennio Morricone ‘s ” The Ecstasy of Gold ” for a tribute album titled We All Love Ennio Morricone , which was released in February 2007. The track received a Grammy nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards for the category ” Best Rock Instrumental…
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In December of 2006 Metallica released a DVD of their music videos called The Videos 1989–2004 and it went on to sell a pretty decent 28,000 copies in its first week. It even popped up at number three on the Billboard Top Videos chart.
In February 2006 Metallica dropped a bombshell on their website – after 15 long years of working with him, they were done with producer Bob Rock. It was time for a change – & they decided to team up with Rick Rubin for their next album. Unfortunately, at the same…
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A couple of years later in 2005 the band were backing up the Rolling Stones when they played SBC Park in San Francisco on November 13th and 15th
It was back in 2004 that Hetfield let slip in the documentary film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster that the band thought some of the tracks on these albums were just alright to begin with – they got polished and reworked until they were good enough to put on the…
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Just before the band were due to go on stage at the 2004 Download Festival Ulrich had a panic attack and had to be rushed to hospital – Hetfield ended up looking for someone to replace Ulrich on the fly , with Dave Lombardo from Slayer and Joey Jordison from…
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