** In April 2001, a couple of film makers called Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky started following Metallica around to document the making of their next studio album. Over the course of about two years they clocked up over 1,000 hours of footage. keep
Newsted bails on Metallica on January 17, 2001 & before you can say “recording studio” hes outta the band . He says he left because of ” private and personal reasons ” and also because he’d done some serious damage to himself over the years from playing too hard. In…
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Ulrich gives a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on copyright infringement on July 11 2000.
A little over a year later , in 2000 , Metallica’s world got turned upside down when they discovered that a demo of their song ” I Disappear ” was getting airplay on the radio – which wasn’t the plan , as the song was scheduled to be released alongside…
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At the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards – Ulrich teamed up with host Marlon Wayans in a pretty cringeworthy skit that had a go at the idea of using Napster to share music. Wayans played some college kid with his eyes glued to Metallica’s “I Disappear”. Ulrich strolls in &…
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It was April 21 and 22 , 1999 , when Metallica got together with the San Francisco Symphony and did two joint performances – Michael Kamen was on the conductor’s podium , and he had previously worked with their producer on ” Nothing Else Matters “.
Then in 1999 the audio recording and concert footage were packaged up into the album and concert film S&M .
Following the release of …And Justice for All , Metallica finally got around to putting out a proper music video for the song “One” and they did it by performing it in a big abandoned warehouse . They then layered the footage over the film Johnny Got His Gun .…
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In 1998 , Metallica cobbled together a double album of cover songs called Garage Inc. The first disc had brand new covers of Diamond Head , Killing Joke , The Misfits , Thin Lizzy , Mercyful Fate , Black Sabbath and half a dozen other songs , and the second…
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To promote Reload , Metallica performed “Fuel” and “The Memory Remains” with Marianne Faithfull on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in December 1997.