In November 2014 Metallica made an appearance at the closing ceremony of BlizzCon 2014.
And last but not least, a brand new song titled “Lords of Summer ” was written for the tour and released as a ” first take” demo back in June 2014.
Come June 2014 and the band headlined the Glastonbury Festival , trying to get in front of some new fans. Ulrich even said “we only get one shot at this and even then we might not get asked back”
Later in the year in March of 2014 , Metallica kicked off their ” Metallica By Request ” tour – sounds like a pretty cool concept to me , where fans get to request which songs the band will play.
Come January 2014 and the band performed ” One ” with Chinese pianist Lang Lang at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards
Fast forward to December 8th, 2013 : Metallica became the first band to play on all seven continents when they played a show called ” Freeze ‘Em All ” in Antarctica.
As a nice little bonus, that concert from the film was also released as a live album in the same month.
But that wasn’t all for 2013 – the band starred in a 3D concert film called Metallica : Through the Never, directed by Antal Nimród and was released in IMAX theaters on September 27th.
In an interview given on July 22 2013 Ulrich said 2014 was going to be a busy year for Metallica with them making a new album. He reckoned the album would probably be released in 2015.
Come January 8th, 2013, Ulrich was chatting with Classic Rock about the band’s next album and said ” What we’re doing now is basically just sort of like a continuation of Death Magnetic ” He also mentioned ” I really love Rick [ Rubin ] We all love Rick. We’re…
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