Then on November 9, 2010, Metallica came out and announced they would be headlining at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro on September 25 2011.
Later in the year after that – in November 2010 – in an interview with The Pulse of Radio, Ulrich said that he reckoned Metallica would get back to writing in 2011. “We’ve got a pretty good list of things we want to tackle in 2011”. He mentions that ,…
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Then on June 28, 2010 – the band had a special bonus – Death Magnetic was certified double platinum by the RIAA.
On June 27th 2010 Metallica was in Istanbul
The bands also made appearances in Bucharest on June 26 2010 and Istanbul on June 27 2010.
The show in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 22, 2010, was actually broadcast live to cinemas via satellite.
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax shared a bill for the very first time on June 16, 2010, at the Warsaw Babice Airport in Poland – which just happened to be as part of The Sonisphere Festival series.
In June of 2009 Lars Ulrich told Italy’s Rock TV that he was planning on touring until August of 2010 and that they hadn’t planned on working on any new album for a while yet. He also mentioned that he was pretty sure the band would be working with Rick…
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April 4 2009 was a big day, especially with the former bassist Jason Newsted who left in 2001 making a surprise appearance with the band at the ceremony. At first it was said that Trujillo had agreed not to play but that turned out to be a load of old…
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It was announced on January 14 2009 that Metallica were going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4 2009 & that former bassist Jason Newsted – who had been with the band till 2001 – would be joining them on stage for the…
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