I previously reported that Metallica’s Death Magnetic was to be released on September 16th. It has been clarified that it will actually be a worldwide release on Friday September 12th as St. Anger was also released on a Friday. Normally CD’s are released on a Tuesday in the U.S. and everyone that saw that it was to be released in Europe assumed (Yeah, I know) that it would follow up the Tuesday after for the U.S. release date. Personally I think this is to avoid it being leaked on the Internet and people in the U.S. and other places illegally downloading …read more

You know what sucks about having a full time job is that a lot of the time I have to wait until after work to catch up on updates for my blogs. So there are a few pieces of news I have to catch up on. It’s not really news anymore that Metallica have released the artwork for Death Magnetic, so I thought I would try to make this interesting.
It’s quite obvious that the new album cover isn’t anything really epic and it’s cool that they are using the old Metallica logo. As every other site and commenter has …read more

Braves Words & Bloody Knuckles announced that Microsoft and Metallica are teaming up to bring the fans the entire album of Death Magnetic to be downloadable to Guitar Hero 3 and Guitar Hero: World Tour on XBox on the date of release…but only for the XBox 360.
Whether they got a fat chunk of change for it or not, this is a cool thing for the band to do. I sincerely hope that it’s all worth the downlaod and that the album rocks. We’ll see. Here is a bit of the anouncement from Metallica’s official page and you can read even …read more

There is a rumor floating around teh net that says Metallica’s release date for their new album, Death Magnetic may be September 16th. Here is what Blabbermouth reported:
“According to Finland’s Record Shop X, the Finnish release date for the new METALLICA album, “Death Magnetic”, is Wednesday, September 17. Although no official release date has yet been announced, it is likely that the CD will be issued in the U.S. on September 16, with most of continental Europe receiving the album on Monday, September 15 (except Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where fans will presumably be able to purchase the CD on …read more

So, for everyone that saw the little joke I did for Metallica’s new album cover and title, I hope you enjoyed it with a grain of salt. This time it’s the real deal…with the exception of the album cover. We still don’t know what that’s going to look like.
Metallica have titled their new Album “Death Magnetic“. Pretty cool I guess. Better than Load, Reload, or St Anger. Here is a video below, presumably from Metallica.com, uploaded to youtube announcing the album title. The intro riff sounds pretty cool. Kind of …And Justice For All sounding…but let’s not judge the entire …read more

MetalMartyr.com (That’s me!) had the privilege of getting exclusive rights to post the very first image of the New Metallica Album Artwork and working title.
Disappointment, which has been hyped up for well over a year, will finally be released in September…maybe. We never really know. Whatever happens we know it will come out long before Guns N Roses’ Chinese Democracy. Hell, even by the time that’s released China may just be a democratic nation, and then Axl would have to change the album title with another oxymoron title like “Sober Weiland”.
You can Pre-Order your copy of Disappointment Here. …read more

I started the Metallica Poll 2 weeks ago and today I’m taking it down just to replace it with another useless, yet entertaining poll. Here is the results.
Master Of Puppets, although started off a bit slow won the poll with 30% of the votes (42/138)
…And Justice For All Started out strong but in the past week started to fall slightly short. AJFA took second place with 26% of the votes (36/138)
Ride The Lightning came in third with 16% and 22 votes.
Sadly the Black Album just barely beat out Kill ‘Em All with a 17 to 15. I’m assuming this …read more

As you may have heard and seen all over the net, a few key people were given a private preview of Metallica’s new album. Some gave it really good reviews and one contributor from Quietus, Bob Mulhouse gave it a decent review saying: “This album could be good, or it could be mediocre – too much depends on the other four songs to make a call at this point.”
Comcast.net Music posted this:
“It came as something of a surprise then to find that the internet had been expunged of any coverage of the event. We emailed The Quietus editor …read more

From blabbermouth:
Lars Ulrich revealed last week in Los Angeles that the band has all but finished recording its ninth studio effort, with only a few touch-ups to be completed this week before mixing begins. As for what the band’s first CD since 2003’s “St. Anger” sounds like, Ulrich told The Pulse of Radio it’s hard for him to put a finger on it. “It’s METALLICA, that I can tell you,” he said. “My dad was up at the house a couple, three, four weeks ago so I played him a couple, three, four songs and I said, ‘Well?’ And …read more

You can download Metallica’s May 14th Show from Wiltern Theatre in L.A. at Livemetallica.com here  Metallica 5/14/08 Wiltern Theater, LA The Set list for the show is below:

Creeping Death
Fuel
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
And Justice for All
Sad But True
Disposable Heroes
One
Master Of Puppets
Battery
Last Caress
No Remorse
Enter Sandman
Fight Fire With Fire
Seek and Destroy
Total Running Time: 01:39:32