Tag: Metallica
Spotify add Metallica to their music streaming service, revamp discovery tools
Spotify have rounded off their most successful ever year with the announcement of an elusive band bringing their music to the streaming service's catalogue. Heavy metal superstars Metallica, a band with a notoriously icy, skeptical view of digital music and…
Metallica have some kind of 3D movie monster in the works
Heavy-metal superstars Metallica have confirmed they are working on a 3D movie project. Responding to rumours that were circulating on the web, the band stressed that the movie would not be ready until the beginning of 2013 at the earliest….
Guitar Hero Metallica tracks ready to shred with Warriors of Rock
Activision have just announced that all 39 tracks from their Guitar Hero Metallica game will be compatible with their forthcoming Warriors of Rock release. Those who pick up the game between the 28th September and October 5th will be able…
Weak bloggers cave in to Metallica's new album non-review demands
This story’s a bit of a mess. We know some UK bloggers were invited to listen to an “unmixed” demo of the new Metallica album and weren’t required to sign any non-disclosure agreements or stick to an embargo regarding what they heard.
Which meant they could all, quite legally, tell the world all about it on their blogs.
So sites like The Quietus ran with reviews (cached version here) – only to get told to take them down shortly afterwards. This has, predictably enough, turned into a mammoth Metallica HATE-FEST with everyone blaming the put-upon band for trying to break the internet again…