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Some Metallica Fanatics will tell you that their self titled album was the beginning of them selling out. I say just the oposite. Once they figured out the recipe for a great metal tune they could have repeated indefinately to make all the cash they wanted. Intead, their music was influenced by the culture around them, other's music, and aspects of personal life. That is what music should be all about.

The manager sited no one liked the music I played. It was too heavy…….. Of COURSE I hear Slipnot playing in the background. That is nowhere near as heavy as “Another Brick in the Wall” by Floyd………. Then he tells me that no one likes the “old” music that I play….. At this point “Sweet Home Alabama” is playing on the jukebox. So, I said tell me another one to which he said, “people don’t like old heavy music.” While I am tearing down, I hear two Metallica songs that I play and several other hard rock songs……….. Needless to say that infuriated me more.

So, I found out this week that my old friend Jim is a drummer in a band. A CD is coming out soon, while heavy metal isn’t a constant favorite of mine, it was my brother’s favorite and I have a nostalgic appreciation for it so I listen with my brother in mind. While I love Metallica (really only because of hearing then through the wall separating my brother’s room from mine) my brother loved bands like Slayer and Judas Priest. He had this jean jacket with a hand painted album cover of Judas Priest on the back of it. Even after he long outgrew that jacket he would never get rid of it, we had it placed with him when he passed away.

Remember when Metallica was pulverzing your brains with lar’s infamous double bass drums? Remember when Korn didnt try to over produce their music and just rocked out? Remember when Pantera ruled the metal scene? Ozzy wasnt a TV star? Metal wasnt popular to like? Teenagers couldnt buy AC/DC and Judas Priest shirts at Dillards and JC Pennies? Bad Rap Rock didnt exist (yes, there are a few good rap/rock bands), Punk wasnt trendy? Green Day weren’t trendy? MTV still played videos that werent rap? Headbangers Ball? (the real one, not the fake one today), Sepultura? White Zombie? Faith No More? NIN (the real NIN)?

12. Sing the order to the tune of your favorite song from Metallica's "Master of Puppets" CD.

“We’re at the point now where we’ve come into our own,” vocalist M. Shadows says of the ambitious City Of Evil, an 11-song collection that gives a middle finger to the idea of categorization, bridging the sonic guitar assault of Iron Maiden with the frenetic pace of Bad Religion and the musicianship of Dream Theater. “In Southern California you’re really brought up in the whole punk world. At the same time, we were growing up listening to Pantera, Megadeath, Metallica and Slayer records,” Shadows recalls. “So then you think, ‘I want to play in that kind of band, but I want to play in this kind of band.’ Then you pass that point and all of a sudden you’re just writing music and it comes out naturally. But that’s what happens cause of all the different influences we have. And we’re definitely not afraid to put anything in our songs if we think it calls for it.”

Mastodon - Leviathan:This band rox..some track more than others of course..some are just brilliant..the rest very good...Tuff stuff hard and heavy and tripped out...like Sleep mixed with The Tea Party if they did metal tunes...very Sleepish very trippy/stoner i guess, some kinda Doom-metalish stuff going on..(these next listed infuences are very small and probably not really there but i thought i heard it...a bit... Sabbath, Ved Buens Ende is there as well maybe Nirvana and Alice in Chains and even Metallica pops up a bit...) Odd music, Great music

I've been playing Nintendo consoles since I was age of 6, I stopped playing those stuff around mid 90's I was in mid teen then I think when I returned to England after all those years I have changed and got into football a lot. I picked Chelsea as my favorite team. I was so into it watched almost every game on TV like World Cup. I got into Metal about this age too. Started listning to Metallica, Iron Maiden then Judas Priest, Rainbow, Megadeth etc... Metal through and through.

If you want a little “Creeping Death” or “Ain’t My B*tch” as the ringtone on your mobile phone, you’re in luck. The band Metallica has launched a little head-banging ringtone site. Remember, they’re the ones that thought the original Napster, and file sharing in general was something to be destroyed. I won’t be a big customer.

I remember seeing the Backstreet Boys or one of those other boy bands on the Today show one morning, and the host said something along the lines of you must be rich. To which they replied that they’d just broken even because they owed so much to the writers, promoters, record company, etc. The artists receive pennies per CD. So let’s say I want to buy a song directly from an artist for $0.25. A lot of artists would make out on the deal, because if I buy their CD they earn $0.20. (Is it any wonder that bands with big contracts- like Metallica- are out there screaming the loudest about piracy?) The record companies stand in the way of this transaction. They are the middlemen who try to tell the consumers who is popular and what is cool.

Now I'm all for using popular culture as a way of inspiring people to get into philosophy. But now things may have gone too far with this Call for Abstracts:

"Forsake The Troops politely suggests a boycott of heavy metal group Metallica, due their obvious pro-military stance."

As a little note of irony, while I was building the air compressor shed at the nose hanger today, the song that kept running through my head was Metallica`s "Don`t Tread On Me".

I hate to do this but I have to give this album 2 stars. A Metallica album that gets only 2 stars??? Are you kidding???? Nope I am not kidding. I find this album highly lacking and this is comming from someone who likes all different kinds of music. Now dont get me wrong, there is still some good stuff that is on this album but as a whole I think that Metallica really screwed up here. One thing that I didnt like was there was virtually no studio production done on this album. This is a live sound and I know many people would give Metallica a thumbs...

Stayed up last night till almost 2 a.m. Not too late but it felt late enough because of the busy day and night. Was in the crusader room/kitchen with Jaryd, AJ, Katherine, Abigail, Joey, and various others of the group came in and out. We listened to sweet bands (Oasis, Ataris, etc.) and made Ramen and hot chocolate. I burned my hand pouring hot chocolate into a nalgene–great fun. Listened to some Metallica (St. Anger) in my headphones while doing OT homework and got up to jump around a few times.

This song will forever remind me of 1999 and the man who is my dearest friend.

I found this site where you can pretty much download anything you want for free. The downloads are a bit slow but if you’ve got broadband then it shouldn’t matter too much. So far, I’ve downloaded discography’s (entire cd collections) for the following bands: Nine Inch Nails, U2, Megadeth, Metallica, The Cure, and Journey. All together I’d say that’s about 60-70 albums. It looks like I’ll be needing a massive amount of blank cd’s so I can burn them all. I’ve haven’t tried downloading...

Metallica fans have launched a new campaign, urging members of the band to ditch their longtime producer Bob Rock.

Nearly 10 years later, Wish is the director of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that brings free music lessons and instruments to more than 4,000 students in low-income areas in four states. By next year, Little Kids Rock hopes to release a CD of songs written by students and recorded and performed by celebrity musicians such as Tom Waits, Norton Buffalo and members of Metallica, all of whom have appeared at schools and jammed with the kids.

Foster crafts custom cars, too. His clientele is national and upscale. He's working on a 1936 Ford Coupe, for example, for Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett.

But the band's influence is inestimable. Metallica, for one, was hugely influenced by Motorhead, and they repaid the favour by covering four Motorhead tunes on their 1998 album "Garage Inc." Motorhead, in turn, covered the song "Whiplash" for a Metallica tribute record, winning its first Grammy in the process last month.

While Beatallica considers its legal options, its site remains offline. But thousands of fans -- including Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich -- are rallying behind the band.

The band approached Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, says Xeni Jardin on boing boing, going on:

Whereas goalies all seem to be a little crazy in their preparations and rituals, I'd imagine you have to be a little bonkers to want to be a goalie. I mean come on, what kind of person decides they want to have small frozen chunks of rubber shot at them with their job being strictly to be hit with them???? I think coach Jim Bermingham summed it up quite well earlier in the year when during a practice one of the guys had the puck hit a bump in the ice and accidentally hit Dunny in the head with the puck. Most of us laughed and Bermy said, "only in hockey does someone get hit in the head with a puck and have everyone laugh." Other interesting preparations and superstitions that are more team-oriented include us listening to Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar" before warm-up and then Al Pacino's speech from the movie "Any Given Sunday" called "Inches" before we go out for the start of the game. Warm-Up also bring a lot of ritual and routine to the IceBears. The same drills, the same shots and the same players doing the exact same things will go on before every game. T-Mac will stand at center ice after our final drill and feed the pile of pucks out to the rest of us Daisy will stand in the corner after our half-circle shooting and feed the pucks back us in the slot. After warm-up and before we head onto the ice for period there is a specific order in which we go out; the same players in the same order and usually more times than not the same things being said in encouragement, like T-Mac saying " we ready boys?" just before we hit the ice. Routine and superstition take up a lot of athletes mental and physical game day preparations and this years team and it's players are no exception.

Piccola has toured as a technician with musical acts such as The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band and Metallica. He said his favorite gig was helping to unravel a giant American flag at Super Bowl XXXVI in January 2002.

Beatallica has been served with a cease-and-desist letter by Sony/ATV publishing, which owns the rights to the Beatles catalog. Since forming in 2001, the Milwaukee band has been playing mutations of Beatles songs in Metallica's imitable style and posting its Frankenstein creations such as "Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice" and "Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except Me and My Lightning" on its Web site. One of the most popular MP3s was "Leper Madonna" ... San Francisco singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson has been tapped as the opening act on Tori Amos' monthlong Original Sinsuality tour, which opens April 1 in Clearwater, Fla. Nathanson sang the James song "Laid" in the opening credits of "American Wedding."

The company, whose artists include Madonna, Kid Rock, Green Day, Josh Groban and Metallica, is expected to disclose details on the planned IPO, including the number of shares to be sold and the estimated price per share, in future filings.

Willful ignorance served dumb, outsized rockers like "Wild Side" or "Kickstart My Heart," not to mention Lee's interminable high-wire percussion solo. But new single "If I Die Tomorrow" sounded like the heavy-handed ballads Metallica pushed during the '90s, equally awkward in its manufactured brooding.

During the first part of the '90s there was a period when heavy music redeemed itself in the public eye for the sins of cock-rock, as already well-established serious-metal bands, including Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax had commercial breakthroughs. Suddenly a bunch of heavy bands from the '80s figured out how to combine hard and heavy with catchy and listenable, and even as Pearl Jam and Nirvana ascended, a handful of metal bands experienced their commercial peaks. But, except for those sneaky bastards Metallica, the remainder of the decade was a slide (back) toward obscurity.