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Fan-filmed footage of TRIVIUM performing a cover version of METALLICA 's classic track "The Four Horsemen" on February 10 at the Summit Music Hall in Denver, Colorado can be seen below.

Considering the likes of Anthrax , Motorhead , Metallica and Pantera have gone on record citing them as influences, it's stunning to think Friday night's performance at Backstage Live may have been the first San Antonio concert in the 30-year history of Anvil.

Metallica? AC/DC? That music, which this 34-year-old firebrand grew up with, makes its way into a style honed on the road, grabbing bar patrons' attention.

GWAR's "Return of the World Maggot Tour," will be in our environs, the Wilbur Theatre Tuesday March 20 .

METALLICA was nominated for the very first "Hard Rock/Metal Performance" Grammy in 1989, but famously lost to JETHRO TULL , a band distinguished mainly by its heavy use of flute.

This week welcomed great news of new projects in the works, featuring great music fests on the way, highly anticipated new albums and just all-around awesomeness.

Source: www.metalsucks.net --- Friday, February 10, 2012Forget Axl Rose - the great Cliff Burton would have turned fifty today.

The musical term "heavy metal" gets thrown around a lot. So much so that there are times where it's almost lost its meaning.

When you're singing high-intensity progressive metal, like Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen, how do you keep your pipes in shape on tour? For the 40-year-old veteran belter, it's about what he does with his feet as well as his mouth.

Rock ain't dead. It lives on in the metal of Dan Gilliland's Toyota. No, seriously.

If you clicked on this, you probably already know the story: It was 1986, and Metallica released their third album, Master of Puppets to wild acclaim.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told Brazil's Wikimetal that he still feels good about recording the band's collaborative album with Lou Reed , Lulu , which came out to poor sales and disastrous reviews last November.

Center Concert Hall on Thursday night was far from ordinary. It was the kind of musical collision that might even make Beethoven blush.

JODY LINK, GOPENSACOLA.COM PHOTOGRAPHER 1. "Home," Sevendust. 2. "The Sickness," Disturbed.

Ozzy's Boneyard has premiered on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio channel 38. The station broadcasts classic hard rock and metal from artists including Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Metallica, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen.

Mike Bax of Lithium Magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Phil Demmel of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD .

Los Angeles based Metallica have announced a new music and arts festival in conjunction with C3 Productions who bring the world Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, and Australia's Big Day Out.

Ex- METALLICA guitarist and current MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine joined his former bandmates on stage on December 10, 2011 for the fourth and final intimate show at the Fillmore in San Francisco as part of METALLICA 's week-long celebration of its 30th anniversary as a band for fan club members only.

Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters, whown, are up against Atlanta metal visionaries Mastodon for the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.

"Meet the best band on the planet. The Atlanta quartet are the future of metal. It's high time you were introduced." - KERRANG! "Smart, serious, densely composed, shredding and grooving and elegiac by turns...MASTODON play as if metal never lost the "heavy" prefix" - BLENDER "MASTODON are undoubtedly the future of metal" - KERRANG! "at that same ... (more)