Metallica News

Jason Newsted is back and banging -- with a new band that bears his surname, a new EP and a full-length album coming this summer.

Season 1 of AXS TV's The World's Greatest Tribute Bands took a decidedly hard turn this week, as the show played host to the metal sounds of Damage, Inc.

Winners of a radio contest for The Bear, the local five-piece metal band took full advantage of the warm-up slot, slamming through a short set of hard rock that picked them up more than a few new fans previously unaware of their existence.

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A first look at the IMAX 3D concert feature film Metallica Through the Never showed Chronicle star Dane DeHaan in some sort of strange seemingly post-apocalyptic world where he plays one of the band's crew members sent out on a mission during Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena.

" Iron " is the 2nd studio album by Finnish Viking metal band, Ensiferum. It was released in 2004 on Spinefarm Records and produced by Flemming Rasmussen.

" Leatherwolf " had a pretty strong following for awhile in the mid-80's. Perhaps their problem was they were too pretty to be a serious "Metal" band but yet too heavy to be a true "Hair" band.

The opening moments of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's new video set the tone for the next five minutes and 13 seconds.

If you don't like to listen to your music loud, then this book isn't for you. Crank the Slayer up to 11 and pick up a copy of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal .

But before they can record their first set since 2008, the metal icons are preparing the Orion Music festival and a 3D movie.

It is dusk at Knebworth and we had just finished rolling a joint while standing around in the crowd waiting for the show to begin.

I, Ryan James Wasoba, hereby announce that, after over a year and a half of weekly contributions , the end of my Nitpick Six column is upon us.

"It's been a long time, man," Jason Newsted said during a recent conversation advancing his return to the musical shores of the Garden State.

Website: http://www.rockschool.co.uk Rockschool's best selling Hot Rock Guitar series has just been expanded with the launch of the new Grades 4 and 5 books.

Along the water on the yachts where many of the Cannes Film Festival's uber-exclusive parties are thrown, guests are required to take off their shoes before stepping on the boat And for that, "Fruitvale Station" actress Ahna O'Reilly is grateful.

When I first encountered Shadow of the Sun supporting The Heather Findlay Band in November 2011, they were something of a work in progress.

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If you accidentally make your live blog URL state that it's day two of Cannes rather than day three, you can't actually change that On to tomorrow, when the arthouse favourite will be Like Father, Like Son from director Hirokazu Kore-Eda, whose last film, I Wish , got a five star review from Peter Bradshaw.

The girls who rob Paris are more popular than the girls who rob France and Metallica's Lars Ulrich is uncannily like a Teletubby in the first instalment of our Cannes Film Festival diary.

The bad girls who rob Paris are more popular than their French equivalents, while the many headed Metallica monster begins to sound like the Teletubbies.