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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT: 'The Sound & The Fury' Educational Book/CD Pack Due Next Week http://bit.ly/hCsUu7 about 3 hours ago via twitterfeed
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METALLICA 3D And 2D Concert Video Footage Acquired By FRONT ROW NETWORKS - Mar. 22, 2011
Writers Group Film Corp. through its wholly owned subsidiary Front Row Networks, Inc., a Los Angeles-based concert production, and distribution company, has announced the acquisition of several hours of unique METALLICA 3D and 2D concert video footage for distribution. Front Row Networks will also be implementing state-of-the-art technology to convert existing 2D 1080p footage into 3D for additional distribution.
METALLICA is arguably the most recognized American heavy metal band, and is the seventh-biggest-selling act in American history; selling more than 100 million records grossing more than a billion dollars in revenue. METALLICA has also won various awards throughout their career including seven Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, and two MTV Awards, increasing Front Row Networks' projected revenue targets from both distribution and broadcast.
"By packaging new 3D events, and state of the art 2D 1080p conversion to 3D, Front Row Networks can create the preeminent distribution, and broadcasting channel for what has become one of the hottest sectors in entertainment," says John Diaz, CEO of Front Row Networks. Additionally, "We have achieved the first step of acquiring the footage, and conversion technology, and once we have secured all applicable distribution rights, distributing the event through our channels will generate revenues for both the company and the artist creating a steady stream of products for Front Row," says Diaz.
The marketplace is demanding 3D products, at an unprecedented rate and Front Row Networks plans to fill the void by acquiring existing catalogues to supplement its new productions, and convert 1080p 2D to 3D. The current worldwide phenomenon surrounding 3D, combined with the strong-performing live concert business, presents a unique opportunity for Front Row Networks to provide an inexpensive, state-of-the-art, live 3D concert experience to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Front Row Networks is a live concert production and distribution company which produces live concerts in 3D for initial digital broadcast into movie theaters in the United States, Western Europe, South America and Asia. Following a U.S. theatrical run, the 3D concerts are then licensed to TV broadcasters and DVD retailers.
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I was impressed by the U2:3D showing, and I'm not much of a U2 fan, so no doubt I'd enjoy this.
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METALLICA Warns Fans Of Video Scam - Mar. 23, 2011
METALLICA today announced that all announcements made on their behalf via Writers Group Film Corp. and their subsidiary Front Row Networks, Inc. are false. Writers Group issued a press release on March 22, 2011 announcing "the acquisition of several hours of unique METALLICA 3D & 2D concert video footage for distribution."
"METALLICA owns and controls its recorded performances and Creeping Death Music owns the vast majority of any music embodied in METALLICA recordings," said the band's attorney Peter Paterno. "Pretty much any legitimate business would have contacted us to see how METALLICA felt about it. Maybe these guys just forgot."
"We are very happy to have bolstered the Writers Group Film Corp. stock price by using the METALLICA name," quipped Marc Reiter from METALLICA's management, Q Prime. "We only wish they would have told us sooner so we could have bought some."
Neither Reiter nor Paterno indicated whether METALLICA would seek legal action against Writers Group.
METALLICA has taken legal action before against companies and businesses that the band felt was infringing on its creative property, most famously suing Napster more than a decade ago for allowing illegal downloading of the band's songs.
METALLICA is scheduled to enter the studio in May to begin recording a yet-to-be-revealed new project, which guitarist Kirk Hammett described to RollingStone.com as "more a recording project than a bona fide METALLICA album."
The band has also scheduled several more "Big Four" tour dates, including one in Indio, California on April 23.
METALLICA wrapped up its two-year-long "World Magnetic" tour on November 21, 2010 with the last of three shows in Melbourne, Australia, bringing to an end a trek that began on September 12, 2008 in Berlin to support the band's ninth studio album, "Death Magnetic". The group issued a statement compiling the tour's numbers, which included "45 countries, 143 arena shows, 34 festival shows, 29 stadium shows, four club/theater shows, three TV/radio shows, two Hall Of Fame shows, 3790 songs, and not a single setlist was the same."
The group played a total of 216 shows in 800 days.
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METALLICA's Record Label To Be Bought By NAPSTER Founder? - Mar. 25, 2011
The Pulse Of Radio reports that METALLICA's record label is for sale — and one person interested in buying it is the man who founded Napster, against which METALLICA fought a legal battle more than a decade ago. According to All Things Digital, Napster founder Sean Parker is in talks to team up with two other private investors to purchase the Warner Music Group, where METALLICA has been making records since 1984.
Back in 2000, METALLICA launched legal action against Napster, claiming that the pioneering music file-sharing service was illegally allowing users to download METALLICA tracks without paying royalties to the band. Although the case was settled out of court, 300,000 users were banned from Napster as a result and METALLICA's image took a tremendous beating in the eyes of music fans.
Napster's legal battles continued with Warner Music Group and other labels until the service finally went under in 2002.
Parker, who later became a billionaire by helping to launch Facebook, may now make a bid for his old enemies' label, which is suffering from the same woes as the rest of the traditional music industry.
Parker was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the recent, Oscar-winning movie about the start of Facebook, "The Social Network".
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, who was the main spokesperson for METALLICA in the Napster battle, later admitted that he wished he had dealt with the situation differently.
Even if Parker succeeds in buying WMG — and four other parties are said to be in the race as well — he might not get to be METALLICA's boss after all. The band's last effort, 2008's "Death Magnetic", was its last under its current contract, and it is not known whether the group has re-signed with the label.
METALLICA frontman James Hetfield told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that the band has yet to decide what its future plans are for distribution of its music. "It's kind of a good feeling to feel that you're free from any piece of paper that binds you to something," he said. "But over our career, we've learned a lot about record companies, the goods and evils of the business and this and that, and we're not very focused on that right now. It is what it is, and when it becomes time for us to either renegotiate or shop around or do things ourselves or something like that, we don't know. There's nothing but options, which is great."
In a 2003 interview with Launch, Lars about the band's battle with Napster, "Most of the time, it's like a bad dream, like what the fuck was that? [Several] years later, it's like did that really happen? We went from being somewhat well-respected, well-liked, and then I woke up one day and all of a sudden I was the most hated man in rock 'n' roll. It was like, huh? Me? What did I do wrong? I'm one of the good guys. That was all kind of weird. If you look at our history, we've always been pretty protective of our own shit. When anybody got too close or fucked with our shit, we always took action. In retrospect, I'm proud of what we did, I really felt sideswiped on that one. In my own little ignorant world, I didn't see it coming. I was completely ignorant and unaware of the magnitude of this issue for people. I was just sitting there in my own little selfish world going, 'I'm going to protect METALLICA. Don't fuck with METALLICA.' Then (explosion sound), 'You're pro-record company, you're greedy!' I'm not pro-record company. We invented being anti-record company. We told our record company to go fuck themselves before anyone else. Stop. It was a very surreal thing, because it was so hard to connect what I read about myself and METALLICA, it was so abstract to what was on my radar about my own reality. People going, 'You're a really greedy little man.' It was like, what are you talking about? We've been giving shit away for years. We want to be the ones giving it away, not someone else. I'm proud of the stance we took. It was a very tough time. It was a much tougher time, because in the middle of that you have to put your best game face on. It was difficult. A lot of that shit hurt and it was very bewildering because it was difficult to connect it to your own reality. For better or worse, it got a good debate started. In retrospect, I'm not claiming any sort of victory — who gives a shit about that? — I think more people are starting to realize, not that we were right, but this is an issue that is changing the face of everything that is going on. Not only the music world, but the film world is next. What better way to deal with it than at least educate people about it. If nothing else, I look back at the six months in 2000 as the first step in the education."
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Members Of SLIPKNOT, KORN, GODSMACK, SLAYER Remember First Time They Heard METALLICA - Apr. 16, 2011
With the "Big Four" — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX — taking over Indio, California next Saturday April 23, ARTISTdirect.com editor author Rick Florino spoke to numerous musicians and celebrities about the first time they heard METALLICA and what the band means to them. A couple of excerpts follow below.
Question: When did you first discover METALLICA and what do they mean to you?
Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES): "I first discovered METALLICA when they came out with their first EP. METALLICA has always been one of my favorite heavy metal bands. I think that they are one of the most versatile metal bands that came out in the '80s. They are also one of the most creative. I think that James Hetfield is one of the greatest heavy metal guitarists to ever walk this earth."
Kerry King (SLAYER): "I imagine it was at The Woodstock in Orange County when Dave Mustaine was in the band. I instantly became a fan. I couldn't believe Mustaine was ripping these incredible leads way back then and not even looking at his fingers. I still fucking looking at my fingers [Laughs]. There were no records then it was just seeing them. I think METALLICA might've just been on the 'Metal Massacre' compilation or something."
Jonathan Davis (KORN): "I first heard them on either 'Master Of Puppets' or 'Ride The Lightning'. I was at my buddy's house, and this guy came over and said, 'You've got to hear this shit!' I was 14 years old or something; I can't even remember how old I was [Laughs]. This dude put METALLICA on, and I was like, 'Wow, what the hell is that?' I only listened to them at that moment, and I sort of forgot about it afterwards. I thought it was cool, but I genuinely didn't get into them again until they hit with 'The Black Album.' It was all over MTV at the time. I really got into METALLICA when I got in KORN, though. I love playing 'One'. It was cool to play it for them at the 'MTV Icon' special. They're one of my favorite bands. I look up to them. They've been doing it for so long. That's truly the band I look up to — them and Ozzy Osbourne. We've also toured with METALLICA a bunch; it's fucking awesome!"
Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR): "I actually talk about when I discovered METALLICA in my book — 'The Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good'. That's how big it was. [Laughs] I remember hearing 'Master Of Puppets' at a friend's house. That line at the end of 'Damage Inc.' — 'Fuck it all and fucking no regrets' — was the one that every metal head waited for with baited breath. When it came, you'd jump up and scream along to it. It was amazing. METALLICA will always be important to me!"
Sully Erna (GODSMACK): "I first discovered them somewhere around 1982 or 1983. It was the early '80s. I remember that a friend of mine came over with 'Kill 'Em All' and 'Ride The Lightning'. For whatever it was worth, this dude was always way ahead of his time. He knew what new thing was going to hit before it hit. I was still very much into IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST at that moment. That was metal, but it wasn't METALLICA metal. My buddy put on 'Ride The Lightning', and the first song I heard was 'Fight Fire With Fire'. I just said, 'What the fuck is this?!' [Laughs] It so fast, the double bass was flying, and the vocals stood out. I didn't get it at first. However, a week later, I was like, 'This is the greatest band ever to walk the planet!' I couldn't get enough. That was my first METALLICA experience."
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Cool stuff.
Back in the early 90's, people (at least as young as me) that dug rock kind of split off into groups at the time. I was the Guns N' Roses guy. My cousin was the Metallica guy, and our other cousin was the Nirvana guy.
I remember going on about how much attitude was on Appetite For Destruction and my Metallica cousin lent me Kill 'Em All, and told me "check out the attitude on this".
So we just swapped records. He took my AFD and got instantly hooked, and I took Kill 'Em All and got instantly hooked. Kind of worked out. I don't even remember how young I was, I was REAL young.
Despite the fact that I actually enjoyed the direction Metallica took with Black, Load & Reload... my Top-2 favorite albums of theirs is Kill 'Em All & Lightning. 'Cause they were my first experiences with Metallica.
After I heard Kill 'Em All, I had to get my hands on Ride The Lightning. Then I moved on to the Black album actually. I didn't actually go back and listen to Puppets & Justice until YEARS later.
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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH Pens Liner Notes To MEGADETH's 'Peace' 25th-Anniversary Reissue http://dlvr.it/P1p6M
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METALLICA Officially Confirmed For Quebec's Summer Festival - Apr. 20, 2011
METALLICA has been officially confirmed for this year's edition of Quebec's Summer Festival (Festival d'été de Québec). The event runs July 7-17 in Québec City, Québec, Canada, with an amazing 300 shows spanning 11 days, making it Canada's biggest outdoor artistic festival. METALLICA will perform on Saturday, July 16.
This is the 44th year for the festival, which began in 1968 by showcasing local artists, and has since evolved into an annual major attraction featuring the cream of international talent across all genres of music.
Festival d'été de Québec is a major cultural enterprise that generates CAD $25.4 million in added value for Québec and CAD $7.4 million in provincial and federal tax and parafiscal revenues. Still Quebec City’s best-loved event, the Festival now draws more and more tourists and foreign media to town.
METALLICA finished out its "Death Magnetic" touring cycle in November in New Zealand and Australia. The band is already confirmed to headline the Rock In Rio festival in Brazil on September 24. "Big Four" dates in California and parts of Europe are also scheduled.
