Metal playlists from the underground
Metallica, the largest heavy metal band on earth, from Los Angeles/San Francisco has been active since 1981. They are the most successful of all the Big Four of Thrash. Here are the Top 10 Metallica songs. Note that the greatest songs of the catalog come from the 80s, although the band still can write solid […]
For those of you looking to support a great cause then head on over to Metal Club to learn how you can be cool to your local record stores. There you can find a list of independent CD stores that have exclusive heavy metal releases. One such release is Metallica Live At Grimey’s. I just […]
Attention all metalheads: this means you—everyone, at one point or another had wished that the BIG FOUR would really happen. I know it has been a discussion for years: would it happen? Could it happen? How would it happen? Well, kiddies, thats the past. It happened and chances are you weren’t there. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, […]
For the second time this year, Metallica played the New York metro area, this time taking the critically acclaimed live metal show to the World’s Most Famous Arena. Still supporting the Grammy award-winning Death Magnetic album, the band opened their set with the album’s first two tracks and proceeded to tear through the required classics […]
After sitting through three and a half boring hours of lame inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Metallica was finally introduced by a blue-haired Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea talked about hearing “Fight Fire With Fire” for the first time in 1984, the forces that make metal magic possible, […]
After waiting in line at Game Stop, with 16 other metal geeks, for the stroke of midnight, Guitar Hero Metallica for the Nintendo Wii was finally in my hands. Following reckless speeding, hours of late night gaming, bleeding, sweating, and joyous tearing, it became clear that this is the best of the franchise to date. […]
Here are the Metallica tour dates for the fall 2009 leg in North America: Sep. 14 – Nashville, TN – Sommet Center Sep. 15 – Cincinnati, OH – US Bank Arena Sep. 17 – Indianapolis, IN – Conseco Fieldhouse Sep. 19 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre Sep. 28 – San Antonio, TX – AT&T […]
Historically, Metallica is 7 for 16 at the Grammy Awards which works out to be a measly .438 winning percentage. The official Gears of Rock prediction is that Metallica will walk away from the 51st Grammy Awards with a more respectable .550 (11/20). Here is how it will work: “My Apocalypse” will win Best Metal […]
Metallica continued delivering a devastating onslaught of heavy metal to the Tri-State region, this time taking down the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Jan. 31, 2009. The band blazed through all of the great Death Magnetic cuts that they performed at the Nassau Coliseum on Thursday, however, fans were presented with several old […]
Last night Metallica delivered over two hours of headbanging heavy metal delight to a sold out crowd of ecstatic Long Islanders at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Ripping through new cuts “That Was Just Your Life,” “The End of the Line,” “Cyanide,” “The Day That Never Comes,” and “Broken, Beat, & Scarred,” the 2009 […]