Tuesday night’s Metallica show at The O2 Arena in London was a very special one, as anyone who was in attendance (like we were) will know. It was special for numerous reasons, but among them, the show featured the very first live performance ever of Hardwired…To Self Destruct’s closing track Spit Out The Bone. The…
When you’re Metallica, you can get away with a lot of stuff. Things like charging £100 a ticket, as they broke The O2 arena’s attendance record not once but twice in the space of three days. But here’s the hook, anyone who saw this show would have come out of it being prepared to pay…
When you’re Metallica, you can pretty much do anything. So the news that Lars, James, Kirk and Rob and their team are launching a pop up shop full of goodies that will no doubt have the ‘Tallica army flocking to spend their money in their hordes isn’t a huge surprise to us. The pop up…
Metallica family – pencil 10th May into your diaries as your favourite thrash titans have announced an exclusive Facebook Live event. To watch the band rehearsing in Baltimore, like their Facebook page and keep your eyes peeled at 1am on Wednesday. This will be a great chance to sneak a peek at their setlist well…
We’ve been waiting for this for A LONG time. Metallica are coming back to the UK! Earlier in the year Lars Ulrich had stated that the band’s European touring plans would be announced by the end of March and he wasn’t wrong. Metallica will be embarking on the European leg of the Worldwired tour during…
Welcome to the penultimate Rock Sins video of the week for 2016! With Canadian rockers Monster Truck winning out last time, this time around we’ve got another mix of home grown and international talent all vying for your votes. First up is Metallica’s tribute to the one and only Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. Their video…
They’ve already opened for Guns N’Roses and are currently in the UK supporting The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now Babymetal are going another step further towards conquering the world by opening for none other than Metallica on the Korean stop of Metallica’s 2017 Worldwired Tour in Seoul on the 11th of January. All three members…
It’s that time of year again where the Rock Sins staff get to pick the great, the good and the less than stellar from the rock and metal world of 2016 in our end of year awards. Our features editor Jamie is kicking things off again this year, so expect to see multiple mentions of…
New Metallica albums come around about as often as NASA attempting to landing robots on Mars or some far-off comet. So the fact that Hardwired To Self-Destruct, the first new album from Metallica since 2008’s Death Magnetic, is getting released tomorrow is a pretty big deal. Is it worth the wait? What have James, Lars,…
As reported here on Rock Sins’ yesterday, thrash metal Legends Metallica announced that they were going to release a music video for every song on their new album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (even the bonus track Lords of Summer). The videos have been releasing at a rate of one every two hours overnight in the UK, but…
