European Tour Announced Next Week

Metallica will do a major European tour in February-March. The dates for this tour will be announced next week.

Metallica Nominated For Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Metallica are among the nominees for this year's inductions to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080922/media_nm/halloffame_dc

Footage From Rehearsals Before London Show

Here you will see some video footage from Metallica's rehearsal before the show in London last week.

Death Magnetic At Number One On The European Chart

Billboard.biz reports that Death Magnetic went straight into the numer one spot at the European Top 100 Albums chart.

Metallica First Band Ever To Have Five Straight Number One Albums

Billboard reports that Metallica is the first band ever to have five albums in a row going straight into the number one spot at the Billboard chart. Death Magnetic sold 490,000 copies in the first wekk. Read more here:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003850675

Metallica At Later With Jools Holland

Yesterday (September 16th) Metallica performed The Day That Never Comes at the BBC program Later With Jools Holland. Check it out here:

Set List From Yesterday's Metallica Show In London

The set list at the London show yesterday (Monday) was almost exactly the same as the set list at last Friday's show in Berlin. The only difference was that the first encore played in Berlin was "Blitzkrieg". In London this was changed to "Stone Cold Crazy". The set list looked like this:

That Was Just Your Life
End Of The Line
The Thing That Should Not Be
Of Wolf And Man
One
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Cyanide
Frantic
Until It Sleeps
Wherever I May Roam
For Whom The Bells Tolls
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Stone Cold Crazy
Jump In The Fire
Seek and Destroy

Footage From Metallica's Rehearsal In Berlin

Here you can see some footage from the rehearsals taking place before the Berlin show last Friday.

Photos From Berlin

Here are some photos I took at last Friday's show in Berlin.

Back From Berlin

I have now returned from Berlin where Metallica played their "Death Magnetic Release Party" gig last Friday. The show was (as always) really good. It felt a bit unusual to see them without any stage effects. This was especially noticed in "One" where we all have gotten used to the pyro effects. The stage was placed in the middle of the floor so everyone got a good view.

The songs played were the following:

That Was Just Your Life
End Of The Line
The Thing That Should Not Be
Of Wolf And Man
One
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Cyanide
Frantic
Until It Sleeps
Wherever I May Roam
For Whom The Bells Tolls
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Blitzkrieg
Jump In The Fire
Seek and Destroy

The best songs were Blackened and Until It Sleeps. You could easily tell that they were a bit unsecure while playing the new songs.

This was the first show ever at the newly built O2 Arena. The arena looked quite nice and since the stage was in the middle of the arena it felt rather intimate.

I will post some photos I took later today.

Six Songs Available As Streaming

Metallica.com are currently streaming six of the "Death Magnetic" songs. Check the out here:
http://metallica.com/index.asp?item=601197

Berlin Here We Come

I am lucky enough to have got hold of a ticket to the Metallica show in Berlin next Friday (September 12th). I will get back with a full report afterwards.

Pictures Of The Death Magnetic Coffin

This is how the limited coffin edition of Death Magnetic looks. That's really cool!

The Day That Never Comes Video

Here's finally the official video for Metallica's "The Day That Never Comes"