Metallica, Daft Punk and The Streets make it onto Zane Lowe's Masterpieces 2009
Records from Metallica, The Streets, Daft Punk and The Clash have made it onto Zane Lowe's Masterpieces 2009, as featured on popular music radio station BBC Radio 1.»
Metallica News
Metallica to release French concert DVD, Francais Pour Une Nuit
The Behemoths of METAL that are Metallica are to increase their already burgeoning back-catalogue of various audiovisual releases with a DVD of their Nimes concert back in July of this year.»
Win! A pair of weekend camping tickets for Sonisphere! Plus a free download EP!
Any plans this weekend? No? Hmm. What's that? You'd rather hack your own face off than go to DiS's amazing Field Day after party at The Old Blue Last in London town on Saturday? Oh. Ohhhhhhh. That makes us sad. Oh what's that? You like the rock? And you »
Happy 10th Birthday Napster - Shawn Fanning speaks
Happy Birthday Napster! It's hard to believe but a decade has passed since the birth of a piece of technology which changed both music and the internet. 10 years ago, file-sharing service Napster was born in Shawn Fanning's Northeastern University bedroom. »
DiScussion: P2P is there a consensus for a solution to the free music 'problem'?
TO BE FINISHED THIS AFTERNOON File-sharing, free music, p2p, mp3 blogs, etc, etc... it's a hugely complex issue and no-one seems to have come up with a solution yet. We've run several pieces over the past week and we'd like to know what you now think and what you suggest that government, music fans, the music business, the media and of course musicians themselves, should be doing about this so-called 'problem'...»
P2P: the BPI responds to DiS poll
Matt Phillips, Director of Communications at the BPI (formerly the British Phonographic Industry) responds to the DrownedinSound debate about filesharing»
Reasons why outlawing P2P isn't good for everyone: a musician speaks
Or is giving away your music such a bad thing?
There’s a lot of talk today about the findings of the Digital Music Report which claims that over 75% of people who download music off P2P sites would stop if their ISP put pressure on them to do so. This is cheering news if you’re a major label exec; but independent, defiantly DIY artist, Fakesensations, is none too pleased.»
DiS poll: would you stop using P2P if you got a warning from your ISP?
Russell Hart, chief executive of Entertainment Media Research commented "It is quite evident that an ISP-led strategy has bite, because illegal downloaders are fairly convinced that ISPs are currently monitoring their activities and are more likely to act against them than the courts."»
Chart & Destroy: 'tallica and KoL still top of the pops
Chart attack: no change at the top... Hairy men continue to top the charts with Kings Of Leon at one in the singles chart with 'Sex on Fire' and Metallica topping the album charts for a second week with their ninth studio album Death Magnetic. The sing»
Chart news: Metallica hold on at #1, sound better on Guitar Hero
Mastering engineer claims new Metallica album Death Magnetic sounds better on Guitar Hero than it does via the CD release due to excessive compression»
Later...later: Bruni, TVOTR, Fleet Foxes, Metallica, Sway for new series of Later
Everyone's favourite boogie-woogie ivory tinkler cum presenter Jools Holland, returns to our screens tonight (16/9) with the latest series of Later...with Jools Holland»
Metallica scale the heights; beat Glasvegas in epic chart battle
American thrash metal pioneers Metallica have rocked their way up to top-spot in the UK album charts for their Rick Rubin produced LP Death Magnetic.»
Play your food: Japanese blogger makes edibile albums
Albums you can nom-nom-nom... The web is full of weird and wonderful things and this morning Boing Boing, have brought to our attention a fascinating/stalkerishly scary blog of record covers made out of seaweed, sour plum, cabbage, ham, fish cakes,»
Metallica vs Napster: all is forgiven?
Metallica, who famously were anti-Napster, are now pleased to announce that none of that matters anymore»
More Metallica album details surface
As previously reported, Metallica return on September 12 with the Rick Rubin-produced Death Magnetic, preceded by the single ‘The Day That Never Comes’»
Metallica to play intimate London show
Word on the street: Metallica will play London's indigO2 on September 15»
Metallica to release deluxe versions of classic albums
Universal Music is to re-issue Metallica's seminal Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets albums on August 4, on deluxe vinyl»
Metallica's Death Magnetic: new album's title explained
Metallica's forthcoming album Death Magnetic's title is a nod to the band's fallen peers, says vocalist James Hetfield. »
The people behind DiS launch theQuietus.com
The people behind DrownedinSound.com are very pleased, proud and excited to announce the full launch of theQuietus.com»
New report suggests an average of 845 illegal songs per digital music player
I'LL FINISH THIS NEWS STORY OFF AFTER LUNCH - SEAN»
Metallica: "WHY?!!! Why take down mostly positive reviews of the new material...?"
Metallica's anti-internet war is over (for now) and appears to be more of a misunderstanding»
Metallica fan Dave Grohl expects a "kick ass" album
Dave Grohl has penned a letter to Metallica instructing the metal legends to produce a "kick ass" album next time around. The James Hetfield-fronted four-piece's new LP is due in the autumn»
Metallica to 'do a Radiohead', possibly. But not 'a Coldplay'
Following news earlier today that Coldplay were to give away their new single, in a move comparable to that Radiohead thing of last year, now word reaches DiS - via Wired's blog network - that Metallica are considering dishing out the rock for nowt»
No alarms, no surprises, no Radiohead: Reading / Leeds line-up announced
The Killers, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica are to headline this year’s Reading / Leeds shindig.»
New album: Metallica to 'do a Radiohead' this September? No, probably not
Metallica will release their next studio album in September, Lars Ulrich has told BBC 6 Music»
Album: Metallica chew fat, tastes "nutty"
Heavy rock goons Metallica have spoken about their new, forthcoming album, or rather drummer Lars Ulrich has, calling it “dynamic”, “different” and “nutty”.»
Nothing Else Matters: New Metallica LP due in February
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has confirmed that the band have completed the backing tracks for their ninth studio album.»
HxC: Swedes christen daughter 'Metallica', law objects
A kid named 'Metallica' is at the centre of a legal battle between her parents and the Swedish authorities.»
Metallica to begin new LP in March
Metalheads Metallica - famous for falling out on film, among other, more music-orientated successes - willbegin the recording of their new album next month...»
Metal beef: Slayer diss Metallica
Slayer's slap-headed guitarist Kerry King has laid into Metallica...»
Metallica: cardboard boxes out, thrash in
Metallica's pint-sized sticksman Lars Ulrich has promised fans that their next album will see the veteran rockers return to their thrash roots...»
Metallica's 2 Of One comes to DVD
Metallica - them metallers what like to point in their photographs - are to make their 2 Of One video collection available on DVD, just in time for Christmas...»
Sue-pernova: Nineties rockers versus Tommy Lee
The producers of American X-Factor-style show Rock Star: Supernova are being sued by a Nineties rock band over use of the name 'Supernova'...»
The Cartoon Network goes METAL. No, really...
Looney-Tune metallers Metallica - recent headliners of quiet-'til-Sunday-night rock fest Download - have provided voices for a new Cartoon Network series...»
Download disturbances: twelve arrests last night
Leicestershire Police have revealed that a dozen arrests were made last night at the Download Festival, held at Donnington Park...»
BPI's Pirate Purge - Ready to be Warned for 'illegal' Mp3 Downloading?
The British Phonographic Industry is following in the footsteps of its American counterparts by clamping down on illegal music file sharing. They will begin by messaging abusers of the legal penalties they could face.»
Leeds Festival To Be Cancelled? Emergency Council Meeting *updated*
Just when you thought it was safe to go to Leeds Festival, the Council decide to go and try to cancel it...
Metallica and Radiohead Sell Lots Of Records 'Shocker'
Two big bands have gone and sold a lot of copies of their new albums and thus are sitting pretty at the top of the charts. 'Heavy metal' band Metallica have swooped to the top of the US album chart with their first new release in six years, 'St. Anger'. It has sold the very scarily-large amou»
Download Metallica's music for free, kinda
Metallica are biggest band in the world, at least when it comes to giving fans what they want with one hand and taking it away with the other... Following on from the weekend's Download Festival fun and games that gave a few l»
Metallica DO Download *Updated*
Metallica played a 'surprise' hour and a half-long set at this weekend's Download festival today in Donington Park. A statement issued by promoters Clear Channel three days ago, read: "We are huge Metallica fans at Download and would be honoured to have them performing at our festival. However, they »
Metallica: St Anger tracklisting + artwork!
Metallica release their new album, titled 'St Anger' on June 9th. According to famously anti-Napster drummer Lars Ulrich it's set to be "heavy and aggressive, more fucked up". And we have the album artwork and tracklisting for your perusal. The tracklist is as follows: '»
Reading & Leeds Lineup announced
Headliners have been announced for the August bank holiday weekend festival known unofficially as Reading & Leeds, officially as The Carling Weekender.
Headliners are as follows:
Friday 22nd Reading, Saturday 23rd Leeds:
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Metallica Get Suicidal with new bassist
Metallica have confirmed that their new bassist is Rob Trujillo, formerly of Suicidal Tendancies. The announcement was made in the early hours of this morning on the official site. Since the departure of previous bassist Jason Newsted in early 2001, Metallica have been hard at work in rehab, erratical»
Reading 2003: Tix Onsale (V. Soon)
Credit Cards at the ready... Apparently, according to a mail from Mean Fiddler HQ, as of 6pm this evening (Jan 28th 2003!) a limited number of Reading Weekend Tickets (no mention of Leeds in the mail!) will be onsale to @ readingfestiva»
Reading/Leeds: Metallica to Headline!
One of the most influential bunch of rockerz upon today's scene are set to headline the big rockshow of the year! Reading wouldn't be Reading without some huuuge hairy rock legends somewhere on the bill and this year, we can announce that it will be Metallica at the top of the tree. The band »
Metallica Ready to Rock - So What?
Metal behemoths and stadium dinosaurs Metallica made a surprise return to the live scene a couple of days ago...and seemingly debuted their new bass player to boot! Playing under the Name SPUN the band played a short 9 song set at the Club Kimo in San Francisco - and despite claims that the ba»
Napster: Good
Napster, the music file sharing system, has announced that they have "resolved a long, contentious legal battle" with both Dr Dre and Metallica. Details of the settlement have yet to be published, but both sides of the long-running legal fight have taken time out to praise each other for their condu»
Lars Ulrich Junior!
May 6 2001 was a special day for Metallica. No, James Hetfield didn't re-grow his mullet from the mid-late 80's but there was a new edition to the Ulrich family. Drummer Lars Ulrich and his wife Skylar have had their second child. Their new son is called Layne and was weighed at a healthy 7 p»
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