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Metallica celebrated its 30th anniversary as a band last week, performing four fan club shows at the Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
In early August, Metallica Club members around the world were able to enter their names for a chance to purchase tickets to all the Fillmore shows at a cost of $19.81 for a four-pack of tickets to all of the shows.\u00a0 Single show tickets were $6.\u00a0 All four of the shows immediately sold out. <\/p>\n
Last week, Metallica welcomed these fans from around the globe to join them in the celebration where the set lists changed every night and aside from the encore, the band didn\u2019t repeat a single song in the set, sometimes playing songs they haven\u2019t played in years or ever at all.\u00a0 Each night at the Fillmore was hosted by comedian Jim Breuer and opened by the Rebel Souls Brass Band performing Metallica songs.\u00a0 This was followed by fan club winners invited on stage to play \u201cCrash Course Trivia\u201d and \u201cName That Riff\u201d games where they were able to win exclusive 30th anniversary prizes and memorabilia.<\/p>\n
Metallica also brought many special guests relevant to their 30 years to the stage to perform with them.\u00a0 The list of guests included Apocalyptica, Armored Saint, Geezer Butler, John Bush, Biff Byford, Jerry Cantrell, Nick \u201cAnimal\u201d Culmer, Glenn Danzig, Death Angel, King Diamond, Diamond Head, Marianne Faithfull, Lloyd Grant, Rob Halford, Ray Haller, Pepper Keenan, Kid Rock, Laaz Rockit, John Marshall, Jim Martin, Mercyful Fate, Ron McGovney, Dave Mustaine, Jason Newsted, Ozzy Osbourne, Rebel Souls Brass Band, Lou Reed, Bob Rock, Gary Rossington, and Hugh Tanner.\u00a0 Each night the finale featured all the evening\u2019s guests of each evening joining the band on stage to perform \u201cSeek and Destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n
This week, Metallica will release the Beyond Magnetic EP featuring four previously unreleased songs, which will be available exclusively on iTunes in North America for one week.\u00a0 After that week, the songs will be available from all digital retailers.\u00a0 Around the world, it will be available on iTunes and other digital retailers. These four songs were originally released as a gift to Metallica\u2019s Metallica Club members to enjoy immediately after the band played them.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the Death Magnetic album sessions in 2007 and 2008, we originally recorded 14 songs.\u00a0 When it came time to pick the songs for the final album, we decided on 10 songs that you\u2019ve all come to know over the last three years,\u201d said the members Metallica.\u00a0 \u201cSome of you may have heard bits and pieces of those other songs on \u2018Mission Metallica\u2019 (remember \u2018Mission Metallica\u2019?!) or heard rumors about them during the recording process, and wondered, \u2018What ever happened to those other four songs???.\u2019\u00a0 Well the mystery has been solved.\u00a0 Here are the four leftover tracks from the Death Magnetic sessions.\u00a0 They are ROUGH mixes, unfinished to their original degree of mixing from March \u201908.\u00a0 These four songs were released as gift to our closest fans, the members of our Fan Club, to enjoy.\u00a0\u00a0 Now they’re being made available to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
BEYOND MAGNETIC TRACKLISTING<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hate Train<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just A Bullet Away<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hell And Back <\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rebel Of Babylon<\/p>\n
Metallica\u2019s 30th anniversary celebration ended late Saturday night with drummer Lars Ulrich telling fans to listen for news to come in mid-January 2012 about something coming June.<\/p>\n
About Metallica: Formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, Metallica have become one of the most influential and commercially successful rock bands in history, having sold 100 million albums worldwide and playing to millions of fans the world over. They have scored several multi-platinum albums, including 1991\u2019s Metallica (commonly referred to as \u201cThe Black Album\u201d), which is the best selling album in history of Soundscan scanning almost 15.7 million albums in the United States alone.\u00a0 Their latest album, Death Magnetic, was certified platinum just six weeks after it debuted atop the Billboard Top 200 Album chart in October 2008. Metallica have also garnered numerous awards and accolades, including nine Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, and multiple MTV Video Music Awards, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.<\/p>\n
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