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MEGADETH’s Dave Ellefson: “I was on METALLICA’s short list when Jason Newsted quit in 2001”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 28, 2018

Posted in: Int. News, News. Tagged: ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE, ‘The Metal Voice’, David Ellefson, Megadeth, Metallica. Leave a comment

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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice spoke to MEGADETH‘s bassist David Ellefson about his new album with his side project ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE titled ‘Get it out’ (with Anthrax’s Frank Bello), his upcoming book ‘More life with Deth’, the direction of MEGADETH‘s new album, his upcoming induction into the Hall of Heavy Metal History, METALLICA‘s short list when Jason Newsted quit and his upcoming Bass History tour.

Watch the interview here:

When asked about his side project with Frank Bello of Anthrax, called Altitudes and Attitude and their new album
“This side project is an addition to Megadeth and I think that is why the fans like it and embrace it. I have played on a lot of records so fans are used to hearing different sides to me. For Frank Bello, what is cool for him is that he is the singer on this project, so you really get to hear a different side to Frank. Musically it is very different it is not a thrash metal record, it’s got some powerful hard rock drive to it but it also an emotional side. The album has sensibilities to it, it is not just a freight train Heavy Metal by any stretch.”

When asked about his upcoming induction into the Hall of Heavy Metal History January 23 2019 in Anaheim California
“Last year I inducted Nick Menza into the Hall, it was great because his family was there and it was a special privilege and honour especially since Nick is no longer with us. So this year when the Hall’s CEO Pat Guesaldo contacted me for the induction, I thought it was great and super cool. The Hall does a great thing, they are honouring and inducting a lot of cool artists. They are inducting the Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Oz artists, drummer Lee Kerslake and bassist Bob Daisley, also my friend Mike Portnoy ex Dream Theater and so many more great musicians. I am especially looking forward to meeting Lee Kerslake (who recently told The Metal Voice he had 8 months to live due to cancer) who did the drumming on Ozzy’s first two albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, because those two albums changed my Life. Those two albums were very influential to me as a teenage musician.”

When asked about the musical direction of the upcoming new Megadeth album
“We have been really trying to re frame the band, there have been a few records in the past years that really hit the mark well. I thought Dave did a great job on the Endgame album, 13 Album was an album that I played on when I came back into the group I thought was a really good strong record. So as we talk about this next record we said Dystopia is the bench mark, it seems to be what fans like to hear. A combination of melodies, amazing playing and the thrash stuff a kind of a greatest hits of everything Megadeth has ever done. All this can be heard on Dystopia. To early to say what it will sound like but Dystopia is a benchmark for us.”

When asked if in 2001 when Megadeth disbanded and when Jason Newsted left Metallica, did he ever get a call to join Metallica to join the band
“Metallica didn’t call me, I do know know there was a conversation about considering me. I know I was on Metallica’s short list. ”

When asked about his upcoming new book More life with Deth
” It will be released next summer around the Ozzy Megadeth tour. It talks about me leaving Jackson, Minnesota and going off to Hollywood, I also include the things we doing today with my business partner Thom Hazaert, EMP label group, Combat Records, Ellefson Coffee Company, the Grammies with Megadeth, Dystopia there has been lots that happened since the last book when it came out. Also I go into a lot of Megadeth’s history that wasn’t been talked about on my last book.”

ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE’s debut album, “Get It Out”, which will be released on January 18, 2019 via Megaforce. The follow-up to ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE’s 2014 self-titled EP was once again produced by Jay Ruston (ANTHRAX, STEEL PANTHER, STONE SOUR), with Jeff Friedl (A PERFECT CIRCLE, ASHES DIVIDE) returning behind the kit

Ellefson will release “More Life With Deth”, the follow-up to his memoir “My Life With Deth”, in 2019 . The book was co-written by his business partner, radio personality and music journalist Thom Hazaert.

GHOST To Special Guest On METALLICA’s 2019 “Worldwired” European Stadium Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 26, 2018

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Monday, September 24, 2018 — It is announced that Grammy-winning, Swedish rock band GHOST will be Special Guest on all four European legs of METALLICA’s 2019 “Worldwired” Stadium Tour that begins on May 1 at the Estadio do Restelo in Lisbon, Portugal. GHOST has shared festival stages with METALLICA before, but this is the band’s first invitation to join METALLICA on tour. With Norway’s Bokassa opening all dates, the three-band bill will play 25 stadiums from May through August. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 28 at 10AM local time. Log on to http://www.ghost-official.com for all purchasing details.

Prior to joining Metallica for the summer 2019 European stadium tour, Ghost will headline its own “A Pale Tour Named Death” tour, first in North America kicking off October 25 in Dallas, Texas, and then in Europe beginning February 3, 2019 in Lyon, France. All Ghost headline shows can be accessed here.

In North America, Europe and elsewhere around the globe, 2018 continues to be an extraordinary year for Ghost. Since its June release, the band’s fourth full-length album Prequelle has been streamed north of 75-million times. The album’s first single, “Rats,” had accumulated more than 25-million streams and set a 2018 record for maintaining the #1 spot for nine consecutive weeks at U.S. Rock Radio. The companion music video for “Rats” has logged more than 12.5 million views in the U.S. alone. Earlier this month, Ghost played to a sold-out house at London’s Royal Albert Hall. As the UK’s Kerrang! wrote in its review, “Tonight is nothing short of devilishly incredible, largely because it’s impossible to pick a standout moment from a set inundated with them.”

Confirmed dates for Metallica’s 2019 “Worldwired” European Stadium Tour are as follows:

May

1 POR, Lisbon Estadio do Restelo
3 SPA, Madrid Valdebebas
5 SPA, Barcelona Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys
8 ITA, Milan Ippodromo SNAI San Siro
10 SWI, Zurich Letzigrund
12 FRA, Paris Stade de France

June

8 IRE, Dublin, Slane Castle
11 HOL, Amsterdam Johan Cruijff Arena
13 GER, Cologne RheinEnergieStadion
16 BEL, Brussels Koning Boudewijnstadion
18 ENG, Manchester Etihad Stadium
20 ENG, London Twickenham Stadium

July

6 GER, Berlin Olympiastadion
9 SWE, Gothenburg Ullevi
11 DEN, Copenhagen Telia Parken
13 NOR, Trondheim Granasen
16 FIN, Hameenlinna Kantolan Tapahtumapuisto
18 EST, Tartu Raadi Airfield
21 RUS, Moscow Luzhniki Stadium

August

14 ROM, Bucharest Arena Nationala
16 AUT, Vienna Ernst-Happel-Stadion
18 CZE, Prague Airport Letnany
21 POL, Warsaw PGE Narodowy
23 GER, Munich Olympiastadion
25 GER, Mannheim Maimarktgelande

APOCALYPTICA Covers METALLICA’s “Sad But True” In New Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 18, 2017

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Finnish cello rockers APOCALYPTICA have released their new video, a cover for METALLICA‘s “Sad But True”.

Commented the band:
“We brought a camera crew along to our Berlin show, to film it allllllll for our NEW VIDEO for ‘Sad But True’!”

It’s taken from APOCALYPTICA‘s anniversary Apocalyptica Plays Metallica By Four Cellos (Remastered) album & you can catch the band playing it live on one of their upcoming tour dates

Watch ‘Sad But True’ here:

BABYMETAL to Support METALLICA in January

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2016

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BABYMETAL will appear as special guests to METALLICA at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, Korea on January 11th 2017 as part of their WORLDWIRED world tour, reported earMUSIC.

Currently being rapturously received by UK audiences on RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS mammoth arena tour of the UK, the news further cements what looks to be an incredible start to 2017 for BABYMETAL, which also includes supporting GUNS N’ ROSES in Japan in January.

SU-METAL
“We’ve looked up to Metallica for so long and to be able to join them on their tour is a dream come true. It will be our first performance for 2017 so we are really looking forward to receiving a lot of good energy from them to kick off the new year!!”

YUIMETAL
“I am just so thrilled at the amazing recent news of being able to join such big bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Guns N’ Roses, and now Metallica!! I just can’t keep up! Metallica is such an important part of what BABYMETAL does. I feel that we were able to make it this far all thanks to Metallica-san! It’s still so unbelievable to be able to play with them and I’m incredibly happy! Very excited for 2017!”

MOAMETAL
“It is such an honor to be able to join the Metal Master Metallica on their tour! We’ve been blessed to be able to join many different artists up to this point and we are very excited to see what we can learn next from Metallica. I hope we are able to absorb as much as possible from our Metal Master! Looking forward to learning new and unimaginable things from them!!”

The announcement comes ahead of the release of their ‘Live At Wembley’ album, which is released this Friday 9th December via earMUSIC, and marks great piece of news in what has been a massively successful year for the band.

Having released their second studio album ‘Metal Resistance’ on April 1st, BABYMETAL made history by earning the highest UK chart position ever achieved by a Japanese band, with the album reaching number 15 in the UK album charts. On the other side of the Atlantic, ‘Metal Resistance’ boasted the honour of being the first album from a Japanese artist to hit the Billboard Charts in 53 years. The following day on April 2nd, BABYMETAL made history again, not only by becoming the first Japanese band to ever headline at the prestigious Wembley Arena, but also breaking the all time merchandising record in the history of the venue.

Summer saw them perform at the main stage of Download festival in June – but not before scooping a Kerrang! Award for BEST LIVE BAND, with July seeing the girls pair up with metal god and JUDAS PRIEST frontman ROB HALFORD at the Alternative Press Magazine Awards for a once in a lifetime live collaboration.

September brought another UK award for BEST LIVE ACT, this time courtesy of the Association Of Independent Music, just a couple of weeks before their biggest headline shows to date; BABYMETAL attracted 110,000 people over two nights at the huge TOKYO DOME in Japan.

BABYMETAL recently announced the release of a new ‘Live At Wembley’ album (December 9th via earMUSIC). With a carefully selected tracklisting, the CD captures the spectacular performance recorded at BABYMETAL’s first ever UK Arena show, ‘BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2016 kicks off at THE SSE ARENA, WEMBLEY’. The KKKK rated album was described by Kerrang! Magazine, who last week gave the band their first Kerrang! cover, “proof of what a devastating live force they are”

Preorders of ‘Live At Wembley’ – released digitally on December 30th – are available on iTunes at the following link: smarturl.it/BMWembley_iTunes

Pre-order the album here: smarturl.it/BABYMETALWembley

BABYMETAL are currently on tour with RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS. Catch them at the following shows:

Thursday 8 December         Glasgow The SSE Hydro
Saturday 10 December       Birmingham Genting Arena
Sunday 11 December          Birmingham Genting Arena
Wednesday 14 December   Manchester Arena
Thursday 15 December       Manchester Arena
Sunday 18 December          London The O2

The Metal Voice Interview With DIAMOND HEAD’s Brian Tatler: “METALLICA did a respectful job on Am I Evil”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 5, 2016

Posted in: Int. News. Tagged: AM I EVIL, ‘The Metal Voice’, Brian Tatler, DIAMOND HEAD, Metallica. Leave a comment

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For Canada’s The Metal Voice former Anthrax singer Neil Turbin (Deathriders) interviewed legendary NWOBHM guitarist Brian Tatler of DIAMOND HEAD at the Whisky in Los Angeles.

Brain Tatler spoke to The Metal Voice about METALLICA covering their song AM I EVIL, their new self titled album in 2016 and their longevity for 40 years

On the bands 40 year career

“There is no way on earth I would have presumed the band would still be going 40 years time, cause you can never see 6 months ahead or a year, it’s a long time in rock and roll, to survive 40 years, well even I am impressed.”

On the musical direction of their new self titled album

“This is our seventh album so I think there is little elements of all six on this album. I think we just had this idea, this time the album should sound like a Diamond Head album, we have never really done that before, it was always about progression. There probably is in the writing these days a little bit of playing to our strengths, using songs that sound like Diamond Head and rejecting those that don’t sound very Diamond Head. Then we whittle it down to an album that reminds people of the past.”

On his opinion on Metallica’s cover of Diamond Head’s ‘AM I Evil’

“I found it flattering because we knew Lars. When we got a copy of Creeping Death the 12 inch single, Am I Evil was on the B side in 1984 so of course they were not a big band yet and in Europe they are signed to an indie label called Music for Nations and so it didn’t seem like the big deal at the time because I just presumed this is just Lars’ band and they covered a Diamond Head song. So we listened to it and thought wow they really go through so much trouble to learn every little lick and Metallica’s done a very good job, very respectful job of covering the song. So I was really flattered but I didn’t think they were going to be the biggest band in the world or anything like that. If somebody else likes your song enough to want to cover it, want to record it, you must be doing something right, it was a kind of nod.”

On the writing process of ‘Am I Evil’

“It did take a long time to write AM I EVIL we spent over a year writing that song it grew from a small part, we added sections, the intro, the end. the song grew to 7 minutes 40 seconds and its got tempo changes it has got very good dynamics and it’s really hard to do that. I think dynamics are a part of a successful band.”

“We do get people come to gigs and say I know this one. It is our big song, I’m glad to have it cause at least we got one big song”

Watch the Interview here:

METALLICA: “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” Out Today, Ten New Videos Released

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 18, 2016

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On Wednesday and Thrusday METALLICA surprised their fans, releasing ten new music videos from their new album “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” (out today via Blackened Recordings).

Directors for the videos include: Jonas Åkerlund, who originally worked with the band on “Turn The Page” and “Whiskey In The Jar,” album package photographers Herring and Herring, Colin Hakes (“Hardwired”), Clark Eddy (“Atlas Rise,” and countless “Making of . . .” clips), Tom Kirk (“Moth Into Flame”), Claire Marie Vogel, Jessica Cope, Rob Valley, Phil Mucci, and Metallica’s very own videographer Brett Murray.

Watch the videos below:

The video for “Dream No More”, directed by Tom Kirk: