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 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
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:
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:
The video for “Confusion”, directed by Claire Marie Vogel:
“ManUNkind”, directed by Jonas Åkerlund:
“Now That We’re Dead”, directed by Herring & Herring:
“Here Comes Revenge”, directed by Jessica Cope:
“Am I Savage”, directed by Herring & Herring:
“Halo On Fire”, directed by Herring & Herring:
“Murder One”, a tribute to Motörhead icon Lemmy and directed by Robert Valley:
“Spit Out The Bone”, directed by Phil Mucci:
“Lords of Summer”, directed by Brett Murray:
UK Metal Masters VENOM INC, who recently signed a global deal with ALPHA OMEGA Management, are currently touring North America. On January 20th they performed at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California. On that same night Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan celebrated his birthday, receiving also some special guests, METALLICA‘s James Hetfield and Steffan Chirazi, who’s running Metallica fan club since years.
Comments Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan:
I was excited to be playing San Francisco as for many years one of my favourite US cities. It’s the home and birth place of some of my fav bands and sounds from the 80’s. I invited some people as it was my birthday also and not only was the show and the audience fucking killer but Stefan Chirazi, Whiplash and James Hetfield all came down!!! Steffan is my good old friend who runs the Metallica fan club since years, and one of James best mates.
Making an incredible night something completely off the fucking map!!!!! All the bands were on fire too!! To James and my friends and to the whole SF crowd,Thankyou for a great great birthday night!!
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Fan-filmed video footage of VENOM INC.’s San Francisco show can be seen below. (courtesy of Capital Chaos TV).
Following yesterday’s revelations that METALLICA had threatened serious legal action against a group of their own fans who have been performing covers of the metal band’s music. SANDMAN, also known as “Canada’s Tribute To Metallica” were served with the 41 page cease and desist letter right before their very own gig, but now according to rollingstone.com, METALLICA have apologised for their ‘overzealous attorney.’
“We hear that a Canadian Metallica tribute band is a little upset with us and with a little digging, figured out why,” the band tells Rolling Stone. “It turns out that a certain letter was delivered to the band Sandman that neither we nor our management were aware of until it surfaced online. Lucky for us, the band was kind enough to post it for us to see, and it turns out that we have a very overzealous attorney who sent this letter without our knowledge.”
The group pointed to “Garage Inc.”, their 1998 covers album, as proof of their support of groups covering other artists’ work. “We have a long history of not only enjoying tribute bands, but we started as one,” the group says. “Heck, we even recorded a two-disc album of covers! We will always remember those days and continue to enjoy tribute bands, even inviting them to support us on various tours over the years.”
Guitarist Joe Di Taranto says that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich called him on Wednesday to apologize and quash the situation. “He gave me and the band his full blessing to continue on as we were,” says the musician. “They want us to continue paying tribute to Metallica with their full blessing and approval. We will continue to fly the Metallica flag, loud and proud!!” The band says they will continue using their logo with impunity.
As for the original cease and desist order, Metallica has rescinded the letter. “Sandman should file the letter in the trash,” the band says. “Keep doing what you’re doing … we totally support you! And in the meantime, our attorney can be found at SFO catching a flight to go permanently ice fishing in Alaska.”
