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Metallica Asks Bloggers to Pull Down Advance Reviews
You know what's heavy metal? Biting a live chicken head off on stage. You know what's not? Whining to music critics and telling them not to review your precious new album.
Metallica invited music critics in London to listen to six tracks off its forthcoming album, with the implicit implication that the critics would go ahead and write reviews based on what they'd heard (no non-disclosure agreements, contracts, etc). So, immediately after the reviews hit the Web, Metallica's management contacted the writers in attendance and asked them to take down the reviews.
The music blog Blinded by the Hype contacted The Quietus, one of the blogs that had run a review, wondering what had happened to the piece. Here's what editor Luke Turner had to say:
"The Quietus kept our article up the longest and, as no nondisclosure agreement had been signed," he wrote, "[we were] not prepared to remove it merely due to the demands of Metallica's management. We only removed the article earlier today to protect the professional interests of the writer concerned."
Since their whole hissy-fit about people downloading their music without paying (also very heavy metal of them, we should add), Metallica has garnered its fair share of hateration on the Internet. This newest tantrum probably won't help matters. [Source: ArsTechnica]
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Subscribe to commentsshawnJun 16th 2008 9:53AM
Metallica continues to lose fans. I will never purchase another Album again. Much much better metal is out there today with plenty of Bands that enjoy their own music enough to share it with their Fans and True Fans of Heavy Metal. Funny how money makes their music suck? Greed took over and I feel they have made enough money off of us to live for the rest of their lives, yet they continue to want every single penny thats due to them. No wonder Jason is gone and I bet Cliff is rolling in his grave. Next, we will see these guys playing duets with Britney Spears lol
I am so glad to See True Metal making a come back so Bands like Metallica cant make a monopoly of the market
coasterjobJun 12th 2008 2:13PM
I agree. This is just another reason to Metallica to screw off. There are a couple of songs that I love because they are from my "time", but they arent that good...
Anyway, I also agree, greed has messed up this band.
KristiJun 12th 2008 7:06PM
I think that you all sound like the whiners. "Whaa...Metallica wants to make money.." "Whaaa....maybe their new stuff wasn't as ready as they thought"...get OVER it! I'm so sick of people saying they aren't going to buy Metallica records anymore just because now you can't download them illegally! Good for them for standing up for themselves! They didn't get into the music industry to not make money. I agree that they probably all have MORE than enough to settle them for the rest of their lives. But you don't see them going into retirement so obviously they have more to put out there. Quit acting like they did something wrong just because they want credit where credit is due. I guess in your eyes we should all stop paying to watch sporting events, movies, and concerts too. I mean I'm sure somehow people have figured out how to watch it for free so now everyone who has worked hard to establish themselves in those fields should just stop making money. And as for them asking for the comments to be published, how do you know there isn't another side to the story? Or maybe they listened to the recordings and decided they wanted to give something better to their fans. Quit acting like the world owes you something!
shawnJun 16th 2008 10:00AM
Kristi "They didn't get into the music industry to not make money." ummm ok. thats why every Original Fan knows them as "the Sell out Band" They made good music and claimed to never change. hmmmm Everything after the black album was garage cover band crap fuel and fuel 2 Blah. Try listening to some True Heavy Metal again, there is much moreo ut there than this. and I buy my CDs dont need Free downloads. I put my money where it is deserved