Tag: METALLICA

With E3 taking place in Los Angeles next week, you can expect a flood of gaming news and announcements in the coming days. According to Engadget, Activision has gotten an early start by confirming a fall launch date for 'DJ Hero 2.' The game (pre-orders available now) will showcase beats from hip-hop mainstays Dr. Dre and Kanye West, hard-rockers Metallica, pop-megastar Lady Gaga and over 80 ...

Here's the thing about heavy metal. There comes a time in some young men's lives when we they realize they suck at football, don't know anything about cars, are not "intelligent" in the conventional sense and are less than admired by the ladies. At that point, possibly as a function of biology, their hair grows longer, their lips turn to sneers, and their ear drums demand thunderous bass lines, ...

With 'Guitar Hero: Metallica' set to hit shelves March 29th, attention now turns to which band the popular series will focus on next. All indications point toward Van Halen. While Activision has released no statements pertaining to the release of a Van Halen Guitar Hero, rumors abound, and, according to Joystiq, the game will include popular hits 'Jump,' 'Panama' and 'Hot for Teacher.' While ...

Some Metallica fans are complaining that the band's ninth studio record, 'Death Magnetic,' is -- to borrow from Huey Lewis's 'Back to the Future' character -- just too darn loud, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since some folks might figure that the pioneering metal band's recordings are supposed to be loud, this grievance warrants clarification. Metallica fans would never lament riffs' being ...

Now isn't this tie-up worthy of all the "awws" you can muster? The poster child for anti-Napster propaganda has teamed up with Skullcandy to deliver a pair of cans to commemorate the band's ninth (and surely most awesome) studio album, 'Death Magnetic.' Two limited edition models will be made available -- the $69.95 Hesh and $49.95 Lowrider -- and those prices include "free" downloads of the ...

Metallica hasn't exactly made many friends online with its numerous seemingly anti-Internet moves over the years. Back in the halcyon days of Napster, the band made many enemies by personally investigating downloaders of its music, and then recently recently got pissy when bloggers dared to post their impressions of the band's latest work online after being invited in for a pre-release listening ...

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 ...