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RiO!B episode – February 7, 2012

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:54:56 +0000

Metallica creates summer music festival

Adam Lambert in Queen?

The Black Keys – “Gold On The Ceiling”

OK Go – “Needing/Getting”

Coldplay – “Charlie Brown”

Sasquatch Music Festival line up

Metallica headlining and curating two-day festival

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:28:40 +0000

Metallica has done many things in their day but have never curated and headlined their own two-day festival…until now.

Taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey on June 23rd and 24th at Bader field, the festival will feature ‘Tallica headlining both nights and they will be performing both The Black Album and Ride The Lightning in its entirety. The festival will include 22 bands hand selected by the band to perform. The line up is quite interesting as it mixes the worlds of metal and hard rock with alternative and indie rock.

Playing alongside Metallica will be Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Fucked Up, The Gaslight Anthem, Best Coast, Titus Andronicus, Cage the Elephant, A Place to Bury Strangers, Roky Erickson, Lucero, Hot Snakes, The Black Angels, Gary Clark Jr., The Sword, Liturgy and Avenged Sevenfold.

Tickets are going on sale February 11th at 10am EST but a pre-sale for those that are a part of Metallica’s fan club will go from February 8-10. More info can be found at OrionMusicAndMore.com.

Metallica, Black Sabbath, The Prodigy headlining Download festival

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:44:47 +0000

UK rockers, get ready to do some dancing and some headbanging at Donington Park this year. The line up for the 10th annual Download festival was recently announced and the line up is rather big for fans of hard rock and metal.

Headlining this whole shindig are Metallica, Black Sabbath and The Prodigy. You’ve also got Chase & Status, Biffy Clyro and Soundgarden providing support (even though I think Soundgarden should be a headliner but that’s just me.) Other bands appearing include Tenacious D, Machine Head, Lamb of God, You Me At Six, Trivium, Devil Driver, August Burns Red, Anthrax, Little Angels, Devin Townshend Project and Ugly Kid Joe.

The festival will run from June 8-10 and you can buy tickets right now by heading to the Download website. I figure since there’s no Glastonbury festival this year, you can head to Download and take out your aggression there. What else were you gonna do? Mosh at the Olympics?

Okay, that would be pretty awesome…

RiO!B episode – December 13, 2011

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:20:37 +0000

Radiohead releasing new songs

Metallica releases Beyond Magnetic EP

Red Hot Chili Peppers tour dates

Tool tour dates

Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Bon Jovi headlining Bamboozle

Coldplay tour dates

Metallica releases Beyond Magnetic EP

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:18:23 +0000

Would ya look at that? All those previously unreleased tracks that have been leaking online all week from Metallica? Turns out the band has released them as an EP on iTunes called Beyond Magnetic.

The four tracks, “Just A Bullet Away,” “Hate Train,” “Hell And Back” and “Rebel Of Babylon,” will be available for download in the U.S. starting this week in honor of the band’s 30th anniversary which they’ve celebrated this whole week. Of course, since all those tracks leaked onto the web you can check them out here.

So what did the band have to say about this new EP?

During the Death Magnetic album sessions in 2007 and 2008, we originally recorded 14 songs. When it came time to pick the songs for the final album, we decided on 10 songs that you’ve all come to know over the last three years… Some of you may have heard bits and pieces of those other songs on ‘Mission Metallica’ (remember ‘Mission Metallica’?!) or heard rumors about them during the recording process, and wondered, ‘What ever happened to those other four songs???.’ We kept them in the vault and decided to pull them just for this special celebration, so here are the four leftover tracks from the Death Magnetic sessions. They are ROUGH mixes, unfinished to their original degree of mixing from March ’08. These four songs were released as gift to our closest fans, the members of our Fan Club, to enjoy. Now they’re being made available to you.

Beyond Magnetic EP tracklist
1. “Hate Train”
2. “Just A Bullet Away”
3. “Hell And Back”
4. “Rebel Of Babylon”

Watch: Green Day cover The Misfits’ “Hybrid Moments” for Metallica

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:11 +0000

Question: What does one Bay Area band give another Bay Area band for their 30th anniversary? If you’re Green Day, you cover the Misfits.

Up top, you can check out Billie Joe Armstrong and the crew cover “Hybrid Moments” as a present for Metallica and then launch into a rendition of “Happy Birthday.” It should be noted that Armstrong lovingly refers to ‘Tallica in the song as “You old ass heavy metal motherfuckers.” I’d say that’s a pretty spot-on description.

Meanwhile, Metallica has been releasing previously unreleased demos from Death Magnetic all week long and a good majority of people are wondering why those songs didn’t make the album.

Listen: Metallica – “Rebel Of Babylon”

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:13:12 +0000

This really has been a good week for Metallica fans. It seems as if almost everyday another unreleased demo from the band was hitting the web for you to consume…so why stop now?

Down below, you can stream yet another previously unreleased Death Magnetic recording called “Rebel Of Babylon” (via Blabbermouth). This is the fourth track to come from Metallica this week. The previous songs include “Hate Train,” “Just A Bullet Away” and “Hell And Back”. This bounty hath sprung forth online since Metallica celebrated its 30th anniversary this past week by playing a week of shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Down below, you can also check out video of ‘Tallica performing “Hit The Lights” with Dave Mustaine and “Iron Man” with Ozzy and Geezer Butler last night.

Metallica – “Rebel Of Babylon”

Metallica feat. Dave Mustaine – “Hit The Lights”

Metallica feat. Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler – “Iron Man”

Listen: Metallica – “Hell And Back”

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:35:22 +0000

They’ve done it again. For the third time this week, a previously unreleased track from Metallica has hit the internet for all of us to check out. Down below, you can stream the song “Hell And Back” which was also recorded around the time the band was working on Death Magnetic along with “Hate Train” and “Just A Bullet Away”.

Metallica has been performing in San Francisco at the Fillmore all week in celebration of their 30th anniversary.

Metallica – “Hell And Back”

RiO!B episode – December 8, 2011

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:45:07 +0000

Metallica – “Hate Train”

Metallica – “Just A Bullet Away”

Lamb of God – “Ghost Walking”

NIN/How To Destroy Angels updates

Puscifer tour dates

Killswitch Engage headlining festival in 2012?

Anthrax/Testament 2012 tour dates

Zakk Wylde getting roasted

Atreyu/Bleeding Through frontmen form I Am War

Listen: Metallica – “Just A Bullet Away”

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:21:16 +0000

Twice in one week. Metallica is really enjoying their 30th anniversary celebration…or just really trying to help us forget about Lulu.

Earlier this week, Metallica released the previously unreleased track, “Hate Train,” which was recorded during the Death Magnetic sessions. Well now we’ve got another previously unreleased track, via Blabbermouth, called “Just A Bullet Away” which you can check out down below.

Metallica said of this track and the releases, “We’re pretty excited to be bringing these songs back to life nearly four years after they were recorded. Once again, this is the unpolished version of the song… the original rough mix from March of 2008 in its rawest, untouched form.”

Members of the band’s MetClub had the songs emailed to them directly but since this is the internet, they’re essentially sent to the whole world.

Metallica – “Just A Bullet Away”