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Metallica Beyond Magnetic Vertigo Records 30 January 2012 by Tom Doyle If we follow the chronology of that famous T-shirt , we appear to currently be in the "death" phase of Metallica's career. I recently took to these very pages to explain why Lulu was not the worst album of 2011 but [...]

Alas, this has already been taken down, but here's a screen cap if you wanna check it out. Note Mr. Hetfield's occupation as listed below: Pretty brilliant, right? I can't believe Wikipedia changed it! -AR [via The Metal of Honor]

Earlier this week, Metallica performed a previously unreleased song from the Death Magnetic sessions, "Hate Train," as part of their four-night thirtieth anniversary celebration at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and then e-mailed their fan club a rough mix of that song; now they've done the same for another tune that didn't make the Death cut, this one called "Just a [...]

Hate is a train That thunders aimless through my head And hate is the fame Chained to the wheel until I'm dead And with these words, so begins "Hate Train," a previously unreleased song from the Death Magnetic sessions that the band performed last night as part of their four-night thirtieth anniversary celebration at the Fillmore [...]

We at MetalSucks have dealt with the paradoxes involved with conducting a poll to determine great guitar players (read our 25 Best Modern Metal Guitarists poll here)! So we get that in a unweighted vote, the top-ranked axemen may just represent those liked by the largest number of voters; i.e. a dude who we agree is [...]

Thanks to HunterMC for the LULZy pic. Three years ago we celebrated acknowledged the release of Metallica's Death Magnetic by re-christening MetalSucks as "MetallicaSucks" for the day, and asking the entire MS staff (and some our guest bloggers) to review the album. We did not wanna do that for Lulu, the new collaboration between Metallica [...]

As ambitious and arduous a task it is to piece together an even half decent double disc record, such difficulty is innately heightened when the concept behind it, the madness beyond the method is the tale of a 19th-century prostitute who is used, abused, and eventually hacked up by Jack the Ripper. When this recount of woe is told from the perspective of Lou Reed and the artwork accompanying the LP is centred on the busts of bloodied mannequins affixed to human limbs it's a concept about as gruesome as conceivable on any Hallowe'en. And that's before bashing [...]

Is Lulu just the world's greatest troll? Even if it wasn't, if I were a member of Loutallica, I'd probably start telling people that it is. It would really be the only logical explanation for anyone thinking that crap was listenable. And the below video suggests that at least one member of Metallica really might [...]

As you hopefully know by now, we teamed up with our very good friend, Mr. Rodney Githens of Vertebrae 33 and Metal Band Art, to host a booth at New York Comic Con last weekend. And we had a blast! We can't wait to do it again next year. And now we have a video [...]

Lou Reed & Metallica aka Loutallica Lulu Vertigo Records 31 October 2011 by Hugh Platt The opening moments of Lulu certainly took me by surprise. Beginning with a surprisingly grandiose build-up, it's not long before the wild guitar work of the album opener, 'Hit The Lights', heralds the arrival of a group of musicians clearly headed for big things. Following [...]

• Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu (30-second Samples)
• ThrashHits - The Neverending Table

Holy shit, this is at least the second funniest thing I've seen all day. I have no idea where these old interviews are from or exactly what year they were conducted (I mean clearly it's the early 90s sometime but I don't know the precise dates or anything), but they are absolutely priceless, and definitely [...]

We've already made up our mind about this Lulu collaboration, and it'll probably suck. James Hetfield is possibly aware that Metallica fans won't be too into it, so he spoke in a recent interview stating that this isn't a Metallica album, this is a different beast, and a new Metallica album is still being written. ...

I don't know why anyone would trust anything Metallica has to say these days. Every time they have a new album coming out, they start smack their last album, which is doubly offensive. "St. Anger is gonna blow Load out of the water!" "Okay we know St. Anger sucked, but seriously, Death Magnetic is gonna be amazing!!!" All they're really doing is just continuously spitting [...]

Loutallica, left to right: Rob Trujillo, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lou Reed I said I was over it with this Metallicrap when we first heard a thirty second sample of "The View," the first single off their upcoming collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu; I'm still over with it this Metallicrap. I have finally [...]

Wow. We've heard 30-second and 90-second snippets already, but now an entire song from the Lou Reed / Metallica collaboration (aka Loutallica) has made its way online. And...well....it's something all right. Sometimes you just have to stop dancing about architecture and let the music do the talking. Or, in the case of Loutallica, let Lou [...]

• Lou Reed & Metallica - The View

To help promote their upcoming tour, on October 11 Judas Priest will release The Chosen Few, their umpteenth career retrospective, and one which does not feature any new material. The Chosen Few does have a hook, though - I mean, beyond the fact that the band members appear on the cover only as silhouettes, I [...]

Filed under: News Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed reduced Metallica 's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett to tears during a recording session with a mere set of lyrics. According to the hard rockers, Reed made them weep while they were recording the song 'Junior Dad' for their upcoming collaborative album 'Lulu.' Hammett explained to Contact Music , "I had just lost [...]

The official website for the upcoming Metallica/Lou Reed collaboration has launched, although right now there is absolutely nothing of interest there save for this picture of the old bass player for Suicidal Tendencies and four terminal cancer patients. Still, I thought you might wanna know that the project is moving forward; presumably the next step [...]

No. No he is not. Mustaine's latest declaration sure to elicit responses only of "Okay, sssssuuurrre, Dave, whatever you say," from all rational people was delivered to a Dallas Radio station earlier this week: "I've talked to Lars and James about me and David [Ellefson] doing a supergroup record with Lars and James. Well, James said [...]

El bueno de Dave Mustaine sigue emperrado con [Metallica]( http://cucharasonica.com/tag/m etallica(. El que fuera uno de los miembros originales de la banda, y posterior líder de Megadeth no para de realizar entrevistas de las que siempre salen jugosas declaraciones. Esta vez le ha tocado a The Eagle Rocks, una emisora de radio tejana que ha conducido una entrevista en la que Dave ha vuelto a expresar su constante obsesión con los que una vez fueron sus compañeros de grupo. Recordemos, muy brevemente, su historia. Dave Mustaine se unió a Metallica como guitarra solista en las [...]