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Posted in music on June 12, 2008

a message from Metallica to fans and bloggers

Metallica

Metallica"While we occasionally enjoy reading the various comments, rumors, speculation, reviews, gossip and all the good that the internet brings, rarely do we feel the desire/need to respond to the "blogosphere" . . . hey, everyone is entitled to have their thoughts and opinions, right? However, once we re-surfaced on Tuesday after a few weeks on tour in Europe, we were informed that someone at Q Prime (our managers) had made the error of asking a few publications to take down reviews of the rough mixes from the new record that were posted on their sites. Our response was "WHY?!!! Why take down mostly positive reviews of the new material and prevent people from getting psyched about the next record. . . that makes no sense to us!"" So after a few rounds of managerial ear spank and sentencing everyone at Q Prime to 20 push-ups each, we figured why not take matters into our own hands and just post the links here on our site. Kerrang, Metal Hammer, The Quietus. "You see, we have maintained an "in the press" section here on Metallica.com for many years now, posting links to reviews of shows, album and DVD releases, and various other tidbits we've come across while surfing around. Some good, some not so good, but we put 'em all up . . . sort of the same way we treat our message boards on this site . . . welcoming all feedback.

"So in the spirit of keeping this section current, we've put as many of the reviews of the rough mixes of the new record up here as we could find. If we missed any, let us know . . . and in the meantime, we're always adding, so peruse at your leisure."
[-Metallica] [via Bored of Dictators]

Metallica are playing Bonnaroo this weekend.

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posted at 3:44 PM on June 12, 2008 in music | Comments (35)

Comments (35)

Lars is a geek!

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 3:51 PM

sounds like all that therapy is finally paying off.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:01 PM

Metallica 1987 = daft punk 2007

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:01 PM

"Metallica 1987 = daft punk 2007"

= Erykah Badu 2008?

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:01 PM

yay pushups!

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:02 PM

The hammer of justice crushes you.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:07 PM

what time does metallica go on?

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:10 PM

metallica sucks

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:17 PM

haha. the yay pushups comment made me laugh. and metallica doesn't suck, just lars. lars

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:23 PM

instead of posting reviews of rough mixes, how about posting some mp3s of rough mixes? oh, i forgot, downloading those would be stealing, on our part...

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:48 PM


"= Erykah Badu 2008?"


You're looking for Brooklyn Anti-Semite, right?

It's been down for a few days now.. check back later.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 4:55 PM

anon 4:07 wins

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 5:14 PM

Just call my name cuz I'll hear you scream

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 5:29 PM

This smacks of backpedaling by a bunch of old fogeys who haven't a clue how to handle things on that newfangled internet highway thing.

Posted by ag | June 12, 2008 5:42 PM

who gives a fuck... Metallica stopped being relevant to any serious metal fans in 1990 anyway.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 6:12 PM

^^^

Yup, that's pretty much right.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 6:22 PM

"who gives a fuck... Metallica stopped being relevant to any serious metal fans in 1990 anyway."

"Yup, that's pretty much right."

ok, masters of the obvious. masters. masters.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 6:36 PM

Where's Pushead at?

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 6:51 PM

+1 @ anon 6:36. master of puppets (1985) is probbbbbably regarded by at least 7/10 metal fans as the best record of the genre.

but i wouldn't expect self-important brooklyn hipsters to know anything about metal because it's a little passe right now.

Posted by Rob T. | June 12, 2008 7:40 PM

Metallican't

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 8:02 PM

where's infectious grooves at?

THERAPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Posted by jimmy the greek | June 12, 2008 8:25 PM

ugh god the "blogosphere"

Posted by sarah | June 12, 2008 8:31 PM

Metallica might not be "cool" anymore, but they still put on one of the best lives shows around.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 9:08 PM

fuck 'em all

Posted by god below | June 12, 2008 10:58 PM

you guys remember skatallica? now that was a fuckin band!

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 11:05 PM

Assholes. They are less rich following the napster disaster because everyone knows they are greedy assholes. Plus their last few albums have sucked. Anon at 4:42 and 5:48 nailed it. Metallica = spoiled over the hill Assholes.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 11:20 PM

Don't forget your genuine metallica cock ring.

Posted by MFan | June 12, 2008 11:32 PM

he said "ear spank"

Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2008 1:01 AM

Bow to leper messiaaahhhhh!!!

Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2008 9:46 AM

What time is Paramore going on?

Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2008 10:45 AM

Sellouts as of "The Black Album". Anything before that is tops, though.
R.I.P. Cliff

Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2008 11:58 AM

They didn't stop being relevant to to tennis prodigies, you snarky dicks!

Posted by Anonymous | June 13, 2008 1:03 PM

Metallica webcast from Bonnaroo tonight-- 10pm at the ATT Blue Room website.

Kill em all, motherfuckers.

Posted by A Roach | June 13, 2008 4:23 PM

Worthless.....All of you

Posted by Anonymous | June 17, 2008 9:39 PM

Metallica webcast from Bonnaroo tonight-- 10pm at the ATT Blue Room website.

Kill em all, motherfuckers.

Posted by شات كتابي | September 26, 2010 7:49 AM

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