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Metallica is...

LARS ULRICH - drums
JAMES HETFIELD - guitars, vocal
KIRK HAMMETT - guitars
JASON NEWSTED - bass

Since they formed in 1981, San Francisco Bay Area band Metallica has gone from underground heavy metal band to one of the most successful acts in the world, with an intensely loyal fan base.
Sales of Metallica albums (including 8 full-length albums, and one EP) total over 60 million copies worldwide (with over 40 million coming in North America alone), and have earned gold and/or platinum certifications in over 40 countries. In addition, a live box-set release (containing over 8 hours of live music and video, retailing at over $80), has sold over 600,000 units worldwide, making it the biggest selling box set of its kind in history.
Metallica has garnered numerous awards accolades throughout the world their career, 4 Grammy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 2 MTV Music Video Awards and 26 California Music Awards.
When it comes to touring, there are few, if any, bands who deliver live the way Metallica does. Their shows, which began in clubs and garages in the early 80’s, are now selling out in arenas and stadiums throughout the world, and continue to be the most intense, powerful and visually stimulating concert experience ever delivered. The most impressive achievement that bears mentioning is the fact that Metallica continues to be a strong attraction in the touring world; a truly rare feat in today’s mercurial entertainment business, where fans often change allegiance to bands as often as they do hairstyles.
Metallica is a band whose success can be directly attributed to a passion and no-compromise attitude in every project they undertake.

MICHAEL KAMEN
Michael Kamen has an illustrious music career as a composer, artist, arranger, and collaborator with the leading pop and classical performers of our day. Fusing traditional and modern genres in his diverse yet always recognizable voice, Kamen’s work showcases his innate ability break down musical barriers. In addition to orchestrating Metallica’s classic Nothing Else Matters from their 1991 Black album, Kamen has worked with numerous artists including Sting, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Pete Townhend, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Pavarotti, and many others.
As a producer/writer/arranger, he has been nominated for 9 Grammy Awards, winning 3 and 2 Academy Awards for his songs (Everything I Do), I Do It For You and Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman. His numerous film credits include "Mr. Holland’s Opus"(which won a Grammy for best instrumental composition), Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves, Brazil, and all 4 Lethal Weapon films and all 3 Die Hard movies. From Kamen’s lifelong love of music came the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. A believer of music in our schools, Kamen founded the non-profit organization dedicated to music education by providing musical instruments to schools and individual student across the country. For his work, he won a NARAS "Hero of NY" Award.
Kamen is currently composing a Millennium symphony entitled The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms commissioned be Leonard Slarkin for the Prestigious National Symphony Orchestra. The work will debut at Washington’s Kennedy Center in January 2000.
Kamen’s adventures in music, in all its forms, from film scores to hit singles, from ballets to symphonies, leave pop and classical audiences alike eager to hear what Kamen will achieve next.

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
The San Francisco Symphony gave its first concerts in 1911 and over the years has grown steadily in acclaim. In recent seasons, the San Francisco Symphony has won some of the most foremost recording awards, including the Grammy and Grand Prix du Disque. Today, Michael Tilson Thomas, - Music Director since 1995- and the San Francisco Symphony record exclusively for the RCA Red Seal. The Orchestra tours Europe and Asia regularly and performs throughout the United States. The San Francisco Symphony Chorus has been heard around the world on recordings and on the soundtracks of 3 major films, Amadeus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Godfather III. Through its radio broadcasts, the first in America to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, the San Francisco Symphony is heard across the country.





News

WHERE WERE YOU THE FIRST TIME YOU HEARD "ENTER SANDMAN"? At a party? In the car? At home with headphones on? Wherever you were, on May 1, you can relive the adrenaline of that moment when Metallica -- the black album -- is re-released in the new DVD-Audio format. This new format gives you 6-channel advanced resolution surround sound technology and advanced resolution stereo; Dolby Digital Surround Mix that can be played on a regular DVD videoplayer; and sneak preview footage of the upcoming episode of the TV series "Classic Albums" featuring Metallica, airing on VH-1 sometime in 2001.


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Albums

RIDE THE LIGHTNING

Fight Fire With Fire
Ride The Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fade To Black
Trapped Under Ice
Escape
Creeping Death
The Call Of Ktulu

...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Blackened
...And Justice For All
Eye Of The Beholder
One
The Shortest Straw
Harvester Of Sorrow
The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
To Live Is To Die
Dyers Eve

LOAD

Ain't My Bitch
2 x 4
The House Jack Built
Until It Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero of the Day
Bleeding Me
Cure
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
Ronnie
The Outlaw Torn

MASTER OF PUPPETS

Battery
Master Of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Hereos
Leper Messiah
Orion (Instrumental)
Damage, Inc

METALLICA

Enter Sandman
Sad But True
Holier Than Thou
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
Don't Tread On Me
Through The Never
Nothing Else Matters
Of Wolf And Man
The God That Failed
My Friend Of Misery
The Struggle Within

KILL 'EM ALL

Hit The Lights
The Four Horseman
Motorbreath
Jumo In The Fire
(Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth
Whiplash
Phantom Lord
No Remorse
Seek And Destroy
Metal Militia

RE-LOAD

Fuel
Carpe Diem Baby
The Unforgiven II
Prince Charming
The Memory Remains
Bad Seed
Better Than You
Attitude
Devil's Dance
Where The Wild Things Are
Slither
Low Man's Lyric
Fixxxer

GARAGE, INC.

Free Speech For The Dumb
It's Electric
Sabbra Cadabra
Turn The Page
Die Die My Darling
Loverman
Mercyful Fate
Astronomy
Whiskey In The Jar
Tuesday's Gone
The More I See
Helpless
The Small Hours
The Wait
Crash Course In Brain Surgery
Last Caress/Green Hell
Am I Evil?
Blitzkrieg
Breadfan
The Prince
Stone Cold Crazy
So What
Killing Time
Overkill
Damage Case
Stone Dead Forever
Too Late Too Late

S&M

The Ecsatsy of Gold
The Call of Ktulu
Master Of Puppets
Of Wolf and Man
The Thing That Should Not Be
Fuel
The Memory Remains
No Leaf Clover
Hero of The Day
Devil's Dance
Bleeding Me
Nothing Else Matters
Until It Sleeps
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Human
Wherever I May Roam
Outlaw Torn
Sad But True
One
Enter Sandman
Battery





Tour

June
30th - Foxbord, MA : Foxbord Stadium

July
1st - Rockingham, NC : Rockingham Dragway
3rd - St. Louis, MO : Gateway International Speedway
4th - Baltimore, MD : PSI Stadium
7th - Atlanta, GA : Georgia Dome
8th - Sparta, KY : Kentuky Speedway
9th - Dallas, TX : Texas Stadium
12th - Denver, CO : Mile High Stadium
14th - San Fransisco, CA : 3 Com Park
15th - Los Angeles, CA : Coliseum
22nd - Chicago, IL : Chicago Motor Speedway

August
1st - New Orleans, LA : T.B.D.
15th - Solana Beach, CA : Solano County Fair






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