As my 13-year-old son and I browsed a Buffalo, NY, record shop on a recent Saturday morning, his eyes were drawn to two action figures dangling from the wall. Both were from the popular ReAction toy line, known for its delightfully offbeat takes on pop-culture icons as diverse as Joe Strummer, Megan Rapinoe, Jimi Hendrix, the Creature From the Black Lagoon, and late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton. The two figures my son grabbed confounded him even more than the Dee Snider hanging nearby. One of them was an intense, glasses-sporting figure brandishing a whip while wearing a red flower pot on his head. The other clutched a guitar while wearing shades and a yellow jumpsuit. “Devo,” I said happily, while starting to ponder this most unique and easily identifiable group.
What’s with the outfits? How did this band become so iconic? What did they do beyond “Whip It”? These are legitimate questions,...
What’s with the outfits? How did this band become so iconic? What did they do beyond “Whip It”? These are legitimate questions,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Killswitch Engage were involved in a harrowing incident when their tour bus collided with an elk. Luckily, the band members are all okay, but sadly the elk didn’t make it.
The unfortunate accident happened while the metal band was on its way to In Flames’ Dalhalla Brinner festival in Rättvik, Sweden. As detailed by Killswitch frontman Jesse Leach, the band’s bus driver “sustained some torn ligaments.”
In a reflective post on Instagram, Leach wrote about how he was driven to tears thinking about “what could have been,” and expressed empathy for other bands who’ve dealt with more tragic results of similar incidents. While he didn’t mention any acts by name, most famously Metallica’s bus crashed in Sweden in 1986, killing bassist Cliff Burton.
Along with a video clip of the aftermath, Leach’s full Instagram post reads as follows:
“You never know what tomorrow holds take nothing for granted.
The unfortunate accident happened while the metal band was on its way to In Flames’ Dalhalla Brinner festival in Rättvik, Sweden. As detailed by Killswitch frontman Jesse Leach, the band’s bus driver “sustained some torn ligaments.”
In a reflective post on Instagram, Leach wrote about how he was driven to tears thinking about “what could have been,” and expressed empathy for other bands who’ve dealt with more tragic results of similar incidents. While he didn’t mention any acts by name, most famously Metallica’s bus crashed in Sweden in 1986, killing bassist Cliff Burton.
Along with a video clip of the aftermath, Leach’s full Instagram post reads as follows:
“You never know what tomorrow holds take nothing for granted.
- 8/25/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
It’s been nearly 30 years since Jenn Champion first began illuminating the darker sides of life with her songcraft and, now, the former Carissa’s Wierd vocalist is back with a new album. Entitled The Last Night of Sadness, the record is due on October 13th. Listen to the new lead single, “Famous” below.
The Last Night of Sadness has been a project three years in the making, and is the follow up to Champion’s 2018 record, Single Rider. With 12 new songs exploring the human condition in the less-than-ideal conditions of the modern world, the album — as well as the Kickstarter that funded its independent release — promise that Champion’s writing is as candid and resonant as ever. “I’ve struggled with being alive and fighting to stay that way, and it is hard to put that feeling into words, but on this record, I’ve really captured it,” Champion wrote on the Kickstarter page.
The Last Night of Sadness has been a project three years in the making, and is the follow up to Champion’s 2018 record, Single Rider. With 12 new songs exploring the human condition in the less-than-ideal conditions of the modern world, the album — as well as the Kickstarter that funded its independent release — promise that Champion’s writing is as candid and resonant as ever. “I’ve struggled with being alive and fighting to stay that way, and it is hard to put that feeling into words, but on this record, I’ve really captured it,” Champion wrote on the Kickstarter page.
- 8/15/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Believe it or not, Metallica used to be punk rock, refusing to sell out and make a music video. It wasn’t until the death of bassist Cliff Burton that the band swallowed its pride and went mainstream. The very first music video didn’t arrive until 1989 and came off the band’s fourth studio album, …And […]
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- 7/27/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Thirty-nine years ago this month, on April Fool’s Day, Kirk Hammett got a call he hoped was no prank: an offer to join Metallica. The guitarist, then age 20, was still playing in Exodus, the thrash-metal band he’d co-founded as a teenager, but he’d fallen in love with Metallica since they first played the Bay Area, where he grew up. So when he realized the opportunity was no joke, he flew to New York, where the band was prepping its debut album, and within two weeks, he was...
- 4/22/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
A museum honoring the legacy of late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is set to open in May in Ljungby, Sweden, near where Burton died in a tragic tour bus accident in 1986.
The Cliff Burton Museum, funded in part by the Swedish government, will feature ephemera from Burton’s tenure with the heavy metal legends — pictures, videos, tour posters, and more — as well as remembrances from first responders at the Sept. 27, 1986 crash site where Burton was killed at the age of 24.
(A decade ago, members of the Swedish faction of Metallica...
The Cliff Burton Museum, funded in part by the Swedish government, will feature ephemera from Burton’s tenure with the heavy metal legends — pictures, videos, tour posters, and more — as well as remembrances from first responders at the Sept. 27, 1986 crash site where Burton was killed at the age of 24.
(A decade ago, members of the Swedish faction of Metallica...
- 4/7/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In a break between songs about madness and war during Metallica’s concert Friday night, frontman James Hetfield paused for a moment of sincerity. “We are grateful that you have been along with us for 40 years, and we are so happy that you’re here still after all this time,” he told the audience at San Francisco’s Chase Center. “It still blows my mind. Because we were created to do this. I know it.” And then he and his bandmates proved his point by riling up the crowd with “The Shortest Straw,...
- 12/18/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone’s Essential Albums guides survey an iconic artist’s discography, breaking down their finest LPs into three tiers: Must-Haves, Further Listening, and Going Deeper. We also recommend key songs from other releases.
When James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica in 1981, they were a couple of pimply faced, adrenaline-starved teenage outcasts obsessed with the speed of Motörhead, weightiness of Black Sabbath, and intricate riffs of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Iron Maiden and Diamond Head. They wanted their metal faster, tougher, and more intense than anything they had ever heard,...
When James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica in 1981, they were a couple of pimply faced, adrenaline-starved teenage outcasts obsessed with the speed of Motörhead, weightiness of Black Sabbath, and intricate riffs of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Iron Maiden and Diamond Head. They wanted their metal faster, tougher, and more intense than anything they had ever heard,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Last fall, 20 years after the first Symphony and Metallica concerts, the thrash-metal firebrands returned for the orchestral shows documented on their new album, S&M2. As with the 1999 outing, the group teamed up with the San Francisco Symphony, but they decided to make the sequel an even bigger event, performing two nights in a gargantuan arena and incorporating new songs that didn’t get the orchestral treatment the first time around. They even tried their hands at performing a classical piece with the Symphony.
“Picking the songs was just an exercise in balance,...
“Picking the songs was just an exercise in balance,...
- 8/25/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Metallica will put out their S&M2 concerts — where they performed alongside the San Francisco Symphony last year — as a box set this summer.
Lars Ulrich announced the release Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he surprised Long Island nurse Tracy Bednar during the host’s #HealthcareHero segment. She told Kimmel that to deal with the anxieties of her job, treating children with Covid-19, she likes to blare Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” when it comes on the radio. She was visibly shocked and delighted to see Ulrich when he...
Lars Ulrich announced the release Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he surprised Long Island nurse Tracy Bednar during the host’s #HealthcareHero segment. She told Kimmel that to deal with the anxieties of her job, treating children with Covid-19, she likes to blare Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” when it comes on the radio. She was visibly shocked and delighted to see Ulrich when he...
- 6/11/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Lars Ulrich faced a conundrum when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited him to be a guest for one of his company’s fireside chats this week. Usually Benioff’s musical guests have been playing a song at the end of the interviews, which are broadcast on Salesforce’s social media channels, and the Metallica drummer didn’t know what he wanted to bring to the table. “I’m like, ‘Nobody wants a fucking drum solo,'” Ulrich tells Rolling Stone with a laugh. “It’s just kind of not the...
- 4/29/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
"Murder in the Front Row / Crowd begins to bang / And there's blood upon the stage / Bang your head against the stage / And metal takes its price / Bonded by blood."
These, the chorus lyrics to Exodus' title track from their debut album, "Bonded by Blood," are no longer just classic thrash metal lyrics; that first line is now the title of a killer, headbashing new documentary.
Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Area Thrash Metal Story is set to arrive digitally on Friday, April 24, in 4K or HD on most major domestic and international platforms.
And if you thought I only reviewed the film for the opportunity to talk metal for 1114 words, you'd be right ... initially.
Honestly, I was merely expecting the typical rockumentary -- usually pretty boring lip-flapping interviews, until the filmmakers decide to play metal thrashing mad tune-age or concert clips.
Murder in the Front Row is...
These, the chorus lyrics to Exodus' title track from their debut album, "Bonded by Blood," are no longer just classic thrash metal lyrics; that first line is now the title of a killer, headbashing new documentary.
Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Area Thrash Metal Story is set to arrive digitally on Friday, April 24, in 4K or HD on most major domestic and international platforms.
And if you thought I only reviewed the film for the opportunity to talk metal for 1114 words, you'd be right ... initially.
Honestly, I was merely expecting the typical rockumentary -- usually pretty boring lip-flapping interviews, until the filmmakers decide to play metal thrashing mad tune-age or concert clips.
Murder in the Front Row is...
- 4/24/2020
- by Kerr Lordygan
- TVfanatic
Some of the leading voices in thrash metal recalled their earliest musical influences in an outtake from the documentary Murder in the Front Row.
Metallica’s James Hetfield names Jeff Beck as in inspiration and his bandmate, Robert Trujillo, talks about Stevie Wonder. Anthrax’s Charlie Benante remembers opera in his house growing up, while Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine talks about the British Invasion and Motown. In the three-minute clip, which will accompany the upcoming home-video release of the film, members of Exodus, Slayer, Testament and many other bands all dig deep on their influences.
Metallica’s James Hetfield names Jeff Beck as in inspiration and his bandmate, Robert Trujillo, talks about Stevie Wonder. Anthrax’s Charlie Benante remembers opera in his house growing up, while Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine talks about the British Invasion and Motown. In the three-minute clip, which will accompany the upcoming home-video release of the film, members of Exodus, Slayer, Testament and many other bands all dig deep on their influences.
- 2/6/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Metallica have expressed a sense of loss following the death of Ray Burton, father of the band’s late bassist Cliff Burton, saying in a statement that they felt “incredible sorrow.” Ray’s daughter Connie revealed Sunday via Facebook that her father died last Wednesday. The metal quartet confirmed his age as 94, and Ray’s stepdaughter Casey stated in a tribute video that he died of pneumonia.
“For 38 years, we were lucky enough to have the energy, wisdom and light of Ray in our lives,” Metallica wrote in a statement on their website.
“For 38 years, we were lucky enough to have the energy, wisdom and light of Ray in our lives,” Metallica wrote in a statement on their website.
- 1/20/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
It’s the day after Metallica played a stunning concert with the San Francisco Symphony at the city’s enormous new Chase Center, and guitarist Kirk Hammett is letting his hair down in a tank top at his favorite restaurant in Sonoma, California. He’s here for a photo shoot for an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, but at the moment he’s reviewing video of last night’s rendition of “Nothing Else Matters,” which features a newly souped-up orchestral intro. The sight of it — or maybe the sound of...
- 10/9/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
For one night only, Metallica fans will soon be able to witness the combined forces of the world’s most famous heavy metal quartet and the San Francisco Symphony on the big screen.
The concert film “S&M2,” scheduled to hit theaters on October 9, will take viewers inside San Francisco’s Chase Center (now home to the Golden State Warriors) for the high-octane marriage of strings and metal that occurred on September 6. Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the original “S&m’” the concert made further history by serving as Chase Center’s inaugural event.
Though the change of venue meant the intimacy captured in Metallica’s first “S&m” — performed and recorded at the comparatively cozy Berkeley Community Theatre in 1999 — might be gone, the absence did not leave a void. Instead, as fans will soon experience, the atmosphere was palpably buzzing with excitement. Traveling from across the world, the crowd...
The concert film “S&M2,” scheduled to hit theaters on October 9, will take viewers inside San Francisco’s Chase Center (now home to the Golden State Warriors) for the high-octane marriage of strings and metal that occurred on September 6. Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the original “S&m’” the concert made further history by serving as Chase Center’s inaugural event.
Though the change of venue meant the intimacy captured in Metallica’s first “S&m” — performed and recorded at the comparatively cozy Berkeley Community Theatre in 1999 — might be gone, the absence did not leave a void. Instead, as fans will soon experience, the atmosphere was palpably buzzing with excitement. Traveling from across the world, the crowd...
- 10/2/2019
- by Zack Ruskin
- Variety Film + TV
When Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich first heard that one of the members of the San Francisco Symphony wanted to pay tribute to Cliff Burton, the band’s late bassist, at the group’s S&M2 collaboration earlier this month, he didn’t know what to expect. The orchestra’s principal bass player, Scott Pingel, went to the band’s headquarters and pulled out an electric bass and a pedal board and told the band he’d come up with an homage to Burton using pieces of his signature solo, “(Anesthesia...
- 9/27/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
When Lars Ulrich reflects on Metallica’s massive Damaged Justice tour now, he marvels that they were able to pull it off at all. “No band as extreme as ours had ever done a full arena tour,” he says. “So it was definitely a crapshoot, and it paid off.”
“Those were the years that we proved ourselves,” Jason Newsted, the band’s bassist at the time, says. “We were firing on all cylinders. Once the ‘One’ video came out, we were ready for it and the world was ready for Metallica.
“Those were the years that we proved ourselves,” Jason Newsted, the band’s bassist at the time, says. “We were firing on all cylinders. Once the ‘One’ video came out, we were ready for it and the world was ready for Metallica.
- 11/15/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Metallica became a force to be reckoned with on … And Justice for All, their fourth album and first after the death of bassist Cliff Burton. On their three previous LPs, they’d laid the groundwork for thrash metal, introduced melody and catchiness to the genre and built a following through relentless touring. If their third album, 1986’s Master of Puppets, was the apotheosis of their formative, underground years, then Justice, released two years later, ushered in a new, mainstream era for the band.
Dense, complex and mad at the world...
Dense, complex and mad at the world...
- 11/12/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
“I smell barbecue!” shouted James Hetfield, which was met with the hoots and cheers of thousands of Texans during the first weekend of Austin City Limits festival. Metallica hit the ground running on Saturday night — just a few minutes’ shy of their 8 p.m. start time.
Opening with the earsplitting combo of 2016 songs “Hardwired” and “Atlas, Rise!”, the metal gods sated their most devout fans with a setlist heavy with 1980s cuts, most prominently from 1984’s Ride the Lightning and 1986’s Master of Puppets. There were many tributes to be made; first,...
Opening with the earsplitting combo of 2016 songs “Hardwired” and “Atlas, Rise!”, the metal gods sated their most devout fans with a setlist heavy with 1980s cuts, most prominently from 1984’s Ride the Lightning and 1986’s Master of Puppets. There were many tributes to be made; first,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
The annual Austin City Limits festival kicked off on October 5th-7th with a jam-packed three-day lineup of rock, rap, pop and more. With the Texas senate race heating up (along with the actual atmospheric temperatures in Texas), it was a particularly zesty weekend of music. Here are the most memorable, exciting and all-around best performances we saw.
Most Legendary: Paul McCartney
His Fabness was in fighting form for his big Acl headlining slot, a marathon show running over two hours in a packed Zilker Park, under Texan skies. He...
Most Legendary: Paul McCartney
His Fabness was in fighting form for his big Acl headlining slot, a marathon show running over two hours in a packed Zilker Park, under Texan skies. He...
- 10/8/2018
- by Suzy Exposito and Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
There comes a moment in every Metallica gig lately where guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo take the spotlight for themselves. It’s listed officially on the band’s set lists as “Kirk/Rob Doodle” – a sort of open-ended “they’re gonna do whatever they want” – and it’s allowed them to stretch out in interesting ways.
They started out in 2017 riffing on infrequently-played entries from the Metallica oeuvre, like “Bleeding Me” and “I Disappear” and followed them with Trujillo’s take on the late Cliff Burton’s “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” bass solo.
They started out in 2017 riffing on infrequently-played entries from the Metallica oeuvre, like “Bleeding Me” and “I Disappear” and followed them with Trujillo’s take on the late Cliff Burton’s “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” bass solo.
- 9/22/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
“I was so in the dirt,” former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted has said of how he felt when his first full-length with the group, … And Justice for All, came out. “I was so disappointed when I heard the final mix. I basically blocked it out, like people do with shit.”
The album, which turns 30 this year, is one of Metallica’s greatest masterworks. Its songs are lengthy, nuanced statements on political devolution (the title track and “Eye of the Beholder”), the atrocities of war (the single “One”) and dealing badly...
The album, which turns 30 this year, is one of Metallica’s greatest masterworks. Its songs are lengthy, nuanced statements on political devolution (the title track and “Eye of the Beholder”), the atrocities of war (the single “One”) and dealing badly...
- 8/25/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Ray Burton is Metallica’s biggest fan and, at 92-years-old, still attends the band’s concerts regularly. Ray is the father of Metallica’s late bassist Cliff Burton who passed away in 1986 after a tour bus crash. Since then, Ray has been a frequent guest at Metallica concerts over the years in support of his son’s memory. […]...
- 8/11/2017
- by Jordan Appugliesi
- ET Canada
Wikipedia Commons
From the humbling beginnings the complete domination of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash scene to blowing up in ways nobody could have predicted and becoming a household name with a global fanbase of millions, Metallica have done it all.
Sadly along the way they would lose one of their best friends and key songwriters in the messianic bassist Cliff Burton, however since those very furtive first days the other three members of the band – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett – have all stayed the course, embarking on this crazy genre-defining, risk-taking adventure together.
Depending on your entry point over the years you may know them as one of The Big Four of thrash metal, ‘those guys who wrote Enter Sandman’, a group of Hawaiian shirt-wearing cigar-chompers who loved hard rock and blues, or just an ever-present behemoth of metal history.
You’d be forgiven for thinking...
From the humbling beginnings the complete domination of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash scene to blowing up in ways nobody could have predicted and becoming a household name with a global fanbase of millions, Metallica have done it all.
Sadly along the way they would lose one of their best friends and key songwriters in the messianic bassist Cliff Burton, however since those very furtive first days the other three members of the band – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett – have all stayed the course, embarking on this crazy genre-defining, risk-taking adventure together.
Depending on your entry point over the years you may know them as one of The Big Four of thrash metal, ‘those guys who wrote Enter Sandman’, a group of Hawaiian shirt-wearing cigar-chompers who loved hard rock and blues, or just an ever-present behemoth of metal history.
You’d be forgiven for thinking...
- 8/29/2014
- by Scott Tailford
- Obsessed with Film
When Metallica’s eponymously titled fifth studio album hit shelves on Aug. 12, 1991, fans, critics, and even the band’s Thrash metal brethren felt an instantaneous sense of betrayal. The pointed snarl and metal-up-your-a** belligerence that had come to define their sound during the mid-1980s had been transformed into mainstream merchandise suitable for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.
What had originally gained traction through small clubs and tape trading was no longer the property of the subculture responsible for its inception, and, for an army of socially disenfranchised heavy metal fans, nothing could be worse than having one of their beacons stolen from them in the name of big business.
For a genre that had always championed individuality and anti-establishment rhetoric, the reality of Metallica joining forces with Bob Rock to create something palatable for the masses was the equivalent of President George H.W. Bush halting the Gulf War to admit...
What had originally gained traction through small clubs and tape trading was no longer the property of the subculture responsible for its inception, and, for an army of socially disenfranchised heavy metal fans, nothing could be worse than having one of their beacons stolen from them in the name of big business.
For a genre that had always championed individuality and anti-establishment rhetoric, the reality of Metallica joining forces with Bob Rock to create something palatable for the masses was the equivalent of President George H.W. Bush halting the Gulf War to admit...
- 12/10/2013
- by David Hens
- Obsessed with Film
© Metallica Through The Never, Courtesy of Picturehouse
Exclusive Media will present award-winning writer/director Nimród Antal’s (Predators, Kontroll) captivating 3D concert/suspense film Metallica Through The Never featuring one of music’s most enduring and iconic bands to international buyers at this year’s upcoming Cannes Film Market, it was announced today by Exclusive Media’s President of International Sales and Distribution, Alex Walton.
Starring Metallica members Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, a cast of thousands of their fans and breakout star Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-man 2), Metallica Through The Never is produced by former IMAX film producer Charlotte Huggins (Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island). The film marries groundbreaking footage and editing techniques with a compelling narrative, in which a crewmember (played by DeHaan) is sent out on a mission during Metallica’s roaring live set...
Exclusive Media will present award-winning writer/director Nimród Antal’s (Predators, Kontroll) captivating 3D concert/suspense film Metallica Through The Never featuring one of music’s most enduring and iconic bands to international buyers at this year’s upcoming Cannes Film Market, it was announced today by Exclusive Media’s President of International Sales and Distribution, Alex Walton.
Starring Metallica members Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, a cast of thousands of their fans and breakout star Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-man 2), Metallica Through The Never is produced by former IMAX film producer Charlotte Huggins (Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island). The film marries groundbreaking footage and editing techniques with a compelling narrative, in which a crewmember (played by DeHaan) is sent out on a mission during Metallica’s roaring live set...
- 5/14/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sometimes when you speak to a casual wrestling fan the first thing they remember about a particular Superstar is their entrance music. For a large part of the 1980s and 1990s Jimmy Hart and Jim Johnston composed some of the most memorable and catchy WWF/E theme songs of all time.
In the late 1990s wrestlers began to use ‘real’ music to come to the ring rather than the generic WWE theme tunes of old with mainstream bands lending their tunes to WWE to accompany stars down the aisle.
In memory of those great days before bands like Papa Roach, Motorhead and Metallica came along and spoiled it all What Culture takes a trip down memory lane and remembers 10 of the very best old school theme tunes of all time.
See how many you remember.
10. Doink The Clown (heel)
Doink is one of those characters that divides wrestling fans right down the middle.
In the late 1990s wrestlers began to use ‘real’ music to come to the ring rather than the generic WWE theme tunes of old with mainstream bands lending their tunes to WWE to accompany stars down the aisle.
In memory of those great days before bands like Papa Roach, Motorhead and Metallica came along and spoiled it all What Culture takes a trip down memory lane and remembers 10 of the very best old school theme tunes of all time.
See how many you remember.
10. Doink The Clown (heel)
Doink is one of those characters that divides wrestling fans right down the middle.
- 3/18/2013
- by Matt Aspin
- Obsessed with Film
Last night’s Raw was billed as the “Old School” edition of Raw. I was a huge fan the first time they did this a few years ago and was looking forward to last night. However, this Old School Raw really didn’t have an Old School feel to it as much as the other episode. Save for a few Legend appearances and the set, this Raw could have been on any other week. The show may have supposed to have been Old School, but it was filled with enough New School disappointment.
Opening Segment
Dong! Yes, that’s right, he’s back. The Undertaker made his official return last night (although I’m sure if Tout returns actually count as a real return, if so, he came back last week via Michael Cole’s iPad) and set up his annual match for Wrestlemania. The way they did it was fine.
Opening Segment
Dong! Yes, that’s right, he’s back. The Undertaker made his official return last night (although I’m sure if Tout returns actually count as a real return, if so, he came back last week via Michael Cole’s iPad) and set up his annual match for Wrestlemania. The way they did it was fine.
- 3/5/2013
- by Gavin Eddings
- Obsessed with Film
1.) Emma Stone is in talks to star in Guillermo Del Toro's haunted house chiller Crimson Peak, which he announced last month will be his next feature directorial effort after Pacific Rim. Del Toro sees the film as his modern take on the classic, set-oriented ghost story, citing The Haunting, The Innocents and The Shining among its influences. He plans to film the project in early 2014 since he'll be busy the rest of this year making the press rounds for Pacific Rim and filming the pilot for his FX series "The Strain." Variety 2.) Legendary heavy metal band Metallica and the future Harry Osbourne, Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Chronicle) will star in the 3D concert film/coming-of-age hybrid Metallica Through the Never. DeHaan will play a young band crew member sent out on an urgent mission while the band is playing a live show for a sold-out crowd. The...
- 1/16/2013
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Breaking: One of my questions for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival has been answered: when the heck are Bob and Jeanne Berney getting back into the indie distribution mix? Well, they’re back. They’ve restarted Picturehouse, the shingle Berney ran before it was shut down by Warner Bros. After that, the Berneys started Apparition with Bill Pohlad, and left to start FilmDistrict with Peter Schlessel. After they left, they’ve been quietly been percolating the next move. At a relaunched Picturehouse, the Berneys get underway distributing a new film: Metallica Through The Never. It stars the guys in the band (who were so memorable in the 2004 documentary Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster), and Dane DeHaan, the Chronicle star who plays a band crew member. Here’s the announcement, and it will be interesting to see if they will be active players in what is shaping up to be a...
- 1/15/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
An appalling and heinous crime occurred in 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three eight year-old boys were murdered and their bodies left in a creek bed, naked and hog-tied. The murder shook the local residents and the police force, everyone unable to comprehend how this happened and who could have done such a thing.
Influenced by the, mostly erroneous, belief that satanic cults were on the rise in America the police decided that this was the work of one such cult and began looking for possible culprits. Seemingly top of their list were three local teenagers, Damian Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, with Echols positioned as the ring leader of the group. Echols was a fan of heavy metal, although actually relatively tame bands such as Metallica were the ones most often cited, a reader of writers such as Aleister Crowley and someone who often wrote rather dark poems in his journal.
Influenced by the, mostly erroneous, belief that satanic cults were on the rise in America the police decided that this was the work of one such cult and began looking for possible culprits. Seemingly top of their list were three local teenagers, Damian Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, with Echols positioned as the ring leader of the group. Echols was a fan of heavy metal, although actually relatively tame bands such as Metallica were the ones most often cited, a reader of writers such as Aleister Crowley and someone who often wrote rather dark poems in his journal.
- 10/12/2012
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With "Rock of Ages" thundering through theaters on Friday, the retro spotlight will once again shine on the crazy '80s, the decade of decadence when rock stars were true rock stars and unapologetic about being so.
In anticipation of the nostalgia this will inspire, we're looking at nine hard-rock and heavy-metal films that have made noise in the mainstream. Horns up!
9. 'Detroit Rock City' (1999)
While a majority of teen flicks tend to focus on love, partying and sex, 'Detroit Rock City' has a singular directive -- getting four teenage Kiss fanatics to a concert after one of their mothers burns their tickets and banishes her son to Catholic school. Naturally that's not going to stop them, and once reunited, the four garage bandmates (including Edward Furlong) go on a wild road trip that involves drugs, fights, a botched mugging and robbery, a strip club contest and other ridiculous situations.
In anticipation of the nostalgia this will inspire, we're looking at nine hard-rock and heavy-metal films that have made noise in the mainstream. Horns up!
9. 'Detroit Rock City' (1999)
While a majority of teen flicks tend to focus on love, partying and sex, 'Detroit Rock City' has a singular directive -- getting four teenage Kiss fanatics to a concert after one of their mothers burns their tickets and banishes her son to Catholic school. Naturally that's not going to stop them, and once reunited, the four garage bandmates (including Edward Furlong) go on a wild road trip that involves drugs, fights, a botched mugging and robbery, a strip club contest and other ridiculous situations.
- 6/14/2012
- by Bryan Reesman
- NextMovie
Of all the genres of music that exist in the world, metal probably receives the least credit. It's controversial, for sure, and aside from rap, it's the only other music that has an unfair, biased connotation to it. People think "metal" and they think of long, hair-sprayed hair, or ridiculous glam performances from the '80s. The truth is, metal is a wide, expansive genre with several different subgenres -- including, but definitely not limited to, Norwegian black metal, nu metal and thrash metal.
Canadian metalheads Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn are the uncontested historians of metal. Their debut metal feature, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, was released in 2005 to amazing reception, and since then they've been creating more documentaries. Their latest, Metal Evolution, is an 11-episode collection of historical and expository vignettes, focusing on how metal has grown into its own distinct genre.
Moviefone met up with Dunn and McFadyen...
Canadian metalheads Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn are the uncontested historians of metal. Their debut metal feature, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, was released in 2005 to amazing reception, and since then they've been creating more documentaries. Their latest, Metal Evolution, is an 11-episode collection of historical and expository vignettes, focusing on how metal has grown into its own distinct genre.
Moviefone met up with Dunn and McFadyen...
- 6/11/2012
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Huffington Post
Although 3D still has yet to prove itself as an essential component of any narrative-driven feature film, one of the areas where I think 3D does have a lot of potential is in music and concert films. This is a format where you can go crazy with visuals without having worry about breaking people's immersion or getting in the way of telling a story. It's true that some people have already been making use of 3D in these kinds of movies, but many of them have been aimed at kids (ie. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience and Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert). A couple of years ago U2 did a 3D movie, and last year we had Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (which tanked at the box office). Now the world's biggest hard rock / metal band is looking to use 3D to create...
- 3/13/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
In 1993 acclaimed director Joe Berlinger arrived in West Memphis, Arkansas, a community still in shock after three eight-year-old boys disappeared, then were found dead in a nearby ravine. Facing a public that was both enraged and afraid, police scrambled to make an arrest. Soon three local teens.Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley.found themselves in court, accused of the murders.
With no physical evidence linking the teens to the crime, prosecutors pointed to their black clothing and interest in heavy metal music, indications, they said, that the teens had formed a devil-worshipping cult and, inspired by the full moon, murdered the boys as a sacrifice to evil spirits.
Berlinger and co-director Bruce Sinofsky captured the teens' trials and subsequent convictions on film. In 1996 they released Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, followed in 2000 by Paradise Lost: Revelations, sparking a wave of outrage and legal challenges...
With no physical evidence linking the teens to the crime, prosecutors pointed to their black clothing and interest in heavy metal music, indications, they said, that the teens had formed a devil-worshipping cult and, inspired by the full moon, murdered the boys as a sacrifice to evil spirits.
Berlinger and co-director Bruce Sinofsky captured the teens' trials and subsequent convictions on film. In 1996 they released Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, followed in 2000 by Paradise Lost: Revelations, sparking a wave of outrage and legal challenges...
- 1/17/2012
- by Joshua Kors
- Aol TV.
On May 5, 1993, three eight-year-old boy scouts -- Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers -- were found dead. One month later, three teenagers -- Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley -- were arrested for the murders, despite a lack of evidence. They spent 18 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit, before being released in August 2011 after taking the Alford Plea deal offered to them.
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky chronicled the West Memphis Three's 1993 arrests and their sentencing in the 1996 HBO film, "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" and a 2000 sequel. The third and final installment of the "Paradise Lost" trilogy, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory," premiered on Jan. 12, 2012.
Jason Baldwin, who was just 16 years old when he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison, never gave up hope. He believed that everything would work itself out. Little did he know, however, it...
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky chronicled the West Memphis Three's 1993 arrests and their sentencing in the 1996 HBO film, "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" and a 2000 sequel. The third and final installment of the "Paradise Lost" trilogy, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory," premiered on Jan. 12, 2012.
Jason Baldwin, who was just 16 years old when he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison, never gave up hope. He believed that everything would work itself out. Little did he know, however, it...
- 1/13/2012
- by Crystal Bell
- Huffington Post
Chicago – If Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky hadn’t been in West Memphis, Arkansas to track the case of the young men who would become known as the “West Memphis Three,” one of them would almost certainly be dead and the other two would still be in jail. The powerful 1996 HBO doc “Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills” put the controversial case in a spotlight that burned brightly until the now-not-so-young men were finally released at the end of 2010. No one could have predicted that there would be enough twists and turns to this case that it would take over fifteen years, involve hundreds of people, and support three long feature documentaries, the last of which debuts Thursday, January 12th, 2012 on HBO and has been shortlisted for the Academy Award (and is predicted by most pundits to be a nominee). See one of the best documentaries of...
- 1/10/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chances are if you grew up during the 90s, Beavis and Butthead were a part of your life. They were offensive, edgy, and a parent’s worse nightmare paving the path for future franchises such as South Park and basically the entire original of the Adult Swim line up of animation geared towards mature viewers. The dimwitted duo created by the legendary Mike Judge (King of the Hill), made their television debut on March 8th 1993, spawning seven seasons and a full-length feature film.
The series truly was ahead of its time, and due to this factor became the target of the media as they played off the fears of easily brainwashed parents. Quickly, allegations were made towards the show, stating that it was promoting reckless and potentially fatal behavior among impressionable young viewers, who become inspired to imamate Beavis and Butthead.
A news story surfaced about the death of a...
The series truly was ahead of its time, and due to this factor became the target of the media as they played off the fears of easily brainwashed parents. Quickly, allegations were made towards the show, stating that it was promoting reckless and potentially fatal behavior among impressionable young viewers, who become inspired to imamate Beavis and Butthead.
A news story surfaced about the death of a...
- 10/28/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
One of the greatest Metal bands in the world will now be coming to a 3D cinema near you. According to Movieweb, Metallica will joining with Producer Charlotte Huggins to make a 3D feature film. There’s no clue as to what kind of film the band is making though. It could be anything from a 3D concert film to, well, anything. Metallica already released a documentary titled Metallica: Some Kind of Monster in 2004, so it’s unlikely they would revisit that.
- 10/23/2011
- by Matt Keith
- Killer Films
Just as their collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu, has been provided for listening purposes (I am the table), Deadline reports that Metallica are developing and self-financing a 3D feature. Other than extreme thrashing that pops out at you, what we can expect is anybody’s guess.
Still, we do know that Charlotte Huggins, the producer behind both Journey to the Center of the Earth movies, is being used to “get the ball rolling.” A director hasn’t been found yet, but the group is seeking someone “with the stones to direct a Metallica-style feature.” Don’t ask me why, but that gave me a good laugh.
This wouldn’t be the band’s first film project; the use of their music in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills helped bring attention to the plight of the West Memphis 3. The filmmakers behind that documentary, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky,...
Still, we do know that Charlotte Huggins, the producer behind both Journey to the Center of the Earth movies, is being used to “get the ball rolling.” A director hasn’t been found yet, but the group is seeking someone “with the stones to direct a Metallica-style feature.” Don’t ask me why, but that gave me a good laugh.
This wouldn’t be the band’s first film project; the use of their music in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills helped bring attention to the plight of the West Memphis 3. The filmmakers behind that documentary, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky,...
- 10/23/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Metallica's music has been featured in Joe Berlinger's documentary Paradise Lost in 1996 and most recently Spencer Susser's feature film Hesher. Deadline reports that band members are planning to self-finance a 3D feature film, and have brought producer Charlotte Huggins aboard to help develop the film. Huggins knows a little bit about 3D, she was responsible for one of the first big-budget films, Journey to the Center of the Earth and it's sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (which stars Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson). A director is currently being sought for the project.
This will be the first major film that the band members have been involved in. The band starred in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which "chronicled the band’s attempt to mend discord through intensive therapy." At this time, not much else is known about this project, but we will keep you...
This will be the first major film that the band members have been involved in. The band starred in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which "chronicled the band’s attempt to mend discord through intensive therapy." At this time, not much else is known about this project, but we will keep you...
- 10/23/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Might be a weird week to be Metallica. The band is on the verge of releasing Lulu, a collaboration with Lou Reed that has earned some of the most scornful reactions I've ever seen directed at any album in any genre. But no matter what happens, reviews be damned, Metallica keeps on going. I can respect that, even if I can't respect all of the work the band does. The band has a strange place in film history. The first major film allowed to use the band's music was Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. The prominence the songs gave the documentary is credited with helping bring attention to the three young men, aka the West Memphis Three, convicted of murdering young boys in Arkansas. The association between the band and Paradise Lost directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky resulted in the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster,...
- 10/22/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
The members of the heavy metal band Metallica are planning to self-finance a 3D feature film, I’m told. The band has hired producer Charlotte Huggins to get the ball rolling. She has produced the 3D films Journey to the Center of the Earth, and just completed the sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which stars Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson. The band’s now looking for a director with the stones to direct a Metallica-style feature. This would be the first major film made by the band members, but Metallica has already made a strong impression on the medium. Their decision to lend their music to Paradise Lost, the 1996 documentary on the West Memphis 3 that was directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, helped give that film weight and helped create international outrage over how three teens could be convicted of mass murder without a shred...
- 10/21/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Today commemorates 25 years since the death of Metallica bass player, Cliff Burton.
We all know Metallica as the metal behemoth it is today: headlining Big 4 concerts and selling countless albums across the world. All of this is built on the foundation of the band’s early days and the three albums that in the same amount of years turned them from exciting new band to greatest band in the world [...]...
We all know Metallica as the metal behemoth it is today: headlining Big 4 concerts and selling countless albums across the world. All of this is built on the foundation of the band’s early days and the three albums that in the same amount of years turned them from exciting new band to greatest band in the world [...]...
- 9/27/2011
- by Obi-Dan
- Geeks of Doom
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Directed by: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky Back in 1995, documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky flew down to West Memphis, Arkansas, to cover a murder trial that they thought would represent the callousness of today's youth and the total deterioration of American values. Three teenagers had apparently decided to kill and decapitate three eight-year old boys on a whim. What they found, however, was something entirely different: a small town witch hunt, an incompetent justice system and mass hysteria. Despite a complete lack of physical evidence, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelly were convicted and thrown behind bars before they could scarcely comprehend what had happened to them. The resulting documentary Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills was a landmark film, not just because it told a story that was both gripping and shocking, but also because it started a movement.
- 9/15/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Damien Echols, 36, Jason Baldwin, 34, and Jessie Misskelley, 36, known as the West Memphis Three were finally released from prison on Friday after being wrong convicted for the May 1993 killings of three 8-year-old boys from West Memphis, Ark.
I know this isn't really geek related, but the men were the subject of two Documentary films when they were teenagers, from Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. There is the 1996 documentary called Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, and a sequel follow-up film made in 2000 called Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, both of which cast doubt on their part in the murders. It's these documentaries that sparked interest for me and got me involved with what was going on. I recommend you watch the documentaries if you haven't already. There is actually a third one on the way called Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
The HBO docs sparked a nationwide movement urging authorities to re-examine the convictions.
I know this isn't really geek related, but the men were the subject of two Documentary films when they were teenagers, from Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. There is the 1996 documentary called Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, and a sequel follow-up film made in 2000 called Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, both of which cast doubt on their part in the murders. It's these documentaries that sparked interest for me and got me involved with what was going on. I recommend you watch the documentaries if you haven't already. There is actually a third one on the way called Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
The HBO docs sparked a nationwide movement urging authorities to re-examine the convictions.
- 8/19/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
HBO Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.”
As three men imprisoned since 1994 for the murder of three 8-year-old boys were expected to be released today, the filmmakers who trumpeted their innocence and drew worldwide attention to the case gathered at a Jonesboro, Ark., courthouse to cap a story they’ve been following for 18 years.
“What greater gift to a filmmaker than to see their work actually having real world impact,” said director Joe Berlinger.
In 1996, an...
As three men imprisoned since 1994 for the murder of three 8-year-old boys were expected to be released today, the filmmakers who trumpeted their innocence and drew worldwide attention to the case gathered at a Jonesboro, Ark., courthouse to cap a story they’ve been following for 18 years.
“What greater gift to a filmmaker than to see their work actually having real world impact,” said director Joe Berlinger.
In 1996, an...
- 8/19/2011
- by John Jurgensen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maine also on hand to see three men plead guilty and walk free.
By Gil Kaufman
Eddie Vedder (file)
Photo: Getty Images
Eighteen years after they were sent to prison for the murders of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in 1993, the men known as the West Memphis 3 were unexpectedly freed from jail Friday (August 19) when their lawyers reached an unusual deal with prosecutors.
With such celebrity supporters as Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder and the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines on hand to watch the proceedings, Damien Echols (36), Jason Baldwin (34) and Jessie Misskelley Jr. (36) were set free thanks to a legal maneuver called an "Alford Plea" in which the three men pleaded guilty while still maintaining their innocence as they acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict them.
"The gag order has been lifted, so now I can tell you, I'm sitting in a holding room...
By Gil Kaufman
Eddie Vedder (file)
Photo: Getty Images
Eighteen years after they were sent to prison for the murders of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in 1993, the men known as the West Memphis 3 were unexpectedly freed from jail Friday (August 19) when their lawyers reached an unusual deal with prosecutors.
With such celebrity supporters as Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder and the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines on hand to watch the proceedings, Damien Echols (36), Jason Baldwin (34) and Jessie Misskelley Jr. (36) were set free thanks to a legal maneuver called an "Alford Plea" in which the three men pleaded guilty while still maintaining their innocence as they acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict them.
"The gag order has been lifted, so now I can tell you, I'm sitting in a holding room...
- 8/19/2011
- MTV Music News
By Zachary Swickey
Death Cab For Cutie are about to tackle the second leg of their North American tour behind their seventh album, Codes and Keys, and the group is vocally keen on the prospect of a string quartet backing them on tour.
“It would be really fun to take Magik*Magik Orchestra out,” Death Cab guitarist/producer Chris Walla told Billboard. “But unfortunately, it is kind of a nightmare to try and figure it out.”
Magik*Magik is the small San Fransisco orchestra that provided Dcfc with string accompaniment on two of their new album’s tracks: “Codes and Keys” and “Stay Young, Go Dancing.” Magik even performed the tunes alongside Death Cab during their appearance on VH1’s Storytellers earlier this year.
Walla continued lamenting, “You can make a living or you can play with an orchestra. They’re totally mutually exclusive – you almost can’t do one and the other.
Death Cab For Cutie are about to tackle the second leg of their North American tour behind their seventh album, Codes and Keys, and the group is vocally keen on the prospect of a string quartet backing them on tour.
“It would be really fun to take Magik*Magik Orchestra out,” Death Cab guitarist/producer Chris Walla told Billboard. “But unfortunately, it is kind of a nightmare to try and figure it out.”
Magik*Magik is the small San Fransisco orchestra that provided Dcfc with string accompaniment on two of their new album’s tracks: “Codes and Keys” and “Stay Young, Go Dancing.” Magik even performed the tunes alongside Death Cab during their appearance on VH1’s Storytellers earlier this year.
Walla continued lamenting, “You can make a living or you can play with an orchestra. They’re totally mutually exclusive – you almost can’t do one and the other.
- 7/7/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
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