METALLICA Perform In South Africa: Audio Available

March 18, 2006

South African radio station 5FM (web site) broadcast two songs from METALLICA's performance at Saturday's (March 18) Coca-Cola Colab Music Festival at Supersport Park in Centurion, South Africa. Download the tracks at the following locations:

"Fuel" (audio)
"Creeping Death" (audio)

The festival kicked off on Saturday before moving to Absa Stadium in Durban on March 21, and Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town on March 25.

The 12-hour event will be the biggest international music festival South Africa has to date.

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich recently told Rolling Stone magazine that the band will spend about six months writing music for their ninth studio disc before commencing the recording process. The band announced last month that they will record their new album with producer Rick Rubin, who has worked with SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLIPKNOT, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, AUDIOSLAVE and others.

METALLICA's 1991 self-titled ("black") album sold more than 5,000 copies in the United States last week (week ending March 12),bringing the total number of copies sold since its release to 14.6 million (according to Nielsen SoundScan). Meanwhile, the band's most recent studio CD, 2003's "St. Anger", has shifted less than two million units in the U.S. so far.

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).