METALLICA To Play Intimate Show In Hollywood, California

METALLICA will play a special intimate show on Thursday, December 15 at Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California.

The band says: "If you would like to join us and you're a Fifth Member [member of METALLICA's official fan club], click here to enter to win an opportunity to purchase up to two tickets per member in a special presale that begins on Friday, December 9th at 9:00 a.m. for one hour only. Fifth Member tickets will be specially priced at $25 each and all proceeds from the sale of tickets to this show will be donated to Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Winners will be e-mailed a personal code by 5 p.m. PST on Thursday, December 8th, along with more details about how to purchase tickets to the exclusive one-of-a-kind show. You must be chosen as a winner in the contest to participate in the presale.

"If you're not a Fifth Member (or you missed out on winning a presale code),you'll still have a chance to purchase up to two tickets per person on Friday, December 9th at 11:00 a.m. PST at AXS.com for a price of $100 each, again with all proceeds donated to Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Collection bins will be also available at the door, so we encourage you to support those less fortunate by bringing canned goods or other non-perishable food items to the show."

METALLICA frontman James Hetfield recently said that the reaction to the band's new album, "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct", has been so positive, it has inspired him and his bandmates to release the next record sooner.

Speaking to Italy's Linea Rock about METALLICA's plans for the foreseeable future, Hetfield said: "I think we plan… At least for now, we've booked out two years [of touring]… at least. So I can't predict the future, but we start there and hopefully there's more than that. And I would like to make some new music sooner than eight years, for sure. [You get] such a pleasure and a joy of hearing your new music and having other people hear it. So we don't wanna wait that long."

"Hardwired… To Self-Destruct" consists of two discs, containing a dozen songs and nearly 80 minutes of music.

"Hardwired… To Self-Destruct" debuted as expected at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart on November 27, selling 291,000 copies in its first week of release. Both of the band's previous outings, 2008's "Death Magnetic" and 2003's "St. Anger", sold more copies in shortened sales weeks. "Death Magnetic" moved 490,000 copies in a three-day window, while "St. Anger" shifted 418,000 copies in a similar frame.