About once a month, Absolute Metallica will give readers a short recap of what's been happening in 'Tallica Land, and what's on the horizon. We'll also throw in a Blast From the Past in the form of a video or something that you might have forgotten about - or never seen before.For our first installment, we're looking back at our first month online. We, the creators of Absolute Metallica, have held a love for the band since the mid-eighties. James, Lars, Kirk, Cliff, Jason, and Robert have laid down the soundtrack for our lives, and keeping fellow fans up to date is something that we love to do. To that end, if there's ever something that you'd like to see us do differently, or something that you really appreciate that you'd like to see more of, feel free to let us know in the Comments section of the posts on Absolute Metallica, (by the way, you don't have to be a registered anything to leave comments here - you can do so anonymously) or send us a message via the Absolute Metallica Myspace page.
In May, Mission Metallica fired up in a big way, and gave us our first concrete glimpse into the new album, (due out in September).
As we roll on through the summer, there's no doubt that the band will offer us more insights into what's what.
Something that we are REALLY looking forward to is the release of the first new single. Rumors are running wild over whether or not it will be one of the two new songs that were performed live when the band was on tour in '06, ("New Song" and "Other New Song" respectively) - though we tend to think of them as "Death is not the End" and "Vulturus".
It seems that most of the "Fly on the Wall" snippets that we've seen thus far at Mission Metallica have been from "Death is not the End" - leading us to believe that that will most likely be the first single... but who knows? Maybe we'll hear all of that "Suicide - I've already died!" song, or even the "Bow down! Sell your soul to me - I will set you free!" Whatever the first single is, we can't wait to hear it.
In the Rolling Stone interview that was done last month, James said that the band was trying to "embrace the past in the now" with the new album, leading many fans to believe that Metallica will use "Master of Puppets" as a jumping off point for what they're recording now. It's an interesting thought, and will be even more interesting to see how the boys will reinterpret, or evolve back to, a record that was made over two decades ago.
Speaking of decades ago, if you haven't listened to the 1983 show from the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio that was recently added to Metallica's Vault, give it a shot. Hearing the band play "new" songs in their set like "Creeping Death" and "Fight Fire With Fire" is a trip. Knowing the songs as well as we do now, it's strange to hear them in such a raw infancy. Of course, one of the highlights of the show is Cliff's rippage through "Pulling Teeth" - as well as the incredible bass line through "The Call of Ktulu". What a great, classic show.
Okay, that's enough for now. We'll be back next month with another Editorial. In the meantime, we'll keep you up to date on the Absolute latest Metallica news. Give us a daily look to see what's new, or sign up for the RSS feed. Another way to stay in touch is through Myspace. Whenever something is added to Absolute Metallica, we'll put up a Myspace Bulletin to give you a head up.
And now for a BLAST FROM THE PAST!
After listening to the Cleveland show from the Vault, we were inspired to go way back to 1985 for the first Blast. Here's Metallica's performance of "The Four Horsemen" from Germany's Metal Hammer Fest.
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