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Metallica sit on packed suitcases. The “M72” tour continues, a little later than planned. The gigantic hard and heavy-heavy festival “Sick New World” in Los Vegas has been completely canceled for this weekend (April 12/13). According to the US media, the organizers have flown the lush ticket prices around $ 450.
James Hetfield and Co are now starting in Syracuse/New York on April 19, and usually call on their website for donating blood in the area of the concerts: “Donate Blood to Save Lives”.
Time enough to analyze some specialties of your 42-year band history. The selection fell on the 2008 album “Death Magnetic”, which was first produced by Rick Rubin. Guitarist and singer Hetfield admitted that two of the songs on stage are really super heavy to play.
BPM number that borders punk rock
“There is the track ‘My Apocalypse’. The guitar rhythm is extremely opposed to the text lecture. The absolute tough number. The vocal passages at ‘That what just your life’ are difficult to bring in. Counter-rhythm games that really make me skid, ”said Hetfield, who has been one of the most versed metal instrumentalists for decades.
“Most guitarists tremble in their boots when it comes to ‘My Apocalypse’. From the beginning, the song is incredibly fast, with a BPM number that borders on punk rock, since James Hetfield uses the pimper quickly,” said the “Metal Hammer” at that time.
The against each other in the composition, vocals and syncopic guitar riffs led the master of the strings to the border of his skills. In an earlier interview with the US specialist magazine “Guitar World”, Hetfield had explained that they wanted to take up the style of their 1990 phase with “Death Magnetic”.
“We took the essence of our previous style and played it with our expanded skills,” said Hetfield. “It was impossible to regain the virgin innocence. At the beginning we had zero respect for authorities or conventions. We went to the studio and played on it. That was one of the reasons why we selected Rick Rubin as a producer for this album. He brought back our essence. But we were no longer youngsters.”
Based on the statistics function of the LiveSong platform “Setlist FM”, metallica fans evaluated how often Metallica have made their own song challenge. “My Apocalypse” was played live 37 times, but the last time for some time, in 2011.