Speaking of festivals, this weekend Metallica played the whittled-to-one-day Ozzfest, and as an addendum to their “nothing after 1991″ set the band debuted a song from the forthcoming Death Magnetic, which they’d finished mixing Saturday morning. “Cyanide” is one of the “seven-minute, eight-minute, nutty-ass songs” that incorporates “kind of hardcore, nutty super-fast speed stuff” that Lars Ulrich promised would be on Death Magnetic back when it was but a gleam in Rick Rubin’s eye. And it actually sounds kind of good, if a little overlong, with maybe one or two too many repetitions of the “Wherever I May Roam”-reminiscent bit. YouTube embed after the jump, along with just-announced tour dates.
All October/November dates with Down and The Sword :
October 21 - Glendale, AZ Jobing Arena
October 23 - Albquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
October 25 - Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
October 26 - Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
November 1 - Portland, OR Rose Quarter
November 3 - Salt Lake City, UT Energy Solutions Arena
November 4 - Denver, CO Pepsi Center
November 6 - Omaha, NE Qwest Center
November 8 - Moline, IL iWireless Center
November 9 - Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
November 17 - St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
November 18 - Tulsa, OK BOK Center
November 20 - Houston, TX Toyota Center
November 22 - Little Rock, AR Alltel Arena
November 23 - New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
All December dates with Lamb of God and The Sword:
December 1 - Seattle, WA Key Arena
December 2 - Vancouver, BC GM Place
December 4 - Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
December 7 - Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
December 12 - Ontario, CA Citizens Bank Arena
December 13 - Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
December 15 - San Diego, CA Cox Arena
December 17 - Los Angeles, CA The Forum
December 20 - Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
All January dates with Machine Head and The Sword:
January 12 - Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
January 13 - Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
January 15 - Washington, DC Verizon Center
January 17 - Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
January 18 - Boston, MA TD Banknorth Center
January 26 - Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
January 29 - Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
January 31 - Newark, NJ Prudential Center
Metallica - Cyanide [YouTube]
Ozzfest 2008: Metallica, Ozzy, Serj Tankian, Jonathan Davis Pummel Texas Stadium [RS]
TOUR SHOCKER … METALLICA TO PLAY IN N. AMERICA! [Metallica.com]
[Photo: AP]
Those can’t be all the tour dates, can they? Des Moines and Omaha, but no Minneapolis/St. Paul?
The only think that I could tell from that shitty video is that they’re still quite full of themselves.
Will the whole tour be “nothing after 1991 with a new-song encore”? I’d see that.
lol, he’s even saying ‘ooh’ in that picture
anyone have a link to that cute metallica parody song that made the rounds years about (guess it was at st. anger time)?
oh, and then i watched the youtube (halfway, got bored). didn’t slayer do that main riff years ago? is it seasons in the abyss that sounds like that? or something from that album.