History Of Metallica 1991-2000
xx.02.91
Metallica wins its second Grammy, for Best Metal Performance for Stone Cold
Crazy.
30.07.91
World premiere of the video for Enter Sandman.
01.08.91
First show on the megatour - 'Wherever I May Roam' 91-92-93 at Phoenix Theatre -
Petaluma, CA.
12.08.91.
The black album Metallica saw the light of day. Some shops opened the doors at
00:01 in the morning to be the first to sell the black album.
xx.02.92
Performed Enter Sandman at Grammys, and won for Best Metal Performance.
26.02.92
World premiere for the video Nothing Else Matters.
20.04.92
Played at "Concert For Life," a tribute show to Freddy Mercury at the
Wembley Stadium in London. Metallica played three songs, which were
released as a single only days later. All proceeds from this gig and the sales
of the single were donated to Freddy Mercury's AIDS fund. The show was also
TV broadcasted to the whole world.
09.08.92
James got burned by the pyrotechnics in Montreal, Canada. The next gigs had to
be cancelled because James couldn't play the guitar with his burnt hand.
25.10.92
The first time Metallica played So What? live. What obviously made it so cool
was that Animal, the vocalist from the Anti-Nowhere League who wrote this
song, was dragged up to sing this masterpiece at Wembley Area, London, England.
05.11.92
All four members of Diamond Head were on the guest list this day in Birmingham,
England. This started Metallica thinking of the possibility of jamming with
them. With two drum sets on the stage, all eight band members played Am I Evil?
and Helpless together. The members of Diamond Head are close friends of
Lars, for he traveled with them on tour before Metallica was
formed. Both of these tracks, and the jam with Animal ten days earlier, are
available on the "Metallican vid" that comes in the Metallican-box
for ...And Justice For All.
Nov. 92
The two home videos, "A Year And A Half In Ihe Life Of Metallica,"
parts 1 & 2, were released.
21.01.93
Some people at Elektra suggested that Metallica should come to Manhattan, and
transform a record store into their own Metalli-store. The guys liked the
idea and opened the store to a flood of fans on this day, selling only Metallica
albums and merchandise. A tape was released for this day, and was
exclusively sold at this shop on the Grand Opening. The tape consists of a
medley recorded in Moscow. It was James who designed the tape cover with a
drawing of Scary Guy.
22.01.93
A new tour saw the light of day. The "Nowhere Else To Roam" Tour '93
began in Kalamazoo, MI.
29.11.93
The box set "Live Shit: Binge & Purge" was released containing
three CD's, three videos and a book.
28.05.94
'Shit hits the Sheds' starts with a Rehearsal Show in Buffalo, NY.
22.06.94.
Performed live at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Detroit. Glenn Danzig and Chuck
Biscuts from Danzig played Last Caress with the band. Last Caress was
written by Danzig when he was a member in Misfits.
03.07.94.
Performed live at the World Music Theatre in Chicago. This is Danzig's last show
on the tour; Glenn Danzig sings London Dungeon, Last Caress, and Green Hell
with the band. Suicidal Tendencies joins the band during So What?
21.08.94.
Performed live at the Bicentennial Park in Miami. The last show of the
"Summer Shit Tour". Special guest is Rob Halford (ex-Judas Priest, now
Fight) who sings Rapid Fire (an old Judas Priest song) with the band.
23.08.95
The tracks 2 x 4 and Devil's Dance are played for the first time in front of an
audience at the London Astoria in England. This was a private show, and
only members of the fan club were invited. According to Metallica this was the
best gig they had ever played. This was also the first date on their short
tour "Escape From The Studio" 95.
03.09.95
The Arctic Circle show, sponsored by Molson Breweries in Canada. 500 or so
contest winners were invited to the "Coldest Show On Earth," in
arctic northern Canada, a place so desolate and frigid that the only way in or
out was by charter flights. The show was played in a huge, clover-shaped
tent. Using four massive, fuel-burning, heating units they managed to keep the
temperature warm enough for the instruments to function!
13.11.95
Metallica performed 7 Motorhead songs (dubbing their performance the "Lemmys")
during Lemmy's birthday party at the famous club "Whiskey A
Go-Go". This is also the club where Lars and James met Cliff Burton.
xx.12.95 - xx.02.96.
The band went into the Plant studio in Sausalito, California, where they
recorded 18 of the 25 tracks due to appear on the new album. Again, Bob
Rock is producing.
09.06.96
The four guys played at Slims Club, in San Francisco, for fan club members only.
They did three members-only gigs in a row this month.
06-07.05.96
The video for Until It Sleeps was shot at locations around and in Los Angeles.
MAY.96
Our four guys spent time travelling around the world to promote the new album.
They conducted numerous interviews, and organized huge listening parties
where they would set up a truck full of speakers and play the new album, then
sign some autographs for the fans. This occurred all over the world; in the
States, Europe, Australia and Japan.
20.05.96
The single Until It Sleeps is released world-wide, excluding Northern America,
where the fans would have to wait one more day.
26.05.96.
A huge Metallica listening party was held on the second day of the DYNAMO
Festival in Eindhoven, Holland. Metallica's new album, Load, was played
through the PA at the festival site for the 60,000+ audience, making this the
largest listening party held, ever!! Two band members (probably Lars &
Kirk) were at the festival site to present this event, to give interviews, and
to promote the new album. Load was released a whole week earlier in Holland
than the rest of the world, to make it possible to be sold at the festival.
Therefore, Eindhoven was blessed not only with hosting the world premiere, but
also with the release of the album for the first time anywhere in the
world!
01.06.96
Load is released in Japan only.
03.06.96.
The album is released world-wide.
04.06.96.
The album is released in North America.
11.06.96
Metallica played live for the entire world, via the Internet. The broadcast site
was Slim's, a small club in San Francisco, where the Webcast crew beamed
the show across the globe, live as it happened, in spycams, music, video,
pictures and descriptions.
17.06.96
MTV presented a Metallica contest that was so huge it took four tractor trailers
to deliver the prizes to the homes of the four contest winners. The four
band members of Metallica hung out with the grand prize winner, met the
neighbors, and played some tunes. The contest final was aired July 1.
27.06.96
The American Loolapalooza festival tour starts in Kansas City with Metallica
headlining the bill.
12.09.96
Another European tour begins. This time the tour starts in Ostenhalle, Germany.
23.09.96
Recorded the live video of Hero Of The Day in Barcelona, Spain. They weren't
using a recording, and 5 seconds before each of the 3 times they played the
song, a metronom was introducing the band to the required rythym, and the beeps
of it sounded throughout the whole audio system at the stadium. Also, Kirk
got 3 or 4 notes wrong on the intro during the first attempt. Moreover,
Lars asked the crowd to be more energetic in each one of the new versions they
played. So, by the third try, it sounded louder than hell!
13.11.96
Metallica recorded 3 live songs for the TV program "Later With Jools
Holland," on the British channel BBC2. Wasting My Hate, Mama Said
(James only acoustic) and King Nothing were performed completely live, with no
playback.. It was broadcast on November 16th.
14.11.96
Metallica was intoduced to perform King Nothing live on stage at the MTV Europe
Video Awards show. The lights went down and the band launched into the song
Last Caress followed by So What? A few classic minutes of television to savour.
The band was nominated earlier that evening, in the "Best Rock
Video" catagory, but the award went to the Smashing Pumpkins. James later said
in an interview: We needed to wake people up at the show! We felt it was a
little boring, and we had been daring each other to do that for years.
18.11.96
The single Mama Said is released world wide.
18 & 19.11.96
Apocalyptica, the band who released an album containing Metallica covers
performed with cellos, opened for Metallica in Helsinki, Finland.
17.01.97
King Nothing premiered on MTV on 1/17/97. It was shot in Salt Lake City, Utah
about a month earlier.
26.01.97.
Lars got married to his long time girlfriend Skylar. Apparantly Lars said that
thing about them breaking it off was so that they would not get mobbed by
fans at the church they got married in.
27.01.97
MetallicA played "King Nothing" on the American Music Awards and won
the price for best metal/hard rock album. When they went up to accept their
award, Lars said, "I would like to thank this man, James Hetfield, for
putting on his best suit and being my best man at my wedding last
night."
22.02.97
Ted Nugent was guest star at the gig at Palace Of Auburn Hills. They weren't too
happy with him for what he did. Ted basically forced his way into their
show, then ruined their moment in the sun (throwing pics and sticks and thanking
the crowd).
22.08.97
Metallica played 3 festivals in Europe this summer to get out of the studio for
a while. First day was at the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, Belgium
23.08.97
Blindman's Ball Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
24.08.97
Reading Festival, Reading, U.K.
06.10.97
To celebrate the release of their new album, Metallica wanted to play a concert
- for free. The only problem was that they didn't know where! They gave the
fans a few details and a 800 telephone number where they could call in to make
suggestions. The free concert had to be held on Tuesday, November 11
(Veteran's Day), outdoors as this had to be a big free show for anyone wishing
to make the trip. Over 120,000 Metallica fans bombarded a phone lines.
10.10.97
Photo session for the launch of the new album has already took place, and it is
a stunning live session by Anton Corbijn. These live photos will be
included in the packaging for the new album. There was further two photo
sessions prior to the album release, which was for press use.
18.10.97
The 11th Annual Bridge School Benefit Shows at Shoreline Amphitheater, San
Francisco. They played an entirely acoustic set which lasted about an hour.
Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains came out and played the Lynrd Skynrd song
Tuesday's Gone. They also played Lowman's Lyrics for the first time.
19.10.97
The second Annual Bridge School Benefit Show at the save venue. the sets were
the same except on Saturday they did not play Low Mans Lyric, instead they
played another new tune called "My Eye's". Also on the bill was Kacy
Crowley, Blues Traveler's, Lou Reed, Smashing Pumpkins, Alanis Morissette,
Dave Matthew's Band, and Neil Young.
20 & 21.10.97
The band shot the "Memory remains" video in LA, actually at the Van
Nuys airport. It costed $400.000.00 and featured the band it a huge box
that costed over $100.000.00. The video had it's world premiere on MTV's
Mattrock show the 15th of November 1997.
26.10.97
The final day for the fans to call in to teh 800 telefone number and suggest a
place where Metallica could play their free show. The "winner"?
Philadelphia's CoreStates Arena parking lot.
07.11.97
Neighbours of the Philadelphia's CoreStates Arena parking lot in South
Philadelphia are going went court on morning to try to block the free
outdoor concert by the "heavy-metal band". It wasVincent Fumo who
asked his Harrisburg lawyer, Christopher Craig, to see what he could do.
Craig spent all day drafting a request for an injunction that he delivered to
Common Pleas.
11.11.97
Metallica's free concert, dubbed the "Million Decibel March," was helt
in Philadelphia parking lot and was a great success. For the show's intro,
they showed Jaymz playing the famous ESPN commercials' "Da-na-na, na-na-na"
from the Sportscenter music on his guitar. Here is what the local
newspapaer Philadelphia Inquirer had to say about the show: "It was part
burlesque show, part rugby match, and hearing-loss loud. The band was
profane on stage and charming before the show. Police pronounced the fans better
behaved than a Philadelphia Eagles crowd. And neighbors who feared the worst
from the self-styled Loudest Band in the World complained more about the
sound from the news choppers circling overhead."
12.11.97
Memory Remains single released in America. It has been available in Europe ant
the rest of the world for a few weeks
13.11.97
Lars and his bandmates played a free show at London's premier dance venue
Ministry Of Sound to launch their new album 'Re-Load'. Prior to the show
Lars said in a press release: "I've never heard of the Ministry Of Sound
but I'm sure Metallica playing there will making it a hit!"
06.12.97
Metallica performed live on NBC's Saturday Night Live show
March 98
The world tour in support of Reload in Asia. Metallica wasn't there on their
Load tour, and they did Australia as well.
23 Jun 1998
Rehearsals for the upcomming "Poor re-touring me 98". The tour started
the day after in West Palm Beach, Florida, and ended in San Diego,
California September the 13th.
15 Aug 1998
Lars becomes a father. Skylar Ulrich gave birth to a baby boy, Myles Ulrich, at
4:15 am in New York City. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and was 20 inches
5 Sep 1998
George, WA (The Gorge) Someone in the crowd threw a glass bottle towards the
stage and hit Jason in the head! Jason got hurt but came back and finished
the show as strong as ever. "We are here to give it all we got but I don t
understand why we have to watch out for shit thrown at us during the show.
I hope they find that fucker who did it" - James comments to the audience
after the incident.
14 Sep 1998
Metallica went straight in to the studio the day after the last show in San
Diego. They recorded the new songs on the "Garage Inc." CD
18 Oct 1998
Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles. A 45 minutes gig in front of some of the most
beautiful women in the world and other celebrities. Metallica played at the
Playboy party
Oct 19 1998
Photo shoot in Los Angeles Metallica spent 6 hours at the old "Ambassador
Hotel" together with photographer Danny Clinch. The pictures was ment for
the "Garage Inc." cover
21 Oct 1998
Metallica spent Wednesday the 21st recording the video for their version of Bob
Seger's Turn The Page from the upcoming Garage Inc. album. The clip is
directed by Swedish director Jonas Akerlund, who also filmed Madonna's Ray of
Light video and Prodigy´s Smack my Bitch. It all took place at Raleigh
Studios in Los Angeles.
19 & 20 Nov 98
Metallica perform two to support the release of Garage Inc. The Aragon Ballroom
-Chicago the 19th and State Theatre, Detroit, MI on the Nov 20th
23 Nov 1999
Metallica's New album S&M is Released.
27 Dec 1999
Metallica performs their numbers from S&M at the Billboard music awards and
was given the honour to give the price to the "Band of the Year".
X.03.00
Their song No Leaf Clover is released thru' video.
X.04.00
MetallicA Decides to give OST to the Movie Misiion Impossible II .the Song is
Named "I Dissapear".
15th April '00
Metallica Files Suit Against Napster!
Suit alleges that Defendants have violated the law by committing continuing
copyright infringements, unlawful use of digital audio interface device,
and violations of the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act
(RICO) Internationally renowned recording artists Metallica, E/M Ventures and
Creeping Death Music have today filed suit in U.S District Court
Central District of California against Napster, Inc., The University of Southern
California, Yale University, and Indiana University.
Jan 17th 2001.
Jason leaves Metallica !
reason: harmful bruises to the body due to relentless touring.
