Mercury News, California — Lady Antebellum is the band for people who think Taylor Swift is just too darn country.Heck, it's the band for people who think Metallica is too country. more info

Metalsucks — Oy yoy yoy! And you thought the Zakk Wylde children’s book was ridiculous. Last week, I complained that Slayer have gone overboard with merch. But I guess my cries fell on deaf ears, because the legendary thrash outfit, and their peers in The Big... more info

411 Mania — From Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Metallica's "One" to Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and more, the 411 staff ranks their top 5 1980s songs of all-time! more info

Metalsucks — It was just about a year ago that we learned that Metallica’s Lars Ulrich had joined the cast of the HBO biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn, playing Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens opposite co-stars Clive Owen (in the role of Ernest Hemingway) and Ni... more info

Metalsucks — In case my headline didn’t give it away, James Hetfield is curating a “custom car + motorcycle show” for Metallica’s upcoming Orion Music + More festival, the two-day outdoor festival the band will headline this June in Atlantic City, a to... more info

411 Mania — Shooting begins in August… more info

Chorus.fm — *Metallica* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/metallica) are developing a 3D movie, which is described as "a marriage of narrative and concert." Nimród Antal, director of the recent Predators, has signed on to helm the film, with Charlotte Huggins ... more info

Topix — Eric Church: All you've got to do is put a drink in his hand, and play him some Metallica. more info

Metal Injection — The more I hear about this ridiculous Metallica 3D movie project, the less I am interested in it. First they hire producer Charlotte Huggins, who's major credits include crap like Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, and now there is an equally cr... more info

411 Mania — Working with the director of Predators... more info