Rolling Stone — The Big News: Metallica only needed four days to storm to the top of the charts, as the current cover boys sold 490,000 copies since its Friday release. While the shortened week prevented the band from setting a personal one-week sales record, they d... more info

Starpulse — Rockers Metallica are desperate for an upcoming band to "steal their thunder" and knock them off the top of the charts.[...] Read more! more info

Chicago Tribune — LONDON (AP) _ Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has shared the world stage with Britain's queen, the pope and the Dalai Lama. more info

DrownedInSound — Mastering engineer claims new Metallica album Death Magnetic sounds better on Guitar Hero than it does via the CD release due to excessive compression more info

Rolling Stone — Death Magnetic is finally here, and so is the Metallica cover of Rolling Stone. Pick up the new issue today to find out what it took to make their heaviest record in decades, plus how they continue to deal with ego clashes and the fallout of Some Kin... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Dotmusic - Rockers shift nearly 500,000 copies of "Death Magnetic" in three days more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Rockers Metallica are desperate for an upcoming band to "steal their thunder" and knock them off the top of the charts. more info

Rock band Metallica top the US album chart based on just three days of sales of their latest release, Death Magnetic. more info

BBC News - UK — Rock band Metallica top the US album chart based on just three days of sales of their latest release, Death Magnetic. more info

Pop Justice — It's quite noisy. more info