European Crisis Means Metallica Touring With One Eye Open

Wall Street Journal:

The rock group Metallica has made a living for the past 30 years growling about death in apocalyptic anthems like "The Four Horsemen" and "Enter Sandman."

Now, the heavy-metal pioneers are sleeping with one eye open for a different reason: Europe's financial crisis.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[Elyriaohio]

05:18 AM on 12/06/2011

New Metallica sounds like a garage band with no real songs. Just jamming loud & fast for hours.

[moutonnoir]

04:01 AM on 12/06/2011

That was a promotional puff piece. puh-leeeze...

[tmm77625]

06:00 PM on 12/05/2011

I think Burnstein should worry more about his band's crappy last couple of albums and less about currency exchange rates. When you're going to be touring based on a 20 year old album, you're starting to look more like Def Leppard than Metallica.

[ninjacb]

05:16 PM on 12/06/2011

yet rick allen plays better than urlich ever could.

[sensimilla]

05:53 PM on 12/05/2011

Metallica sold out decades ago. This article shows us that they now ONLY care about $$ and nothing about their fans. They are rearranging their european shows "just in case" euro rates go down and they'll make a bit less profits. GET REAL!

I "was" a huge Metallica fan...not so much any more...

[F4U Corsair]

06:31 PM on 12/05/2011

Love their music but they also were part of the whiners carping about shared music.

[BarryWolk]

04:49 PM on 12/05/2011

Do you all remember when metallica had thousands of us thrown off of the old Napster because they were luddites when it came to the future of music?

BTW: Can't stand their music, never could!!
UGH!

[norby413]

05:50 PM on 12/05/2011

Uh, yeah. And they were RIGHT to do so. "luddites"? So, wanting to get paid for your product is like soooo yesterday?
Glad you don't like their music. Some people are just more Michael Bolton than Metallica...lol

[Marc Driftmeyer]

02:36 AM on 12/07/2011

Lars Ulrich was correct.

[Hitchcockcameo]

04:16 PM on 12/05/2011

wow @ the bitter fans....

I still love their music.

[btbamfan]

03:17 PM on 12/05/2011

People still listen to Metallica?

[norby413]

05:50 PM on 12/05/2011

Still sellout every show, worldwide. What do YOU do?

[sensimilla]

05:54 PM on 12/05/2011

"sellout" perfect word to describe Metallica in the 21st century.

[btbamfan]

09:00 PM on 12/05/2011

Well I'm busy remaining relevant.

[Raiderbri]

03:16 PM on 12/05/2011

SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!

[AndyB62]

01:30 PM on 12/05/2011

Metallica is the metal band of the 1%.

[F4U Corsair]

06:33 PM on 12/05/2011

You said it.
TAX them more than Def Leopard. They got it!

[trying this again]

10:25 AM on 12/05/2011

Shouldn't there be a registered trademark after their name?

[dayzee10]

09:37 AM on 12/05/2011

They are the title holders for the greediest band ever! Not only that.......they suck too!

[norby413]

05:51 PM on 12/05/2011

100 million plus albums sold. Yeah, they really suck...

[tmm77625]

06:01 PM on 12/05/2011

Well, ya gotta admit, St Anger was spectacularly awful.

[dayzee10]

08:05 PM on 12/05/2011

There is no accounting for some people's taste, but you didn't deny that they are the greediest band

[Logicalthinker10]

09:26 AM on 12/05/2011

Everyone in Europe knows that s*** will hit the fan in fall/winter 2012.

[jcaunter]

09:20 AM on 12/05/2011

We ought to thank these guys for the plethora of free music available online now. If not for them, the RIAA might actually have grabbed Napster when it was still influential and monetized it.

P.S. they stopped making good music in 1987.

[AndyB62]

01:31 PM on 12/05/2011

Then they started suing their fans in the 1990's. Wow, so rock-n-roll Lars!!

[norby413]

05:52 PM on 12/05/2011

If you don't like the Black Album, you're an id.iot...

[Hypocrites are Watching]

04:41 PM on 12/06/2011

Worthless commercial pap!
If you like the black album you don’t like music, certainly metal!