I went to this event with a good friend of mine named Al. He’s one of my convertees to Metallica, #154 or something like that. We took a Super Shuttle from campus to Baltimore International Airport. Our flight was barely an hour long. Then we took a ride to our hotel, the Renaissance, which was [...]

We got our invitations to the family reunion a while ago now, and leading up to last night’s festivities and tonight’s induction ceremony, there was a lot of excitement and the odd ripple of trepidation. Managers, tour managers, record labels, A&R men, promoters, old OLD skool metalheads from the underground fanzines and media, close friend [...]

I got there about noon with the banner, there were six other people waiting at the gate. SIX! I was shocked. People didn’t start showing up until literally a few hours before the show. It was a sold out show, I think. There were people sitting all the way up in the rafters. I was [...]

It all started in the night of July 24, when we met up at the pre show party in Club Backstage. We had a lot of fans from Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, Poland, Norway, France and Belgium…. Thanks to all who responded to the invitation and came. I think we made a [...]

I woke up the next day at 11:00AM. I take my time getting ready, talk to a few friends online, and have a small breakfast with Sarah and her parents. We get to the venue around 1:00PM, and I head to the non-metclub GA line. There I make friends with a kick ass mom and [...]

This took hours to arrive to. I was staying with a friend on the opposite side of Long Island. I left her house at 11AM, and didn’t get to the venue until 4:30PM. I was metclubber GA, so I was allowed in at 5PM, but I didn’t get the middle of the rail facing Lars’ [...]

In 1984, sometime I was on tour with my band, in the middle of America somewhere – it was in the middle of 3 and 4 ‘o clock in the morning – we were all crammed into our van, with all our equipment. It was raining outside, [we were] tired, [had] been on the road, [...]

Orion’ remains a superb song, and is beloved by bassists to this day for its range of expertise – from that iconic intro, via the solo figure at the start of the second movement, to the devastating solo at the end. Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse says: “My favourite Cliff Burton recording is ‘Orion’ from [...]

21P.M. Scene-club Backstage When the doors opened, I saw so many people there and could not believed it .I’m not sure if that was a result of the advertising campaign of “Harvester of Sofia”, “Virginia Records”, and “ZRock” or it was the fact that “Death Magnetic” was finally released. I don’t know … In Backstage [...]

I will try to retell our incredible experience to Berlin and back. We departed at 11 A.M in the morning by bus. The journey was long, well really long….. When we saw that there were only 250 kilometers to Berlin we rejoiced that we would arrive earlier than expected, but we passed to Dresden, and [...]