A week after Kanye West set a new high-water mark for the biggest album debut of 2021 on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with Donda, Drake obliterated that record with Certified Lover Boy. West launched with 313,000 album-equivalent units. Drake earned close to double that total, more than …
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UPDATE (8/13):The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 – The Black Album will premiere on August 20th, the 30th anniversary of the band’s self-titled fifth LP. A trailer for the show has dropped as well. In addition to a supersized box set and a tribute album, Metallica will mark the 30th anniversary …
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J Balvin has dropped his rendition of Metallica’s classic “Wherever I May Roam,” one of the more anticipated covers from the upcoming Metallica Blacklistcollection that accompanies the heavy metal legends’ massive Black Album reissue. As opposed to a straight cover of the Black Album classic, the video for Balvin’s version …
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Swedish hard rock outfit Ghost paid tribute to Metallica with an intense cover of “Enter Sandman” in honor of Metallica receiving Sweden’s top musical honor, the Polar Music Prize,Thursday. Ghost took the stage in their trademark gothic costumes and opened the song with an eerie, deft piano part that twisted …
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When Metallica began gathering together everything they had in their vaults to include in a super-deluxe, box-set reissue of their touchstone 1986 LP Master of Puppets, they realized they had a lot more material to work with than on the reissues of their first two albums. “The hardest part of …
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