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Download Festival organiser responds to claims this year's event is 'louder'

Its festival booker said it could instead be down to weather conditions

Nottingham Post

Metallica at Download night two: the ultimate celebration of heavy metal

An even better setlist, a big party atmosphere and all the bells and whistles: Metallica's second night at Download was truly special

Metal Hammer

Download headliners Metallica make 'lifeline' donation to local homeless charity

Thrash icons donate £40,000 to homeless charity based near Download festival site in Leicester, England

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Residents 'can't sleep' as rock music blasting out 15 miles away makes walls RATTLE

People living in Derbyshire have complained about the noise coming from Download Festival this weekend, with some people saying that their walls were rattling due to loud rock music

Daily Mirror

Metallica's Download performance mistaken by residents 10 miles away in Stapleford as a 'party'

Residents have shared their thoughts on the noise, which was reportedly heard as far as Mapperley

Nottingham Post

Kirk Hammett recalls Joey Jordison's onstage tears before playing Enter Sandman with Metallica at Download

Metallica's Kirk Hammett relives playing Download 2004 with Joey Jordison for a forthcoming oral history of the UK festival

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Residents call police as Download Festival noise rattles windows 15 miles

Around 100,000 heavy metal fans are heading to Download Festival, which began on Thursday

Manchester Evening News

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Download Festival's loud Metallica set captured from 11 miles away

One resident filmed the sounds from their home

Nottingham Post

10 Metallica guitar techniques you need to know

How the rhythm and lead styles of James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett will power up your metal playing fast

Guitar World

Download Festival noise complaints made to police as acts heard 10 miles away

Fairly strong winds and a potential sound system upgrade may have contributed to the distance the noise travelled

Nottingham Post

Metallica at Download night one: metal's biggest band slay Donington after more than a decade away

The Four Horsemen dazzle Donington with a career-spanning, celebratory set

Metal Hammer

Five brilliant but obscure NWOBHM albums that could have been huge in a parallel universe

They could have been Iron Maiden. Or Def Leppard. Or even Saxon. But they weren't

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Download Festival 2023 set times as Metallica, Slipknot and Bring Me The Horizon headline this year's event

The festival is back in full force for 2023 with an extra day of music marking its 20th anniversary

Nottingham Post

The story behind Metallica's 72 Seasons: "We love what we do, and we love each other"

Metallica have gone from being a cult metal band to a commercial juggernaut and a household name. But even with new album 72 Seasons storming charts worldwide they’re still figuring out what it's all about

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Music photographer Mick Hutson has died, aged 58

Hanging out of helicopters, stopping the New York traffic, sweet-talking kidnappers: a celebration of Mick Hutson, music photographer

Guitar World

When Cliff Burton met Geddy Lee: “He started pacing, he started smoking pot, and he was like, ‘Oh my God!’”

Kirk Hammett remembers when Rush frontman Geddy Lee showed up at a Metallica show

Louder

Ian Hunter: an absolutely epic interview

He’s older than rock’n’roll itself, and back with an all-star cast on his new album on Sun Records. Here he talks to about working with Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins, punk rock, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, and sex and drugs in the 70s

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Rob Trujillo would love Slayer to cover the title track from Metallica's 72 Seasons

Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo says he would "love it" if Slayer covered the title track from 72 Seasons "because some people say there’s a competition [between us]"

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St Anger at 20: how Metallica's most maligned album saved their career

Metallica were facing oblivion at the turn of the millennium. 20 years ago today, they'd release the album that'd turn their fortunes around - and go down in infamy

The Guardian - UK

Metal superstars Avenged Sevenfold: ‘Reading Camus led to psychedelic exploration with a shaman’

They weathered the death of their drummer to score back-to-back US No 1s – frontman M Shadows explains why they’ve now left ‘hockey arena metal’ behind to make an absurdly polarising album

Louder

Here's what Metallica might sound like if they had Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates playing guitar

Metal content creator Kyle Norris whips out a brain-melting guitar solo in the style of Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates while pretending to gate-crash a Metallica rehearsal

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Here are Metallica's ten fastest songs, ranked by BPM

Here's all the proof you need that when they fancy it, Metallica know how to put the pedal to the metal

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Tickets are now on-sale for Metallica: M72 World Tour Live From Arlington, TX – A Two Night Event

Metallica will stream their two night stand at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for worldwide viewing

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"He made up for some of my lack of talent": Lars Ulrich remembers meeting James Hetfield for the first time

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recalls his first impressions of the man he’s shared a stage with for four decades

Guitar World

Kirk Hammett: “Maybe the age of active pickups is over”

The Metallica guitarist says PAFs age better and he has been swayed away from active humbuckers for lead work – and James Hetfield agrees

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