Preview pages of James Hetfield biography surfaced

James Hetfield is for sure a outstanding personality in the world of metal. Before becoming known as one of the greatest metal guitarists in the world, Hetfield surpassed several barriers throughout his adolescence including his parents’ divorce, his mother’s untimely death and severe alcoholism.

It is for sure interesting to read how he went along with all the stuff that crossed his path. I always enjoy a look at the beginnings of people. It's exciting to read how they lived their lives, which decison lead to which consequence and how other stuff found their way into their lifes. Some info and story of that kind is about to come our way with the book "So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica's James Hetfield". After months of speculation from fans and critics, preview pages of the introduction and chapter 1 are now available exclusively on CLRVYNT.

Update 2017-06-04: A excerpt of chapter six along with some pictures takes out of the release have been published online at the pages of Noisey. This part of the book talks about the creation of the second Metallica album "Ride The Lightning" and offers some nice insight into the making of.

The cover of "So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica's James Hetfield", (c) by Lesser Gods, used with kind permission

In the first biography of a living Metallica member the author Mark Eglinton uses exclusive, firsthand interviews with a number of artists and celebrities who have crossed paths with Hetfield including members of Metallica, Chuck Billy (Testament), Charlie  Benante (Anthrax), Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains), Rex Brown (Pantera), and more to construct the definitive account of Hetfield.

So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica’s James Hetfield will hit shelves and online stores on April 11, 2017 via Lesser Gods. The publication can be pre-ordered via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indies.

BangerTV starts up with first videos on youtube

Sam Dunn is a well-known name in the world of Heavy Metal documentaries. I was first introduced to his work as I saw the documentary Flight 666 which shows Iron Maiden touring around the globe in their own airplane.

Next was the Metal Evolution series which was the first that gave a detailed insight into the history of Heavy Metal with focussing on one subgenre and it's development in each episode. He also was the first to set up a proper family tree of our beloved music from the beginnings up to today. But what is he up to today?

Sam Dunn's newest project is called BangerTV. Details on the full BangerTV channel launch are still to be released but at the moment fans can already preview some stuff from BangerTV through the Youtube Channel. Here's a short overview of what you can watch right now. You can find the proper videos through the name of the category that it is labeled with (for example Raw and Uncut Lamb Of God )

Raw and Uncut - The very best interviews from Banger's 10-year history, with brand new director's commentary from Sam Dunn. Check out interviews with Bruce Dickinson, and a young Lamb of God.

This Band Changed My Life - From the extensive interview archive of the creators of BangerTV, metal musicians share the artists, albums and concerts that made them who they are today. Here's one example of that:

Metal Giants - New original interviews with metal's legacy artists. Starting with Kerry King from Slayer and Nergal from Behemoth.

New clips will be added every week. To get notified on the further developments connect with BangerTV using Facebook or subscribe to their E-Mail-Newsletter on their homepage or add the Youtube channel to your watch list.

Motörhead 2014 show to be broadcasted by Rockpalast TV show

This sunday in the night from 14. to monday the 15th starting at 00:15h (Central European Winter Time) the next issue of the Rockpalast TV show will air a live recording from this years Motörhead performance at Düsseldorf, Germany at the Mitsubishi Electric Halle. The show took place on 12th November 2014. The shows of both opening acts, Skew Siskin and The Damned will be shown as well.

At the moment you can already check out one full live video from "The chase is better than the catch" at the website of the show. The whole website has been reworked in the last weeks so it comes with a fresh optic these days.

There's also a webstream of the TV station available but I can't tell if the show will be available there as well or if they have a regionlock activated. Anyway, just try your luck I think it will be worth checking out. Maybe they'll also add the show to their archive later. If they do, I'll add the proper link here once it's online.

Update 2014/12/16: Alls shows have been added to the video streaming archive. Just click on the proper band name and enjoy! BTW: you can see the full setlist under the video and also select single songs if you don't want to watch the whole show.

Motörhead

The Damned

Skew Siskin

In Flames concert Cologne 2014 to be aired by TV show Rockpalast

Update 2014/11/25: All the broadcasted stuff has been added the online archive of the Rockpalast homepage! So here's your chance to check the stuff out in case you missed it:

In Flames
While She Sleeps
Wovenwar
Papa Roach


The german TV music format "Rockpalast" is a legendary show. Since nearly 40 years the format has become famous for recording live shows from all of the well known artists, amongst them The Who, David Bowie, ZZ Top and many, many more plus a lot of young and unknown bands.
Check out their massive Video archive to see a list of the bands and have a look at some of the material, they stream all of the offered stuff for free!

On 31st of October 2014 the shows of In Flames, While she sleeps, Wovenwar and Papa Roach were recorded by the Rockpalast team at the Palladium in Cologne, Germany. At the moment you can already take a look at some of the stuff at the Rockpalast homepage (interviews with bandmembers as well as single songs of the show).

In the night from 23. November to 24. November 2014 the full concert will be aired at the german TV station WDR starting at midnight. There's also a webstream of the TV station available but I can't tell if the show will be available there as well or if they have a regionlock activated. Anyway, just try your luck I think it will be worth checking out. Maybe they'll also add the show to their archive later.

Graspop Metal Meeting webstream broadcasts several band performances

This weekend another big, fat classic of the festival season is taking place in Belgium. It's time for the Graspop Metal Meeting. For all those of you like me who can't be there I have a little goodie. I've looked a bit around and found out that there's a official stream for the festival running. They also show of interviews and reports of the festival so you should get a good impression of what's going on over there.

At the moment the infopage says that for today Civil War, Trivium, Gojira and Satyricon will be broadcasted. The table a little further down the page even speaks of a broadcast of the show from Alter Bridge.

Tomorrow shows from Tiamat, Comeback Kid, and Schirenic plays pungent are announced for the stream. The only little cumber so far seems that you'll need to have Silverlight installed to watch it. Anyway, if you like these bands just jump over to the site where the stream and the information table with playing times is located and enjoy it.

Wacken 2013 - see nine hours of stuff from this years WOA.

Starting on Friday the 13th at 20h (CEST) TV station NDR will stream shows and interviews on their website ndr.de The stream won't have a region lock, so everybody should be able to watch this!

Later on at midnight a five hour documentation about the festival will be broadcasted through their TV channel. (You should also be able to see this through the webstream of the TV station at http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/livestream217.html).

For more details on this event like the exact timetable for the mentioned interviews and live-recordings go to www.ndr.de/unterhaltung/events/wacken/wackennacht101.html (sorry, only in german available).

Update 2013/09/16: If you missed the documentation "Alles auf schwarz - Wacken!!!: Sarnau & Hübner bei den Metalheads" then you've got a second chance to see this by checking out this site.
It holds the documentation divided into three parts plus several interviews with well known musicians.

Update 2013/09/13: Some more details in german language about the documentation entitled "Alles auf schwarz -Wacken!!!: Sarnau & Hübner bei den Metalheads" that will be broadcasted tonight plus a trailer can be viewed on this site of the TV station NDR.