Metallica Announce New Live EP

Tweet

To celebrate the arrival of their World Magnetic Tour in Australia and New Zealand next week, Metallica will release a new limited edition EP called Six Feet Down Under, featuring eight live performances recorded in Australia over the past two decades. The EP, which features tracks like "The Unforgiven" and "…And Justice For All," will be sold through the Metallica website starting September 20th.

Metallica: Three Decades of Metal Mayhem

Since Metallica didn't begin multi-track recording their concerts until 2004, right after their last tour of Australia, the band used bootlegs for the collection together. "Be gentle with us… a few of these songs are, well, we'll say 'rough,' which may be an understatement," the band wrote on their official website. "They do, however, capture the live moments and hopefully you'll have as much fun listening as we did playing on those nights."

Six Feet Down Under
1. "Eye of the Beholder" - Recorded live on May 4, 1989 at Festival Hall in Melbourne
2. "...And Justice For All" - Recorded live on May 4, 1989 at Festival Hall in Melbourne
3. "Through the Never" - Recorded live on April 8, 1993 at the Entertainment Centre in Perth
4. "The Unforgiven" - Recorded live on April 4, 1993 at the National Tennis Centre in Melbourne
5. "Low Man's Lyric (Acoustic)" - Recorded live on April 11, 1998 at the Entertainment Centre in Perth
6. "Devil's Dance" - Recorded live on April 12, 1998 at the Entertainment Centre in Perth
7. "Frantic" - Recorded live on January 21, 2004 at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney
8. "Fight Fire With Fire" - Recorded live on January 19, 2004 at the Entertainment Centre in Brisbane

• 
  MUSIC 100 Greatest Debut Albums
• 
  MOVIES The 10 Best Zombie Movie Scenes
• 
  TV The Most WTF? Moments of 'Mad Men'
• 
  POLITICS No Price Big Banks Can't Fix

Song Stories

“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The Joy Formidable | 2011

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

More Song Stories entries »

Twitter