Metallica bring flamethrowers and fireworks to Leeds Festival

Metallica brought flamethrowers, explosions and fireworks to their headline correct on the Main Stage at Leeds Festival tonight (August 22).


The metal legends, set to release their eighth album 'Death Magnetic' on September 12, likewise revealed from the stagecoach that they are fructify to return to the UK for an indoor arena tour in February 2009.


The striation played a hit-packed set, which included '�And Justice For All' and 'Master Of Puppets', and as well previewed a brand new track, 'Cyanide', from their forthcoming album.


Before the sung dynasty, frontman James Hetfield told the crowd together: "September 12th is a big day for Metallica. September twelfth � 'Death Magnetic' is in your face! We're gonna play a modern song, is that OK with you?"


As well as using complicate pyrotechnics, most prominently on the songs 'Fuel', 'One', 'Enter Sandman' and 'Seek And Destroy', Metallica used two stages, one raised above the other, which Hetfield and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett regularly walked up to.


Before performing last track 'Seek And Destroy' and telltale their go plans, Hetfield said: "Who cares more or less you? Who cares? Metallica does, that's who."


The four-piece last headlined Reading And Leeds Festivals five years ago, later on first acting at the event in 1997.

Metallica played:

'Creep'

'Fuel'

'Ride The Lightning'

'Harvester Of Sorrow'

'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)'

'Cyanide'

'...And Justice For All'

'No Remorse'

'The Day That Never Comes'

'Master Of Puppets'

'Motorbreath'

'Nothing Else Matters'

'Sad But True'

'One'

'Enter Sandman'

'Last Cares'

'So What'

'Seek And Destroy'

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Aug 24, 2008 at Richfield Avenue, Festival, Reading -

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Cistercian monks offer help to Amy Winehouse

A 72-strong group of singing monks have invited Amy Winehouse to join them in a bid to help sort proscribed her personal difficulties.


Based in Vienna, the Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz late scored a Number One album of Gregorian chants in Austria.


Like Winehouse, they are signed to Universal Records.

The Daily Telegraph reports that a record company interpreter gave them a copy of Winehouse's 2006 album 'Back To Black' - but it didn't go down too well.


"For ten minutes I liked it," said Brother Johannes Paul Chavanne. "But when I read the lyrics I mentation it was sad. I would like to tempt her here - I feel sympathetic to hoi polloi like her. She could stay a week or two and discuss the big questions of biography - trust might be an reply for her."


Despite singing songs from the seventh century, the monks were keen to render they've embraced modern living.


"Johannes, 25, is is a thoroughly forward-looking monk, and has a computer and internet in his cellphone," they explained.



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