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Metallica Confirm Lady Gaga Collab Album

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This year’s Grammy Awards collaboration between Metallica and Lady Gaga was a very controversial one, but the gruesome twosome aren’t finished yet.

In an exclusive interview with Metallica’s bassist Robert Trujillo, the former Ozzy Osbourne and Sucidal Tendencies player explained that although they are currently touring in support of their latest album Hardwired to Self Destruct, the band has already written their next album, which will feature Gaga as a second vocalist on each track as well as playing piano on certain tracks.

“When James’ mic went out at the Grammy’s she (Gaga) took the reigns and absolutely knocked it out of the park,” Trujillo said. “We realized we had something special and decided to take it to the next level.”

The album will also feature many more guest appearances on each track and will include previously archived sound clips of Lou Reed and Cliff Burton.

The untitled album is scheduled to be released sometime in the fall and will come with a bonus disc featuring the band (with Gaga) covering songs from the latest Diamond Head album (self titled) as well as other favorites from both camps. Both tracklists with their working titles and the full list of covers can be viewed below.

“We’re all stoaked for this to come out and it was really awesome to work with her,” said Trujillo. “It’s something wicked that both ‘Tallica fans and Gaga fans are really going to appreciate.”

Tracklist

1.  Death by Chicken Suite (Instrumental featuring unreleased Cliff Burton bass tracks)

2. Frantic II (featuring Doty Wiggins from the Shaggs)

3. Some Kind of Fame Monster

4. Killed This Way – (featuring Fred Durst, MC Ride and Ynwgie Malsteem)

5. Marionette Death (Featuring Chelsea Wolfe and Deep Forrest)

6. Paparazzi Inc. (Featuring Willie Nelson, Ozzy Osbourne, and Mobb Deep)

7. Fashion Nightmare (Instrumental mostly with stock spoken word by Lou Reed)

8. Love Game of Death (20 minute epic featuring Neil Peart and Kanye West)

Bonus Disc

1. Diamonds – Diamond Head

2. Bones – Diamond Head

3. Wizards Sleeve – Diamond Head

4. Blood on My Hands – Diamond Head

5. My Pal Foot Foot – Shaggs

6. Poker Face (Metal Remix)

7. Tornado of Souls – Megadeth (Featuring Dave Mustaine)

8. Heathens – 21 Pilots

9. Lemmy Rising (Motörhead medley featuring covers of “Overkill,” “Ace of Spades,” “Orgasmatron,” “Jack The Ripper,” “Mean Machine” and “No Class”)

10. April Come She Will – Simon & Garfunkel

11. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) – Johnny Mercer

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Diamond Head at The Chance

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Thanks to an interview Birdman of Roargh had with the band’s guitarist, we found out about Diamond Head coming to The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY months before it was announced. Having influenced so many of our favorites, we both felt we needed to go see this classic NWOBHM band. Without stopping, the venue  is 45 minutes from my house and we hoped to skip the openers as they weren’t anything special. We sadly only skipped one of the three. Normally I review the openers no matter how bad they are but these were so generic that they bleed into each other, which ironically saved them from any trashing . At around 10:30 Diamond head were set to play. We met up with my friend Ryan as well as Rock Fantasy owner Stephen Keeler and our buddy Brian.

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As Diamond Head was setting up I was curious to hear how they would sound live since they have a newer, younger singer named Rasmus Bom Andersen. At the time I had not heard anything from the new stelf-titled album and only really heard their debut and the song “Am I Evil” (yes, I’ve heard the originals and not just the Metallica covers).  Birdman had seen them once before at Heavy MTL 2011, a lineup that included Cryptopsy, Opeth, Anthrax and Morbid Angel.

Diamond Head had a killer sound and Andersen sounded great. The energy was unbelievable. The set list was pretty great too. They played three songs off the new album which all sounded good while the rest of the set was dedicated to their first two albums. Classics such as “Helpless,” “Am I Evil,” “Sucking My Love,” “Shoot out the Lights,” “The Prince” and several more. After the show we met guitarist Brian Tatler and then headed home, although we would return in two days for Carcass!