Metallica launches LiveMetallica.com
North American tour within days of each performance
In a continuing effort to provide their fans with the most unique services, Metallica,
along with technology partners CinemaNow.com and nugs.net enterprises, today announced
the launch of a new Web site, www.LiveMetallica.com. The site will make available
for download music from each performance on the North American leg of their Madly
In Anger With The World tour that kicks off today in Phoenix, Arizona. Full
concert audio will be available on the site within four days of the actual show.
"This is the next logical step in a process that began back in 1991 when
we first implemented the 'Taper Section' at our shows, where the fans were encouraged
to bring in their own gear to record the show, and then take home their very own
'bootleg' of the concert they had just seen." said Metallica's
Lars Ulrich. "This technology will enable our fans to get the best possible
recording of the show, without having to hold a microphone in the air for the
entire night!"
As part of this unique band-to-fan service, LiveMetallica.com will offer high
quality, unedited soundboard recordings of all shows in standard MP3 and CD-quality
FLAC files via a state-of-the-art delivery system powered by CinemaNow's PatchBay
technology and nugs.net enterprises. All download files are compatible with
Windows, Mac and Unix, allowing for maximum flexibility and ease of use. Once
downloaded, shows can be burned to disc, transferred to portable players, or
played through a computer. Each show also comes with printable booklets, tray
inlays, and labels for fans that elect to burn the files to CD. The cost for
each two-plus hour show is $9.95 for MP3s and $12.95 for higher-quality FLAC
files. These are the same prices currently offered on similar live music services
such as Phish's LivePhish.com and LiveDownloads.com, which features The String
Cheese Incident and other bands.
Making this offer even more exciting is the fact that The Madly In Anger
With The World tour will feature Metallica playing a greater
variety of songs than they have in years, changing the set list each show and
drawing from their deep twenty-year, ten-album catalogue of rock classics.