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Metallica Releasing Limited Edition Halloween Mask With New Track Hidden Inside

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7 years ago

October 24, 2016

Now this is just a cool idea and perfect for the season! Thrash metal titans Metallica are giving their fans a chance to hear “Atlas, Rise!” a bit early on Halloween but it’s going to take some legwork to make it happen.

What’s happening is that the band has teamed up with a ton of independent music retailers that will be sent limited Hardwired…to Self Destruct masks that contain a code to stream the song 30 minutes before its release on Halloween. It’s unclear how many masks each retailer will get, what they look like, or how you’re going to be able to get them. But even with that lack of information, I’m still 100% behind this idea. It’s just so damn cool!

The full list of retailers can be found on Metallica’s website.

Hardwired…to Self Destruct is the band’s 10th studio album and follows 2008’s Death Magnetic. The band has already released two tracks, including the title track as well as the 4th track “Moth Into Flame”. Both can be streamed below. It will be released on November 18th.

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…