NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Howard Stern
and SiriusXM announced today that Grammy® Award-winning, Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Metallica will perform live on The
Howard Stern Show on Howard
Stern's exclusive SiriusXM channel Howard 100 on
Monday, September 26.
The in studio performance will feature Metallica performing
songs from their 30-plus year career, including music from their
upcoming album Hardwired….to Self-Destruct, scheduled to be
released on November 18 on the band's
Blackened Recordings.
Additionally, on Monday, September
26, the band will record a special edition of SiriusXM's
"Town Hall" series—answering questions from a select group of
SiriusXM listeners in the SiriusXM studios in New York City. The "Town Hall" special, hosted
by music journalist and SiriusXM host David
Fricke, will air on the band's limited-run SiriusXM channel
Mandatory Metallica, launching Wednesday,
November 16.
Mandatory Metallica, which originally aired on SiriusXM in 2009
and again in 2013 when the band performed a private concert for
SiriusXM at the Apollo Theater in New
York City, will feature hits, rarities and concert
recordings from throughout the band's iconic career. The channel
will air beginning Wednesday, November
16 at 5:00 pm ET and will air
through Wednesday, November 23, via
satellite on channel 40 and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones
and other connected devices, as well as online
at siriusxm.com. The Metallica "Town Hall" will air
Thursday, November 17 at 5:00 pm ET on Mandatory Metallica and SiriusXM's
Octane, channel 37.
"SiriusXM's Town Hall
with Metallica" is part of SiriusXM's "Town
Hall" series, featuring iconic entertainers and figures sitting
down with studio audiences of SiriusXM listeners. Previous SiriusXM
"Town Hall" specials have featured Bruce
Springsteen, Billy Crystal,
Barbra Streisand Quentin Tarantino, Carol
Burnett, Tom Petty,
Willie Nelson, KISS, Coldplay,
Ringo Starr, Adele, Elton John, Taylor
Swift, Hugh Jackman, Cardinal
Timothy Dolan, Roger Waters, the surviving members of Nirvana,
Gregg Allman, Usher and Tony Hawk.
Mandatory Metallica is an example of SiriusXM channels created
with iconic and prominent artists, including Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio, Garth Brooks' The Garth Channel, Jimmy Buffett's Radio Margaritaville,
Willie Nelson's Willie's Roadhouse,
The Pink Floyd Channel, B.B. King's
Bluesville, Elvis Radio, Siriusly Sinatra, Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzy's Boneyard, Pearl Jam
Radio, Eminem's Shade 45,Tiësto's Club Life Radio and Neil Diamond
Radio.
Metallica formed in 1981 by drummer Lars
Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield and has become one of the most
influential and commercially successful rock bands in history,
having sold 110 million albums worldwide while playing to millions
of fans on literally all seven continents. They have scored several
multi-platinum albums, including
1991's Metallica (commonly referred to as The
Black Album), with sales of nearly 17 million copies in
the United States alone, making it
the best-selling album in the history of Soundscan. Metallica has
also garnered numerous awards and accolades, including nine Grammy
Awards, two American Music Awards, and multiple MTV Video Music
Awards, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum in 2009. In December
2013, Metallica made history when they performed a rare
concert in Antarctica, becoming
the first act to ever play all seven continents all within a year,
and earning themselves a spot in the Guinness Book of World
Records.
For more information on Metallica, please
visit www.metallica.com.
For more information on SiriusXM, please
visit www.siriusxm.com.
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323 904 9094
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