Metallica have officially announced that they will be playing the 02 World in Berlin and 02 Arena in London on September 12th and 15th 2008 respectively. The shows are only available to the band’s fan club members, and those people who subscribe to www.missionmetallica.com. Tickets are £5 and all ticket proceeds will be donated to various charities, which the band will be revealing over the next two weeks.

The band's new single 'The Day That Never Comes' is available online now and as a physical release sometime in September. The video for the track was filmed in the desert outside L.A with director Thomas Vinterberg. BBC2’s The Culture Show will be airing a 30 minute Metallica special on 31st August at 11.20 pm. For those of you that simply can’t wait Metallica have put a few small excerpts from their forthcoming album, Death Magnetic, on their various web sites.

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