METALLICA Spokesperson: No Plans For Orchestral Performances Next Year

September 25, 2003

A spokesperson for METALLICA has dismissed as false a report in Hollywood Reporter suggesting that the band will be reuniting with composer-arranger Michael Kamen for more orchestral performances next year. Their 1999 collaboration resulted in the live album "S&M: Metallica With the San Francisco Symphony", which has sold more than four million copies.

In a 1998 interview with Broxweb/Movie Wave, Kamen talked about his work with METALLICA, saying, "They are a real, kick-ass, old-fashioned rock and roll band, you know. There's a temptation to denigrate them and to think of them as 'heavy metal crap', but in fact they are as tight and precise and multi-rhythmic and unusual and energized in their presentation as any group I have ever seen in my life, and I've been a fan of rock and roll ever since I could spit! So, I'm going to be really happy doing this thing with METALLICA, because there will be a far greater audience for the orchestra with METALLICA as the beacon, than there will be ever if, you know, even if Beethoven himself came back from the dead — 'Ah, no, I think we'll go see METALLICA tonight!' "

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