We posted about the Midnight Madness / Google Earth experience already . So check out the band’s homepage, cos the project has been launched! The tour takes you around the world, exploring what people get up to
at midnight. Sit back and buckle up for a fly around the earth and let
the Chems supply the soundtrack. The project is still very much alive, so if you want to take part
just click participate button below and put your stuff up there. NOTE, you need Google Earth to watch this!!

The sound of beer cans being crushed on foreheads will ring out like gunfire in September as the new Metallica album drops. Either that or the whine of kids telling their parents to get off the computer. Or is it the other way round? I forget.

Yes Metallica are doing the whole "midnight download" thing for their new album to be titled, Death Magnetic. But rather than going with the "pay what you like" scenario that Radiohead utilised so successfully last year, the band have set up a "mission" page explaining the myriad ways one can "experience" buying the record.

So there are four options for fans to experience. Number one is you don’t pay anything and you receive recording footage, photos and the ability to pre-order the new album. All before the album is completed. Apparently. Experience 2 is $24.95 (US) and gets you the album download at midnight on street date, two live shows to download, lots of photos and "ringtones of riffs from the new album" – !! So to this point, nothing much is coming at you that isn’t – or won’t be – available freely online either now or an hour or so after those pesky IT eggheads get their torrents on anyway. [read more @ The Vine]

PS
DO you remember our post about the guy who will not shave his beard until Metallica comes out with a new album? I think he can start looking for his shaver.