Metallica's Lars Ulrich tried to sue Napster and Parker more than a decade ago at the onset of file sharing. Today the former adversaries joined in praising Spotify.

Nearly 13 years after suing Napster, the filesharing site that started it all, the grouchy old men of Metallica have had a come-to-Jesus of sorts with the power of the Interwebz: Today, drummer Lars Ulrich announced that Metallica's music will be coming to Spotify.

At a Spotify event in New York today, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Napster co-founder Sean Parker buried the hatchet and announced that the legendary heavy metal band is making its entire catalogue available on Spotify, effective immediately.

Wendy Dio, wife of the late, great Ronnie James Dio, has commented on the progress of the much-anticipated Dio tribute album that has been mooted about for quite some time now.

In a serendipitous bit of timing, on the same day that Metallica announced the formation of their own label, Blackened, the group turned out to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the indie that first released their music. Metal Blade Records founder/CEO Brian Slagel has come a long way since 1982, when he offered a spot on the first volume of the Metal Massacre compilation series to the fledgling young thrashers, who celebrated their own 30th anniversary last year. Metallica's James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo joined Slagel, longtime Metal Blade president Mike Faley and VIP guests for a riff-heavy shindig that went well into Friday night.