The "Sick of the Studio" tour is over and it was fuckin' phenomenal! Big thanks to our friends from all over the world who made for three amazing, memorable weeks in Europe. We can't wait to do it again and in the meantime, it's back to HQ and the studio . . . time to finish work on that album we keep promising.

As you know, we've been recording the live shows for years, and since '04 have had this cool site up and running to share them with our friends via downloadable files. We do our damnedest to make each show available within a couple days and we're psyched that you guys seem to like the site . . . over 120 shows and 2.5 million downloads in three years! If you were in Aarhus, Denmark on Friday the 13th, you might remember that we had a power failure and the PA went down. Well, because of the power issues, our computers recording the shows were fried and the end result was that we have a recording of only the second half of that show starting with "Fade to Black". Since you have all been so cool supporting the site, and because we fucked up here, we thought the least we could do was give away what we do have.

So head over to LIVEMETALLICA.COM, grab the Aarhus show on us, and check out the rest of the tour - all the other shows are now available. Thanks again for a rockin' summer vacation!! Oh, and don't forget to check out the Vault section of the site if you want more free stuff from back in the day.