METALLICA
ORION MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013
METALLICA Bringing 'Orion' Festival Back In 2013
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has told Rolling Stone that the band's Orion Music + More festival, a two-day event featuring more than 20 bands which took place late last month in Atlantic City, New Jersey, will definitely be b… Moreack in 2013 and won't be moving far from its original location. Ulrich said, "We had a great experience in New Jersey, and as we look to 2013, we're definitely looking to keep it in New Jersey or to keep it on the East Coast." Even though the band is based on the West Coast, it staged the event on the other side of the country to make it easier for European fans to come.

The two shows on June 22 and June 23 sold a total of 24,000 tickets, according to The Press Of Atlantic City.

Next up for METALLICA is a headlining slot at the Outside Lands festival, which takes place from August 10 to August 12 in the group's adopted hometown of San Francisco.

The show will be METALLICA's first in Golden Gate Park, with Ulrich saying, "There's a long, long, long history of experiences and culture and music (in Golden Gate Park). It's a history that dates back to the '60s, when bands like the GRATEFUL DEAD and JEFFERSON AIRPLANE would perform free shows in the park."

The lineup will also include NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE, STEVIE WONDER, JACK WHITE, FOO FIGHTERS and SKRILLEX.

After Outside Lands, METALLICA will spend the rest of the summer working on their 3D feature film — which will involve unveiling a new stage show at some gigs in Canada that will be filmed for the movie — before finally starting work on its 10th studio album in September.

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ORION MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012
2012 Lineup
37 bands and artists performed at the festival. Bands from a wide variety of genres, ranging from thrash metal and black metal, even to punk, indie, and experimental rock, played throughout the weekend. Members of Metallica introduced some of the bands performing, including Suicidal Tendencies, where Robert Trujillo was their bassist from 1989 to their… More breakup in 1995.[11] Metallica headlined the festival on both days and performed two of their most critically acclaimed albums in their entirety: their 1984 album Ride the Lightning on the Saturday night, and their 1991 eponymous fifth release on the Sunday night.[12][13]

Orion Stage
Sat June 23 Sun June 24
Metallica (Ride the Lightning)
Modest Mouse
The Gaslight Anthem
Lucero
Baroness
Metallica (The Black Album)
Eric Church
Best Coast
Ghost
Fuel Stage
Sat June 23 Sun June 24
Arctic Monkeys
Cage the Elephant
Fucked Up
The Sword
Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat
Gary Clark Jr.
A Place to Bury Strangers
Damage Inc. Stage
Sat June 23 Sun June 24
Suicidal Tendencies
Red Fang
Kyng
Letlive
Black Tusk
Sepultura
The Black Dahlia Murder
Torche
Landmine Marathon
Thy Will Be Done
Frantic Stage
Sat June 23 Sun June 24
Hot Snakes
Jim Florentine
Jim Breuer Heavy Metal Comedy Tour
Don Jamieson
Roky Erickson
Wooden Shjips
Titus Andronicus
Charred Walls of the Damned
Jim Breuer Heavy Metal Comedy Tour
Shuli Egar
Soul Rebels
The Black Angels
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METALLICA
ORION MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012
Orion Music + More
Genre Extreme metal, heavy metal, hard rock, rock, hardcore punk, indie rock, alternative rock, punk rock, experimental music.
Dates
June 23–24, 2012

June 8–9, 2013
Years active 2012–2013
Website
www.orionmusicandmore.com

METALLICA
Orion Music + More 2013
Genre Extreme metal, heavy metal, hard rock, rock, hardcore punk, indie rock, alternative rock, punk rock, experimental music.
Dates
June 23–24, 2012

June 8–9, 2013
Years active 2012–2013
Website
www.orionmusicandmore.com
The Orion Music + More was a touring music festival created by American thrash metal/heavy metal band Metallica. On February 7, 2012, the band announce… Mored plans to launch the festival, which took place at Bader Field in Atlantic City on June 23 and 24, 2012. The second installment took place at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, on June 8 and 9, 2013.[1][2] The festival was a financial disaster, which led to its cancellation after only two installments.[3] Less

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ORION MUSIC FESTIVAL & MORE 2012
Metallica's Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City, Day 2
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by Dan Deluca, Music Critic ddeluca@phillynews.com
After 10 hours at Bader Field in Atlantic City on Saturday for the first day of Metallica's inaugural Orion Music + More festival, I headed back for more on Sunday, for a lineup that, for my money, was stronger and more varied, and turned out to be thoroughly satisfying.

But by any measure, Orion - despite the presence of the likes of indie fuzz-pop beach band Best Coast, Nashville hitmaker Eric Church (who got to New Jersey in time to celebrate his song "Springsteen"'s conquest of the country chart) and New Orleans brass band Soul Rebels - was pretty much hard as hell.

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Sure, it's true that Orion - a festival named after a Metallica song named after a constellation that sound especially impressively when James Hetfield, pictured to the left, shouted out its three syllables with fists raised: OH-RYE-ONNNN!!! - is much more than merely a metal gathering.

The impressive two day lineup - which was put together by members of Metallica in conjunction with bookers at Austin, Texas concert company C3 Presents, who also do Lollapalooza in Chicago and South America, among other mega-fests, who estimated that the fest drew 32,000 per day (more on that later) - moved around genre-wise, doing its best to nudge mostly black clad, mostly male Metallica fans out of their comfort zones.

But even its non-metallic offerings tended to be toughened up - with Best Coast, whose Bethany Cosentino sadly had a hard time attracting attention on the enormous Orion stage on Sunday afternoon, being one notable exception.

Landmine Marathon.

The first band I saw on Sunday was Landmine Marathon, the only other female fronted act on the fest, unless I'm missing somebody. Landmine's light, sweet enough looking singer, Grace Perry, might not appear to be a likely candidate to front a death metal band if you saw her walking down the street, or even if you herd her normal speaking voice. But once the Arizona band threw themselves into songs from their latest album, Gallows, you got the picture. Thi woman has a voice like a succubus from h-e-double-hockey-sticks to make Ozzy Osbourne, or for that matter, James Hetfield, sound like a ninny.

Gary Clark Jr.

From there, on the Gary Clark Jr., the brooding Austin, Texas blues guitar slinger who brought two sign language interpreters along with him to the World's Playground. There are plenty of words to Clark's songs - like "Bright Lights," which emphatically promises "You gonna know my name!" and is a stone cold classic. But the signers spent most of their time playing air guitar, as Clark let loose one searing Hendrix-Steve Ray Vaughn-esque solo after another.

On Saturday, too much time typing in the media tent meant I missed some of the bands I most wanted to see - Gaslight Anthem and Lucero, but more than that, the punk rock army that goes by the name of "F--- Up." Sunday I was more free to roam between the four stages on the huge 142 acre site, which is certainly large enough to accommodate many more people than were in attendance at Orion.

Checking out Avenged Sevenfold.

The fest never felt uncomfortably crowded, or as packed as the decommissioned airport was last year for Dave Matthews' Caravan fest. It seemed to me there were far more people there on Sunday as Metallica prepared to play 'the Black album,' but crowd estimate wildly varied. At the gate on Sunday, an official said there had been 21,500 people there on Saturday; police positioned on the Albany Avenue bridge into Atlantic City proper various said that there had been 35,000 and 50,000 fans there on the first day.

In any case, if the 32,000 figure is accurate, C3 and Metallica ought to be more than happy with it, as C3's Charlie Walker said last month that they were aiming for 25- to 30,000 a day. All weekend long, Hetfield referred to Orion as "the first annual," with the only unanswered Less

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