New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Blizzard Entertainment) Metallica is coming to BlizzCon 2014! On November 8, Blizzard Entertainment's two-day Warcraft, StarCraft, and
Diablo community celebration will culminate with
Metallica performing to a sold-out convention crowd, broadcast worldwide through the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket.
"We're thrilled to have
Metallica blowing out our speakers at BlizzCon this year," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "After two full days of epic gaming and intense eSports action, an earth-shaking concert is the perfect sendoff for everyone at the show and watching from home."
BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft game universes. Taking place November 7 and 8 at the Anaheim Convention Center, this year's show will feature a wide array of activities, including discussion panels, tournaments, contests, hands-on play time with the latest Blizzard Entertainment games, and more.
Tickets to the convention are sold out, but viewers at home can join the excitement by ordering the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket ($39.99 USD), which offers comprehensive live online coverage of both days of the event—including the community contests hosted by Chris Hardwick on Friday evening and Metallica's performance on Saturday night.
In addition to the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, DIRECTV customers in the United States have the option to watch the show from home by ordering the BlizzCon 2014 Pay Per View event, priced at $39.99 USD (includes access to the Virtual Ticket online stream). Visit www.directv.com/blizzcon for more details.
As BlizzCon draws closer, further details about the show will be announced at www.blizzcon.com. With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently available - visit https://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.
About Metallica
Formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist
James Hetfield,
Metallica have become one of the most influential and commercially successful rock bands in history, having sold 110 million albums worldwide and playing to millions of fans the world over. They have scored several multi-platinum albums, including 1991's
Metallica (commonly referred to as "The
Black Album"), which is the best-selling album in the history of Soundscan, scanning 16 million albums in the United States alone.
Their latest studio album, Death Magnetic, was certified platinum just six weeks after it debuted atop the Billboard Top 200 Album chart in October 2008. Death Magnetic charted at #1 in 32 countries and sold five million copies worldwide.
Metallica have also garnered numerous awards and accolades, including nine Grammy Awards, two American
Music Awards, and multiple MTV Video
Music Awards, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.
The band celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2011 with a week's worth of fan club concerts at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco, CA. In 2012,
Metallica unveiled a brand new stage in Mexico City that featured iconic elements that spanned its 30-year career and is featured in the film
Metallica Through the Never. They played eight shows to nearly 180,000 fans at the Sports
Arena in Mexico City.
Picturehouse released
Metallica Through the Never in North
America on
September 27, 2013. The music-driven, 3D motion picture film immerses audiences in a bracing, raw, and visceral cinematic experience with spectacular live performance footage of Metallica's most iconic songs—created exclusively for film—combined with a bold, narrative story featuring imagery drawn from the band's trailblazing iconography.
In December 2013,
Metallica performed a rare concert in Antarctica where all attendees listened to the performance through headphones to protect the environment. With that show, the band made history by becoming the first act to ever play all seven continents (all within a year), earning themselves a spot in the 60th Anniversary Edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
Metallica performed "One" with Chinese pianist and Grammy Ambassador Lang Lang on the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, and two days later
Metallica Through the Never was released on DVD and Blu-Ray. On November 24, 2014,
Metallica will release a 10-year anniversary 2-disc Blu-Ray of their long out-of-print, groundbreaking movie, METALLICA: Some Kind of Monster. For more information, visit www.metallica.com.
