Metallica's Future Not With Record Label?
(Source: Blabbermouth.net)

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich recently told Launch Radio Networks that the band plan on examining their options with regards to record distribution once they have fulfilled their present contract with Elektra Records (METALLICA have one album left on their current record contract).

"You know, our record contract is up soon (laughs) and we'll figure out what we're gonna do after that," he said. "You know, the great thing about being in a band like us is that we're in a position to bypass the record company. Basically record companies act like banks. And when you don't need the bank element of a record company, then you can kind of do it yourself. So we'll sort of see where it goes."

METALLICA have been signed to Elektra Records since 1984. The band are currently on the first leg of their 2004 North American headlining tour, which will take them well into October.

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I thought this maybe interesting. If Metallica is no longer an RIAA artist, does one continue to boycott them for being as whiny as they are? Thought you guys may find this interesting...

There might be some hope still left in the band afterall, soon as they break away from the lables completely.

..and of course kick out that traitor who helped down napster!

One continues to boycott them because we must make an example of someone.

I boycott their whiney asses because their salad days are over and they continue crank out crap with no end in sight.

Far as I can tell, the ax may forget, but the tree still remembers.

Cya next lifetime metallica.

yeah, i'll never buy their music again, not even thinking of bringing down Napster or being with the RIAA... your not very metal if you into their new stuff... every considering retiring after your conctract is up boys?

Fuck Metallica. Thats all i have to say.

They made it big by throwing their lot in with the industry and attacking their fans. Now they want to go indie? when they start helping indie bands and denounce their anti customer attitude then mabey I'll consider stopping my boycott of them....... nawwwwww

Lars Ulrich is resposible for attacking his fans. i will continue to boycott him until he publicly apologises to his fans for calling them all thieves.

HAH! little late to suck up now metallica. the tree never forgets. who swung the axe first again?

the short answer? They turn their backs on their fans, we don't support their paychecks.

Yes I boycott em. No more cookies for them...

Yep, they better do a 360 if they know what's good for em.

The Captain of the Black Pearl would never forget a mutiny! Repent and parlay, or never be allowed free sailin' in our waters. Arrr!!! Ye be warned!!

Yet again, the tree never forgets.... not buying their stuff anymore.

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I got a future in mind for em. It includes fire and brimstone and a really ugly dude with a mean sounding voice.

Metallica is as bad as the RIAA whether they are on an RIAA label or not...

FUCK METALLICA.............i don't care if they no longer are under a label after this last record deal they have........no one forget who became the riaa's lap-dog for going after napster..........a band that was all against everything the riaa stands for........metallica sold out and well once a sell out, always a sell out and after the S & M cd metallica's music sucked and will contiune to suck label or no label.

METALLICA is the band that got the riaa started on the whole thing of sueing...i wouldn't buy threir music even if they paid me

Or maybe the rest of the band got together and beat some sense into Lars.

I only have two Metallica albums actually bought at the store, but only because my ex-girlfriend bought them for me, so they didn't get MY money (tee hee, tee hee). The rest, I either copied or downloaded. Sure, it makes me sound hipocritical, but I don't care. They don't have a dime of my money.

I tend to use the song "Shoot Me Again" to think of the anti-RIAA movement. No matter how many times the RIAA and their ilk try to shoot us down, we'll never die.

The biggest RAT abandoning ship? Nah, go on down with it Lars. No lifeboat for you.

Basically, their last album sucked so bad, they're being dropped by their label. Elektra will allow them to fulfill the contract with a "greatest shit" album. They should have stayed true to Metal and not gone pop. Dave Mustaine is laughing his ass off now. Metallipop made more money, but Dave is still Metal.

Metallica has been a sellout since " And Justice For All" so it's been over a decade and a half.... Dave Mustaine left that band and started a much better one!!!