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Metallica "Ear Spanks" Mgmt for Censoring Album Reviews

By soulxtc

Says it's just as amazed as everyone else that its managers would threaten bloggers to take down mostly positive reviews of "rough tracks" from their upcoming album. Yesterday I mentioned how the ugly side of Metallica had reared its head once again with reports that its managers at Q Prime had threatened music reviewers with legal action if they did not remove reviews of "rough tracks" heard in a music preview listening session of their upcoming album. The best part is that the reviews were mostly POSITIVE! The story behind the removal of the article runs as follows: Metallica held an album listening party for selected music journalists in London this Wednesday past. One of the writers was kind enough to write a piece about the album which, if you were lucky enough to read it before it was taken down, was full of praise about a return to form. At no point was the writer ask[ed] to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).