Metallica Shows Love To Record Stores

Unfortunately for the masses, attendance to the show will be limited to 300. Those interested can win tickets by filling out ballots at the Berkeley store or by joining Metallica’s fan club at MetClub.com.

Record Store Day is coordinated by independent record store owners and employees, whose aim is to celebrate and spread the culture surrounding their businesses by hosting meet & greets, performances, cookouts, parades and other festivities. Since the first Record Store Day was held in April 2008, the event is celebrated worldwide and even recognized as an official holiday in a number of cities across the U.S.

Metallica’s most recent album, Death Magnetic, was released in 2008. A collaboration with the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed resulted in 2011’s Lulu.

The Berkeley show will not be the first time the band has graced a Bay Area music store to honor Record Store Day. The heavy metal band took part in the debut holiday by holding a meet & greet at Rasputin Records in Mountain View, Calif.

The band remains highly present in Northern California, as they played CBS’s The Night Before at AT&T Park in anticipation of the Superbowl this year, and guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield is organizing the Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert with Sammy Hagar in San Francisco May 15.

More information on the show can be found here.