The group -- James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo -- also unveiled Blackened Recordings, its new label that will be the new home of Metallica’s music and videos. Blackened, named for the lead track on the band’s 1988 album … And Justice for All, inked with Rhino Entertainment for manufacture and distribution of its titles in North America and licensed its fare to Universal Music Group internationally.
"It's always been about control for us as a band," said drummer Ulrich. "Forming Blackened Recordings is the ultimate in independence, giving us 100 percent control and putting us in the driver's seat of our own creative destiny."
Metallica has a long history of wrestling for that control. In April 2000, the band irked many music fans by filing a high-profile lawsuit against Napster citing copyright infringement. That July, Ulrich testified before a Senate panel about Napster and the perceived threat of peer-to-peer file sharing. Napster reached a settlement with the band about a year later. The multiple-Grammy-winning band also held out on selling its music via Apple’s iTunes Store until summer 2006, though its albums were downloadable via some digital services including MSN Music.
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