Metallica Partners With Red Cross To Host Blood Drives At Their Concerts

Metallica has announced that they are partnering with the American Red Cross for their upcoming concerts.

The metal band took to social media on Monday to announce the 'A Sea of Hearts Beat As One Unified' initiative with their charity organisation All Within My Hands Foundation and the American Red Cross.

The caption reads: "New to this leg of the #M72 tour, you can give back by donating blood at select North American stops. Everyone who comes to give blood at these drives will receive a limited-edition T-shirt, while supplies last."

Through this initiative, Metallica will organise blood donation drives at select US concerts. Sign ups are required as the drive is appointment based. Those who sign up will receive a limited-edition t-shirt. If you are interested in signing up visit this site.

The American Red Cross spoke about their excitement for the upcoming collaboration, saying: “We’re honoured to partner with Metallica and the All Within My Hands Foundation on this powerful initiative. Thank you for helping bring more awareness to the need for blood and for encouraging fans to take action. See you all there!”

 

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The current schedule for concerts that will have a blood drive is:

April
14th - 18th – Liverpool, New York
29th – Nashville, Tennessee

May
1st, 2nd, 6th – Columbus, Ohio
6th– Blacksburg, Virginia
20th – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
27th – Arlington, Virginia
30th – Charlotte, North Carolina
30th – Atlanta, Georgia

June
10th, 13th – Houston, Texas
18th – Santa Clara, California
23rd, 24th – Denver, Colorado

In other news, Metallica's guitarist Kirk Hammett said he has already written 767 unique riffs for the bands new album. However he added that he does not foresee the band working on the new material until next year.

Speaking about the sound for this new album, Hammett said “Who knows? We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the Nineties again’. It’s not a bad idea! We haven’t said that to each other yet. And it’s interesting because when ‘Load’ and ‘Reload’ came out, there was a lot of backlash. But nowadays I run into fans and they love that era.”