So, this week I finally got to meet Metallica, the band that got me into metal aged 15 and I've loved ever since. It all came about through Ultimatebet's Scott Ian of Anthrax fame, who was over in London this week with his lovely lady, Pearl. Scott has been friends with the Metallica guys for years and was hosting this year's Kerrang Awards, so invited us to join him on his table. I couldn't believe it when I found out our table was smack between Metallica, Rage Against the Machine and Slipknot and Machine Head, and as such we got introduced. The night then went on to Nobu for dinner and then back to the hotel the bands were staying at, where the carnage began. A lot of sake had been consumed at dinner and this led on to vodka martinis followed by champagne followed by some more vodkas. At 3am we were ushered out of the posh bar of the hotel so we all headed (and by all, I mean about 15 of us by this point) to one of the band's rooms. As the new and as yet unreleased and unheard Metallica album found it's way onto the stereo at full blast the mayhem stepped up further. No names shall be mentioned, but there was a lot of air-guitaring, things being broken and inter-heavy-metal band wrestling.

Things wrapped up around 8am after another 3 hours of lost memory, sore ears and inexplicable bruises. A night to remember, if only I could...

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