Metallica formally launched a highly-anticipated digital Cliff Burton exhibit of their Metallica Black Field on-line museum.
Titled “Orion: A Tribute to Cliff Burton,” the primary a part of the exhibit options photos, private letters, interviews and video content material for Metallica followers to sift via in honor of the late bassist’s life and profession.
The Metallica Black Field is unique to members of Metallica’s Fifth Fan Membership, which is free to affix. So with a view to entry the displays, you will want to enroll at this location.
When you enroll, you can watch movies of assorted musicians speaking about Burton and sharing reminiscences with him, together with Lars Ulrich and Anthrax’s Frank Bello. There are photographs of Burton when he was a child, demo tapes you may hearken to and journal articles you may learn.
There are 5 pages of content material, so you may actually immerse your self in Burton’s legacy. Members of the band’s Fifth Fan Membership even have unique entry to restricted merchandise, together with images of Burton from 1983 throughout his first-ever present with Metallica, a “Cliff ‘Em All” T-shirt and extra.
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The web page notes that extra artifacts might be added to the Orion exhibit on Aug. 13, so there might be extra content material to come back.
The Burton household labored with Metallica to set the exhibit up for followers, so test it out for your self right here. And when you’re carried out wanting via the Orion exhibit, you may also look via the 20 Years of St. Anger, The First 40 Years and The Black Album showcases within the museum.
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Gallery Credit score: Lauryn Schaffner