The latest issue of So What!, Metallica’s fan publication, has hit the mailboxes of around 25,000 or so metal fans last month. This issue was a tribute to Metallica’s first bassist, Cliff Burton, who died in a bus crash while the band was in Europe in the mid 1980s, touring…

It’s been a busy couple of months, and I’m finally getting around to making some posts on the summer’s activities. First up, the release of issue 20.2 of So What! magazine, Metallica’s fan club publication which I art direct and design. This issue’s focus was on Metallica’s own music festival,…

In mid-September, only a few weeks after printing issue 20.2, we slammed out issue 20.3 of this year’s series of So What! magazines. The issue was fast-tracked so that its release could be timed with the release of Metallica’s new movie, Through The Never. It was a crazy deadline, but…

Issue 20.4 of So What! magazine, Metallica’s fan club publication, was finally released at the beginning of February, 2014. The release of last year’s final issue was delayed by the band for a couple of months, in order to confirm some of the juicy details on their upcoming activities. Better…

Issue 21.1 of So What! magazine was finished in early May. The story of the moment was clearly the band trip to Antarctica. Metallica and a small crew entourage made the journey to play a show for 19 fan club contest winners, while taping a commercial for Coke Zero to be aired…

The third issue of 2014 of Metallica’s fan club publication So What! has finally been printed and is winging it’s way to metal fans around the globe. The issue was out a bit late, as can happen every once in a while in the “we’re-not-in-Kansas-anymore” twirling tornado of the top tier music world….

Last month, Metallica’s fan club publication, So What!, finally printed the last issue of 2014. It’s not an unusual situation for us – things being what they are in the world of rock ‘n’ roll, it can take a while to wrap up all the details. The band members are pretty hands-on with the…

So What! is a quarterly magazine published by the fan club of the mega-metal band Metallica. I design and produce the magazine for them. Unsurprisingly, the magazine is all about the doings, on and off the stage, of the band and it’s members individually. The special thing about this magazine…

The latest issue of So What!, the quarterly magazine of the mega-metal band Metallica, is now complete and in the mailboxes of the band’s myriad devotees around the planet. This particular issue gives fans a closer look at lead guitarist Kirk Hammet’s penchant for collecting horror movie memorabilia. Kirk discusses how sharing his…

Yesterday, we finished printing the latest issue of So What!, the quarterly magazine of Metallica. We print So What! in Los Angeles, at Color Graphics, just across the LA river from the Japan-town neighborhood next to downtown LA. Their plant is really well situated, not least because of the proximity to some world-class ramen…

Last week we finished printing the latest So What! magazine, issue 22.4. The issue features a cover illustration by Tony Squindo. Editor, Steffan Chirazi, conducted a round table interview with the band, and wrote and edited an article for this issue, but the band decided against publishing it. The decision was made to produce a photographic…