dozen tracks, with all profits from the release split evenly between All Within My Hands Foundation and more than 50 other charities chosen by the artists taking part in the project.
After a period of record unemployment, how important is it to help train a new generation of young people to fill these skilled worker positions via the All Within My Hands Foundation Metallica Scholars? Ulrich: We’re five years into this now - five years into it in a public forum. We’ve been helping behind the scenes for years with food insecurities and working with local food banks all over the place when we’ve been playing. But, when we sat down and decided in 2016 to put an organization together and make this public, it was important to have a mission statement and figure out where we could make a difference.
And I’m super proud that the rock community can contribute. It’s great for the world to see that hard rock is fueled by the same passions and sense of community as other genres of music. And I’m super proud of the way that all of the fans have joined in and made this happen at their local level and at the national level and things like the workforce programs that we’re doing. Magnetic" tour.
We’re supposed to start back up in a couple of weeks and fire the whole Metallica machine up. It’s definitely an uncertain time. We hope and pray every day that we can make it. We hope and pray that we can get back out there safely and that all of the people that make all of it happen - our incredible crew and everybody that we bring out: our touring crew, the local crew and local staff, all of the workers at the venues and all of the fans - stay safe and remain healthy.
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