Don’t you wish every work week started on Wednesday??? Pulse Content reports more than three years after 20-year-old Metallica fan Morgan Harrington vanished after leaving one of the band’s concerts, only for her remains to be found several months later, the young girl’s parents say that the band is still supporting their efforts to solve her murder and bring her killer to justice. Morgan’s mother, Gil Harrington, told Noisecreep, “It has been humbling from the very beginning. Two days after Morgan was abducted, they could have distanced themselves from an ugly occurrence. But (Metallica frontman) James Hetfield called this house to speak to Dan(Harrington, Morgan’s dad), as a father, and asked, ‘What can we do?’ Three years out, they are still doing things. James participated with the FBI and did public service announcements.” Metallica has also added $50,000 to the $100,000 reward already offered by the Harringtons for information on their daughter’s murder, and invested another $50,000 in a scholarship named in her memory. Yet another $40,000 from the sale of a special “Enter Sandman” T-shirt was donated in Harrington’s name to a medical scholarship fund at Virginia Tech, where the victim was a student. The case remains unsolved and Morgan’s parents continue to press the investigation in the hope the killer does not claim another victim. Morgan vanished while hitchhiking home from the band’s show on the Virginia Tech campus on October 17th, 2009. Her remains were found on a farm about 10 miles from the venue in January 2010….Singer Eddie Vedder gave an update to Rolling Stone on the status of the Pearl Jam‘s 10th studio album, which will follow up 2009’s Backspacer. He said, “(We’re) maybe halfway there. We’re taking our time . . . at some point, we’ll join forces again for sure, but the band is as healthy as ever and I’m sure it’s good to get a little break from each other.” He added, “We’ll be ready to go when we’re ready to go.” Vedder also said he and his bandmates “really work together as a unit these days. It’s really the compilation of all the parts. It’s not like one guy trying to tell everybody, ‘These are my songs. This is what it should sound like.’ We’ve figured out after all these years that if everybody just puts their stamp on it, then it sounds like how we want it to.”….Buckcherry has posted a teaser trailer online for “Gluttony,” the first single and video from the band’s new studio album, Confessions. The full video, which was filmed in Nov and features fans recruited through an open casting call, will debut on Jan 16th, with the CD due out on Feb 19th. The set is loosely inspired by the seven deadly sins, with singer Josh Todd basing his lyrics on events that occurred in his childhood….Nonpoint have announed a tour with Candlelight Red & Digital Summer. Find the dates soon in Road Rage…..Birthdays this weekend: Saturday: Marilyn Manson turns 44, Bradley Cooper’s 38. Sunday, Malcolm Young of AC/DC will be the BIG 6-0!
