METALLICA frontman James Hetfield recently spoke with Gary Graff at The Oakland Press. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

If Metallica has its way, its Orion Music + More festival will return to Detroit's Belle Isle in 2014.

But the group members aren't the only voices that count.

"It's kind of up to the promoters at this point," notes band frontman James Hetfield, referring to Austin, Texas-based C3 Presents, Metallica's partner in Orion.

The first festival was in 2012 in Atlantic City. N.J., then moved to Belle Isle for two days in June this year, where Hetfield says the band was very happy with the results.

"I had a blast," he says. "I had a really good time. I love the island, love the city, love the people. We loved it. I think it went smoother than the previous one."

C3 has a three-year lease for Orion with the City of Detroit, which presumably transfers if and when the state of Michigan takes over Belle Isle. An estimated 40,000 attended this year's Orion, and Hetfield says decisions about the festival's future will come down to finances.

"It's the money part, man, at the end of the day," he says. "Our vote does count. We now that festivals don't make money right away, for sure. It's not that we're out to make money. We're at least out to break even — and it certainly has not broken even yet. It's an expensive barbecue at this point."

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LAMC Productions has uploaded a recap video recalling Metallica's August 24th concert at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. The 30+ minute video can be seen below:

MetOnTour previously posted the following clip from the Singapore date, which includes photo shoot, tuning room and 'Broken, Beat & Scarred' performance footage.

Metallica performed the following tracks at the Singapore show:

'Hit The Lights'

'Master Of Puppets'

'The Shortest Straw'

'Ride The Lightning'

'Fade To Black'

'The Memory Remains'

'Broken, Beat & Scarred'

'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)'

'Sad But True'

'...And Justice For All'

'One'

'For Whom The Bell Tolls'

'Blackened'

'Nothing Else Matters'

'Enter Sandman'

Encore:

'Creeping Death'

'Battery'

'Seek & Destroy'