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Silversun Pickups Win Over Metallica Fans, Make Their ‘Darkest Video’

Frontman Brian Aubert calls upcoming ‘Substitution’ clip ‘sort of depressing.’ By James Montgomery The Silversun Pickups Photo: MTV News Earlier this year, before Metallica thundered onstage at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, the Silversun Pickups were given the unenviable task of warming up an audience of over-served, overheated, die-hard metal fans. It seemed like an odd choice for an opener: the swoony, alt-leaning Pickups yanking the curtain for Metallica , one of the hugest, heaviest acts on the planet. Somewhat surprisingly, however, things went off without a hitch

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Fifty injured in Spain car bombing, ETA blamed

A car bomb exploded outside a police barracks in northern Spain early Wednesday, leaving around 50 people slightly injured in an attack authorities blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. The powerful bomb, which went off at around 4:00 am (0200 GMT) in the city of Burgos, destroyed the facade of the barracks of the Civil Guard police force and gouged a crater in front of the modern building, according to images on Spanish television. Police said 46 people, including 22 women and six children living in the barracks, were slightly injured, most suffering cuts and bruises

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