an occasional roundup of the best Heavy Metal News features and pictures curated by our global MetalTalk team MetalTalk is Europe's leading independent Heavy Metal news publication For more details, contact Steve Ritchie at Editor@MetalTalk.Net is owned and managed by MetalTalk and must not be used elsewhere without written permission METALLICA's first-ever headlining show in Europe which took place thirty years ago did in the small Dutch village of Zwaagwesteinde (De Westereen),is the subject of a new Dutch TV documentary "How Metallica Raised Hell In De Westereen" (original title: "Hoe't Metallica De Westereen Op 'E Kop Sette") Produced by Dutch public broadcaster Omrop Fryslân contains new interviews with METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett and drummer Lars Ulrich as well as other players involved in organizing the June 9 which featured TWISTED SISTER in the support slot late METALLICA bassist] and I watched TWISTED SISTER play And we thought that it was the greatest thing because it was the first time we were on tour in Europe with another band who was American." Added Lars: "[TWISTED SISTER was] a very big band in America that had a couple of hit singles and big radio hits So the fact that we were kind of on the same level as TWISTED SISTER was a pretty big deal to us After completing a recent European festival run METALLICA has just one show on its calendar for the rest of 2014 at the Heavy MTL festival in Montreal on August 9 The band is slated to enter the studio and begin recording its 10th studio album this fall Nearly half of the Netherlands was placed under a weather warning starting Friday night, and all of the country will be under an alert on Sunday morning for freezing temperatures and a chance of snow causing low visibility and icy conditions on the roadways Slippery roads during the day on Friday led to a fatal accident in Friesland and another rollover crash in which two occupants were rescued from a waterway The first warning was issued for the provinces of Drenthe it may be slippery in localized areas in the north and east due to frozen-over wet roads,” Dutch meteorological office KNMI wrote The Code Yellow warning is expected to expire at 10 a.m The whole of the country was placed under an advanced warning for predictions of up to five centimeters of snow expected to fall from late Saturday night through Sunday morning “This will cause slippery conditions throughout the country The snowfall will make roads slippery and visibility will be limited,” the KNMI said Many areas should get up to 3 centimeters of snow “In a wide zone across the middle of the country 3-5 centimeters may fall,” the KNMI warned and also in the northeast in the early afternoon The slippery conditions will then disappear again.” The Code Yellow alert will be in effect from 4 a.m Friesland and Groningen will be under the warning from 5 a.m. The alert should be lifted everywhere by 1 p.m A 22-year-old lost his life after his car went off the road on the N356 between Feanwâlden en De Westereen in Friesland at 6:40 a.m The man was from the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the province His car ended up in the water by the side of the road Emergency services rushed to the scene but he had passed away by the time they got there Two cars went off the road on Thursday evening in the same area Hale stones had ensured that the road was very slippery the drivers and passengers were able to escape the accident without injury Even one of the gritting trucks used by Rijkswaterstraat to grit the roads was struggling with the conditions One of the trucks ended up in the ditch in Hulten A massive overnight downpour has caused a significant amount of water-related damage in the northwestern part of Friesland The precipitation in de Westereen measured at 104.7 millimeters a new record according to one weather report In some parts of Friesland they get less than 90 millimeters for all of July A code yellow weather warning remained in effect for Friesland and nearly all of the Netherlands covering all of Sunday afternoon as well as Monday from the afternoon through just 11 p.m The warning was for thunderstorms accompanied by local bursts of hail Those driving in Friesland were advised to beware of flooding which could also cause manholes to be loosened and bring other debris into the roadways There is a lot of damage in northeast Friesland Basements and viaducts are still being pumped out,” the regional fire department said on social media late Sunday morning The influx of reports forced the fire department to triage their calls so that they responded where they could provide the most positive impact to the most people they also issued a request that the public only call 112 in cases of life threatening emergencies "We were startled by a lot of water in de Wouden It was really a cloudburst with enormous amounts," said Jan Willem Zwart from the regional fire department and slowly but surely more reports came in.” According to the regional broadcaster Omroep Fryslan some of the affected areas were in towns like Buitenpost Flooding forced the residents of the Sikkemahuus nursing home in de Westereen to retreat to higher floors of the building ”Those elderly people have also been taken elsewhere It has a lot of impact for these vulnerable people,” Zwart told the broadcaster but also the ground floors of buildings which took on water like at a music school in Waldsang where the water rose to be ankle deep