Tapulous, a leader in music games for the iPhone and iPod touch, announced Wednesday that Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica, the newest addition to the Tapulous family of games, is now available from the App Store. Featuring classics like "Enter Sandman" and "One", Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica will give music fans an interactive outlet to rock out to Metallica using an iPhone or iPod touch in a way they never have before.

"Tap Tap Revenge fans have been wanting an app from us that rocks and no band embodies rock music better than Metallica," said Tim O'Brien, head of business development at Tapulous "The Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica App really captures the head-thrashing metal of James, Lars, Kirk and Robert and is our most amped up game to date."

The Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica App features the high quality gameplay that Tap Tap Revenge players have come to expect. Accompanying the career mode is a new fast-paced Arcade Mode where players are challenged with bombs and other special objects that make the game more fun than ever before. Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica is also the first game in the Tap Tap Revenge series to include a Bluetooth-based Battles Mode where players challenge friends to a point-by-point battle where they can deploy bombs and other special objects to distract the opposition and secure victory.

When asked for a quote about Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica, the band's Lars Ulrich turned it over to his eleven year old son, Myles, who, while coming up for air in between games, was heard uttering, "You haven't lived 'till you've played this!"

Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica was designed with the die-hard Metallica fans in mind, and the game features a unique live action Metallica theme that captures the essence the band is famous for. Users will also have access to a Metallica news feed that provides updates on the band, along with challenge updates and a public battle message board, so users can participate in a true Metallica community.

With this diehard Metallica community in mind, Tapulous is also announcing a one-of-a-kind contest where one lucky fan will get to rock out with Metallica at the sold out Las Vegas stop of their "World Magnetic Tour". Everyone who purchases the Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica App will be entered to win the grand prize, which consists of: two tickets, airfare, ground transportation, and an opportunity to meet the band! The concert is taking place December 5, 2009 at 7:00pm PT, from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica includes the following ten songs:

• Enter Sandman
• Sad But True
• King Nothing
• All Nightmare Long
• Some Kind of Monster
• Master of Puppets
• Seek & Destroy
• Fuel
• One
• For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Tap Tap Revenge Metallica App is available for $4.99 from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch. -antimusic.com

It has been more than a week since a 20-year-old college student called her friends at a Metallica concert to say she was outside the arena and would find her own way home. Now the famed heavy-metal rockers are participating in the search for her, adding $50,000 to the reward for information leading to her whereabouts.

While investigators attempt to discover what happened to a young woman described as open, beautiful, artistic and giving, Morgan Harrington's parents, Dan and Gil Harrington, have been keeping a high public profile, trying to focus attention on the disappearance.

"One word that comes to mind when you think of Morgan is 'shiny,' " Morgan's mother, Gil Harrington told TODAY's Amy Robach during a recent interview. "She was beautiful and she was beautiful inside, too. She radiated life."

Dutiful daughter
Young adults sometimes disappear intentionally, but the Harringtons were uncommonly close to their daughter. A student at Virginia Tech, about 35 miles from her parents, she talked to her father every day and trusted him with her computer passwords and the key to her apartment. She also spoke with her mother daily and frequently returned home to visit.

On Saturday, Oct. 17, Morgan Harrington spent the day at home planning with her mother what she was going to wear at the Metallica concert she planned to attend at the University of Virginia.

Such days were the norm for the family, Gil (pronounced "Jill") Harrington told Robach.

"It was a regular day for us: got up, made tea, had coffee, chatted some, showed the outfits, showed me how she was going to do her make-up," the mother recalled.

Morgan went with friends to the concert. Sometime between 8:30 and 9 p.m., she called her friends to say she had gone to the restroom and ended up outside John Paul Jones Arena on the University of Virgina campus in Charlottesville. She told them she wasn't allowed back in and would find another way home.

The next day, her phone and purse were found in a parking lot near the arena. Morgan, who never went anywhere without her cell phone, hasn't been seen since.

"We have a purse and we have a cell phone. We have a missing girl," Lt. Joe Rader of the Virginia State Police, told reporters last week. "We do not know whether  if she is alive or has met some ill fate."

'Let Morgan go'
Gil Harrington said her daughter normally wouldn't try to get home from a big event on her own, but added: "Kids are impulsive, especially in that excitement. Perhaps she knew who she could get a ride with. We don't know. We wish we did know."

Her parents reported her missing the next day and local and state police along with the FBI have been conducting the search for the 5-foot-6, 120-pound blonde with blue eyes.

"She's really very a sweet person, kind of an innocent individual who probably is quite trusting," Dan Harrington told Robach. "She's quite artistic, loves to read, and, really, over the last six months, Gil and Morgan and I had just a phenomenal relationship. She goes to school only 35 miles from here. We've been able to have daily contact with her. She's a wonderful person."

The Harringtons also have a 22-year-old son who told his mother that if Morgan were abducted, whoever took her would have no choice but to keep her alive.

"He said, 'Morgan has a purpose in this world, and Morgan is so special that whoever took her is going to keep her around for a while,' " Gil Harrington told Robach. Then, addressing the presumed abductor, she added, "So please let Morgan go. No questions asked. Let her come home to us."

Robach asked Gil Harrington what she would say to her daughter if Morgan was listening.

Signing her words in American Sign Language, the mother looked in the camera and said, "Morgan, we are trying to shine our heart to you as a beacon to come through wherever you are. Come back home."

Boosted by the $50,000 pledge from Metallica, there is a $150,000 reward for information that helps find Morgan Harrington. Police ask anyone with information to call 434-352-3467. -today.msnbc.com

CONVERSE ANNOUNCES
FALL 2009 MUSIC FOCUSED
PRODUCT COLLABORATIONS
WITH AC/DC AND METALLICA

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.-June 2, 2009 - Converse launches its Fall 2009 collection of collaborations with legendary rock and metal artists AC/DC and Metallica. Iconic band graphics and visuals inspire this unique collection of Converse Chuck Taylor All Star shoe designs that celebrate two distinct bands that broke musical barriers and brought their inspired originality to music fans globally. With a rich musical heritage, Converse has collaborated with a wide range of groundbreaking artists and musical visionaries of the past, present and future.

AC/DC
In the 70's when rock-and-roll was fading and needed a jolt of power, AC/DC surged onto the scene, showcasing a sound that disrupted the status-quo. In the age of stadium rock, stripped down, pure rock-and-roll was rare, and that basic form of rock combined with AC/DC's thunderous bass, wall-of-sound guitars and arresting vocals was unheard of. The Fall 2009 AC/DC collection is inspired by albums and concert graphics, and is a showcase of a discography and visual history of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Chuck Taylor All Star shoes serve as the canvas for amazing designs each with subtle detail and sonic graphics and logos.

Chuck Taylor All Star shoes are the foundation of the collection. A monochromatic black version is a simple, cool tribute to the landmark album Back in Black, complete with stitched band and album logos. Another model in ultra-premium leather includes "Back in Black" embossed on the upper, iced outsoles and a black band logo bumper on the shoe's sidewall. Graphics from Those About to Rock and the iconic image of Angus and the words "Lock Up Your Daughters" are both a rocker's dream. The Highway to Hell album rounds out the AC/DC Chuck Taylor All Star collection with a super premium high-top with the band logo both on a side bumper and visible through its clean iced-outsole.

AC/DC Chuck Taylor All Star high top shoes are available in black, black/multi, red/white and black AC/DC print canvas versions. Shoes in this collection have a MSRP of $50 - $80 and will be available nationwide at specialty retailers, department stores and online at www.converse.com beginning in June.

Metallica
Pioneers in the world of rock, Metallica tore up the metal scene from the get-go in the 1980s, and brought it back down to earth with an aggressive sound and a style that was antithetical to the excesses of rock music at the time.  Relentless, heavy and hard, the sound and style of Metallica not only changed metal; it made them one of the most influential bands of all time. Converse's collaboration with Metallica combines all of the speed and volume of the band, with the spirit of disruption and originality of the Chuck Taylor All Star shoe.

High-tops serve as the perfect backdrop for some of the most classic graphics and logos in music history.  Ride the Lightning album graphics look simple and clean with appliqué embossed patch graphics on the classic Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker.  Subtle details like logo tongue patches and midsole graphics take the band's iconography a step beyond.

Metallica Chuck Taylor All Star high top shoes are available in black/multi and white/black. Shoes in this collection have a MSRP of $50 and will be available nationwide at specialty retailers, department stores and online at www.converse.com beginning in July.

About Converse
Converse Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of NIKE, Inc. Established in 1908, the Converse brand has built a reputation as "America's Original Sports Company"™ and has been associated with a rich heritage of legendary shoes such as the Chuck Taylor® All Star® shoe, the Jack Purcell® shoe and the One Star® shoe. Today, Converse offers a diverse portfolio including premium lifestyle men's and women's footwear and apparel. Converse product is sold globally by retailers in over 160 countries and over 40 company-owned retail locations in the U.S. For more information, visit Converse on the web at www.converse.com.