Metallica’s charitable organisation, All Inside My Arms, has donated $100,000 to earthquake reduction in Venezuela, after the nation was hit by back-to-back magnitude 7+ quakes final week.

On Wednesday, June 24, the South American nation was struck by two large earthquakes in fast succession, registering 7.2 and seven.5 on the Richter scale. Whereas the extent of the destruction hasn’t but been totally assessed, over 68,000 individuals have been reported lacking inside three days of the quakes, and the official demise toll presently stands at over 2,500.

As per Blabbermouth, the United Nations studies that as much as 6.8 million Venezuelans could also be affected – a large chunk of the nation’s 28.6 million complete inhabitants. It’s additionally estimated that just about 60,000 buildings have been broken or destroyed.

Metallica’s $100,000 donation goes to Direct Reduction, which is working with regional and native authorities to ship emergency assist to these affected and assist search-and-rescue operations. Direct Reduction can also be serving to organise first-aid provides, medicines and different healthcare for these affected by the earthquakes.

First established in 2017, Metallica’s non-profit All Inside My Arms Basis has donated hundreds of thousands to numerous causes around the globe, from catastrophe reduction to music schooling. So far the charity has offered grants of $19 million to schooling programmes by way of the Metallica Students Initiative, $8.8 million to meals assist and $6.2 million to catastrophe reduction.

The muse notably donated half 1,000,000 {dollars} to catastrophe reduction efforts following the large wildfires in California final yr.

Talking on Metallica’s personal podcast – The Metallica Report – in 2024, the band’s frontman James Hetfield spoke about how a lot it means to him to have the ability to assist individuals by way of All Inside My Arms.

“There’s not likely a greater feeling on this world than serving to another person and doing it with out telling [people] about it. There’s something improbable about that. It goes towards the whole lot that people are – ‘I would like this. You give me that. I must take this,’” he stated.

“Particularly rising up in a band that was struggling, preventing for the one towel within the motel, or no matter it’s, or ‘there’s a can of meals there. I higher get mine or else.’ 

“Simply that sparseness mentality and having that key unlock it to be fully the alternative. Out of the whole lot you’ve discovered, regardless of the whole lot I’ve discovered, the corniest saying ‘it’s higher to offer than obtain’ is so true.”

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Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Totally immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Metallic Hammer and MusicRadar.