Award-winning American heavy metal band Metallica have been named as ambassadors for this year's Record Store Day, April 16, which celebrates independent record stores and record store culture worldwide.

The band's drummer Lars Ulrich commented 'Independent record stores are part of Metallica's DNA. They have been pivotal in shaping each one of us into the music fanatics we've all become. We could not be any prouder to be Record Store Day ambassadors for 2016 and are looking forward to screaming from every rooftop the next few months about everything independent record store and beyond'.