"We'll never stop, we'll never quit, 'cause we're Metallica!" In early 1984, San Francisco's titans of thrash metal issued "Whiplash," the first single from their 1983 debut album Kill 'Em All — and ...

James Hetfield wasn't sure about letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. Thank goodness he did ...

Each song brought a different flavor of what Metallica have been working on over the last several years, but they all also pointed toward a common thread of heavy guitars and drums guiding even ...

Earlier this week Metallica had teased the title track for their upcoming eleventh studio album, 72 Seasons, which offered heavy hints of ‘thrash’ metal as the main course. Today marks the release of ...

Metallica’s brutal 2004 group therapy film Some Kind of Monster is one of the few honest music documentaries to visualize the mental minefields of being in a band. It also marked the near end of one ...

Since forming in 1981, Metallica has released 11 studio albums. Most fans agree that the band’s recent work has been rock-solid. However, their studio albums from the 1990s continue to get mixed ...

Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted described the band in his day as the “best garage duo ever,” saying the music was all about James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich’s contributions. Newsted will forever ...

Elton John and Metallica might live on opposite ends of the rock ‘n’ roll spectrum by commercial genre standards, but they share a kindred musical spirit. During a 2021 appearance on the Howard Stern ...

On Feb. 23, 1998, Metallica released “The Unforgiven II,” the second part in what would become a trilogy. The single followed in the footsteps of 1991’s “The Unforgiven,” a popular power ballad from ...

We’ve been saying it for a while that the GRAMMYs don’t fucking matter when it comes to metal and apparently it looks like the dudes in Metallica feel the same way. During the untelevised portion of ...