"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 ...
Metallica songs are not easy to replicate. They’ve built their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legacy with thrashing metal riffs, complex arrangements, and James Hetfield’s outstanding and emotionally ...
When Metallica reached a major career milestone in 2021, one social-media user celebrated with a savagely funny post that went viral: "Wow Metallica is fuckin' turning 40! Thank you for 7 years of ...
A few hours before Kirk Hammett took the stage with Metallica, the guitarist paused on the black, not red, carpet outside the YouTube Theater in Inglewood to talk about the importance of the night’s ...
As was revealed last year, Metallica's 72 Seasons album really got its jumpstart when bassist Robert Trujillo was tasked by James Hetfield to rework some classic tracks acoustically and it spurred a ...
When it comes to the last two Metallica records, the band have embraced an approach that can best be summed up by Lux Æterna lyrics of "full speed or nothin'", both 2016's Hardwired... To Self ...
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 ...
Today, Metallica will release their 11th album, 72 Seasons. Later this month, they will begin playing those songs in stadiums all over the world. In my town, a pair of local Metallica shows were ...