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 ...

You don’t become the biggest band in heavy metal by having a crap back-catalogue, you know? Since forming in 1981, Metallica have built a canon with dozens of must-hear megahits, any one of which ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was in second grade, my best friend handed me his headphones and said, “Check this out.” When he pressed play on his Walkman, I heard the opening riff of “Master of Puppets.” Over the next few ...