"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 ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

What do Metallica's band members think is the greatest song of all time? It seems like a simple question, but the mind starts racing with thousands of possibilities. Put on the spot during a recent ...

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 ...

It’s been just over 40 years since James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica, naming their San Francisco thrash band after the music they loved and would spend an unparalleled career ...

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 ...

Without question, Metallica are the most formidable, popularized and influential band in the heavy metal genre. No other band in heavy music wields the same number of masterfully crafted albums or the ...

Metallica was formed in 1981 by guitarist and lead singer James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich after Ulrich placed an ad seeking other musicians to jam with. They recorded their first song, "Hit the ...

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 ...

The post James Hetfield Doesn’t Want Metallica to Be a “Legacy Band That Just Plays Their Greatest Hits’ appeared first on Consequence. Metallica can certainly remain a highly successful touring act ...

Finnish symphonic metal band Apocalyptica is headed to Los Angeles to promote their latest album, “Plays Metallica, Vol. 2.” Tickets for the show slated at The Orpheum Theatre on Friday, Feb. 28 2025, ...