Metallica is a metal band from Los Angeles that started making music in 1981. The group, led by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, helped create thrash metal and became one of the most successful bands ...
Metallica stunned fans and critics with their self-titled fifth album — colloquially known as the Black Album — which pivoted from topical, breakneck thrash metal to pulverizing, catchy and even ...
30 years ago, Metallica’s Black Album classic “Nothing Else Matters” proved there was room in thrash for power ballads. But James Hetfield didn’t want to bring the song to his bandmates at first, ...
Elton John and Metallica's James Hetfield, who became emotional after the praise. Credit: The Howard Stern Show YouTube Elton John moved Metallica frontman James Hetfield to tears after calling the ...
Metallica (L-R) Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich(back to camera) James Hetfield, Jason Newsted on the Nowhere Else to Roam tour, 1993 (Ross Halfin) Blending monster-truck riffs, quicksilver melodies and ...
Prior to The Black Album, Metallica were known primarily as a hard-hitting thrash band. Sure, they had some slower songs in their catalog up until that point, but former bassist Jason Newsted says ...
The very definition of legends supporting legends: Elton John made Papa Het all teary after calling Metallica's classic Nothing Else Matters "one of the best songs ever written". Following the release ...
Metallica’s iconic ‘Nothing Else Matters’ is a masterpiece of accessible metal, and it was really only a matter of time before someone recorded it on a Renaissance lute. The lines between hard rock ...