The similarities between Dark Angel's 1986 track "Darkness Descends" and Metallica's 1988 track "One" are hard to ignore. The songs have similar riffs, similar drumming styles, and even share some ...

Despite the fact that Metallica take their sweet time recording and releasing music these days, they go through a lot of ideas, according to bassist Rob Trujillo. In an interview with Bass Player, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images/Jeff Kravitz On June 4, 1996, Metallica’s sixth album Load was released — ...

During today's appearance on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM (April 12), Metallica chatted about a variety of things, shedding light on their songwriting processes individually and as a team, ...

Someone find Kirk Hammett’s cellphone and put it under lock and key. He’s apparently written nearly 800 new riffs for the next Metallica album and we don’t want a repeat of what happened a few years ...

Metallica’s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells ...

The bandleader opened up about his idea to make live shows easier on the latest episode of 'The Metallica Report' podcast Monica Schipper/Getty Metallica's James Hetfield has a proposition for ...

While Slayer, Exodus, and others were also pioneers of thrash metal, Metallica’s first two albums created a dividing line in music history. Once Metallica had arrived, they established a new blueprint ...

Some guitar riffs are so legendary and so iconic that even the mildest fans will recognize them from a distance. These guitar riffs from the 1990s are some of the very best to come out of that decade, ...