Perhaps if producer Bob Rock hadn’t become so friendly with Metallica in the aftermath of the phenomenal success of the ‘Black’ album, the producer might have had the balls to tell James Hetfield and ...

Thanks to a shift in sound and image, Metallica’s mid-90s period was the most divisive era of their career to that point. But in this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archives, originally ...

Formed during the 1980s by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, Metallica took over heavy metal when they released the band’s album Master of Puppets. The following decades brought the band a mountain of ...

Metallica's fourth Helping Hands Concert and Auction took place on Friday night in Los Angeles, featuring performances by Sammy Hagar, SistaStrings and Metallica themselves. All of the proceeds from ...

Metallica spent about two years writing and recording both 1996's Load and 1997's Reload. The two albums were written at the same time, with the Reload songs being ones Metallica didn't feel were ...

On Friday (Dec. 13), Metallica played the fourth biennial Helping Hands Concert & Auction at LA's YouTube Theater. Though the legendary band released their latest album 72 Seasons last year, they ...

The podcast host suggested that it would be interesting to see Metallica return to the style they captured in the ’90s with Load and Reload. “Who knows? We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the ...

There are two types of Metallica fans in this world — the ones that think just the first four (maybe five if you want to include the Black Album) are all you need out of the band and others who also ...