LU: As David Lee Roth once said, 'The only reason you look in the rearview mirror is to see how cool you look going forward.' ...

If you’ve ever dreamed of James Hetfield reading you a festive bedtime story, consider this an early Christmas present. The Metallica frontman has released a spoken-word take on Clement-Clarke Moore’s ...

Hot off of the meteoric success of 1984’s Ride The Lightning, the boys in Metallica — singer/guitarist James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett, bassist Cliff Burton and drummer Lars Ulrich — found ...

Metallica marked their territory as one of the most influential thrash bands of the ‘80s. Their signature sound, often credited to founding member and frontman James Hetfield, can be boiled down to ...

Dave Mustaine appears to have covered a Metallica song he penned on Megadeth's final album. In the summer, the frontman revealed that their new record, which has since been revealed to be self-titled ...

Here are all six Metallica songs co-written by Dave Mustaine, ranked worst to best. Mustaine played a crucial role in the early development of Metallica. Between 1982 and early 1983, the future ...

Dyah (pronounced Dee-yah) is a Senior Author at Collider, responsible for both writing and transcription duties. She joined the website in 2022 as a Resource Writer before stepping into her current ...

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 ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

When Metallica started out in Los Angeles in 1981, their uncompromising music – super-fast and super-heavy – made them outcasts in a rock scene dominated by glam metal stars such as Ratt and Mötley ...

As with any other hobby or skill, every guitarist has to start somewhere. For most of us, it all started by playing air guitar along with some of our favorite songs and wishing we could play like our ...