When Ride the Lightning landed in 1984, it single-handedly evolved the genre. The lit-conscious album also raised the bar for arrangements and technical proficiency. Metallica was developing at a ...

The first band Metallica toured with have admitted that they didn’t think the metal juggernauts had a bright future ahead of ...

I’m quite enjoying hearing Lzzy Hale belt out David Coverdale’s parts on “Still of the Night,” but since Metallica get more clicks than Whitesnake you get the above headline, and you can stream ...

Despite the words "selling out" being a curse for any credible rock band, Metallica was one of the few who sold out exactly right.

You’d be hard-pressed to find Metallica songs that hit harder than the four that open Ride the Lightning. If you were there in July of ’84, you remember where you were the first time you gazed ...

“Mustaine’s cool, but Mustaine’s one of those guys that he can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth,” says King. “So, I’ll take my 20 minutes, and I’ll bolt just before anything gets uncomfortable.” ...

Once the kings of thrash metal, Metallica reinvented themselves in the 1990s to become an even larger force on the hard-rock/mainstream metal scene. While the road hasn't always been easy ...

Metallica, formed in 1981 in Los Angeles ... they defined thrash metal with landmark albums “Ride The Lightning” (1984) and “Master of Puppets” (1986). The song became their signature ...