1996 was a big, complicated year for Metallica. The release of their sixth studio album, Load, came with much criticism from fans and critics alike. Their headlining slot on the massive traveling ...

"We'll never stop, we'll never quit, 'cause we're Metallica!" In early 1984, San Francisco's titans of thrash metal issued "Whiplash," the first single from their 1983 debut album Kill 'Em All — and ...

In 1991, Metallica released a self-titled album that everyone has called The Black Album ever since. It's the band's magnum opus, and it still rules today. To celebrate the album's 30th anniversary, a ...

To think the RIAA didn't have a sales award higher than gold until 1976.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. They achieved all that between 1981 and 1991. Surely the next 10 years would follow a similarly ...

Appeals from the artist to stay still were clearly ignored “One thing there's not is the big Metallica ballad – it's all pretty uppity,” said Lars Ulrich of Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, Metallica’s ...

Zoom has been credited for keeping students and teachers connected, the judicial system working and fitness classes jumping. You can add the latest Metallica album to that list. The hard rockers met ...

While Metallica’s late ‘90s era remains divisive for some fans, one song from the 27 that appeared on the Load and Reload albums remains more or less above criticism: “Fuel.” James Hetfield led the ...

Metallica, “Death Magnetic”Metallica can’t win for losing. Many of the band’s fans still consider the gajillion-selling “Black Album” an unforgiven sellout that blazed the trail for years of Bob Seger ...

Pain has led to a lot of gain for Metallica over the decades. And the adage is exponential for "The Unforgiven," a dark and deeply personal song that's spun off two sequels for a trilogy as intense as ...