Metallica

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Metallica's Master Of Puppets performed in 50 different styles is absolutely wild

YouTube whizz Anthony Vincent has shared a hugely ambitious – but unsurprisingly brilliant – version of Metallica's Master Of Puppets in the style of everyone from Linkin Park to Harry Styles…

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Lars Ulrich on Metallica's future: "Of course there's new music coming… but there's nothing cohesive"

Metallica "always" have new music coming, but Lars Ulrich stresses that, right now, "there's not anything to really back it up yet."

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Metallica announce Black Album Funko POP! featuring band members and cover art

Watch Kirk Hammett unbox Metallica's epic new Black Album Funko POP! – a special release celebrating the record's 30th anniversary…

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Indispensable Hero: Why I will always love Cliff Burton

Hannah Levin, KXCI Tucson DJ and founder of KEXP Seattle's metal show Seek & Destroy, looks back at how the Metallica bassist changed her life.

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Metallica: 12 things you might not know about Cliff Burton

A little primer knowledge on Metallica’s legendary late bassist, Cliff Burton…

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Here's the setlist from Metallica's first live show in 738 days

Last week Metallica played a surprise hometown show at San Francisco's 500-capacity club The Independent – their first proper live gig in 738 days!

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Metallica will headline the first-ever Download Germany

Metallica will head up the inaugural Deutsch Download, joined by Sabaton and Five Finger Death Punch.

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Listen to Corey Taylor covering Metallica’s Holier Than Thou

The Slipknot frontman has paid tribute to his heroes with a banging version of their Black Album banger…

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Elton John calls Nothing Else Matters "one of the best songs ever written", makes James Hetfield well up

The very definition of legends supporting legends: Elton John made Papa Het all teary after calling Metallica's classic Nothing Else Matters "one of the best songs ever written".

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"The dictionary definition of a sellout…" Watch Metallica read real one-star Amazon reviews of The Black Album

Metallica read out some brutal one-star reviews of The Black Album on Amazon during their recent Jimmy Kimmel appearance.

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The 164 songs that were banned from American radio after 9/11

We look at the songs deemed too “lyrically questionable” to play on the radio after the 9/11 attacks.

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Metallica on The Black Album's success: Our core underground fans thought they were losing us

Kirk Hammett and Jason Newsted remember the 'sell-out' labels thrown Metallica's way when they released The Black Album in 1991.

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Elton John announces new album featuring collabs with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and more

As well as the cover of Nothing Else Matters with Miley Cyrus, WATT, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo and Chad Smith, Elton John's new album has a collaboration with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder…

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Metallica: The untold story of the album that changed everything

After four albums of world-beating thrash, Metallica looked to push things to the limit and become the biggest metal band on the planet with 1991’s colossal ‘Black’ album. As the record turns 30 and the band celebrate with the triumphant Metallica Blacklist, Jason Newsted and Kirk Hammett look back at how it all happened…

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Corey Taylor reveals his pick for "the perfect heavy metal album"

Spoiler alert: Corey Taylor thinks Metallica have made "the perfect heavy metal album"… but which one is it?

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Rina Sawayama shares gloriously wild cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman

Listen to genre-bending pop star Rina Sawayama's dazzling cover of Enter Sandman for The Metallica Blacklist.

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Metallica's Master Of Puppets performed in 50 different styles is absolutely wild

Lars Ulrich on Metallica's future: "Of course there's new music coming… but there's nothing cohesive"

Metallica announce Black Album Funko POP! featuring band members and cover art

Indispensable Hero: Why I will always love Cliff Burton

Metallica: 12 things you might not know about Cliff Burton

Here's the setlist from Metallica's first live show in 738 days

Metallica will headline the first-ever Download Germany

Listen to Corey Taylor covering Metallica’s Holier Than Thou

Elton John calls Nothing Else Matters "one of the best songs ever written", makes James Hetfield well up

"The dictionary definition of a sellout…" Watch Metallica read real one-star Amazon reviews of The Black Album

The 164 songs that were banned from American radio after 9/11

Metallica on The Black Album's success: Our core underground fans thought they were losing us

Elton John announces new album featuring collabs with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and more

Metallica: The untold story of the album that changed everything

Corey Taylor reveals his pick for "the perfect heavy metal album"

Rina Sawayama shares gloriously wild cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman

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