New songs, rarities and reunions with departed members makes for one hell of a 30 year celebration. More

It sounds a lot like 'Fuel,' but unreleased Death Magnetic outtake 'Hate Train' still beats the shit out of anything on Lulu. More

You know you want it.  More

You haven't heard Enter Sandman enough times. No, really, you haven't. More

You know the feeling you got when everyone kept Charlie Sheen's "Winning!" joke going a little too long? Yeah.  More

There is no escaping what Lulu truly is: the single worst mash-up record ever made.  More

Eeesh. More

Shot in the waiting room of the proctologist's office. More

Imagine Iron Man played backwards slowly while your molester uncle talks some weird shit about his ex, and you've got a good sense what's going on here.  More

Does. Not. Compute.  More

Something amazing happened at the Sofia, Bulgaria stop of the Sonisphere Festival last night. All of the "Big Four," on the same stage, performing Am I Evil? by Diamond Head. More

After several months of speculation and anticipatory mullet-grooming, it's been confirmed that Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and... More

A pair of researchers at the University of Wisconsin have been working to learn more about how human music may have come about, by experimenting with monkeys, and playing them music by... More

It only took 'em 28 years and 100 million albums, but Metallica were finally inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at Cleveland’s newly renovated Public... More

At SXSW last week, Lars Ulrich had a talk with the LA Times. Video after the jump. We're extremely skeptical of his opinion that video games will ever be a... More

Every single day I check the music news, and seriously every single fucking day, there's something new about Metallica. We mocked Mission: Metallica and their overblown,... More

I had this fucker written in my head long before I'd so much as heard a note: they're master rehashers, old men trying to reapply the dead skin they shed decades ago when shorter songs,... More

Hey Metallica, why hold a listening party for your new album if you don't want people talking about the music? We all know you guys are all about embracing the internet... More

In 2000, Lars Ulrich and Metallica famously sued Napster, and published a 60,000 page printout of names of fans who had traded their music in MP3 format online. This established Metallica,... More

Tool were joined by Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammet for the spiraling epic Lateralus, with Metallica‘s Orion weaved in. Watch. More

Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage The Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes and more follow Metallica on the two-day bill. More

Metal legends Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica teamed up for a dream-come-true Big Four tour this Summer, and soon you’ll be able to own all the action. More