Two Metallica albums, Ride the Lightning and the band's self-titled studio effort, return to the same chart together, and the ...

Metallica’s self-titled album has now spent 999 weeks on the U.K.’s Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, nearing a historic 1,000-week milestone. (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Metallica's Load returns to No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Rock & ...

Which is the better Metallica album — Master of Puppets of the band's self-titled 'Black Album'? Oh yes, we actually went there. In this week's Chuck's Fight Club on the Loudwire Nights radio show ...

Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album showed fans around the world that the band was looking to try something new. Thrash metal was a powerful genre in the 1980s, but as the decade came to a close, it ...

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 ...

Here are the most and least played songs live off each Metallica album and, as a bonus, all of the band's original songs that were never performed. Known for varying their setlists from night to night ...

Now that the world knows Megadeth is covering Metallica‘s “Ride the Lightning” on their upcoming final album, here is how fans of both bands are reacting to the surprise announcement. The initial ...

L ars Ulrich was only 19 when Metallica released their speed limit–defying debut, Kill ‘Em All, in 1983. On each successive album, the metal musicians waited for the mainstream to come to them. Then, ...

"It’s no secret that onstage, I’m a different person," James Hetfield said in a 2023 interview. "More shooting from the hip, more embracing the unknown up there. I wish I could do that better in ...