Metal gods Metallica may still be going strong 30 years into their career, but the foundation for that strength lies primarily within the music they released in the '80s. Over the course of four ...

It’s very rare for musicians to achieve something that no one else in the profession has, but Metallica has done it with their revered accomplishment.

In the mid 1980s, Campbell was playing with Dio, but asked for a modded version of his traditional Mark IIC+ in order to tap into “added gain and girth”.

Every aspiring band needs their big break, and for Metallica, one of their most important early milestones occurred in the early 1980s when they were invited to go on their first national tour ...

The 1980s had a laundry list of distinct musical fads, but these three bands paved their own path and didn't succumb any of them.

“Death Magnetic” is being hailed as a return to the powerhouse 1980s Metallica sound, but it’s not simply that: It’s an obsessive examination of that sound, a truly physical exercise in ...

In his interview with Q, Lars Ulrich also revealed that Metallica had also "caught a bit of flak" over the lyrics to Fade To Black, from 1984's Ride The Lightning album, "because of a couple of ...

We’re continuing our journey through the decades with perhaps metal’s strongest era — the 1980s. In this list, we narrowed the decade down to find the best song of each year from 1980-1989.

These classic metal albums from the 1980s are must-haves for any metalheads who are building a vinyl collection.

Hetfield, for his part, weighed in with some opinions on Ulrich, recalling that the Danish-born drummer rarely bathed during the band's formative days in the early 1980s and was not a good drummer.

Metallica stopped by their former home in El Cerrito, Calif., where they were honored by that city's mayor.