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 ...

Thanks to a shift in sound and image, Metallica’s mid-90s period was the most divisive era of their career to that point. But in this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archives, originally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Perhaps if producer Bob Rock hadn’t become so friendly with Metallica in the aftermath of the phenomenal success of the ‘Black’ ...

Formed during the 1980s by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, Metallica took over heavy metal when they released the band’s album Master of Puppets. The following decades brought the band a mountain of ...

Metallica has finally announced the deluxe remaster for their notorious 1996 LP, Load. The news comes from the band’s social media pages, where they announced pre-orders for the remaster and its ...

Metallica's fourth Helping Hands Concert and Auction took place on Friday night in Los Angeles, featuring performances by Sammy Hagar, SistaStrings and Metallica themselves. All of the proceeds from ...

On Friday (Dec. 13), Metallica played the fourth biennial Helping Hands Concert & Auction at LA's YouTube Theater. Though the legendary band released their latest album 72 Seasons last year, they ...

The podcast host suggested that it would be interesting to see Metallica return to the style they captured in the ’90s with Load and Reload. “Who knows? We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the ...

Plenty of diehard Metallica fans jumped ship when The Black Album was released in 1991. But this Titanic didn’t sink; it sold so many copies worldwide, scientists had to invent a new unit for ...