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Video: Metallica Post "Fight Fire With Fire" Performance from Mexico City

Posted 03/26/2012 at 10:54am | by Josh Hart

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Metallica have posted yet another video feature from their DVD Orgullo, Pasión, y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México. You can check out footage of the band performing "Fight Fire With Fire" in front of 150,000 die-hard Metallica fans in Mexico City below.

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Prime Cuts: Metallica

Posted 03/20/2012 at 12:07pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Metallica’s 1983 debut, the explosive Kill ’Em All, taught a grateful world a lesson in unbridled thrashing fury. Since then, their sound has passed through numerous stages, but the guttural intensity that was the hallmark of the young Metallica remains the essence of the band today.

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March 14, 1982: Metallica Play Their First Concert

Posted 03/14/2012 at 5:29pm | by Josh Hart

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Thirty years ago today, four kids from California took the stage at Radio City in Anaheim, California completely unaware that their band would one day be among the biggest in the world.

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James Hetfield to Curate Custom Car and Motorcycle Show at Orion Music + More Festival

Posted 03/14/2012 at 3:44pm | by Josh Hart

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When Metallica announced their Orion Music + More festival, they said that the festival would incorporate elements of the band members' personalities.

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Metallica Offering Bracelets Made from Their Guitar Strings, Proceeds Going to Charity

Posted 03/06/2012 at 12:35pm | by Josh Hart

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In conjunction with the MusiCares charity, Metallica are offering special bracelets made from the guitar/bass strings of James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo. Proceeds from the sale of the bracelets will go toward the MusiCares charity.

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10 James Hetfield Guest Appearances

Posted 02/27/2012 at 1:30pm | by Josh Hart

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One of the factors that led to Jason Newsted's departure from Metallica in January of 2001 was frontman James Hetfield's reluctance to allow his bass player to indulge in side projects during the band's downtime.

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From the Archive: James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'

Posted 11/25/2011 at 3:29pm | by Jon Wiederhorn

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Inside a wood-panelled Sausalito, California, studio called The Plant, Metallica frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich gaze reflectively at a dust-covered relic sitting in the corner of the room. "This thing's been in the closet for 10 years," says Hetfield. "It was the second guitar I ever owned, and it was the only one I had when we recorded Kill 'Em All." He picks up the cheap, white Flying V copy and begins to pluck out southern rock licks in the vein of Lynyrd Skynyrd. "It still plays pretty good," he beams.

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From the Archive: Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett Discuss Their 1996 Album, 'Load'

Posted 11/18/2011 at 11:48am | by Tom Beaujour

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“When we were making our last record, nobody knew who the fuck Kurt Cobain was!” Kirk Hammett, at ease in the lounge of the New York City recording studio where he and the rest of Metallica are rushing to finish their sixth album, Load, is acutely aware of how much the musical climate has changed in the five years since the band put out their last studio recording.

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Tony Iommi and James Hetfield Discuss Life in Black Sabbath and Metallica in 1992 Guitar World Interview

Posted 10/18/2011 at 10:34am | by Brad Tolinski, Alan Paul

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Despite their similar attire, Iommi and Hetfield' s demeanors provide sharp studies in contrast. Iommi, with his dark eyes, meticulously groomed moustache and soft English accent, has the dignified bearing of a British noble man. The blond, gravel-voiced, sharp-tongued Hetfield, on the other hand, has the guarded, hulking aspect of an urban street-fighting man.

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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Wants to Form Supergroup with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich

Posted 08/10/2011 at 12:57pm | by Josh Hart

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In a recent interview with Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas radio station 97.1 The Eagle Rocks, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine expressed a fond desire: to form a supergroup with Metallica's James Hetfiled and Lars Ulrich.

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