Zoltan Bathory: why James Hetfield is the perfect metal rhythm guitar player By Jackson Maxwell last updated 3 August 22 “He plays exactly what he needs to play – not a note less, or a note more,” the Five Finger Death Punch guitarist explained
Taipei Houston, the band featuring two of Lars Ulrich's sons, drop debut single As the Sun Sets By Sam Roche published 26 July 22 Listen to the duo's grungy, fuzz-drenched first single now
Watch Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn play Metallica’s Master of Puppets in rehearsal clip By Matt Owen published 11 July 22 Not to be left out of the action, Metallica kit themselves out in Hellfire Club t-shirts, take themselves to TikTok, and jam along with Quinn’s climactic scene from the hit Netflix show
Watch Metallica play Kill ‘Em All deep cut Metal Militia for the first time since 2016 By Jonathan Horsley published 1 July 22 Pro-shoot footage captures James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett tear through the headbanger’s favorite live from Pinkpop 2022
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett give guitar lessons as Metallica partner with Yousician By Sam Roche published 15 June 22 Hetfield and Hammett teach Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters and One, as well as the “real way” to play Master of Puppets
Watch Kirk Hammett fail the intro to Nothing Else Matters and fall on the floor during Metallica's Boston Calling set By Sam Roche published 31 May 22 “I got distracted by how kickass you are,” the guitarist told the crowd
Watch Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett perform the national anthem at recent San Francisco Giants game By Sam Roche published 25 May 22 The band are offering the chance to win the ESP guitars they played during the performance – Hetfield's Signature Series Snakebyte and Hammett's Signature Series KH-2
James Hetfield gets emotional onstage after feeling “insecure” about his guitar playing By Sam Roche published 16 May 22 The Metallica guitarist told the Belo Horizonte crowd he felt like “an old guy”, and that he was worried he couldn't play guitar anymore before taking to the stage
Learn the essential techniques of ‘80s guitar By Jon Bishop published 29 April 22 It was the decade of big shoulder pads and formidable guitar playing, and here we have four lessons – all stylistically different – to roll back the clock...
James Hetfield’s son launches debut album with Bastardane By Matt Parker published 21 March 22 Is This Rage?, the heavy-rocking debut record from the Savannah, Georgia trio, is out now on streaming services
Jon Zazula, co-founder of the record label that launched Metallica's debut album, dies aged 69 By Sam Roche published 2 February 22 “My heart is full of gratitude for taking a chance on me and my bandmates,” James Hetfield writes
Metallica perform rare tracks and deep cuts during celebratory 40th anniversary shows By Matt Owen published 20 December 21 The heavy metal icons performed Orion, Trapped Under Ice and, for the first time ever, Fixxxer
Metallica will stream their two upcoming 40th anniversary live shows for free By Sam Roche published 10 December 21 Viewable via Amazon Prime and Amazon Music, the shows will take place at the Chase Center in San Francisco on December 17 and 19
Watch Sammy Hagar, James Hetfield, John Mayer, Joe Satriani and Melissa Etheridge perform Piece of My Heart in new pro-shot footage from 2016 By Matt Owen published 19 November 21 The star-studded rendition, which took place during the Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert five years ago, also featured Tommy Lee, Melissa Etheridge, Pat Monahan and Kris Kristofferson
Jerry Cantrell: “The precision and power of James Hetfield's playing is otherworldly – his right hand is really something else” By Amit Sharma published 26 October 21 The Alice in Chains leader shares his love for The Black Album, explains why the Metallica leader has “the best picking hand in rock”, and recalls hearing Sad But True for the first time in a car with Lars Ulrich
Metallica once attempted to recruit a different frontman, says James Hetfield By Sam Roche published 15 October 21 The fresh-faced thrash-metallers tried to get Armored Saint's John Bush to join the band in the early '80s
Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett look back on 30 years of The Black Album: "It really was the master key to everything" By Richard Bienstock published 7 October 21 How shorter, simpler songs and a bold vision helped the thrash pioneers make the biggest metal album of all time
Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett reveal The Black Album's deepest, darkest secrets in this classic 1991 Guitar World interview By Jeff Gilbert published 22 September 21 Shortly before their seminal self-titled LP went stratospheric, the metal titans tell all: arguing over guitar solos, shaking up their gear, fighting with Bob Rock, and the mystery behind ...And Justice For All's missing bass
Watch Metallica play a surprise club show in San Francisco By Matt Parker published 17 September 21 The 400-cap show in the band’s hometown was announced at the last minute on social media
Kirk Hammett reveals he has never written a guitar solo with a wah pedal By Matt Owen published 7 September 21 The Metallica guitarist made the admission in this month's issue of Guitar World, in which he and James Hetfield pick apart the sonic history of the Black Album