Metallica

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

By Jon Hotten published 30 January 26

1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading bands to look back on those whirlwind 12 months.

The chaotic and confusing story of Metallica’s abandoned album

By Stephen Hill published 28 January 26

In 2001, Metallica hired an old army barracks in California to try and record album eight. The songs were scrapped when James Hetfield entered rehab, but many fans still want to hear them finished.

Reliving Metallica's Napster lawsuit - and Lars' extremely awkward comedy sketch video

By Merlin Alderslade published 26 January 26

This was certainly a time of change in the music industry

The 80s pop culture icon that bizarrely tried to join Metallica

By Merlin Alderslade published 23 January 26

This week, wrestling icon Hulk Hogan passed away aged 71. We revisit one of the strangest stories involving the Hulkster, which included the world's biggest metal band

Inside the night James Hetfield caught fire - and Axl Rose caused a riot

By Philip Wilding published 21 January 26

A look back at one of the most chaotic gigs in the history of rock 'n' roll

The lost NWOBHM classic that Metallica turned into one of metal’s most famous songs

By Greg Prato published 17 January 26

How Lars Ulrich and co gave a leg up to a cult early 80s British metal band

Awards and no-shows: inside the depressing night Metallica split with Jason Newsted

By Matt Mills published 16 January 26

By the time Jason took to the stage with Metallica near the end of 2000, it was so clearly already over

That time Metallica launched a worldwide search to find a new vocalist via an ad in a British music magazine

By Paul Brannigan published 7 January 26

If you were reading Kerrang! in December 1983, you could have had a shot at fronting Metallica

How Metallica wrote the power ballad that saved Miley Cyrus - and that Elton John adored

By Rich Hobson published 7 January 26

James Hetfield wasn't sure about letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. Thank goodness he did