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May 19, 2009

Metallica Spicing "World Metallic Tour" With Covers, Rarities and Plenty of Fan Love

"On this tour, we've got this wild hair up our ass," says Lars Ulrich
April 5, 2009

Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck Join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Wild Induction Ceremony

Eminem, Jimmy Page, Flea help honor the 2009 class in Cleveland
November 13, 2008

Q&A: James Hetfield

Metallica's frontman on headbanging injuries, his favorite album and field-dressing a moose
October 16, 2008

Fans Complain Metallica Disc Is Too Loud

Band faces criticism over Death Magnetic's sound quality

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Death Magnetic

In the Eighties, thrash metal wasn't a scene, it was an arms race: riffs kept speeding up, drum kits got bigger. But with 1991's Black Album, Metallica opted for unilateral disarmament, slowing their tempos, shortening their songs and smelting their chugging guitars and piston-powered drums into...

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In the '80s — when big hair and small ideas dominated heavy metal — Metallica's dense blend of brains and brawn gave the genre a much-needed charge. By 1991, fans had responded to Metallica's message in droves, buying 6 million copies of the group's fifth full-length album, Metallica, and elevating their previous LPs to platinum. In the process, grim-faced guitarist-singer James...

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