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James Hetfield and Emily Armstrong

Metallica and Linkin Park to headline Sick New World 2025, with Evanescence, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gojira, AFI, Mastodon, Sisters of Mercy, Kittie, Arch Enemy, Testament and more on insanely stacked bill

By Paul Brannigan published

The line-up for Sick New World 2025 has been revealed, and it's ridiculously great, tbh

Metallica in 2022

James Hetfield vows Metallica will never be "a legacy band"

By Stef Lach published

New music is a vital part of the package that thrash metal icons Metallica want to keep giving their fans

Metallica posing for a photograph in 2013

“I am absolutely proud of it. It was a big risk for us. Everything good usually is”: How Metallica tried to reinvent the rock movie with Through The Never

By Dom Lawson published

2013 was a banner year for Metallica – a brand new record label, their first gigs in China and the ambitious but divisive 3D movie Through The Never

Lars Ulrich of Metallica

"I remember him throwing his guitar up into the lighting rig, rubbing it against the speaker cabinets and playing it with his ass": Lars Ulrich on the first band to truly blow his mind

By Liz Scarlett published

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recalls being nine years old and getting to watch the band that were "loudest and coolest thing" he'd ever seen

Eric Avery onstage with jane's Addiction in 2024, and Metallica in 2002

“I was just looking at it as a chance to go play Master Of Puppets for an afternoon”: Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery reveals what shocked him about 2003 Metallica audition

By Matt Mills published

Avery auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica, but the role ultimately went to Robert Trujillo

Metallica's Robert Trujillo and James's Tim Booth

"His kid goes to our kid’s school, he's a lovely guy": how Metallica's Robert Trujillo and James singer Tim Booth became unexpected lunch buddies

By Niall Doherty published

The James frontman has been hanging out with the Metallica man in LA

Cliff Burton and James Hetfield

“Cliff still lives in all of us. I ask for his help still.” James Hetfield says that Cliff Burton still influences Metallica's songwriting, almost four decades on from the bassist's tragic death in 1986, aged 24

By Paul Brannigan published

James Hetfield acknowledges that Cliff Burton's influence on Metallica will never die

David Ellefson in 2010 and Metallica in 2002

“Lars called me, and you’re on a shortlist”: Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson was in the running to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica

By Matt Mills published

Megadeth’s David Ellefson was shortlisted to join Metallica in 2003 – and he found out because Dave Mustaine told him

Metallica in 2024

The four horsemen ride! Metallica announce 2025 North American tour, including Sick New World and Sonic Temple festivals

By Matt Mills published

Metallica will continue their M72 world tour as they trek across North America next year

Robert Trujillo in 2024

“I didn’t want James Hetfield to smell the alcohol on me”: Robert Trujillo stayed up drinking until 5am before his Metallica audition

By Matt Mills published

The day before auditioning for the biggest band in metal, Trujillo was up partying all night with Lars Ulrich

James Hetfield

Metallica’s James Hetfield, actor in new western film, doesn’t seem to like acting: “Next time I’m asked to do something like this, remind me to say no”

By Matt Mills published

Hetfield has a role in western thriller The Thicket, currently in cinemas, alongside Game Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage

Metallica live 1980s

"You had guys who would jump into the crowd and then walk across people’s heads." Inside the year that turned thrash metal into a global phenomenon

By Dave Everley published

From Anthrax's Fistfull Of Metal to Exodus's Bonded By Blood and Metallica's Ride The Lightning, 1984 was the year thrash broke big

Cliff Burton in 1986

“Bass solo, take one”: Watch Metallica’s new (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth music video, featuring never-before-seen photos of Cliff Burton

By Matt Mills published

The clip is promoting an online exhibition dedicated to the late bassist, hosted on the Metallica website

Lars Ulrich and Noel Gallagher

“It had a huge impact on me and helped shape who I am today”: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich on being an Oasis superfan

By Niall Doherty published

The Metallica drummer has loved Oasis since the early days – and even once did the lights for them at a show

James Hetfield onstage in 2023

Watch Metallica’s James Hetfield act opposite Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage in new clip from The Thicket

By Matt Mills published

The western thriller, produced by Dinklage, hits US theatres on September 6

Maya Neelakantan and Metallica's James Hetfield

"Like Van Halen reincarnated": Watch 10-year-old guitarist Maya Neelakantan blaze through her Metallica-approved performance of Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent

By Liz Scarlett published

Child YouTube guitar sensation Maya Neelakantan was granted permission from Metallica to play Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent, and wowed the judges with her sitar-infused axe-slinging skills

Black Veil Brides with an inset of their self-titled 2014 album and Metallica's self-titled 'Black' album

Black Veil Brides wanted to make an album that replicated Metallica's world-dominating Black Album "on every level"

By Stef Lach published

On their 2014 self-titled album, Black Veil Brides were trying to "replicate" Metallica's own self-titled epic 'Black Album'

James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica performing live in 2023

Fun fact of the day: Metallica use or give away 6,000 guitar picks a night

By Matt Mills published

The metal superstars also haul 64 guitars around on tour and make their way through 25 drumsticks per show

Kirk Hammett and Robert trujillo of Metallica onstage in 2023

Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo cover Rush anthem Working Man in Canada

By Matt Mills published

The Metallica duo’s latest ‘doodle’ covered a Canadian classic turning 50 this year

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox onstage at the Isle Of Wight Festival

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp release footage of Enter Sandman filmed at Isle Of Wight festival

By Fraser Lewry published

They just won't stop, will they?