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The day that Metallica trolled the world

How Metallica had the last laugh at Glastonbury 2014, and became the first metal band ever to headline the festival

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“I tried to write the heaviest thing I could think of”: From Enter Sandman to Nothing Else Matters, the stories behind every song on Metallica’s Black Album

35 years ago, Metallica cemented themselves as the biggest metal band on Earth. This is your track-by-track guide to their landmark moment.

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“I don’t think the underground or extreme metal scene will ever dig us. It’s elitist”: How Trivium defied the gatekeepers and split the critics with The Crusade

Trivium broke big with 2005’s Ascendancy – but a year later, The Crusade saw the backlash hit

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Sevendust's 30-Year odyssey: Success, near-bankruptcy and new purpose: "It's been tough. We survived what many people wouldn't have survived."

Sevendust were a gold-certified, shit-hot live act making serious money – but they weren’t seeing any of it. Staring down bankruptcy and on the brink of collapse, they refused to be knocked down

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Cardio, corpse paint and Carolina Reapers: Venom frontman Cronos opens up about his brilliantly bizarre double life

Best known as the godfather of black metal, Cronos is also a birdwatcher, a fitness instructor, a multimedia engineer, a pepperhead and a Kate Bush nut

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"I was like, 'Bro... Metallica's never been tighter and you want some yahoos to come jump in and try and be Hetfield? Is that what you're saying?' And they're like, 'Yeah'": Pepper Keenan remembers when he auditioned to dep guitar for Metallica

It was when James Hetfield was injured mid tour with Guns N’ Roses

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Addiction, Doris, Riots and Tub Tarts: An A-Z Of Metallica

Your alphabetical guide to the world’s biggest metal band

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"They draw a crowd size which would have once been reserved for Iron Maiden or Metallica." Burning keyboardists, flying tanks and free suncream - inside Wacken Open Air 2026

The world's biggest metal festival puts on a weekend to remember for its 35th anniversary

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Megadeth announce first UK headlining tour since 2015 plus European dates, Black Label Society and Testament supporting

Dave Mustaine’s departing thrashers are bringing their farewell tour across the pond

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“That song has so much voodoo in it. It sounded like it was written under a full moon. It gets straight to the darkest parts of one’s psyche”: Kirk Hammett on the Fleetwood Mac classic that defines heavy music

The Metallica guitarist says he is in awe of The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) and explains why metal owes a huge debt to the late Peter Green

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“The first Slipknot album is all chaos; the Stone Sour album is a baring of the soul”: Corey Taylor reveals the 10 albums that changed his life

The Great Big Mouth on his best records, Les Misérables and how great sex made him a Depeche Mode fan

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Avenged Sevenfold’s Statica EP is a goofy, auto-tuned mess – and exactly the kind of risk more big metal bands should take

In a genre where many veteran artists stay the course, it’s refreshing to see one break the mould so brazenly

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“Cliff played For Whom The Bell Tolls all the time. The rest of us would stiffen up and go, ‘What the heck was that?’” The stories behind every song on Ride The Lightning, in Metallica’s own words

Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett break down their band’s landmark second album, released on this day in 1984

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“To all intents and purposes, it was a disaster. I wanted to kick my habit, I didn’t want to kick it.” A wasted singer, a bizarre producer and a real-life Sex Pistol: how Megadeth made thrash metal’s most chaotic album

Megadeth were strung out and at war with each other when they made their third album So Far, So Good… So What!. And things were about to get worse…

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"It's great when music leaves your head and inhabits your body, but there are some songs where you need to keep thinking." The story behind Metallica's apocalyptic thrash masterpiece, Blackened

“Dude, that riff’s good enough to open our album."

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“Gallops like The Trooper and evokes Iron Maiden’s double-lead-guitar histrionics”: Mongol champions The Hu take after their hard rock heroes on long-awaited new album Hun

The folk metal horde have been endorsed by Metallica and Iron Maiden – and their third album bears those icons’ influence

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A year without Ozzy Osbourne: all the biggest tributes, covers and controversies since the Prince Of Darkness’ death

Award wins, all-star celebrations, a divisive AI avatar – these are the ways that Ozzy’s passing rocked the heavy metal world

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The DVD that came with Metallica’s St Anger makes metal’s most maligned album make sense

Footage of the metal giants’ 2003 rehearsals offers a clearer glimpse at their vision after facing oblivion

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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich admits playing Las Vegas Sphere is 'intimidating'

Lars Ulrich says Metallica’s upcoming Sphere residency is “overwhelming and f****** intimidating,” admitting the scale of the high‑tech shows is both exciting and daunting.

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"I was there when U2 played the opening night and was awestruck, inspired, energized." Lars Ulrich is excited at the idea of Metallica "conquering" the "intimidating" Las Vegas Sphere

"We gotta start thinking about scaling the Sphere mountain and conquering that"

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“They let me put a grand piano on the snake pit”: What’s it like supporting Metallica in stadiums? Evanescence’s Amy Lee calls it “so fun”

The band behind Bring Me To Life supported the metal giants in Australia and New Zealand last year

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Rush 'in talks' over Las Vegas Sphere residency

Canadian rockers Rush look set to follow in the footsteps of U2 and No Doubt after they entered talks over a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

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"It was this far from his tennis shoe!" Jason Newsted says that a Metallica fan once threw darts at the band during a show

The incident happened at a Canada arena show in the late 80s

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“It holds a special place in Gibson history. As one of our earliest limited-edition instruments, it helped establish a lasting legacy within hard rock guitar culture”: Gibson unveils Custom Shop reissue of a Michael Schenker and Kirk Hammett favourite

They only made 350 of them back in the day but the 1971 Flying Medallion takes flight once more with a stunning VOS reissue

Guitar World

“It’s rewarding to learn your favorite solos note for note, but studying the chord progression underneath will put your own spin on things”: 10 great guitar looping songs that will help you hone your playing

Looping these classic chord progressions will get you familiar with some fresh soloing concepts

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