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"You make us play better, man!" – 20 years ago Metallica auditioned a host of bass players to replace Jason Newsted

Pepper Keenan, Scott Reeder, Eric Avery, Danny Lohner, Jeordie White and Chris Wyse were among the hopefuls

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"I felt like I'd run a marathon": Architects' Sam Carter on supporting Metallica

Architects frontman Sam Carter discusses what it felt like supporting on the first night of the massive M72 tour and why Metallica are still so iconic

Metal Hammer

"Run DMC made me want to rap." These are the albums that mean the most to Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda

From Metallica and Run DMC to The Doors and Simon & Garfunkel, Mike Shinoda's tastes are unsurprisingly vast

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10 pop covers of metal songs you won't believe actually happened

From Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey to Maroon 5 defanging a Nine Inch Nails classic, these covers will stun, embarrass and, in some cases, delight you!

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"Phil picked up my second guitar and went up to the microphone and just started singing all these silly songs" – Eric Bell on the unlikely success story of Thin Lizzy's version of Whisky In The Jar

"As the taxi driver's talking to me, I suddenly made a riff in my imagination"

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Winger have taken the knocks and they've been knocked out, but at least Metallica have apologised

Kip Winger and Reb Beach on Winger's first album in almost a decade, that call from James Hetfield, and supporting Spinal Tap: "They’re a spoof band, but we’re the ones they’re spoofing on"

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"We got stones thrown at us". Sahil ‘Demonstealer’ Makhija helped India finally embrace heavy metal - but the scene is facing more challenges than ever

The Godfather Of Indian Metal, Sahil ‘Demonstealer’ Makhija has overcome many obstacles to get the music he loves appreciated in his homeland. Sadly, plenty more remain

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"I'd sweat so much I had to test my basses by dunking them in water!" True story: Jason Newsted sweated so much with Metallica that his basses would short-circuit

“To test each one, I’d fill up a big tub with super hot water, dump in some salt, and submerge the bass”

Guitar World

The best metal albums of 2023 so far

Metallica, Babymetal and Sleep Token are among the best albums of 2023 so far - and there's more to come

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This unassuming guitar teacher’s epic America’s Got Talent audition went viral. Here’s how he landed – and nailed – the gig of a lifetime

John Wines, aka Old Grey Guitarist, has over 1m followers on TikTok and blew audiences away with his Brian May and Eddie Van Halen-channeling audition. He tells us how he put together the perfect rock-guitar showcase, and the secret to bossing the electric guitar’s greatest solos on social media

Guitar World

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants kick off a huge auction in aid of kids charities, with items from some of the biggest name in metal up for grabs

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The 10 best performances of Glastonbury 2023

From rock legends with surprise sets to nu metal drops and Mongolian folk with massive riffs, Glastonbury 2023 didn't disappoint

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Lovebites' Miyako: 10 songs that changed my life

From Metallica and Michael Jackson to Polyphia and Elton John, these are the songs that helped Lovebites' Miyako become a top-tier shredder

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"Sit down, Lars!" Beavis and Butt-Head reviewing Metallica in the 90s still makes for hilarious viewing

In Season 4 of Beavis and Butt-Head, our favourite juvenile metalhead duo cast their eyes over a Metallica live performance of For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Metallica fan recreates James Hetfield's Ride The Lightning guitar tone with a Marshall JCM 800 and Tube Screamer

LambChopper678 delivers again – with some added details

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Six times huge bands have secretly performed under fake names

As the Churnups – aka Foo Fighters – rock Glastonbury, we look back on six times major bands have taken to the stage under a top-secret pseudonym

The Guardian - UK

Glastonbury headline sets – ranked!

From Bowie’s stage invader to Stormzy’s ballet, the festival has seen some unforgettable lead acts. We round up the best ever

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"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

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The 10 Greatest Festival Bands Ever, as chosen by The Darkness' Dan Hawkins

Ahead of his band's BST Hyde Park show with Guns N' Roses, The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins selects his dream festival line-up. Scream for me Danington!

The National (Scotland)

Legendary rock band defends musician after 'bagpipes don't belong' attack

ONE of the world’s biggest rock bands has come to the defence of a piper after they were told “bagpipes don’t belong” ...

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Metallica just smoothly shut down a fan attempting to dunk on a bagpipe cover of their songs: "This guy doesn't speak on our behalf"

Metallica refuse to tolerate any negativity from within the 'Tallica Family!

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Bob Rock says Jimmy Page is a big fan of Metallica's St Anger: "He said it's a great album, so I'm OK!"

Does everyone have St Anger wrong? According to living rock gods Jimmy Page and Jack White: yes

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Listen to a haunting version of Metallica's The Unforgiven sung in the indigenous Inuktitut language

Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie covers Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Rolling Stones and more on upcoming album Inuktitut

Louder

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan once told Pantera to "shut the f**k up" when they kept moaning about Metallica not being metal

Billy Corgan once interrupted Pantera lamenting over Metallica's lighter sound during their Reload era, with surprising results

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Watch Metallica's absolutely epic version of Whiskey in The Jar from Download Festival

Metallica's latest official live video from the M72 tour has been released and it's a banger

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