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Ice-T on metal, Dave Mustaine and making it against the odds: “My hustle is strong. It’s a survival instinct”

Body Count frontman, hip hop icon, controversy magnet, friend of Megadeth, Lemmy, Slayer and more – it’s Ice-T’s world, we just live in it

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Kirk Hammett’s 1960 Les Paul Standard “Sunny” is A) beautiful and B) up for sale via Gibson Certified Vintage

Gibson collectors, assemble. This is the Les Paul you might recognise from The Beauty Of The Burst book, from watching Metallica, or from your wildest dreams

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Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo offer their track-by-track guide to Metallica’s super-heavy smash-hit new album, 72 Seasons

Fast stuff, bouncy stuff, thrashing riffs, evil tones, power grooves and ‘total noise’ solos included

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Mayor appointed to sounds of Metallica

Tom Coles entered Portsmouth Guildhall to the heavy metal band’s song Eye Of The Beholder.

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Metallica are still hating on Ride The Lightning deep cut Escape even after all these years

TikTokker: “Is Metallica’s Escape better than I remember it?” Metallica: “No!”

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Five Finger Death Punch pull out of Download

Ivan Moody’s recent hernia surgery means Five Finger Death Punch have cancelled all shows until June 12 – including their appearance at the Download Festival

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Vote for the best Metallica album

Master Of Puppets? The Black Album? 72 Seasons? Here’s your chance to say once and for all what’s the greatest Metallica album

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“Metallica loved it”: why Hesher is the greatest Hollywood movie ever to be inspired by Cliff Burton

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt channelled late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton as the nihilistic title character in cult movie Hesher

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“We’re bored, let’s do some stuff” – How James Hetfield wrote Metallica’s longest-ever song in a Zoom call with Lars

Hetfield and Ulrich tell Apple Music's Zane Lowe that one minute you're bored on Zoom, the next you have a Sabbath-inspired riff, and before long you have the most epic track you’ve ever written

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The guitar gear secrets behind James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett’s tones on 72 Seasons

Metallica co-producer Greg Fidelman reveals how the new album was made with the help of a Marshall modded by Eddie Van Halen’s amp wizard and a rack full of battle-hardened guitars, including one that makes Hetfield “immediately want to play fast riffs”

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James Hetfield on Metallica's new creative era: "I don't want to sit there and create the songs with Lars anymore – I want everyone to be a part of it and be in it"

The frontman is candid about the need for new approaches in an interview with Metallica's fanzine

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Watch this Metallica fan play Master Of Puppets using every 'instrument' imaginable, including straws, bananas and, er, a toilet door

Tom Fdez attempts to play Metallica's Master Of Puppets using just about every means possible

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Ex Megadeth bassist says Dave Mustaine's long-held Metallica grudge is "f***ing pathetic"

David Ellefson takes aim at former Megadeth bandmate Dave Mustaine over his decades-long beef with Metallica

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Jason Newsted lambasts "idiots" who criticise Lars Ulrich's drumming: "they have no idea what they're talking about"

Jason Newsted has leapt to the defence of his former Metallica bandmate Lars

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Jason Newsted calls And Justice For All the best garage duo album ever: "There was never any big bass on Metallica's albums until the Black Album"

"It was their trip, you know?"

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Mammoth WVH launch "completely different" new single Like A Pastime

Like A Pastime comes from Mammoth WVH's second album Mammoth II, due for release in August

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You can now listen to Motorhead's cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman - complete with a "horrifying" animated video

Motörhead's cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman comes from from a digital EP that includes songs by Hawkwind, Bob Seger and the Sex Pistols

Guitar World

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett: “With 72 Seasons, I improvised 20, 30 solos, gave them all to Lars and Greg Fidelman, and went, ‘You guys edit them!’”

Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo draw back the curtain on the metal album of the year: the gear shakeups, the Angus Young and Ritchie Blackmore-inspired guitar approach, and the response to critics of Kirk’s improvisational soloing approach

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How Meteora showed Linkin Park were no one-hit wonder: "it proved Hybrid Theory wasn’t an accident"

Linkin Park had become nu metal stars with Hybrid Theory, but with Meteora the band proved they were here to stay

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A beginner's guide to thrash metal in five essential albums

Thrash metal's DNA has rarely undergone any drastic alterations, but its evolution over the years can still be charted via these five classics

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Lars Ulrich: "Metallica is just as clusterf***ed as everything else"

Lars Ulrich and Rob Trujillo take us behind the scenes of Metallica's 72 Seasons - a dramatic record even by their standards

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James Hetfield recalls Dimebag Darrell introducing him to solid-state amps: “He had this freaking amazing crunch going on”

The Metallica frontman was asked about his time with the Pantera legend and credited Darrell for making him question his tube tone

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Hammett talks Hetfield: "We connect in a place that is not comfortable"

The Metallica guitarist reveals his sometimes awkward dynamic with the rhythm king – "It looked like the future was very, very bleak"

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Guitarists rally round Ice Nine Kills’ Dan Sugarman as medical scare forces him to pull out of Metallica support slots

Kiko Loureiro, Angel Vivaldi and Robb Flynn have expressed their support for Sugarman, who will be replaced by Bad Wolves’ Doc Coyle and Miles Dimitri Baker for the shows

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The Tonight Show is not new tonight, May 2, here's why

There may not be a new The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a little bit, as the writers' strike is causing talk shows to go on hiatus.

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