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

By Rob Laing Published

LambChopper678 delivers again – with some added details

Guitars
Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Jack White and Jimmy Page
Bob Rock likens Metallica’s St Anger to The Stooges’ Raw Power, says Jimmy Page told him it was a “great album” – and Jack White loved it too

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The blockbuster producer was a guest Chris Jericho’s podcast when he revisited Metallica’s dark night of the soul and explained why their most divisive album saved the band

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

By Jonathan Horsley Published

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

Guitars
Metallica onstage at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam
“We’re bored, let’s do some stuff” – How James Hetfield wrote Metallica’s longest-ever song in a Zoom call with Lars

By Jonathan Horsley Published

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

Singles And Albums
Metallica
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"

By Rob Laing Published

"It was their trip, you know?"

Guitarists
Lars Ulrich performing on stage, 2016
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich silences the haters with impromptu double kick breakdown during Howard Stern interview

By Stuart Williams Published

The Great Dane proves he’s still got it, and also names some of the Metallica songs he finds most difficult

Drummers
James Hetfield and Cliff Burton of Metallica in 1986
Flashback: see remastered footage of Metallica doing press for Master Of Puppets in 1986 with Cliff Burton

By Rob Laing Published

"We're doing it our way"

Singles And Albums
Metallica appear on the Howard Stern Show
Kirk Hammett plays his '59 'Unicorn' black Les Paul on the Stern Show and explains how he came to buy his Greeny 'Burst – but James Hetfield reveals that he was offered it first

By Rob Laing Published

"The guy brought it backstage to show it to me and I rejected it"

Guitarists
Gibson Custom Shop Kirk Hammett 1979 Flying V
NAMM 2023: Gibson and Kirk Hammett team up for a Murphy Lab replica of his legendary 1979 Flying V

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The $15,000 Flying V is a typically forensic reproduction of one of the most legendary electric guitars in Metallica history

Guitars
Metallica
What is the heaviest guitar riff of all time? Metal musicians have their say

By Jonathan Horsley Published

A Metallica stalwart emerges as a redoubtable contender against '00s heavyweights from Meshuggah and Gojira, as Baroness, GWAR, Halestorm and more are polled by Revolver

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