Despite the fact that Metallica take their sweet time recording and releasing music these days, they go through a lot of ideas, according to bassist Rob Trujillo. In an interview with Bass Player, ...

There's no doubt Metallica have inspired countless musicians to pick up a guitar and start a band. Through many, many episodes of Gear Factor, we've heard shredder after shredder say the same thing.

Admit it, we've all been there–standing in front of a mirror shredding wicked awesome air guitar with reckless abandon to a song that's got that one great riff that rips your face off and worms its ...

The similarities between Dark Angel's 1986 track "Darkness Descends" and Metallica's 1988 track "One" are hard to ignore. The songs have similar riffs, similar drumming styles, and even share some ...

Though Metallica's Kirk Hammett has shown a knack for being quite prolific, building a major catalog of riffs for previous records, he's not resting on his laurels. The guitarist posted on social ...