Metallica’s brutal 2004 group therapy film Some Kind of Monster is one of the few honest music documentaries to visualize the mental minefields of being in a band. It also marked the near end of one ...

Metallica photo session in a dressing in Berlin, 1992. Within the heavy metal scene Metallica has long held a unique standing amongst fans and critics. No other band in the genre has achieved a highly ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...