The New Yorker:“I get up there and sing, and I watch people change,” James Hetfield, the lead singer of Metallica, told Amanda Petrusich. Today the band announced plans to release its 11th record.The New Yorker posted a really great, in-depth p...
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2001 - James Hetfield, lead singer and guitarist of hard rock act Metallica, checks himself into an undisclosed rehab facility "to undergo treatment for alcoholism and other addictions.
In Munich, Metallica came out of the gates firing with “Whiplash,” the powerful lead single from their 1983 debut albumKill ‘em All(see a clip of the opening song in the tweet below). The band followed with one of their best-loved tunes, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” before deliveri...
For the last 20 years, Metallica has contained lead singer and rhythm guitaristJames Hetfieldwith drummer Lars Ulrich, both founding members, alongside lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassistRobert Trujillo. Hammett replaced original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, who went on to found Megadeth, in 1983...
Robert Smith, the iconic lead singer in new wave favorites The Cure, is the band's only remaining original member. However, bassist Simon Gallup is almost an original member — he supplanted founding bassist Michael Dempsey just a year after the group formed in England in 1978. ...
James Hetfield ofMetallicais not a Song-and-Snappy-Patter man on stage, the singer-guitarist’s idea of between-song banter is the kind of street-simple, off-color word jive that you can hear any night, anyplace where the citizens of Teenage Wasteland gather over a six-pack. “All fucki...
’ Choosing the name Metallica, the pair reworked a Leather Charm original entitled "Hit the Lights" into rough demo form and recruited lead guitarist Lloyd Grant. Together, they completed the tune in the nick of time and, unknowingly, kicked off our Metallica Lineup Changes: A Complete Guide...
Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, drummer Lars Ulrich, bassist Robert Trujillo and lead singer and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield of Metallica perform on screen at the Skyline Drive In on August 29, 2020 in Shelton, WA OnSt. Anger,“All Within My Hands” rumbles along with a unique sort of fu...
The most curious album of Black Sabbath’s career is unquestionably ‘Seventh Star.’ Originally slated as a Tony Iommi solo album, the label insisted otherwise and what was delivered was an album billed as ‘Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi.’ Former Deep Purple co-lead singer Glenn Hughes ...