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"The mind is the enemy most of the time": James Hetfield talks about overcoming anxiety and finding faith in his creativity

"I start to doubt myself, I start to feel insecure that we're too old and we can't do this"

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“The guitar neck is made of rubber, and there are only two strings on it”: James Hetfield opens up on the guitar-based anxiety dreams he had ahead of Metallica’s recent tour

The Metallica guitarist’s nightmares included unplayable gear, tragically short cables, and disappearing roadies as he opens up on the self-doubt he suffered ahead of their latest world tour

Guitar World

Metallica’s James Hetfield reveals anxiety struggles before 2024 tour: “We’re old, we can’t do this”

Papa Het had nightmares of empty stadiums and malfunctioning gear before returning to the road with Metallica last month

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9 heavy metal stars who made it big with their first band

From Lars Ulrich to Lzzy Hale, these are the rare metal musicians who hit the big time on their very first go

Metal Hammer

‘Neck’ has reportedly made it into EA Sports College Football 25 (Enter Sandman and Jump Around, sadly, have not)

It's an instrumental version of 'Neck', because this is a family game, after all.

USA Today Sports Media Group

ESP vs LTD Guitars: What's the difference?

Looking for a capable guitar for playing rock or metal? We explore the history, spec and tone characteristics of ESP and its affordable sub-brand LTD

Guitar World

“In our band, we don’t recognize the word ‘mistake’ - cause there are no mistakes. There’s just unique moments that happen”: Metallica debut Inamorata live in Munich

Metallica debut their longest recorded song live

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Ride the lightning! Watch Metallica get upstaged by a lightning strike during Master Of Puppets at the opening show on their latest tour

A lightning storm during Metallica’s show in Munich proves Mother Nature still has the best pyro display

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“In our band we don’t recognise the word ‘mistake’, because there are no mistakes”: watch Metallica play epic 72 Seasons closer Inamorata live for the very first time

Metallica’s 11-minute epic Inamorata got its live debut in Munich, Germany on the second night of their European tour

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“We kept getting bigger and we realised we had to take things seriously or throw it all away“: how Bring Me The Horizon changed the game and silenced the haters with There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It…

In 2010, BMTH released There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret. - the album that set them on the path to becoming one of metal’s most forward-thinking bands

Metal Hammer

Metallica’s James Hetfield has been “writing lots of music” this year

Papa Het claims he’s been composing and “playing guitar pretty much every day” since Metallica’s last tour

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"We were something you couldn’t cage. You’d get skinheads beating the crap outta each other in front of the stage." The chaotic story of Misfits’ horror-punk classic Earth A.D./Wolfsblood

1983’s Earth A.D./Wolsblood album showed off Misfits at their fastest and most vicious – but it would become their gravestone

Metal Hammer

“Less versatile than the Greeny tributes… but it’s the perfect weapon to seek and destroy”: ESP LTD KH-V Kirk Hammett review

The latest signature model for the Metallica guitarist is a lot pointier than his previous offering – and the tones match the looks

Guitar World

10 times metal bands worked with really unlikely collaborators

From members of the Monty Python crew to famous evolutionary biologists, here are some of the strangest hook-ups in rock history

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Mayor Johnson's sorry spectacle of firing CEO Pedro Martinez is another bad move Chicago doesn't deserve

Firing CPS CEO Martinez ignores what schools are supposed to be about: educating kids.

Metal Hammer

The 14 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Body Count, Powerwolf and Charlotte Wessels are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Guitar World

James Hetfield is the undisputed master of metal rhythm guitar – and his downpicking will seriously test your abilities

Get to grips with the Metallica frontman’s punishing palm-muting and chugging rhythms

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“Am I overwhelming you with my energy?” Watch Kelly Clarkson become the happiest human who's ever lived while interviewing and singing alongside Weezer

Kelly Clarkson is a national treasure, and her performance of Say It Ain't So with Weezer is joy unconfined

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Watch Lauten Audio uncannily recreate Metallica’s Black Album drum sound with the original kit, at LA’s One on One studios where the album was recorded

An all-star cast featuring Black Album engineer, Mike Tacci, Darrell Thorpe, Drum Doctor Ross Garfield and Puscifer drummer Gunnar Olsen give us a forensic look at one of the greatest drum sounds in heavy music history

Guitar World

“It was funny when I first met James Hetfield. I was like, ‘Thank you for teaching me how to play guitar. You paved the way for me’”: Mastodon's Bill Kelliher on how meeting his guitar heroes pushed him to improve his craft

Mastodon's Bill Kelliher also credits Slayer's Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman for changing his previously nonchalant attitude to warming up before a show

Metal Hammer

“James said: ‘You guys are ballsy as hell!’” Alien Ant Farm frontman Dryden Mitchell reveals the surreal moment Metallica’s James Hetfield took him and his parents to dinner

Metallica frontman Papa Het continues to earn his stripes as the nicest man in metal

Metal Hammer

“Metallica can play 60 more Lulus. They’ve earned the place to do whatever they want”: how Jason Newsted escaped the shadow of metal’s biggest band to forge his own career

In 2013, Jason Newsted released Heavy Metal Music, the debut album by his band Newsted –proof that he was at ease with his own past

Metal Hammer

“Don’t like it? Go ****king listen to something else!” how Linkin Park rediscovered rock and came out swinging with The Hunting Party

Linkin Park’s 2014 album The Hunting Party was their hardest-hitting album in years – and Metal Hammer found Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda up for the fight

Guitar World

“James really absorbed the dual-harmony thing and took it to heart. He made it his but it was originally Cliff’s”: Kirk Hammett on Joe Satriani’s influence and Metallica’s ’84 masterpiece Ride the Lightning

Master of Puppets gets all the attention, but it was Ride the Lightning that made the metal legends sound heavier, more epic, and musically more audacious

Metal Hammer

"We were like, ‘These guys are just like us, this is crazy! We want to hack things up with machetes with them!’” Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Ghost and more talk the years that made Slayer into the ultimate thrash icons

Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions

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