Latest about James Hetfield
Watch Metallica play a surprise club show in San Francisco
The 400-cap show in the band’s hometown was announced at the last minute on social media
Kirk Hammett reveals he has never written a guitar solo with a wah pedal
The Metallica guitarist made the admission in this month's issue of Guitar World, in which he and James Hetfield pick apart the sonic history of the Black Album
Hear Jason Newsted’s original bass-driven instrumental demo that paved the way for Metallica’s My Friend of Misery
The newest release from the upcoming Black Album reissue shares one of the record’s best-loved tracks as it was originally envisaged by Newsted
Bruce Dickinson on the game-changing Black Album: “None of us had the balls to step up to the next level – but Metallica did”
The Iron Maiden vocalist discusses how the seminal record changed the face of metal when the genre was at a crossroads
James Hetfield's isolated guitar tracks from ...And Justice For All and Master of Puppets prove his picking precision is unrivaled
Bow before Papa Het's isolated playing from Metallica classics Battery, Master of Puppets, Disposable Heroes, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Blackened, One and Dyers Eve
Tony Iommi and James Hetfield discuss their guitar journeys with Black Sabbath and Metallica in this classic 1992 Guitar World interview
The titanic pair on gear, influences, being heavy metal pioneers, setting bandmates on fire and everything in between
James Hetfield reveals he writes riffs when he’s “really happy” and lyrics when he’s emotional
The Metallica frontman wrote some of the moodiest riffs of all time while he was happy, apparently
Metallica have written over 10 new songs during lockdown
However, James Hetfield explains, “There’s only so much you can do on Zoom”
![[L-R] Joe Duplantier, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mQHdqMovzLGPGFfWrPVcZb-840-80.jpg.webp)
