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Jerry Cantrell: “The precision and power of James Hetfield's playing is otherworldly – his right hand is really something else”
The Alice in Chains leader shares his love for The Black Album, explains why the Metallica leader has “the best picking hand in rock”, and recalls hearing Sad But True for the first time in a car with Lars Ulrich
Metallica once attempted to recruit a different frontman, says James Hetfield
The fresh-faced thrash-metallers tried to get Armored Saint's John Bush to join the band in the early '80s
Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett look back on 30 years of The Black Album: "It really was the master key to everything"
How shorter, simpler songs and a bold vision helped the thrash pioneers make the biggest metal album of all time
Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett reveal The Black Album's deepest, darkest secrets in this classic 1991 Guitar World interview
Shortly before their seminal self-titled LP went stratospheric, the metal titans tell all: arguing over guitar solos, shaking up their gear, fighting with Bob Rock, and the mystery behind ...And Justice For All's missing bass
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
