Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath both bade farewell, performing in their Birmingham hometown at their Back To The Beginning ...

Only Hetfield's favorite Metallica album also contains his least favorite Metallica song, a tune so despised by the band that it's only been played once in over 40 years.

The metal luminary, 76, took the stage with his original bandmates at a farewell festival in his Birmingham, England, ...

There are two Metallica songs in particular that James Hetfield finds really “tough” to play. Bands that are around for as long as Metallica need to really challenge themselves every now and ...

James Hetfield's Favorite 72 Seasons Songs to Play Live "It depends on the gig, it depends [on] how I'm feeling sometimes," Hetfield admits before dialing in on the new album's first single, ...

One of Hetfield’s most lyrically vulnerable songs, Mama Said is about the musician’s complicated relationship with his mother, who was a Christian Scientist that died of cancer in February ...

Metallica may not have been able to deal with the loss of Cliff Burton, but Jason Newsted only needed one song to impress ...

Rock and roll might seem like one big eclectic stew, but James Hetfield was acutely aware of the bands he never cared for.

During a recent episode of The Metallica Report podcast, Metallica frontman James Hetfield was answering some fan questions when he was asked whether he was done writing “The Unforgiven” songs after ...

The 15 best Metallica songs. It’s been more than four decades for these loud, fast, angry, and introspective heavy metal iconoclasts. Here are the best songs from Metallica's raucous career.

So it at least made sense to write a song in that tempo, in that vein,” James Hetfield explained. In the years since Metallica released Load , many have compared the album to much of the ...

Metallica Debut Their Longest Song — and One of James Hetfield’s Favorites — Live. The band performed all 11 minutes of "Inamorata," off 72 Seasons, during a recent concert in Munich .