Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pushing a lighter, more commercial aesthetic, and chopped locks to boot, many felt the band had eschewed the identity that ...

"It is interesting, because we have created our own mainstream, is what I believe," Hetfield told Clash after being asked if compromises are necessary in order to be accepted by the mainstream. He ...

Happy anniversary for Metallica's Load album. “At that time we did Load, writing that kind of stuff wasn’t exciting to me anymore,” James Hetfield told me in 1997. “None of us were writing that stuff, ...

But he’s insisted he doesn’t regret his decision to support the direction drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Hammett wanted to take. The twin albums found the band drifting further away from their ...