Metallica is a metal band from Los Angeles that started making music in 1981. The group, led by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, helped create thrash metal and became one of the most successful bands ...

Metallica stunned fans and critics with their self-titled fifth album — colloquially known as the Black Album — which pivoted from topical, breakneck thrash metal to pulverizing, catchy and even ...

30 years ago, Metallica’s Black Album classic “Nothing Else Matters” proved there was room in thrash for power ballads. But James Hetfield didn’t want to bring the song to his bandmates at first, ...