Sales of Metallica’s Ride The Lightning have skyrocketed following the album’s 40th anniversary. The album is currently number 24 in the overall American sales ranking, a drastic improvement from the ...

Hello, Dave, meet the old Dave and his Metallica way of life. In a video promoting the upcoming 17th and “final” Megadeth album, Dave Mustaine revealed that there will be a bonus track to bring his ...

System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian has one big factor in determining why Metallica's Master of Puppets album is better than Ride the Lightning. They are two masterful albums recorded and released ...

Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine famously served as Metallica's lead guitarist in the early '80s before being kicked out and replaced by Kirk Hammett a month before the recording of debut album Kill ...

While Slayer, Exodus, and others were also pioneers of thrash metal, Metallica’s first two albums created a dividing line in music history. Once Metallica had arrived, they established a new blueprint ...

Metallica recorded the songs that Mustaine worked on for Kill' Em All—"The Four Horsemen," "Jump In The Fire," "Phantom Lord," and "Metal Militia"—with their new lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett. To say ...

New year, new feature! Welcome to Chuck's Fight Club, where Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong will weekly bring you a new voting challenge, trying to answer some of rock and metal's most difficult ...

Standing alongside bands like Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth, Metallica helped thrust thrash metal into the spotlight as they sold 58 million albums in the United States alone. Accumulating several ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The band Metallica has been filling stadiums for decades on tours across the globe. But they recently got a tour themselves, right here in the DMV. The legendary performers recently ...