Look, it’s not as if Metallica in the year of the Lord 2025 is anything remotely like these lovable 20-year-old miscreants who terrorized the Bay Area and beyond. They’re all in their sixties now, kinder, gentler, and presumably insanely loaded rock gods who you could see being the quirky, out-of-place …
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Metallica’s Lars Ulrich addressed rumors that the band is circling a Las Vegas Sphere residency — as well as angling for the halftime show at next year’s Super Bowl — in an interview Wednesday with Howard Stern. Earlier this week, rumors emerged out of Las Vegas that Metallica was eyeing …
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When Ozzy Osbourne brought Metallica on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening act blasting Black Sabbath in their dressing room and covering his old band’s songs in soundchecks. Osbourne’s first assumption, he said later, was that Metallica were mocking him. He was stunned to learn they were actually …
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Metallica have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, whom they credit for giving them their big break. The musician died on Tuesday morning at the age of 76. “It’s impossible to put into words what Ozzy Osbourne has meant to Metallica.Hero, icon, pioneer, inspiration, mentor, and, most of all, friend are …
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The popular EDM festival Tomorrowland in Belgium is taking place this weekend despite a massive fire that “severely damaged” the main stage just a day before the fest was slated to begin. And, according to Martin Garrix, festivalgoers have Metallica to thank for Tomorrowland continuing on despite the blaze. On …
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The Pentagon deleted and reposted a video boasting about how President Donald Trump’s administration will increase its use of drone warfare. The first version featured the Metallica song “Enter Sandman” in the background. The second has no music. A Metallica representative confirmed to Rolling Stone that the use of “Enter …
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Guitar fans — especially Gen-Z ones — need no introduction to 31-year-old virtuoso Tim Henson, who has been reinventing the instrument for more than a decade with his wildly experimental future-prog quartet Polyphia, who play fractured, trippy instrumentals that often seem more influenced by hip-hop, electronic music, and even video-game …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You’ve collected every album from your favorite band on vinyl, scored tickets to their shows over the years, and know every lyric by heart. The only thing missing? …
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Ozzy Osbourne’s all-star farewell concert on Saturday, dubbed Back to the Beginning, featured Metallica and Guns N’ Roses, who paid tribute to Osbourne and the original Black Sabbath at what was billed as their final show in Birmingham, England at Villa Park. Metallica was the penultimate band to perform before …
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Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: how to follow up The Black Album, the 1991 smash that turned them from metal heroes into global …
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