Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975.

Playing for invitees in the round at the O2, the quartet plundered through two hours’ worth of Death Magnetic (for which this was the grandiose launch party) material and catalogue classics, and the pace and energy never flagged.

Metallica's performance at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock on Saturday will be a retrospective of the heavy metal band's 27-year career, an exploration of its catalog ranging from 1983's "Kill 'Em All" to this year's "Death Magnetic," as Rhonda Owen rep

By the end of Metallica’s more than two-hour set Tuesday night, frontman James Hetfield was bouncing giant beach balls off his head, bassist Robert Trujillo was spinning with the abandon of a preschooler, drummer Lars Ulrich was standing up to more veheme

The Making of Metallica's ...And Justice for All

On a recent Saturday, I interviewed Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett on the phone.

After taking some dings and dents in the 1990s, metal is back. And despite its sturdy name, Metallica wasn’t impervious to changing musical tastes.

Metallica decided to kick their stage show in the ass and get back to the business of being the best live band in the world.

The speedy, hell-bound fury, the four-horsemen rampage of percussion and frantic guitars that forced the band out from the subterranean in its early years was back.

When producer and musical guru Rick Rubin signed on to produce Metallica's latest album, "Death Magnetic," his advice to the band was downright Thoreauvian: Simplify, simplify.