Metallica's return to form

Metallica blew the roof off a sold-out Schottenstein Center Sunday night.

A writer for this paper (guilty as charged) recently broke his brain rocking the flurp out to Metallica's triumphant new album, Death Magnetic.

Metallica's frontman on headbanging injuries, his favorite album and field-dressing a moose

If the game is arena-rock, any band 25 years long-in-the-tooth is going to pepper its set with familiar tunes.

Just after 9 p.m. Saturday, Rob Trujillo gave me a high-five as the moody opening of "That Was Just Your Life" filled the iWireless Center in Moline.

Metalheads in Omaha are living the lyrics "what don't kill ya make ya more strong" after an auditory and visual performance from Metallica that physically thrashed those in attendance.

Metallica fans are among the most devoted music fans in the world. The band’s online forum racks up dozens of topics with hundreds of threads daily – maybe even hourly.

After a less-than-stellar album, therapy, lineup changes and the lead singer's trip to rehab, the kings of heavy metal are back on top and back to thrashing.

Midway through Monday night's headbanger's holiday, Metallica frontman James Hetfield issued a sarcastic disclaimer.

"I must apologize before this song," Hetfield told the raucous crowd, which reached into the upper decks of EnergySolutions Arena. "We