As if its relentless drum beat and guitar blitz weren't enough, Metallica fired off enough pyrotechnics at the Dane County Coliseum Sunday night to rattle dishes in Stoughton

Band has remained fresh despite heavy metal's decline

It's hard not to get a tingle up your spine when Metallica takes the stage. Even the most jaded concertgoer can't help but get fired up as "The Ecstasy of Gold" theme music from classic Western "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" plays over the sound system

As a veteran of loud rock shows, a man whose ears rang for days after Aerosmith's "Rocks" tour and longer than that after a particularly nasty Ted Nugent experience, I know volume. It has sustained and nurtured me.

Metallica still brings the firepower. Fire and power - that's the best way to describe the speed-metal veterans' performance Saturday night

Metallica played more than two hours of brutal, punishing rock and roll underneath steel girders hanging at dangerous angles.

Metallica's Some Kind Of Monster movie is receiving awards from all over the globe. This time the movie received an award at the Danish NatFilm Festival.

Australia's biggest and most widely read Drum magazine, Drumscene, was recently granted the privilege of an exclusive interview with Lars Ulrich, during his recent Australian Big Day Out tour with Metallica.

It takes a bold band to perform under thousands of pounds of dangling speakers, lights and video screens, the way Metallica did Wednesday night at The Pepsi Center.

Imagine, though, if you took the best technology possible in 2004 and fused it with Metallica's seething hard metal? Metallica ran with that notion and made Wednesday night's concert an eye- and ear-popping event.