Metallica got extra loud in its first live set in a year on Wednesday, headlining a benefit concert in Los Angeles for Flea’s music school for kids, the Silverlake Conservatory.

Career-spanning set features cameo by Flea, whose Silverlake Conservatory of Music was the beneficiary of last night's show.

Tonight, Metallica and System of a Down side project Scars on Broadway played a benefit show for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music at the Wiltern in L.A., and SPIN.com was backstage!

This summer, the annual heavy-metal circus named for one of the genre's most outspoken rebels will return

As the September release of its first album in five years draws near, Metallica has launched a Web site to offer fans exclusive content and teasers of new songs.

Metallica plans to headline at the bejeweled Wiltern this Wednesday with proceeds going to the Silverlake Conservatory of Music

Metallica's outspoken drummer talks embracing the Web and metal's new-millennium surge

Metallica didn’t perform an impromptu parking lot set as some had hoped they would Saturday during the first annual Record Store Day, yet cheers rang out, tears fell and metal reigned during an epic six-hour marathon of autograph-signing, chatting and pic

The band comes out to support fans shopping at record stores...

Struggling music retailers have enlisted acts such as Metallica and Panic at the Disco to help out with a nationwide "Record Store Day" on April 19.