Metallica scored one of the top five earning tours of 2010, according to a new report from Pollstar. The Metal gods hit the road this year in support of their newest release Death Magnetic and pulled in a whopping $110 million.

They?ve proven to be the hard rockers with the soft hearts.

South Island fans were overjoyed when touring heavy metal band Metallica announced they would play a concert in Christchurch in addition to their two Auckland shows.

Metallica singer James Hetfield has made his band's live shows ''more family-friendly'' since becoming a father.

Fitzy catches up with James Hetfield from Metallica.

Ross Halfin didn't discover Metallica ? the band discovered him. In 1984, the famed rock photographer, who documented the U.K. punk scene in the 1970s and later helped launch Kerrang! magazine, was trailing Queensryche when he got an order from Metallica'

Met Club is the Official Fan Club of Metallica that numbers thousands of fans all over the world and provides its members with exclusive products and various goodies which have previously been approved by the band members themselves.

The name, the brand, the band, the institution that is Metallica is a bridge of music between the most loyal metal-head and the most average rock radio listener. Risen or fallen, however you slice their catalog, Metallica is an icon without fail in many e

Metallica are scary, right? At least in my memory of watching the Enter Sandman video on Rage through my fingers aged ten, they are fucking terrifying. So I?m nervous to interview Lars Ulrich.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says that, more than two years after its release, the band?s last studio album Death Magnetic still sounds great to him. Ulrich explains his opinion to Andrew Haug of Australian radio program The Racket.

Find out more on what it takes to tour with this great band, an extended interview with "Big Mick" and Paul Owen on how this massive 29 month world show extravaganza finally finishes up in Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena on Saturday the 20th November 2010.