I just so happened to have an extra $110 dollars. And it just so happened that Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica had announced they were hitting New York for the biggest thrash metal show the East Coast would ever see. So I figured, sure, why not.

The day that I thought would never get here finally did...and it was incredible.

Backstage at Yankee Stadium, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone that his band couldn't refuse an invitation to bring their Big 4 show with Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth to the home of the Bronx Bombers.

James Hetfield graces the cover of the October 2011 issue of Guitar Player magazine. He's featured in a list of the 50 Greatest Rhythm Guitar Gods.

​Twenty years ago, Metallica's self-titled album entered the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200, where it would stay for four weeks. The band's most successful album, it has sold 22 million copies worldwide to date, and kicked in the door for heavy metal into the mainstream, sans glitter and teased hair.

What magazine would be just crazy enough to fly all the way to Milan, Italy, just to get all of the members of the Big Four together for a once-in-a-lifetime photo shoot and historic roundtable discussion?

Both Kirk Hammett and frontman James Hetfield were reduced to tears by Reed's lyrics.

James Hetfield of Metallica, interviewed by phone from Hawaii, called the outcome "amazing."

Heavy Metal stalwarts John Kornarens & Jon Sutherland discuss the birth of Metal Blade Records and the conception of the original METAL MASSACRE compilation album. The two also discuss how this album was instrumental in kick-starting METALLICA's career as they break out the early Metallica Scrapbook and tell the compelling story behind METALLICA's inclusion and MOTLEY CRUE's exclusion from this classic, groundbreaking metal vinyl record released in 1982.

It may not have been the first time the Plains of Abraham echoed with the screams of thousands, but it was surely the most jubilant . . .review of the Quebec City show.