As Dave Mustaine prepares to ride Megadeth out into the sunset, we chart the thrash pioneers’ explosive studio output, album by album, guitarist by guitarist ...

Metallica’s self-titled album has now spent 999 weeks on the U.K.’s Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, nearing a historic 1,000-week milestone. (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Metallica’s self-titled album is already the ...

Metallica’s 1991 self-titled fifth studio album, commonly referred to as “The Black Album,” was a landmark album for the metal world. While Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath had helped bring heavy metal ...

The post Metallica’s “Black Album” Certified 20-Times Platinum appeared first on Consequence. Metallica’s 1991 self-titled fifth studio LP, better known as “The Black Album,” has been certified a ...

The first four Metallica albums are heavy metal perfection, but the cost of that achievement is a double-edged sword. On the ...

Getting into Metallica's 1991 self-titled LP, aka the Black Album, is a rite of passage for any young heavy metal fan. It's been so popular for so long, in fact, that it has now joined an elite club ...

Garage Inc. was a bit of a return to form for Metallica. Many of the newly recorded covers showcased the sound that made countless metalheads fall in love with the band. Their covers of Discharge’s ...

Make sure to say your prayers, because Metallica said so. In 1981, frontman James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich teamed up to form Metallica. Together with Kirk Hammett and original bassist Ron McGovney, ...

Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album showed fans around the world that the band was looking to try something new. Thrash metal was a powerful genre in the 1980s, but as the decade came to a close, it ...