Former Mother Love Bone rockers and founding Pearl Jam members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard have weathered the rise and fall of grunge - sticking to their proverbial guns (and occasionally sticking it  …

Four killer underground classics. That's what Metallica delivered in the '80s, relishing their role as thrash metal's sultans of shred. But they weren't alone. A whole need-for-speed scene flour …

We know, we know - it's hard to look at Metallica as a bunch of fanboys when they're one of the world's biggest rock bands. But here's the thing: they bonded over stacks of records from the very beginn …

When James Hetfield shouts, "Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire" on Metallica's Reload album, he might as well be talking about the unbelievable original versions of cuts the band …

Metallica didn't just throttle the thrash-metal circuit in the early '80s - they grabbed every last denim vest by its back patches and demanded to be heard. Now that they're plowing through sold …

If shredding is an art form - and you better believe it is - Metallica is the Picasso of modern metal, having changed everything with crackling chords, hellish howls, atomic bomb basslines, and  …

As anyone who's ever covered the band knows, there's more than one way to skin a Metallica song. There's the art-of-the-shred approach, a riff-by-riff reminder of just how flawless these tracks are to  …