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Kirk Hammett: “Maybe the age of active pickups is over”

The Metallica guitarist says PAFs age better and he has been swayed away from active humbuckers for lead work – and James Hetfield agrees

Guitar World

20 minutes of rare pro-shot footage of Guns N' Roses in 1992 has appeared online

The footage comes from Guns N' Roses Orlando's Citrus Bowl show during their stadium tour with Metallica

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Met Police officer ‘took Metallica tickets for his mother-in-law’s 60th birthday as bribe’

Ex-Sergeant Frank Partridge, 49, admits accepting gifts including a luxury family holiday to Morocco

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5 new bands to listen to if you love Avenged Sevenfold

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10 raging metal covers of classic 80s aggro-punk songs

The Exploited, Discharge, GBH and more get the covers treatment from Slayer and Ice-T, Mr Bungle, Napalm Death and Metallica

Louder

Here are the hardest songs to play by each of the Big 4, as chosen by one of thrash metal’s greatest drummers

Jon Dette has played with two of the Big 4, so he knows exactly which songs by Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth are toughest to nail

Metal Hammer

Jimmy Page and Jack White both loved Metallica's St. Anger, according to Bob Rock

The guitar heroes – and It Might Get Loud co-stars – expressed their appreciation for the highly polarizing album in separate encounters with the producer

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Bob Rock likens Metallica’s St Anger to The Stooges’ Raw Power, says Jimmy Page told him it was a “great album” – and Jack White loved it too

The blockbuster producer was a guest Chris Jericho’s podcast when he revisited Metallica’s dark night of the soul and explained why their most divisive album saved the band

MusicRadar

Watch Metallica dust off I Disappear live for 80,000 French metal fans

Metallica unveil pro-shot footage of them playing live rarity I Disappear at Stade de France

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Kirk Hammett says he prefers the Epiphone Greeny to the $20k Gibson Custom Shop version – here’s why

The Metallica man says they’re all great “but my favorite version of Greeny is probably the Epiphone”

Guitar World

The Pooper: Metalhead makes six-by-six foot Iron Maiden toilet that's big enough for the devil to take a dump in

The man behind that bizarre Lars Ulrich loo has a new project: a six-by-six foot Iron Maiden toilet

Metal Hammer

Robert Trujillo: “We have more riffs than we know what to do with. With every handful of riffs we get out of Kirk, there’s another 500 we didn’t hear”

Now a 20-year veteran as Metallica bassist, Trujillo details the secret weapons that locked in with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett's guitar tones on 72 Seasons, and the key to getting extra grit from fingerstyle bass

Guitar World

Kirk Hammett: "My favourite version of Greeny is probably the Epiphone"

Metallica guitarist suggests the best is yet to come for the legacy of the Les Paul and explains why

MusicRadar

The Story Behind The Song: Corrosion Of Conformity’s Vote With A Bullet

Pepper Keenan’s furious call-to-arms was the song that transformed Corrosion Of Conformity from hardcore bruisers into stoner metal revolutionaries

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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

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Listen to this fake Megadeth album written by an enthusiastic mega fan in under 24 hours

Bradley Hall wrote an entire fake Megadeth album called Megabeans in just one day as an ode to Rust In Peace, with songs including Master Of Muppets and Hangry Again

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Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett play John Lennon and Yardbirds classics alongside Johnny Depp, Ronnie Wood, Billy Gibbons, Imelda May at Jeff Beck tribute gig

The first of two all-star Jeff Beck tribute concerts in London featured some of the world's most celebrated guitar heroes

Guitar World

Blackstar and Toby Lee aim to cover everything “from Buddy Holly to Metallica” with new St. James signature guitar amp

Built for the teen blues guitar sensation, the TL50 6L6 is a cosmetically revamped take on the brand’s existing St. James 50 6L6 – and, yes, it’s ridiculously lightweight

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Anarchy in the UK: the chaotic story of the 80s punk scene that changed metal forever

Riots, teargas and slamdancing – how The Exploited, Discharge and GBH inspired Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and more

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Metallica’s James Hetfield visits wounded Ukrainian soldiers in hospital: “You made my day”

James Hetfield proves what a hero he is once again after a chance meeting with Ukrainian soldiers Roman Denysiuk and Igor Voinyi

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Pianist transforms Slipknot music into classical wedding entrance songs and melts our cold black hearts

Stephen Beerkens reimagines the music of Slipknot, Sleep Token, System Of A Down, Kiss, Metallica, Iron Maiden and more as songs to walk down the aisle to, and it's perfect for metalheads in love

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Here are all the songs Metallica have never played live

Metallica’s epic M72 tour is underway – which of these 22 these never-played deep cuts do you want them to see?

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Watch fans explore Metallica pop-up store in Paris

Metallica launch pop-up store in Paris as part of this week's M72 World Tour festivities

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Ice-T on metal, Dave Mustaine and making it against the odds: “My hustle is strong. It’s a survival instinct”

Body Count frontman, hip hop icon, controversy magnet, friend of Megadeth, Lemmy, Slayer and more – it’s Ice-T’s world, we just live in it

MusicRadar

Kirk Hammett’s 1960 Les Paul Standard “Sunny” is A) beautiful and B) up for sale via Gibson Certified Vintage

Gibson collectors, assemble. This is the Les Paul you might recognise from The Beauty Of The Burst book, from watching Metallica, or from your wildest dreams

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