From Kill 'Em All to Ride The Lightning to Master of Puppets, Metallica's 80s albums, ranked ...

Metallica released their debut album, Kill ‘Em All, in 1983. Since then, each new studio album has marked a new evolution for the band. In the 1990s, they started aiming for mainstream success. Then, ...

The thrash metal legends entered the 1990s with a new approach. Their self-titled album saw them all but stepping away from the style that made them one of the most influential bands in the metal ...

A 1986 album released by one of the most successful and famous bands in music history still holds up as a masterpiece today. Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' stands out thanks to its iconic songs and ...

Which is the better Metallica album — Master of Puppets of the band's self-titled 'Black Album'? Oh yes, we actually went there. In this week's Chuck's Fight Club on the Loudwire Nights radio show ...

Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: ...

Metallica's Lars Ulrich has proclaimed Deep Purple's Made in Japan as the best hard rock live album ever in a new promotional video hyping the reissue of the classic 1972 performance. Though Lars ...

Two Metallica albums, Ride the Lightning and the band's self-titled studio effort, return to the same chart together, and the ...

Thirty years after Load transformed Metallica's sound and image, the album remains one of the most debated releases in rock history. Here's how the 1996 record reshaped the band's future.