Metallica
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Metallica's Lars Ulrich (1991)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, Summer 1991
Mat Snow talks to Metallica's Lars Ulrich about his roots, the formation of Metallica and on through the history of the band. Massive.
File format: MP3 File size: 250.8 mb Interview length: 4h 33' 59" Sound quality: ***
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 24 April 1996
The Rashomon interview: all four Metallicas sit down, separately, to talk about the making of Load.
File format: mp3; in 5 parts, total file sizes: 104.6mb, total interview length: 1h 54' 21" sound quality: ***
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ZZ Top/Marillion/Bon Jovi/Metallica/Ratt/Magnum: Donington Park, Leicestershire
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 24 August 1985
KINGS AND RATTS OF THE CASTLE Yes, it's that time of year when the Metal Mob gather at the shrine of Donington to pay homage to ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Sounds, 15 February 1986
Pure metal butchery... STEFFAN CHIRAZI gets his mouth burnt and his ears scorched as he gatecrashes the LA studio where the fearless METALLICA are recording ...
I Confronted Metallica On Their Own Terms!
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, October 1986
METALLICA. YOU KNOW the story. Those that don't are doomed to have me repeat it. ...
Metallica: At The Mercy Of The Master
Report and Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 11 October 1986
Something sad and inexplicable has happened to METALLICA, a band who were in full flight until bassist Cliff Burton was tragically killed in a road ...
Metallica: Master Of Puppets (Music For Nations MFN 60 DM) KKKKK
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 22 January 1987
DIRECT KURRENTS ...
From Jetsam To Jetset: The Reforging Of Metallica
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 7 February 1987
1986 saw the rise and rise of METALLICA but then came the death of bassist Cliff Burton last autumn. Since then they've recruited Jason Newsted ...
Thrash Metal: Psycho Path to the Top
Report by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 20 March 1987
Thrash metal is the new noise of teenage horror, a vinyl equivalent of the video nasty. Mark Cooper reports on the bands that delight in ...
Report and Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 21 March 1987
First and biggest! METALLICA stumbled across the secret of speed-metal and threw open the door for the hairy hordes that followed. In the process, they've ...
The Sound of Speed, Thrash & Death Metal
Overview by Simon Witter, i-D, April 1987
In 1987, against all odds, HM has become an issue again. i-D dives into the Metal underground to find out about moshing, skateboards, and the ...
Bon Jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P., Cinderella: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington
Live Review by Steven Wells, Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 29 August 1987
THRASH TRASH ...
Bon Jovi/Dio/Metallica/Anthrax/W.A.S.P.: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 August 1987
MATALLIC KO ...
Metallica: Battle Hymns Of The Metal Warriors
Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 12 September 1987
They've stomped on the rotting corpse of heavy metal and moved from cult status to world acclaim, and now METALLICA have crashed into the singles ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 April 1988
Cliff 'Em All, the low-key, bootleg-style home video from those METALLICA scumbags, has shifted an astonishing 90,000 copies in the States. Now it's finally made ...
Interview by Richard Gehr, Music & Sound Output, September 1988
LARS ULRICH has recently risen from the sleep, dreamless or otherwise, of the very successful. His band, billed fourth (between Led Zep wannaboys Kingdom Come ...
Metallica: ...And Justice For All (Phonogram)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 10 September 1988
THE KILLING MACHINE ...
Bon Jovi: New Jersey (Polygram)***; Metallica: ...And Justice for All (Elektra)***½
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 3 November 1988
When things get heavy ...
Metallica: ...And Justice For All (Vertigo VERH 61/CD)
Review by Neil Perry, Sounds, 24 December 1988
September ...
Metallica Moves to Center Stage
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 March 1989
LAKELAND, Fl. — Just as Metallica helped change the face of the Grammys — it was one of five acts nominated for the first-ever hard-rock/metal ...
Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tulls
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 March 1989
You just can't get the staff these days. Ask the people who run the Grammy Awards — they can't tell Jethro Tull from Heavy Metal. ...
Metallica: For Whom The Bell Tulls #2
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 25 March 1989
In the second part of our special feecher on Grammy loozers extraordinaire METALLICA, STEFFAN CHIRAZI probes the conception and production off the 'One' single and video, yet ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, Powerline, September 1989
'Turning Japanese, I'm turning Japanese, Ah, so!' Yes, Christine "The Writer From Hell" Natanael gets Lars Ulrich on the phone straight from the land of ...
Metallica: Reminiscing With Lars
Interview by Christine Natanael, Metal Mania, January 1990
OKAY, SO what can be said about the dudes in Metallica that hasn't already been said? We've heard the records, we've seen the stadium tours. ...
Creeping To The Cross: Metallica: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 2 June 1990
'CREEPING DEATH'. Thrash 'n' roll. A Biblical tale of infanticide, spat like blood. In anyone else's language, this is apocalypse. For Metallica it is only ...
Metallica: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 2 June 1990
METAL FATIGUE ...
Elektra: a Label Celebrates its Heritage
Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 1 November 1990
Forty years of Elektra music, from Josh White and Tom Paxton to Metallica and the Cure ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 December 1990
He's very large, he's very hairy, he's got a massive... motorbike — and he's been soundman to some of the greatest acts in Metal. GBH, ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
Review by David Browne, Entertainment Weekly, 16 August 1991
YOU CAN ONLY pound your head against a wall for so long before you get a headache. On their self-titled new album, Metallica, rock's pre-eminent ...
Live Review by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 24 August 1991
METAL FATIGUE ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1991
They're a notch above your average cochlea-rupturing, pensioner-intimidating thrash outfit, Metallica. But their passage from fresh-faced punk-paced hopefuls to multi-platinum metal phenomenon has not been ...
Metallica: Het's Induction Hour
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 2 May 1992
JAMES HETFIELD likes weapons, Queen, women who aren't brain-surgeons, hates rap and looking like Lemmy, doesn't know all the words to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' but feels ...
Report and Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 2 May 1992
Ever since 'Enter Sandman' crashed into Top 10s around the world, Metallica have been reaping the dividends of a decade of scorched earth-style metal. CATHI ...
Various Artists: The Freddie Mercury Tribute, Concert For Aids Awareness, Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 2 May 1992
IT'S, UH, KINDA TRAGIC ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 1 August 1992
Admits its reluctant frontman JAMES HETFIELD, "but it's not the only thing we enjoy doing." While drummer LARS ULRICH enjoys playing the party animal till ...
Metallica: The Rise of an Egotist
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992
METALLICA started out as renegade Thrash bandits, but they've sold almost 10 million copies of their self-titled fifth album. They are now touring American stadiums ...
Guns N' Roses roll in to Foxboro
Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 September 1992
"THE TRAIN," says a confident-sounding Wendy Laister, "is absolutely back on the tracks." ...
Guns N' Roses, Metallica: Foxboro Stadium, Foxboro MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 September 1992
Guns N' Roses vs. Metallica: They're a high-scoring draw ...
Report by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 24 October 1992
The streamlined, black-clad resistance fighters of METALLICA are poised for a surgical strike on Guns N' Roses' hard rock throne. STEPHEN DALTON discovers the truth ...
Metallica: "Good Day For A Battle"
Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 5 June 1993
Metallica, the titans of terse doom-metal, return to the UK this weekend, on the final leg of an epic tour that has taken them to ...
Don't Tread On Me! Metallica Sue 'Em All In Court Case Spectacular!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 October 1994
Gloves off as Metal masters take on record company in legal scrapof the decade! Lars tells all! ...
Lollapalooza, H.O.R.D.E. and ENIT: 3 Tribes
Report and Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 13 June 1996
LOLLAPALOOZA is the "alternative" tour, and H.O.R.D.E. a neo-hippie haven. Is there room for the ENIT Festival, the weirdest of them all? ...
Report by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 June 1996
It's a scorching hot day in California, and Metallica — the world's biggest rock band — have just announced on the radio that they'll be ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 1996
THEY MAKE THE ODDEST OF rock couples, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Watching them at work in Manhattan’s Right Track Studios, it’s hard to imagine ...
Metallica: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 14 October 1996
Classic metal misfits spit out decibels of defiance at the venue from hell ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 August 1997
On the eve of their headlining appearance at Reading '97, METALLICA have one more battle to fight with Load. In the blue corner, Planet Rock's ...
Metallica: Souls of a New Machine
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 August 1997
The Plant Studios, Sausalito: METALLICA are holding their final inquest into the Load album and working on its successor. Time to find out exactly how ...
Metallica: Re-Load (Elektra) ***½
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 November 1997
THE TITLE of Metallica's new album does the band a disservice. This is less a sequel to last year's Load than a virtual repudiation of ...
Metal Memories: Ten years of close encounters with Metallica
Retrospective by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 17 November 1997
THE MONSTERS OF ROCK Tour in '87 was my wake-up call. Even if waking up in Akron is like rising with a hangover. ...
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Uncut, January 1998
Heavy metal muthas in peak form shock ...
Metallica: CorseStates Center Parking Lot, Philadelphia
Live Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, February 1998
IT WAS DUBBED the "Million Decibel March," but Metallica's purported return to hard rockin' drew a crowd you might expect to see at a Bryan ...
Report and Interview by David Bennun, The Observer, 9 May 1999
LIKE MOST things in this California college town, including the people, Berkeley's Community Theatre has changed little since the '60s. Its rust-brown auditorium and green ...
Bottoms up: Topping the Billboard
Comment by Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice, 12 May 1999
FOR THE PAST month, two of the top five tracks pissing their night away on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart have been celebrations of alcohol consumption, ...
King Dongs and French Ticklers: Metallica with Strings Attached
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Front, February 2000
IN THE perpetually over-stated arena of titanic metal, no other band in the entire cosmos are quite so synonymous with brain-boggling hugeness as Metallica. ...
Rage-a-holics Anonymous: Metallica
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003
OF COURSE, you all know the deal with Metallica. At present, the single most enormous band in the entire rock firmament who, having casually taken ...
Report and Interview by Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2003
THE US ARMY'S Psychological Operations Company recently revealed that it has been playing Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' repeatedly to Iraqi prisoners as a pre-interrogation routine. In ...
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice, 2 July 2004
LAST FALL, a hilarious 3,000-word review of Metallica's unlistenable St. Anger by some guy named Colin Tappe circulated over the Internet. ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Observer Music Monthly, 19 September 2004
Metallica: Some kind of Monster (Released: October 1) ...
Band on the Ruin: Metallica's Some Kind of Monster
Report and Interview by James Medd, The Word, October 2004
Metallica was facing meltdown and group therapy — then the film crew arrived. The result is the greatest music documentary ever made. ...
NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks
Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007
Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, March 2007
The Black Album's anti-lullaby proved a massive hit for the leaner, meaner Metallica, helping them become the biggest metal band on the planet ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2008
THERE IS a certain grim irony to the news, announced last week, that Metallica’s latest album Death Magnetic will be released in September in a ...
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monsters
Report and Interview by William Shaw, Q, September 2008
In the old days, Metallica were hard-drinking, groupie-shagging rock pigs. Today, they're all about pre-gig yoga sessions, surfing and being good dads. On the merch ...
Metallica: "Why hasn't anyone dethroned us yet?"
Retrospective and Interview by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 5 September 2008
FIVE YEARS AFTER the critical and commercial disaster of St Anger, they're back to save metal — and save themselves in the process. Stevie Chick ...
Kirk Hammett on Metallica's Kill 'Em All
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Music Radar, 11 September 2008
METALLICA HAVE NEVER done anything the easy way. On the eve of recording their first album Kill 'Em All, they fired lead guitarist Dave Mustaine ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2008
Troubled Dark Knights of metal return to form. ...
Guns N' Roses: The Monsters of Rock Return
Comment by Andy Gill, The Independent, 31 October 2008
After 14 years of rumours and false starts, Guns N' Roses are promising to release their new album. There's even a ticking clock on their ...
Retrospective by Deborah Frost, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, April 2009
HAPPY FAMILIES, Leo Tolstoy noted, are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. That goes double, if not quadruple, for bands, ...
"It has so much rage": Metallica And Lou Reed Talk About Their New Album
Interview by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 20 October 2011
It's a collaboration that has prompted much head-scratching, but Lou Reed and Metallica tell Edward Helmore that teaming up to make their new album was a ...
Metallica's Kill 'Em All, the Album to Credit and/or Blame for "Extreme Metal" Mania, Turns 30
Retrospective by Chuck Eddy, Spin, 25 July 2013
IN 1983'S International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, Tony Jasper and Derek Oliver make the claim that two different California bands put out ...
Metallica: House of Vans, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 21 November 2016
The world's biggest metal band returned to their club roots with a tight, super-loud show that sent the sweat-soaked crowd into meltdown. ...
Why Vinyl Matters: Lars Ulrich
Book Excerpt by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, 'Why Vinyl Matters' (ACC Editions), 2017
LARS ULRICH WAS born in Denmark in 1963. After seeing his first concert at age 10, he became enamoured with the drums. His family moved ...
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Variety, 21 July 2017
IF THE HISTORIES of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre warrant four hours of prime HBO real estate in The Defiant Ones, then certainly Michael Alago, ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Financial Times, 15 February 2022
AS INELEGANT acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal's thudding, bludgeoning bass registers. Certainly the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", ...
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