The post Metallica Honor the Late Ennio Morricone, Whose “Ecstasy of Gold” Has Intro’d Their Shows Since 1983 appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Morricone died Monday in Rome after suffering ...

The first band Metallica toured with have admitted that they didn’t think the metal juggernauts had a bright future ahead of them. John Gallagher of British metal veterans Raven, who headlined during ...

UPDATE: Video out now, watch below. In case you haven’t already been listening, Metallica are also playing a different concert recording every day through May 30 on SiriusXM’s Mandatory Metallica ...

Flynn recounts how his dad drove him and his friend Jim Pittman to see Raven, Metallica, and local heroes Exodus. He was kind enough to drop the youngsters a block or two from the venue, to save them ...

Metallica, like most of the music industry right now, is off the road. To help fans pass the time, they are introducing #MetallicaMondays on their YouTube and Facebook page every Monday night at 8 PM ...

At every Metallica show since the Eighties — before the riffs, solos and drum fills — there’s a rumble of timpani and piano and the lonesome keen of an oboe. Those instruments comprise the opening ...

The release of Metallica's debut album, Kill 'Em All, on July 25, 1983, meant thrash had officially arrived. This encompassed all the usual ancestral musical ingredients, but seasoned with a pinch of ...

OK, so the audience recording here isn’t *great* — but the very fact that we can hear such an early recording of Metallica playing in Cleveland is awesome. Dec. 18, 1983: Ride the Lightning was still ...

Dave Mustaine was one of the main creative forces driving Metallica during the band's early years, but by the spring of 1983, his increasingly alienated bandmates knew he needed to go. "They were all ...

Last week’s archival stream celebrated the 20th anniversary of Metallica‘s Black Album at a show in Austria. The band is keeping with the theme of 20 for this week as well. Previously, the furthest ...