Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Hetfield (left) and Kirk Hammett perform onstage with Metallica Metallica frontman James Hetfield has announced the ...

Metallica guitar books are many — looking at you, Hal Leonard — but Metallica's James Hetfield is about to top previous publications with Messengers, his own upcoming book that documents his personal ...

Metallica are back, with their 72 Seasons album arriving this week, and while it sounds as fresh as ever, frontman James Hetfield reveals that a good portion of the record features an instrument that ...

Not a Gibson, but made by Electra, a Japanese company. It was eventually replaced when it broke. Twice. You may notice him rocking on a similar model these days -- he had ESP make him their own ...

Need a good dose of nostalgia? These killer (and underrated) guitar solos from the 1980s will transport you back to a glittering era for rock.

Metallica frontman James Hetfield recently teamed up with Ernie Ball to release his first-ever guitar strings, the Papa Het's Hardwired Master Core. Now in a new video demoing the strings, Hetfield ...

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