A Hardwired Triumph for Metallica
Metallica has perfected the arena rock experience, creating as immersive and inclusive an atmosphere as possible by performing "in the round".
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The 21 Best Album Re-Issues of 2017
In 2017, the music world saw amazing reissues from all over the genre map, spanning rock titans to indie upstarts and jazz to soul.
The Five Phases of Metallica: A Case Study in Catalog Organization
A layperson takes a stab at music sabermetrics by tracing Metallica's success and failures through these five phases.
Anthrax: For All Kings (7-Inch Box Set)
A set like this is less about the music and more about having something that says, "I am a fan, and this is the proof".
Pallbearer: Heartless
Pallbearer’s third album Heartless exists outside of easy genre signifiers. This band is in a league all their own.
Metallica Is Back: They Never Were the Bad Guys
Metallica's already huge legacy is solidifying, and history is treating them quite well.
Artists and Audience Rally International Support Around Social Causes for Global Citizen Festival
Relive highlights of the 2016 Global Citizen Festival including songs Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Metallica and Chris Martin & Eddie Vedder.
Metallica School Audience in Rock at Intimate New York Show
The group's strong core is immutable as Metallica proved at Webster Hall.
Blood and Thunder: Anathema Falls and Rises at Roadburn 2015
For a moment, Anathema looked like they would close out the 2015 Roadburn Festival on a completely flat note. Then they pulled off a comeback for the ages.
The High Art of Disownership in ‘Death Sentence: London’
Death Sentence: London is quite possibly the most important work of 2015.
Blood and Thunder: Power, Rage Unbound
This week in metal brought a much needed injection of creativity into black metal and the 30th anniversary of a classic yet underrated metal album.
Obituary: Inked in Blood
On their ninth album, Obituary continue to deliver ash-blackened riffage and unintelligible, swamp-creature squeals straight from the bile sac.