Fan Gets Call From Metallica After Song Scares Off Cougar

A Vancouver Island woman who credits a Metallica song with saving her from a cougar attack got to thank the band personally when frontman James Hetfield called. Dee Gallant was reportedly walking her husky-retriever, Murphy, down a logging road in south Duncan two weeks ago when she caught a glimpse…

Live Nation Helped Sell 88,000 Metallica Tickets On The Secondary Market

Live Nation directly facilitated the sale of 88,000 Metallica tickets at inflated prices on the secondary ticketing market. This strong piece of investigative journalism by Billboard’s Dave Brooks has finally brought the long-standing practice out into the open. Tickets for Metallica and several other artists were sold directly via the…

Tom Morello Recruits Big Boi, Killer Mike, RZA, Gary Clark Jr. for All-Star Solo Album

“I wanted to make a record that was the [Jimi] Hendrix of now,” Rage Against the Machine guitarist tells Metallica’s Lars Ulrich on Beats 1 radio show