This year's Download was full of firsts. From band celebrations to album anniversaries, and most importantly, Korn's debut ...

The Creative Pebble X Plus speakers retain the familiar Pebble look, and feature 2.75-inch full-range drivers, delivering up ...

The reading list in Rock Music Menu’s Summer Essentials. (Courtesy of, clockwise from top left, Akashic Books, Akashic Books, ...

Emerging Irish singer-songwriter Marty McGuigan releases his striking new single ‘For My Sorrows’, a track which follows our ...

This, we told ourselves, would be the ultimate thrash album, a record that would make Master Of Puppets sound tame. Grabbing ...

Produced by Black Album helmer Bob Rock, Load’s long-term legacy has been mixed: Plenty of old-school Metallica fans hated it, and it didn’t quite have the earworms of their 1997 follow-up ...

Which mid-'90s Metallica album is better - 'Load' or ... And while there was some initial push back against 1991's self-titled Black Album, Metallica fans have largely come around to the record ...

Metallica broke the records for the biggest crowds for two shows at the venue, and its fans brought the most donations to the ...

As of May 28, 2025, Metallica's self-titled fifth studio album, widely known as The Black Album, has received a 20x Patinum certification from the RIAA. This recognition signifies a whopping 20 ...

For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ongoing M72 world tour.

I t is never easy to cover one of the biggest bands of all time, but some musicians have pulled off phenomenal ...

Black Lips have returned with the announcement of their forthcoming album, Season Of The Peach, and share new single, "Tippy Tongue". For the recording sessions of Season Of The Peach , they holed up ...