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Metallica turn Etihad Park into a hometown show for the Middle East

Four decades of riffs and precision showed why the band remains a benchmark in heavy metal ...
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"We were stupid kids, just trying to survive, with this really weird music that we were so stubborn about." How five chaos-addicted Californian misfits helped pave the way for ...

Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now celebrating its 40th birthday ...

Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on his regret-filled experience playing “Whiskey in the Jar” with Metallica

Metallica’s 1998 cover of the Thin Lizzy track introduced it to a new generation, but their link-up with Bell wasn’t a match ...

Original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on reinventing an old Irish standard as a rock track and performing it with the “cartoon” Metallica

Original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell explains the roots and finer points of his Whiskey in the Jar guitar solo and ...