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Metallica's Top 5 Most Alienating, Hate-Inducing Actions

​"Metallica loves to be hated," James Hetfield told Playboy in a 2001 interview. The group's detractors would argue that over the years, Hetfield and the boys have done a more than capable job of cultivating that hate. There are young music fans, born around the mid-1990s, who only know a wor ... More >>

10 Actually Good Songs on Metallica's Despised Load and Reload Albums

It's not that bad. Really.​ As we celebrate Metallica's 30th Anniversary, it's time to reexamine a popular mindset among critics and fans of the most enduringly popular band in metal history: Many believe that that all four of Metallica's 1980s albums were unimpeachable classics, and that afte ... More >>

Metallica Brings Out Lou Reed, Kid Rock, Mercyful Fate, and More as the 30th Anniversary Party Continues

Metallica at the Fillmore Wednesday night. Notice that James Hetfield isn't wearing a shirt.​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Ki ... More >>

Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture

​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows In ... More >>

Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica

​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows Instead Popular music is fixated with jumping-off points, springbo ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head Return Tonight. Here Are Six of Their Greatest Musical Insights

They're back! The horror!​The world-at-large is bound to associate a few things with Beavis and Butt-Head: the '90s, a ballsier MTV, low-grade animation, juvenile delinquency, crude sex talk, and two idiots who loved fire, cappuccinos, and causing mayhem. Another major B&B element that should ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

They're back! The horror!​The world-at-large is bound to associate a few things with Beavis and Butt-Head: the '90s, a ballsier MTV, low-grade animation, juvenile delinquency, crude sex talk, and two idiots who loved fire, cappuccinos, and causing mayhem. Another major B&B element that should ... More >>

Sunday: Anthrax, Testament, and Death Angel Obliterate the Warfield with Help From Metallica's Kirk Hammett

Richard HaickAnthrax at the Warfield on Sunday.​ Anthrax Testament Death Angel Chimaira Oct. 23, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Listening to the new Loutallica album online. Bay Area thrash-metal fans still waiting for Metallica to bring the Big 4 Tour to their hometown got to enjoy a neck- ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Richard HaickAnthrax at the Warfield on Sunday.​ Anthrax Testament Death Angel Chimaira Oct. 23, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Listening to the new Loutallica album online. Bay Area thrash-metal fans still waiting for Metallica to bring the Big 4 Tour to their hometown got to enjoy a neck- ... More >>

Shocker: Metallica and Lou Reed Team Up for New Album

Now just imagine a tall, skinny Lou Reed in there somewhere...​ Well, we certainly didn't see this coming: Bay Area metal giant Metallica and former Velvet Underground frontman/living god Lou Reed are about 90 percent done with a new album they've recorded together. Lou Reed and Metallica? Yes ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Now just imagine a tall, skinny Lou Reed in there somewhere...​ Well, we certainly didn't see this coming: Bay Area metal giant Metallica and former Velvet Underground frontman/living god Lou Reed are about 90 percent done with a new album they've recorded together. Lou Reed and Metallica? Yes ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Now just imagine a tall, skinny Lou Reed in there somewhere...​ Well, we certainly didn't see this coming: Bay Area metal giant Metallica and former Velvet Underground frontman/living god Lou Reed are about 90 percent done with a new album they've recorded together. Lou Reed and Metallica? Yes ... More >>

Hometown Shredder Joe Satriani Rocks the Fox with Sammy Hagar and an Army of Fanboys

Richard HaickSatriani showing off at the Fox last night​Joe SatrianiNed Evett & Triple DoubleJanuary 13, 2010@ The Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: Hearing Machine Head in high-school detention hall. There's just something about the title of Joe Satriani's new album, Black Swans and Wormhole ... More >>

This Week, the Everlasting Les Claypool Rings in 20 Years of Weird New Year's Eve Shows

Les Claypool and the Frog Brigade​Think back, grasshopper, project yourself back to the late '80s and the early '90s -- yes, a lifetime ago. Major labels and would-be majors signed tons of bands that could more or less bear the handle of "alternative rock." The discs by many of these bands can now ... More >>

Top 5 Most Excruciating Moments in Music Documentaries

We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

Summer Reading: 10 Key Bay Area Music Books

​A summer reading list should be about more than Steven King and Jackie Collins. The Bay Area's growing canon of local music history books takes many twists and turns beyond straight-up non-fiction narratives, including even poetry and cookbooks. Not only is this collection of titles a wide-rangin ... More >>

Last Night: Metallica at HP Pavillion

​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

Metallica: Metal heroes once more

​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

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Head Trip

Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

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Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

The Art of Reuniting

Once upon a time, S.F.'s Death Angel was poised to bring thrash metal to the mainstream. Then its bus crashed. Now the band is back to finish the job.

Ms. Macabre

Meet an S.F. artist who likes to play with dolls – in a most bizarre way

Immigrant Songs

The Skyflakes -- and the piNoisepop Festival -- put Filipino-American indie music on the map

And Justice for a Few

Metallica gets intimate

Call the Zookeepers

The elephant known as Noise Pop has wandered into the living room

Check Your Head

If it's loud, lewd, or crude, it's bound to be on Reality Check

Fanfare for the Common Band

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

One Nation Under a Guru

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

Riff Raff

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

Riff Raff

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

Riff Raff

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?