When the mighty Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, some were curious about the appearance of a small, grey-haired man who joined the band at the podium. It ...

27 September, 1986 was the darkest day in the history of Metallica, when the band’s bassist Cliff Burton was killed in a tour bus accident in Sweden during the Master Of Puppets tour. But within two ...

Two of thrash metal's finest make it to the quarterfinals of our Greatest Metal Bassist competition. Get ready for this 'Big 4' battle. Late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton left this world far too ...

Though bassist Cliff Burton died in 1986, Metallica frontman James Hetfield reveals that the late bassist still impacts the band creatively to this day. As part of the recent Metallica Podcast, a ...

Every year on February 10th, we here at Metal Injection like to take a moment to remember one of the greatest bassist in heavy metal history, Cliff Burton. Without Cliff, the seeds would not have been ...

Metallica is still making new music more than 40 years after releasing their scorching debut Kill ‘Em All. And during the songwriting process, co-founder James Hetfield always asks the same question: ...

You’d be hard-pressed to find Metallica songs that hit harder than the four that open Ride the Lightning. If you were there in July of ’84, you remember where you were the first time you gazed at the ...