Drugs, divorce and incessant drum takes: Metallica on making metal’s biggest ever album

The band on the Black Album’s legacy, fighting in the studio and making an all-star cover version

Gojira: ‘The extinction of so many species is going to be one of our legacies’

Joe Duplantier of French metal four-piece on how an epiphany led to a lifetime of environmental activism

Connie Nielsen on Sea Fever: ‘Right now the film has taken on a whole new depth’

The actor on her salty turn in Neasa Hardiman’s contagion-themed debut feature

Metallica at Slane: ‘We’re blessed to be here after 38 years. Thank you Ireland’

Review: Powerhouse show proved age has not withered the warrior spirit of the fearsome foursome

Metallica to play Slane Castle in 2019

Concert on June 8th will be part of the thrash-metal band’s WorldWired arena tour

Why vinyl refuses to die

The inaugural Vinyl festival, which takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, is a boutique event celebrating the golden age of stylus and disc

Polar prize: Metallica to receive ‘Nobel prize of music’

US heavy metal band will accept prestigious €100,000 award at Stockholm ceremony in June

Metallica – Hardwired . . . to Self-Destruct: Twisted pleasure amidst the debris

Photographer Deirdre O’Callaghan's singular beat

New book features images and interviews with world’s most famous drummers

David Bowie’s art collection shows the stars know their stuff – mostly

Rock musicians know what to buy, but even U2 can make a mistake on values

Motörhead singer Lemmy’s funeral held in Los Angeles

Dave Grohl, Slash and Lars Ulrich among mourners at ceremony in Hollywood

Metallica to headline Glastonbury

Veteran thrashers become first heavy metal band to headline the festival

Avenged Sevenfold: Hail to the King

SXSW: 10 ideas from the leading lights in the Lone Star state

South by Southwest draws the world’s brightest minds to Texas every year for a festival of ideas and culture: here’s what we’ve learned so far