Metallica

Anthrax’s Charlie Benante: ‘I was always a big U2 fan. They just got better and better’

Drummer Benante discusses how the music industry rips off bands, rumours of a new Anthrax album and his love for U2

Apple has decided 2024 is the year it annoys everyone. Is its top 100 albums list really that bad?

Apple Music’s best albums list is a fair reflection of where music is at nowadays. But many fans should prepare to be vexed - it turns out to be a bonfire of the musos

From The Beatles to Sugababes to Rolling Stones: The pain of the almost-band-member

‘I remember when they headlined Glastonbury… I was sat at home, on my own’. Bands changing their line-ups is a cutting moment for the unwanted member

In pictures: life backstage with Hozier, Arcade Fire, Elton John and more by some of Ireland’s top music photographers

‘It’s all about empathy, trust and intimacy’: music snappers share their love of the craft which at times can be gruelling and rarely offers stable employment

Talk of AI dangers has ‘run ahead of the technology’, says Meta’s Nick Clegg

Comments come after Meta said it was opening access to its new large language model, Llama 2

Foo Fighters, Oasis, U2, the Rolling Stones and more: Slane’s 15 greatest acts – in reverse order

As Harry Styles limbers up for this year’s gig, on Saturday, we pick our favourite performances at the castle since the inaugural Slane Festival, in 1981

Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and more: 20 of the best hard rock albums of all time

Metal giants Metallica have just released their long awaited new album. Where do the US band sit in the pantheon of rock gods?

Metallica buy vinyl factory as format outsells CDs for first time in US since 1987

Thrash metallers secure supply of high-value format ahead of new album release

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

Master stroke - Metallica issue video countdown to new album release

The band’s 10th studio album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct is out Friday

Pioneering Cork music course celebrates 25 years

Alumni of Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa’s music, management and sound course include Mick Flannery and the Frank and Walters

Metallica to headline Glastonbury

Veteran thrashers become first heavy metal band to headline the festival