Lars Ulrich

Mark Knopfler, John Mellencamp, The War on Drugs, Nathaniel Rateliff, Steve Martin, Leon Bridges, Graham Nash have also donated instruments to the National Independent Talent Organization’s charity auction…

”I think of Metallica as being a pop band,” Phoebe says. ”A lot of metal is just metal to be metal — but Metallica write real songs.”

Voters included Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, John Cale, Wayne Coyne, Jimmy Cliff, Robert Smith, Waxahatchee, El-P, and over 300 others.

From AC/DC to Misifts and Motorhead, Slayer, and Venom, here’s what we’ll be asking Satan for Christmas this year.

Metallica Mondays continues today with the earliest footage they’ve shared for this series yet.

They played four songs of 2016’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct and their Reload hit ”Fuel,” but other than that, every song they played was from 1990 or earlier.

”I have so much material sitting around that’s obviously not Metallica stuff, and that pile gets bigger and bigger,” said Kirk. ”It would not look like a metal album at all. It’ll be something so weird and far-ranging in styles.”

also: members of Anthrax, Lamb of God, Megadeth, Van Halen, Hatebreed, Overkill, Testament, Type O Negative, Obituary, Alice Cooper, Life of Agony, Dokken Poison, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Skid Row, Alice in Chains, Blink 182 and many others (including the Iron Sheik!)

The first show has DEP and Mike Patton performing their collaborative 2002 EP together with God Mother opening, and the second two will be opened by Code Orange and Daughters.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has his own Beats 1 Radio show called ‘It’s Electric!’ where he brings on guests like his own band, Les Claypool, and Dave Grohl. The next two editions will have a slightly less expected guest…