Adidas and Armani all around: Seminal rap and influential metal outfits Run D.M.C. and Metallica have officially achieved their music-history artifact status, confirmed as inductees in the Rock 'N'…   Read Story »

When Death Magnetic started leaking, "All Nightmare Long" provided us with a helpful pun about the general quality of Metallica's newest effort. Another song ripe for meta commentary's "The Day That…   Read Story »

Remember the 50th Annual Grammy Awards? Alicia Keys duetting with the ghost of Sinatra? Will.i.am rapping nonsense? Album of the Year River: The Joni Letters??? It's easy (and fun!) to make fun of…   Read Story »

We told you about the tech guy who analyzed Death Magnetic with Audacity and decided the over-compressed album sounds better in Guitar Hero. Now the Wall Street Journal's analyzed it against ...And…   Read Story »

The 2009 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominees were announced this morning, and again prog get no respect. However, cheers to The Stooges for finally getting the nod (Iggy Pop's Madonna tribute put him…   Read Story »

It's not just songwriting that's subpar: MusicRadar guitar editor Chris Vinnecombe used Audacity to analyze Death Magnetic's audio, says it's over compressed, that "the kick and snare drum seemed to…   Read Story »

The question is, will anyone want to download it? No sooner than we trudged through the desert and Metallica's Thomas Vinterberg-directed "The Day That Never Comes" recruitment clip and mentioned…   Read Story »

We've already lived through "The Day That Never Comes" -- in the studio and live. So this is the third time it has never come. Something like that. The stitched together, eight-and-a-half-minute,…   Read Story »

Add this one to "Cyanide" and "The Day That Never Comes," only this time your only option for listening is via metallica.com, where the track pops in your choice of streaming player. Warning: Lars's…   Read Story »

As Amrit sagely noted when discussing Metallica's new 7:56-long Death Magnetic track "The Day That Never Comes": "At 5:00 [it] becomes the last half of "One." (Literally.) Before that, it's…   Read Story »