Metallica officially launched a highly-anticipated digital Cliff Burton exhibit in their Metallica Black Box online museum. Titled "Orion: A Tribute to Cliff Burton," the first part of the exhibit ...

So desperate were the teenage James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich to persuade Cliff Burton to join their band that, after the homebody bassist point-blank refused to move from his home in San Francisco to ...

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 ...

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: ...

The classic lineup of Metallica—frontman/guitarist James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett, bassist Cliff Burton, and drummer Lars Ulrich—unleashed a trio of albums that are bona fide classics in the ...

Cliff Burton's shredding fingerstyle bass solo (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth, from Metallica's 1983 debut album, Kill 'Em All, stamped his identity firmly on the emerging thrash metal movement. Heavy ...