Using data from setlist.fm, a list of the most and least-played song live off every studio album released by Metallica.

was played in Metallica's live set for years). Maybe it's that it has a little more of the hard-rocking familiarity of The ...

A look into the idea of the "flop era" via Metallica and one song from their album 'Load', and how it was only ever played ...

while its fans were wringing their hands over the group’s newly cropped coifs and the more diversified sound of its then-new Load album. Metallica used the expanded dynamics to bring more ...

The first four Metallica albums are heavy metal perfection ... for some of rock's biggest hits, from Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" to Oasis's "Live Forever," but to rely on that is risky business.