If you know your Metallica history, you'll know that Jason Newsted and Robert Trujillo aren't the only guys to have filled the bass chair with the thrash metal giants. The first, Ron McGovney, joined ...

That day is not today. To wit, enterprising YouTubers Andriy Vasylenko and Denis Pauna have taken 17 Metallica tracks and put together a video showing what they’d sound like if the guitar and bass ...

A pick-style player who leans “heavily on the guitar side of the bass guitar,” Campbell gets his tone by cranking his ESP ...

Another marquee instrument is Newsted's 5-string fretless Zon bass that he played when Metallica recorded "Until ... Wilco's Reverb shop of rare and vintage guitars instead. More from Rolling ...

Metallica could have packed it all in and walked away after the tragic bus crash that claimed the life of bassist Cliff Burton on 27 September 1986. But they didn’t. They persisted, recruiting Jason ...