And Justice For All and Master of Puppets. This provides the aggression and attack that drives the band’s songs along. Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield often make effective use of chromatic ...

Metallica marked their territory as one of the most influential thrash bands of the ‘80s. Their signature sound, often credited to founding member and frontman James Hetfield, can be boiled down ...

The James Hetfield influences are plentiful and they don't all come from metal, with the Metallica frontman recently crediting a legendary gruff-voiced singer-songwriter as "a master craftsman ...