Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Metallica maintains a near-perfect presence on the Billboard charts ...

Metallica unleashed their third album, Master of Puppets—the record that pushed them from underground heroes to global metal ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster sent radiation across Europe, the first PC virus spread, Top Gun hit theaters and Metallica made a masterpiece.1986 blessed the world with a mind-blowing number of ...

That's how James Hetfield opened the introduction of Back to the Front: A Fully Authorized Visual History of The Master of Puppets Album and Tour. For Metallica—and really, the world—there is no way ...

One of the most iconic thrash metal songs ever written finally surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, as Metallica‘s “Master of Puppets” joins Spotify’s Billions Club, an elite group songs that ...

But it was Metallica’s third album, once again produced by Flemming Rasmussen and their first for Elektra Records, that took things in a new direction and helped them break them out worldwide. And the ...

“We were all stoked to see the final result and when we did we were totally blown away,” the rock band said. The rock band’s iconic song “Master of Puppets” was included in the show’s season four Vol.