GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Although the old adage about books is usually applicable to video games, it's actually just fine to judge Guitar Hero: Metallica by its cover. It ...

Guitar Hero: Metallica, which lets gamers play along with the band and its influences, comes out in the U.S. on March 29. Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett spoke to me this afternoon at the South ...

James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett have been kicking heavy metal ass for 40 years. In 1983, it was the band’s mission statement, with their debut album originally planned to be titled Metal Up Your Ass ...

Just as it is to Eddie Munson in Stranger Things 4, Metallica's "Master of Puppets" is, to me, the “most metal ever.” I spent my teen years obsessively learning the guitar, and Metallica was one of my ...

Metallica's self-titled "Black" album was a game changer in many ways, including with guitarist Kirk Hammett who reveals that one of the songs on the album forever changed his approach to creating ...

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith has become the latest big-name player afforded a chance to play Kirk Hammett’s fabled ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. If you want a good example of the incredible growth the Guitar Hero series has undergone since its 2005 debut, last year's Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is a ...

Update: The guitar Kirk Hammett plays in Metallica's "One" music video sold on Sunday (April 11) to an anonymous buyer for $112,500, according to Blabbermouth. The instrument's listing at Heritage ...

What could be cooler than heading out to San Francisco to party with Activision and Metallica? Probably nothing, but unfortunately the Metallica we partied with happened to be in the form of Guitar ...

Reinforcing its resume, which already includes placement on the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame, giants of the metal music genre Metallica released its 10 th-studio album Hardwired to Self Destruct a ...

Whenever a developer stumbles onto a gold mine, they usually start milking the franchise for all its worth. While Activision certainly falls into that camp with the Guitar Hero series, they’ve managed ...