Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

Insightful lyrics, powerful singing, and clean, strong music make this a compelling band. There was a joke that made the rounds in the late 1970s early 1980s that asked what was the difference between punk and new wave music. Punks, the answer went, wore pins stabbed through their skin, while new wavers wore pins emblazoned with the names of their favourite bands. Not a very good joke perhaps, ...

Drummer Lars Ulrich talks to the Tribune Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has seen This Is Spinal Tap and its comical tale of a has-been metal band overstaying its welcome. He has laughed, and he has learned from it. Though irrelevance or self-parody has threatened the mighty, three-decade-old Metallica on its way to selling 100 million records, the joke is not on him or his band—yet. When it ...