“Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album stands as a death knell for the idealistic hippie dreams of the Sixties. Inspired by horror movies, bad dreams, drug come-downs and the terminal grind of the factory floor, it was designed to unnerve and… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share Image
“Inside the studio walls the alpha male personalities of James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich battled for territory, their sometimes discordant creative visions coalescing to… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album stands as a death knell for the idealistic hippie dreams of the Sixties. Inspired by horror movies, bad dreams,… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“Mustaine and Hetfield were like two brothers that didn’t get on, each pushing the other out of the way, but it was so exciting.… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“I’m about to have a nervous breakdown / My head really hurts / If I don’t find a way outta here / I’m gonna… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“Interviewed twenty-seven years and three days after the recording of Master of Puppets began, today it seems as if its producer’s abiding memory of… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“Metallica are too proud to dress up; their uniform is the uniform of their average fan, the teenage American slob: sneakers, ripped jeans, T-shirts.” — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“Lars Ulrich decided that if he were going to be hung it may as well be for stealing a sheep as a lamb:” — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“Revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.” — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
“I’m still trying to work out why I love this band so much,’ wrote Xavier Russell in his Kerrang! review of the group’s Donington… — Paul Brannigan Copy Share
