James Hetfield has a long-standing signature guitar collaboration with ESP, made his bones playing a white Flying V knock-off, and is one of the world’s most high-profile proponents of the ...

Metallica guitar books are many — looking at you, Hal Leonard — but Metallica's James Hetfield is about to top previous publications with Messengers, his own upcoming book that documents his ...

Even though he's best known for crafting James Hetfield’s most striking and creative axes, Kenneth Lawrence doesn’t play guitar. He’s a bassist. As most bassists do, at age 14, he picked up ...

Metallica's James Hetfield has partnered with Ernie Ball, the world's leading manufacturer of guitar strings and accessories, to bring Hetfield's first-ever signature string series: Papa Het's ...

Metallica frontman James Hetfield turns 48 today, and he's been riding the lightning for over 30 of those years. Here's a breakdown of some of his signature instruments and the ones we thought ...

Merging the worlds of Metallica and Van Halen, Metallica's James Hetfield uses a Marshall guitar amp on Metallica's 72 Seasons that was modded by Eddie Van Halen 's amp guru José Arredondo.

Over the past 40 years, Metallica have made heavy rock music accessible to the masses. Today, we reveal James Hetfield's ...

The Metallica frontman is poised to receive a Gibson Custom Shop creation that pays homage to his famed ‘So What’ 1984 Explorer. Could signature guitars be next?

The custom design, which was inspired by one of James Hetfield's tattoos and signature Snakebyte electric guitar, as well as Metallica's graphics and album artwork, was displayed on Dec. 13 at the ...