‘Creeping Death’: The greatest riff James Hetfield wrote for Metallica
Half of Metallica's vocabulary thrives off a good riff, and this deceptively simple lick is among the finest James Hetfield ever penned.
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3 Key Tracks From Metallica’s Classic ‘Ride the Lightning’
When Ride the Lightning landed in 1984, it single-handedly evolved the thrash metal genre. The lit-conscious album also raised the bar for arrangements and technical proficiency. Metallica was ...
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“We’d play a song in a certain tempo. Three weeks later, it would be twice as fast”: who invented thrash metal? Kirk Hammett has a theory
One of the songs he took was Die By His Hand, parts of which would be incorporated into future Metallica classic Creeping ...