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When the Big Four announced their upcoming date at Yankee Stadium on September 14, undoubtedly the first thing that came to mind for many Yankees fans was “Enter Sandman.” The 1991 Metallica classic has been a staple of Yankees games for years, heralding the entrance of the greatest relief pitcher of all time, Mariano Rivera. Lest fans be worried the...

Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax are collectively known as thrash’s Big Four – the cornerstones upon which the entire thrash movement is built, and the compass one uses to orient oneself when navigating the turbulent waters of that aggressive, precise, angry, powerful metal variant. But thrash does not begin and end with those four bands. For each one of the...

In 2010, for the first time ever, the four giants of metal – Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax — shared one stage for seven European shows. The final stop on June 22 at the Sonisphere Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, was beamed by satellite to more than a thousand cinemas worldwide. On Nov. 2, the historic June 22 concert will hit DVD...

On Wednesday September 22 selected theaters will screen (sic)nesses, the concert documentary taken at Britain’s Download Festival in 2009. The show would end up being one of the last Slipknot performances to feature founding member Paul Gray, who died in May from an accidental drug overdose. The DVD will be released September 28th.

At the 2010 Winter NAMM Show, Marshall Amplification announced that it has begun working on a project with the legendary guitarist Slash to produce a new amplifier that recreates the sound of the revered Marshall amplifier he used on the 1987 album "Appetite for Destruction" by Guns N' Roses. The new amplifier will be known as the AFD100. Fans of...