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Metallica has returned to Toronto for the first time in eight years — the only Canadian stop in their world tour. Here's what the Rogers Centre looked like for their opening show.

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And of course, Hammett says Black Sabbath’s first three albums “are like gospel” to metalheads. Specifically, the Exodus co-founder lists the 1975 song “Symptom of the Universe” as one that changed ...

Some of the world’s leading rice-producing countries are sitting on a vast belt of pollution caused by heavy metal, according to a new study that has raised urgent concerns about global food safety.

He then specifically pointed to the riff in the song "Symptom of the Universe," which he argued sums up both the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and thrash metal. READ MORE: Metallica's Kirk ...

“Heavy Rock from the American Comedown Era ... I doubt a day goes by that doesn’t see a new black-metal release, and though it always pays to tread carefully in the music’s realm ...