Pain has led to a lot of gain for Metallica over the decades. And the adage is exponential for "The Unforgiven," a dark and deeply personal song that's spun off two sequels for a trilogy as intense as ...

On Feb. 23, 1998, Metallica released “The Unforgiven II,” the second part in what would become a trilogy. The single followed in the footsteps of 1991’s “The Unforgiven,” a popular power ballad from ...

Elisapie, a Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter, plumbs new sadness in one of Metallica‘s biggest, most emotional hits on her recording, “Isumagijunnaitaungituq (The Unforgiven).” Where the metal band ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “[The teacher would say] ‘OK, get out your health books,’ and I would have to leave,” Hetfield ...

"Cliff was definitely the gateway to a lot of that classical stuff," Ulrich told Rolling Stone. "When he started talking about classical music in '83, '84, James [Hetfield] and I weren't — or at least ...

During a recent episode of The Metallica Report podcast, Metallica frontman James Hetfield was answering some fan questions when he was asked whether he was done writing “The Unforgiven” songs after ...

Metallica's self-titled "Black" album was a game changer in many ways, including with guitarist Kirk Hammett who reveals that one of the songs on the album forever changed his approach to creating ...

If you’re gonna step in front of 18,000 diehard Metallica fans and lecture them on the history of classical music, you better have something interesting to say. Luckily for Michael Tilson Thomas, ...