Jon Wiederhorn

It wasn't an April Fool's joke.

The legendary third album and major label debut from Metallica.

Then we wound up with two amazing thrash bands.

On Jan. 17, 2001, bassist Jason Newsted revealed the news that he was exiting Metallica.

Metallica fans who still prefer CDs over MP3s can pick up the band's four-song EP 'Beyond Magnetic' at retail outlets on Jan. 31.

The post-victory celebration of Metallica's 30th anniversary bash continues with a 33-minute video recapping the second of four fan-club-only shows the band performed Dec. 7 at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

"This is for people who are literate," Lou Reed insists about 'Lulu,' his widely criticized collaboration album with Metallica. "This isn’t 'I cry in my beer cos you f---ed him and ran your truck through my bar."

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the England's Download festival, Metallica will play their mega-selling 1991 self-titled disc (aka 'The Black Album') in its entirety.

Now that Metallica and Lou Reed have given the public the full Monty on their double-disc collaboration ‘Lulu’ by streaming the entire album on their website, the music icons are talking about their brave, ambitious, Frankenstein.

In a reaction to one of Metallica’s “friends in the digital retail world,” which prematurely uploaded 30-second snippets of all the tracks on ‘Lulu,’ the band’s upcoming collaboration with Lou Reed, “higher quali…