Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren’t really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the...

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don’t know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps...

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it’s all metal, but on the inside it’s very delicate.

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

When people are confronted with something they’ve never seen before, they really don’t know how to react.

One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that young players – I mean and 12-year-olds – really like my guitar style. There’s something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and...

There’s something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, ‘He’s just hiding behind the wah.’ But that isn’t the case. It’s just that those frequencies really bring out...

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, ‘Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies’ has probably played out in a lot of people’s discovery of...

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It’s kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors...

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans’ response to ‘St. Anger’ not having guitar solos.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it – ‘St. Anger’ being the fire and ‘Death Magnetic’ being the phoenix.

Technology has given us convenience, but at the same time it’s making musicians work harder in that if you really want to make money making music and selling albums, you have to go out there...