Lars Ulrich

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Lars Ulrich on stage, early 1990s

Watch Lauten Audio uncannily recreate Metallica’s Black Album drum sound with the original kit, at LA’s One on One studios where the album was recorded

By Stuart Williams published

An all-star cast featuring Black Album engineer, Mike Tacci, Darrell Thorpe, Drum Doctor Ross Garfield and Puscifer drummer Gunnar Olsen give us a forensic look at one of the greatest drum sounds in heavy music history

Singles And Albums
Metallica The Black Album artwork

How Metallica changed tack and gambled with Enter The Sandman via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich

By Sian Llewellyn published

Via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich

Guitarists
Metallica onstage at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam

“We’re bored, let’s do some stuff” – How James Hetfield wrote Metallica’s longest-ever song in a Zoom call with Lars

By Jonathan Horsley published

Hetfield and Ulrich tell Apple Music's Zane Lowe that one minute you're bored on Zoom, the next you have a Sabbath-inspired riff, and before long you have the most epic track you’ve ever written

Singles And Albums
Lars Ulrich performing on stage, 2016

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich silences the haters with impromptu double kick breakdown during Howard Stern interview

By Stuart Williams published

The Great Dane proves he’s still got it, and also names some of the Metallica songs he finds most difficult

Drummers
Dave Mustaine and Metallica comp

Dave Mustaine says Lars Ulrich wrote the opening riff to Metallica’s Master of Puppets

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Megadeth frontman has also called for Metallica to “step up” and Slayer to reunite for one last Big Four thrash gig

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