Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste
Metallica is a band that, at this point, seemingly exists to be memed. It’s been eight years since its last studio album, 2008’s Death Magnetic, and, depending on who you ask, either two or three decades since its last good record. Yet the band presses on despite its management’s hatred of the internet, its songs getting hacked and chopped, vocalist James Hetfield’s emphatic “Yeah”s being made into a supercut, drummer Lars Ulrich’s inability to play his own songs getting a similar treatment, and the fact that bargains are imprisoning them.