Cliff Burton's shredding fingerstyle bass solo (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth, from Metallica's 1983 debut album, Kill 'Em All, stamped his identity firmly on the emerging thrash metal movement.

The musician discusses his history, his ever-evolving playing style, and why his solo career validates his creative expression.

It takes a lot to make any tune halfway decent, but these songs were proof that production quality is merely a suggestion. Read more about it here.

A look at how Metallica hazing Jason Newstead nearly torpedoed the bands own music and how taken from the context of a rock band, their behaviour is depressing.

Dynamic peaks, instrumental interplay, roaring vocals; it's all here in a track that goes big on bass without overly relying on it. Putting the heavy in heavy metal, For Whom The Bell Tolls is a Cliff ...

The metal titans released their third album and the last to feature their original bassist Cliff Burton, who died later that year. The eighteenth album from the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the ...

Cliff Burton followed the same template as Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, but as a speed-metal bassist, he found it absolutely necessary to play a whole lot more. His too-short time in Metallica ...

Acclaimed baritone Dashon Burton performs music and poetry in “Brick by Brick: Changing America by Song,” part of this year’s ...

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Jermaine Burton is facing another eviction proceeding, which comes less than two months after a landlord filed paperwork to evict Burton from his apartment at The ...