Jason Newsted left Metallica by choice in 2001, it seems, for both personal and creative reasons. Here's what presumably led ...

They had gifted the world one of the greatest metal masterpieces of all time in Master of Puppets, but everything around them came tumbling down the minute that Cliff Burton passed away in a bus crash ...

James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica in October 1981 with Dave Mustaine on lead guitar and Cliff Burton on bass ... During the tour for that album, the band lost Burton to a tragic tour bus ...

Released on 3 March 1986 and produced by Flemming Rasmussen, Master Of Puppets was the band's last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident in Sweden during the album's ...

A passenger bus has skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country, killing 21 people and injuring at least 14 ...

After a passenger bus in Sri Lanka veered off of a cliff and fell into a ravine, 21 people died and 35 others were injured.

A tragic incident occurred in Sri Lanka. A passenger bus veered off a cliff in the tea-growing region. Twenty-one people lost their lives in the accident. At least fourteen others sustained injuries.