Before he had the chops, the songs or the bandmates to help catapult him to stardom, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich had an ... Purple in Copenhagen, 9-year-old Ulrich was spellbound.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to bassist Robert Trujillo and founding drummer Lars Ulrich of the band ... TRUJILLO: When we're 120 years old (laughter). ULRICH: When... TRUJILLO: When the limbs ...

The post Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Is Confident Covering Sabbath and ... When I was nine years old, I went and bought a Deep Purple album the next morning. And Black Sabbath came soon after.

But between tour dates, things can quickly return to human size, as drummer Lars Ulrich suggested in a recent call from his home in San Francisco. A few hours earlier, he found himself distracted ...