It all started with Natalie Fucci. She was one of the Sneider brothers' many babysitters, but she was by far the coolest, and she changed my life and my taste in music when she handed me a homemade mixtape featuring her favorite band -- Metallica. I was around 12 or 13 years old when I started listening to the metal band, and 20-plus years later, I still haven't stopped headbanging in my car, where I can really crank up the volume and rock out to "Blackened." So imagine my delight when a digital copy of Metallica's new album …

Metallica is working with Jungle Cruise composer James Newton Howard on an orchestral version of "Nothing Else Matters" that will play a key part in next year's Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt movie, and the band's legendary drummer Lars Ulrich offered his first thoughts on the collaboration in an upcoming interview with Collider pegged to the recent release of S&M 2. The idea of Metallica working on a Disney movie is sure to raise some eyebrows among longtime fans of the band, but it makes a lot more sense when Ulrich explains how it all came to …