Rolling Stone magazine recently asked a number of artists — including METALLICA's Lars Ulrich (drums) and Kirk Hammett (guitar) — along with journalists and industry insiders to name their favorite 25 albums and songs of the past decade, in order of importance. Ulrich's and Hammett's selections follow below.

Lars Ulrich - Best Albums Of The Decade (in order of importance):

01. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"

02. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Toxicity"

03. THE SWORD - "Age Of Winters"

04. KINGS OF LEON - "Aha Shake Heartbreak"

05. THE WHITE STRIPES - "Elephant"

06. GREEN DAY - "American Idiot"

07. SLIPKNOT - "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses"

08. EMINEM - "The Eminem Show"

09. WOLFMOTHER - "Wolfmother"

10. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "Renegades"

11. U2 - "No Line On The Horizon"

12. KASABIAN - "Kasabian"

13. THE MARS VOLTA - "De-Loused in the Comatorium"

14. OASIS - "Don't Believe The Truth"

15. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Rated R"

16. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Mezmerize"

17. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Favorite Worst Nightmare"

18. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Black Gives Way To Blue"

19. THE BLACK KEYS - "Attack & Release"

20. AUDIOSLAVE - "Audioslave"

21. MASTODON - "Crack The Skye"

22. MOTÖRHEAD - "Inferno"

23. GUNS N' ROSES - "Chinese Democracy"

24. THE DATSUNS - "The Datsuns"

25. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS - "The Age Of The Understatement"

Lars Ulrich - Best Songs Of The Decade (in order of importance):

01. U2 - Moment Of Surrender"

02. EMINEM - "Cleaning Out My Closet"

03. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "From The Ritz To The Rubble"

04. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "How I Could Just Kill A Man"

05. THE SWORD - "Freya"

06. OASIS - Lyla"

07. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Fake Tales Of San Francisco"

08. GREEN DAY - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"

09. SLIPKNOT - "Duality"

10. OASIS - "Falling Down"

11. JOHNNY CASH - "Thirteen"

12. THE WHITE STRIPES - "Seven Nation Army"

13. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Toxicity"

14. ZWAN - "Number Of The Beast"

15. WOLFMOTHER - "White Unicorn"

16. KINGS OF LEON - "Sex On Fire"

17. U2 - "Vertigo"

18. PINK - "Get The Party Started"

19. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Check My Brain"

20. STAIND - "It's Been A While"

21. SEAN PAUL - "Get Busy"

22. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "B.Y.O.B."

23. KID ROCK - "Picture"

24. LAMB OF GOD - "Redneck"

25. KASABIAN - "Club Foot"

Kirk Hammett - Best Albums Of The Decade (in order of importance):

01. RADIOHEAD - "Kid A"

02. THE MARS VOLTA - "De-Loused in the Comatorium"

03. SIGUR ROS - ()

04. MUSE - "Absolution"

05. LAMB OF GOD - "Ashes Of The Wake"

06. DAMIAN MARLEY - "Welcome To Jamrock"

07. MASTODON - "Crack The Skye"

08. OUTKAST - "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"

09. INTERPOL - "Turn On The Bright Lights"

10. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - "100 Days, 100 Nights"

11. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Mezmerize"

12. THE BLACK KEYS - "Magic Potion"

13. PJ HARVEY - "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea"

14. SINÉAD O'CONNOR - "Faith And Courage"

15. GOJIRA - "The Way Of All Flesh"

16. MACHINE HEAD - "The Blackening"

17. RY COODER & MANUEL GALBAN - "Mambo Sinuendo"

18. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Rated R"

19. TOOL - "Lateralus"

20. TOM WAITS - "Alice"

21. MY MORNING JACKET - "It Still Moves"

22. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Black Gives Way To Blue"

23. THE SWORD - "Age Of Winters"

24. PINK MARTINI - "Hey Eugene!"

25. ALL SHALL PERISH - "Awaken The Dreamers"

Kirk Hammett - Best Songs Of The Decade (in order of importance)::

01. RADIOHEAD - "Everything In Its Right Place"

02. DENGUE FEVER - "One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula"

03. MASTODON - "Oblivion"

04. AFROMAN - "Because I Got High"

05. KINGS OF LEON - "The Bucket"

06. LAMB OF GOD - "Set To Fail"

07. U2 - "Beautiful Day"

08. THE MARS VOLTA - "Intertiatic E.S.P."

09. MUSE - "Stockholm Syndrome"

10. DAMIAN MARLEY - "Welcome To Jamrock"

11. GOJIRA - "Vacuity"

12. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - "How Long Do I Have To Wait For You?"

13. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Tension Head"

14. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Check My Brain"

15. MY MORNING JACKET - "Mahgeetah"

16. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Violent Pornography"

17. THE SWORD - 'Freya"

18. OUTKAST - "Hey Ya!"

19. SIGUR ROS - "Svef-g-englar"

20. LAMB OF GOD - "Now You Have Something To Die For"

21. AT THE DRIVE-IN - "One Armed Scissor"

22. KORN - "Here To Stay"

23. KID ROCK - "American Bad Ass"

24. THE BLACK KEYS - "You're The One"

25. AMY WINEHOUSE - "Back To Black"