In a recent interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine, Hetfield explained that to start the business, he decided to team up with cigar maker Jonathan Drew and Dietrich to launch the product. The cigars ...

You can find a Drew Diplomat Retailer near you here, and if you happen to be at Cigar Aficionado 's Big Smoke Las Vegas on Nov. 11-12, the Blackened cigars will be handed out throughout the event.

James Hetfield lives an hour and a half away from me in Colorado and so I was up there, spent a lot of time smoking cigars on his back deck. He's got a beautiful place up in the mountains.

In a new interview with Cigar Aficionado, Metallica frontman and downpicking machine James Hetfield expressed his thoughts on the band being greater than the sum of their "average" parts.