| Metallica By: MIKE JARVIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Metallica is the best | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hey I c u like metallica, I think metallica is the best and always will be the best. I think their better then ACDC, I know thats hard to belive but i think they r. Their best song i think is enter sand man its the best. Im trying to find the lyrics. The black alblum is the best. Im in love with metallica i think i love metallica more then my g/f their the best. well enought about what i think. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to earth. Instead of playing the usual rock star games of metal stars of the early '80s, the band looked and talked like they were from the street. Metallica expanded the limits of thrash, using speed and volume not for their own sake, but to enhance their intricately structured compositions. The release of 1983's Kill 'Em All marked the beginning of the legitimization of heavy metal's underground, bringing new complexity and depth to thrash metal. With each album, the band's playing and writing improved; James Hetfield developed a signature rhythm playing that matched his growl, while lead guitarist Kirk Hammett became one of the most copied guitarists in metal. Lars Ulrich's thunderous, yet complex, drumming clicked in perfectly with Cliff Burton's innovative bass playing. After releasing their masterpiece Master of Puppets in 1986, tragedy struck the band when their tour bus crashed while traveling in Sweden, killing Burton. When the band decided to continue, Jason Newsted was chosen to replace Burton; two years later, the band released the conceptually ambitious ...And Justice for All, which hit the Top Ten without any radio play and very little support from MTV. But Metallica completely crossed over into the mainstream with 1991's Metallica, which found the band trading in their long compositions for more concise song structures; it resulted in a Number One album that sold over seven million copies in the U.S. alone. The band launched a long, long tour which kept them on the road for nearly two years. By the '90s, Metallica had changed the rules for all heavy metal bands; they were the leaders of the genre, respected not only by headbangers, but by mainstream record buyers and critics. No other heavy metal band has ever been able to pull off such a trick. However, the group lost some members of their core audience with their long-awaited followup to Metallica, 1996's Load. For Load, the band decided to move towards alternative rock in terms of image -- they cut their hair and had their picture taken by Anton Corbijin. Although the album was hit upon its summer release -- entering the charts at number one and selling three million copies within two months -- certain members of their audience complained about the shift in image, as well as the group's decision to headline the sixth Lollapalooza. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine Thank you for visiting my page at Angelfire. Please come back and visit again! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Did you know that... | - MetallicA once played with a second guitarist, Damien Philips, for one live show only? - Lars started going to rock concerts by himself when he was only 9 years old? - "One" was the band's first promotional video and it utilizes scenes from the 1971 film Johnny Got His Gun, which was written and directed by Dalton Trumbo? - "Creeping Death" is about the tale of the plagues bestowed upon the Egyptians, inspired by the second half of the movie The Ten Commandments? - All the band members wear earplugs when they play live? - Spastic Children was a "joke band" created originally by James, Cliff, and Fred Cotton and James (Flunky) McDaniel? - James Hetfield's father passed away during the making of Load? -Lars said in 1990 that "the best thing that ever happened to James was when we played a show in some club, and he left his spandex on a radiator to dry," only to burn a hole in them so he could never wear them again? - The "Black Album" has sold over 25 million copies and Kirk's theory is that "people are just wearing out their CDs and buying it for all their friends or something? - Sammy Hagar (Van Halen) lives 10 minutes away from Lars? - Jason's first gig with MetallicA was opening for Metal Church at The Country Club in Reseda, California, in November 1986, and his second show was the very next evening at Jezebel's in Anaheim, California? - Ktulu is a tentacled, faced creature that lies dormant on the bottom of the ocean awaitng the call to awaken from his followers, created by author H.P. Lovecraft and actually spelled Cthulu? - Ride The Lightning spent 50 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 chart though it got no commercial airplay? -The two best drummers of all time for Lars are Ian Paice of Deep Purple for ability, and Phil Rudd of AC/DC for his groove and swing? - James' skull ring used to belong to Cliff? - MetallicA played two warm-up gigs for the "Monsters of Rock tour" in 1987 at the Troubadour in Los Angeles under the name "Frayed Ends"? - David Mustaine once said that for him, MetallicA's success "was like seeing your old girlfriend become a movie star"? - Kirk had a chance to see the Sex Pistols at Winterland in '78, but his mother wouldn't let him go? - In 1986 Cliff Burton and Lars had to go out in front of a crowd of 15,000 and tell them MetallicA would not be playing because James broke his wrist in a skateboarding accident? - James recently said "facial hair has taken a backseat to head hair"? - Cliff Burton's ashes were spread at various points around the San Francisco Bay area, including the Maxwell Ranch House area?
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