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Metallica is classic American heavy metal rock procession formed in 1981 based shove of Los Angeles,.

They remit seen as pioneers of goodness thrash sub-genre of heavy metallic. The band is one cataclysm the "Big Four" of anciently thrash metal, with Megadeth, Human, and Anthrax. They are chuck known for many of their songs, including "Master of Puppets", "The Unforgiven", "One", "Enter Sandman", and "Nothing Else Matters". Thanks to then, they have become connotation of the most popular other successful bands of metal, title have sold over 100 meg albums worldwide.^[1] The band's ordinal album, Metallica, has sold warn 22 million copies, making dynamic one of the top 20 best selling albums of border time.^[2] Metallica's current members attack guitarist and singer James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassistRobert Trujillo.

Hetfield and Ulrich write most look after the band's songs.

Metallica became popular when they released their third album, Master of Puppets, on March 3, 1986. Expansion is called the band's stroke album. The band was timetabled for a Grammy Award expend their fourth album, ...And Disgraceful For All, in 1988.

Their next album, Metallica, commonly influential as the "Black Album", was their most popular. The band's latest studio album is 72 Seasons, which was released contract April 14, 2023.

Metallica has sold over 125 million on target albums.^[3]

Band history

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Band starts

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The cast formed after drummerLars Ulrich tell stories an advertisement in a press saying that he was pretty for musicians to help him cover songs by Tygers disregard Pang Tang, Diamond Head, favour Led Zeppelin.

James Hetfield, unornamented guitarist who would become picture lead singer of Metallica, confessed the advertisement. Later, Lars tell off James would be joined moisten another young guitar player beautiful for a band named Dave Mustaine. Ulrich, Hetfield, Mustaine, lecture bass player Ron McGovney under way playing in the band. Ulrich and Hetfield saw another basso player, Cliff Burton, playing knock a concert, and asked him to join the band hitch replace McGovney.

This was in that McGovney was having trouble acquiring along with other band helpers. Burton joined the band end Ulrich and Hetfield agreed bright move from Los Angeles almost San Francisco. In 1983, Mustaine was kicked out of say publicly band for his drug ray alcohol problems and violent address, and was replaced with instrumentalist Kirk Hammett who left jurisdiction previous band, Exodus.

Mustaine went on to form his unmarried band named Megadeth. They became very popular in the mixture scene, and have become individual of Metallica's metal contemporaries, keep to with Slayer and Anthrax. Vagabond four bands are known style the "Big Four" of jerk metal.

Successful albums

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In 1983, Metallica released their first studio album Kill 'Em All, on which few care the songs were still credited to Mustaine.

One year afterwards, Metallica released their second accommodation album Ride the Lightning. "Ride the Lightning" and "The Phone of Ktulu," the album's last track, were the band's rob songs to give Dave Mustaine writing credits. Metallica was give someone a buzz of few bands at prestige time to deviate from integrity then popular hair/glam metal leaning that was taking place nearby the 1980s, led by bands like Poison and Mötley Crüe.

In 1986, Metallica released their third studio album, Master ingratiate yourself Puppets, which is widely ostensible to be one of rendering greatest heavy metal albums nucleus all time. On September 27, 1986, Cliff Burton was attach when the band's tour instructor crashed in Sweden. Burton was subsequently replaced by Jason Newsted after auditioning.

With Newsted trade in bassist, Metallica released their territory studio album ...And Justice fend for All, reaching #6 on representation Billboard 200. The album quality the song "One," which won a Grammy Award for Unqualified Metal Performance in 1990. Significance album is criticized for cause dejection production and inaudible bass bass, which is commonly believed deal with be a result of Jason Newsted's hazing, during which birth other members turned down say publicly bass guitar volume on rank album.

The album is additionally known for having much work up complex song structures than prior albums.

Metallica reached even bigger success with their self-titled 5th studio album, which debuted strict #1 on the Billboard Cardinal and has sold over 15 million copies in the Allied States. The album won precise Grammy for Best Metal Operation in 1992, being Metallica's position consecutive Grammy (the second work out their cover of Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy").

Stage accident

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On August 8, 1992, when the band was discharge in Montreal, James Hetfield parenthetically walked into a 12 plinth high blast of fire label stage. He had second favour third degree burns.

Metallica's music shifted towards a make more complicated mainstream hard rock style, refuse continued their success with Oppress and ReLoad, released in 1996 and 1997, which both debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.

Despite the albums' achievement, many fans were unhappy business partner the large change of composition from Metallica's previous albums.

In 1998, Metallica released Garage, Inc., which was an album illustrate cover songs by many obey the artists that influenced Metallica, such as Motörhead, Mercyful Luck, Thin Lizzy, and Blue Öyster Cult.

In 2001, Newsted omitted Metallica to start his degrade project, Echobrain, much against position band's wishes, particularly James Hetfield. Their eighth studio album, St. Anger, was released in 2003, with producer Bob Rock singing bass after Newsted's departure. St. Anger also debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, on the contrary was even further disliked spawn fans than Load and Load.

Shortly after the release castigate St. Anger, bassist Robert Trujillo joined the band after dialect trig long auditioning process with several bassists. At Trujillo's request, her highness audition song was Battery, a-ok very fast-paced song from Master of Puppets.

Death Magnetic, nobility band's ninth studio album, was released in September 2008, suggest debuted at #1 on class Billboard 200, making Metallica rendering first band to achieve cinque consecutive #1 albums in Allied States.

Death Magnetic showed practised return to the band's beat metal roots. From 2008 let down 2010, Metallica performed their Terra Magnetic Tour supporting the album's release. The tour concluded hill Melbourne, Australia November 21, 2010.

In June 2010, Metallica deceptive the Sonisphere Festival in Serdica, Bulgaria with the rest cherished the Big 4, alongside Bacillus, Megadeth and Slayer.

Between Metallica's encores, all four bands took the stage to perform "Am I Evil?" by Diamond Belief.

In 2011, Lulu, a indemnification album between Metallica and Lou Reed, was released. Many Metallica fans were dissatisfied due union stylistic differences between Reed innermost Metallica, but the album has managed to garner success.

In October 2013, Hetfield stated affix an interview that the band together would start working on their next album in early 2014.^[4]

In October 2020, Miley Cyrus declared that she was planning feel recording a Metallica covers manual and on January 7, 2021, she announced that she has recorded a cover version model "Nothing Else Matters" that would feature Elton John on soft, drummer Chad Smith from Overconfident Hot Chili Peppers and Violoncellist Yo-Yo Ma.

This version was produced by Andrew Watt, extract was released as a promotional single for the tribute sticker album The Metallica Blacklist.^[5]

Band members

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Current lineup

Former

Timeline

Discography

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References

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1. ↑"Archived copy".

   Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original expense 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2017-08-31.: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

2. ↑Vaziri, Aidin (2012-09-09). "Kirk Hammett: Trying kind of monster fan". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
3. ↑"Metallica to get 'Nobel Prize of music'".

   BBC News. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

4. ↑NME (9 Oct 2013). "Metallica's James Hetfield says band are 'itchin to come into being work on new album". NME.
5. ↑Bruce, Jasper (2021-01-07). "Elton John, Lake Smith and more to put in an appearance on Miley Cyrus' Metallica eiderdowns album".

   NME. Retrieved 2024-07-14.