Metallica is a heavy metal American band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. The bands founding members were James Hetfield, who was the vocalist and guitarist, and Lars Ulrich as the drummer. Interesting enough, these two members met when Ulrich put out an advertisement saying he was just looking for someone to jam with and had no intention of becoming a band, let alone Metallica and collect all of the accolades. Their fast tempo was assisted by guitarist Kirk Hammet and Robert Trujilio on the bass as current members, with Rob Mcgovney, Dave Mustaine, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted. Metallica was one of the founding "big 4" bands of thrash metal and paved the way for other bands in that genre. Metallica won critically acclaimed in their first five albums, with their most notable album "Master Of Puppets" which was released in 1986. This album was very influential in the underground community but failed to reach and appeal to the mainstream music. However, their 5th album, "Metallica" was able to achieve that goal. Master of puppets was the bands first to be certified gold and was platinum six times. In 1986 Metallica's bus crashed, flipping over and killing Cliff Burton. Through discussion and grievance, they decided Burton would want them to carry on and they sought out a replacement.
An interesting part about Metallica is they went to court with napster with regards to their music and the rights of the music. Napster is a file sharing service that specializes in music sharing in an mp3 format. Metallica found out people had been able to download their music via napster for free, without ever seeing a penny in the process. Metallica won the case and incidentally influenced the way music has been bought, downloaded and shared since.
Master of Puppets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKhsTXoKCI
Enter Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384
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