Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band fromLos Angeles,California, formed in 1981.The band was founded when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time Lead guitarist is Kirk Hammett (who joined the band in 1983) and bassist Robert Trujillo (a member since 2003) alongside Hetfield and Ulrich. Notable previous members of the band include former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine (who later went on to found the band Megadeth ) and former bassists Ron Mc Govney , Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted . The band also had a long collaboration with producer, who produced all of the band’s albums from 1990 to 2003 and served as a temporary bassist between the departure of Newsted and the hiring of Trujillo. Metallica early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed the band as one of the founding “big four” of thrash metal along side Slayer , Megadeth , and Anthrax . The band earned a growing fan-base in the underground music community and critical acclaim, with its third album Master of Puppets (1986) described as one of the most influential and “heavy” thrash metal albums. Metallica achieved substantial commercial success with their eponymous fifth album (also known as The Black Album), which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. With this release the band expanded its musical direction resulting in an album that appealed to a more mainstream audience. In 2000, Metallica was among a number of artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band’s copyright-protected material for free without any band member’s consent. A settlement was reached, and Napster became a pay-to-use service. Despite reaching number one on the Billboard 200, the release of St. Anger alienated many fans with the exclusion of guitar solos and the “steel-sounding” snare drum . A film titled Some Kind of Monsters documented the recording process of St. Anger and the tensions within the band during that time. Metallica has released nine studio albums, three live albums, five extended plays, 24 music videos, and 45 singles. The band has won nine Grammy Awards , and has had five consecutive albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200making Metallica the first band to do so; this record was later matched by the Dave Matthews Band. The band’s 1991 album, Metallica, has sold over 15 million copies in the United States, and 22 million copies worldwide, which makes it the 25th-best-selling album in the country. In December 2009, it became the best-selling album of the Sound Scan era, surpassing 1997′s Come On Over by country artist Shania Twain . The band has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide as of the release of their latest album, Death Magnetic. As of December 2009, Metallica is the fourth best-selling music artist since the Sound Scan era began tracking sales on May 25, 1991, selling a total of 52,672,000 albums in theUnited States alone.

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1988)

Track List

Blackened
And Justice For All
Eye of The Beholder
One
The Shortest Straw
Harvester of Sorrow
The frayed Ends of Sanity
To Live Is to Die
Dyer Eve

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MASTER OF PUPPETS (1986)

Track List

Battery
Master of Puppets
The Things That Not Should Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Heroes
Leper Messiah
Orion
Damage, Inc

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RIDE THE LIGHTNING (1984)