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Los Angeles, California, United States (1981 – present)
Metallica is an American metal band formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, United States when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in The Recycler. Metallica’s line-up originally consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Dave Mustaine. Mustaine was later fired due to problems with alcoholism and drug addiction - he went on to form the band Megadeth. Exodus guitarist Kirk Hammett took his place. Metallica has been through several bassists, including Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton (who died in a bus crash while the band was on tour), and Jason Newsted.
The current bassist is Robert Trujillo, who joined in 2003.
Metallica’s early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed them as one of the “big four” of the thrash metal sub-genre alongside Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. The band earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and critical acclaim, with the 1986 release Master of Puppets described as one of the most influential and “heavy” metal albums. The band achieved substantial commercial success with Metallica (1991), 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 several artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band’s copyright-protected material for free without the band members’ consent. A settlement was reached, and Napster became a pay-to-use service.
Metallica’s early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed them as one of the “big four” of the thrash metal sub-genre alongside Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. The band earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and critical acclaim, with the 1986 release Master of Puppets described as one of the most influential and “heavy” metal albums. The band achieved substantial commercial success with Metallica (1991), 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 several artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band’s copyright-protected material for free without the band members’ consent. A settlement was reached, and Napster became a pay-to-use service.
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angelofdeth123 wrote:
Lulu is avant-garde, only simple people think it is not. [10] However, St. Anger was even more avant-garde.
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super-ratel wrote:
Nobody cares what they think.
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Bloody-Lunar wrote:
Lulu is avant-garde, only simple people think it is not.
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Monlight333 wrote:
Lulu is just a fail, only simple people think it is not.
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Bloody-Lunar wrote:
Lulu is avant-garde, only simple people think it is not. [8]
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Sentenzia22 wrote:
Tribute to Megaupload R.I.P: http://www.lastfm.es/group/We'll+miss+you%2C+Megaupload
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thgrtstMTLLCfn wrote:
I love Beyond Magnetic tracks
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wormvortex wrote:
the new unreleased songs from death magnetic aren't bad until james sings. It's a mixture of his actual voice now and the choice of words to go with the music it just sounds so forced like the vocals are not from the same song as the music
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schism66 wrote:
Lulu isn't avant-garde, only simple people think it is. x 7
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cocozinhodomato wrote:
slipknot é bem melhor ate o chris fehn admitiu
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Monlight333 wrote:
Возвращайтесь в Рашку, уебы
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnuyixJnNQ Hulk Hogan claims he was offered the chance to play bass for Metallica before they formed.
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JamesPhillips7 wrote:
i don't consider lulu cd to be music, it is that bad.... though there is no pretending of this band here, every oldfag (lol) says "past the black album they suck" typical bandwagon response, people didnt even listen to anything past the black album, its just "cool" to join in with the encore of fellow groupies
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super-ratel wrote:
show us your tits
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Bloody-Lunar wrote:
Lulu is avant-garde, only simple people think it is not. [7]
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MetalRock1989 wrote:
Lulu isn't avant-garde, only simple people think it is.. x 6
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super-ratel wrote:
WANNA COOK METH?
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HEY SUPER-RATEL, WHAT'S UP!?
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HELLO EVERYBODY
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Bloody-Lunar wrote:
Lulu is avant-garde, only simple people think it is not. [5]
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Metallica Festival 2012 (dawniej Sonisphere)
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News
The Big 4 to Sweden!
2 Mar 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/metallica
The final announcement in our recent series
of European adventures finds us in Gothenburg, Sweden on July
3, 2011.
Of course Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer will all be there for
our first
Big 4 show...
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The Big 4 to Sweden!
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