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Metallica (Music)
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Influences: Aerosmith, Angel Witch, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Budgie, Deep Purple, Diamond Head, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, Led Zeppelin, Mercyful Fate, The Misfits, Queen, The Ramones, Rush, Samhain, Joe Satriani, Saxon, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, UFO (Band), Venom, Y&TInfluenced: Adema, Alice in Chains, Angelcorpse, Apocalyptica, Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bring Me the Horizon, Cannibal Corpse, Dali Van Gogh, Deftones, Deicide, Dream Theater, Godsmack, Hatebreed, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Kittie, Lamb of God, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Miyavi, Mudvayne, Pantera, Primus, Puya, Revocation, Sabaton, Slipknot, Sum 41, Tenacious D, tool, The Unchained, Unlocking the Truth, The Warning, Akira YamaokaThe one, the only.Metallica is one of the pioneering bands of Thrash Metal, and is considered one of the "Big Four" of thrash, along with Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth (the last formed after guitarist Mustaine was kicked out of the band and replaced by Kirk Hammett, late of Exodus).The band was formed in the early 1980s when aspiring Danish tennis player/drummer Lars Ulrich placed an ad in a Los Angeles newspaper which, in one of those moments of synchronicity, was answered by singer/guitarist James Hetfield. The roster was then filled out by lead guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney (soon to be replaced by virtuoso Cliff Burton).In the heady days of the '80s, they forged their way from being the supporting act at tiny club gigs to opening for and headlining stadium tours, with next to no support from radio. Their third album, Master of Puppets (1986), created the band's first notable commercial success, and was and is hailed as a metal masterpiece. Unfortunately, on their subsequent tour, Burton was killed in a bus accident. Choosing to continue on in spite of their grief, the band auditioned and hired Jason Newsted, an intense young musician who became the perennial "New Guy" and the butt of 14 long years of hazing, with the bass being almost non-existent in the mix of their next album, ...And Justice For All (1988), being seen as the first major instance. It was also with this album that the band first started getting accusations of "selling out" after they put out a music video for the song "One", something fans claimed they had promised in the past they'd never do.In The '90s, the band moved away from thrash metal (according to Hammett, they realized that the general consensus was that songs were "too fucking long", though the rise of grunge and alternative rock probably also had something to do with it), first coming out with their massively successful self-titled album Metallica (aka "The Black Album") in 1991, then the rock-, country- and blues-tinged alt-rock pair Load and ReLoad, respectively released in 1996 and 1997.Metallica were then mostly quiet for a while, and when they finally set about making a new album, they had a full-on breakdown, with a fed-up Newsted leaving the group (from a combination of his continued hazing treatment, Hetfield's refusal to allow him to become a full songwriting partner, and a neck injury that needed rest), Hetfield going into rehab for alcoholism, and the entire future of the band in doubt. St. Anger, the album forged in the midst of all thisnote The band's producer Bob Rock filled the spot of bassist for the recording, was released in 2003. It's disdained by most fans, though for some it's an interesting experiment hamstrung by its intentionally unpolished production and overly introspective lyrics. Luckily for the band, new bassist Robert Trujillo both helped them mellow out and encouraged them to mix up their set-list on a nightly basis, pulling out songs they hadn't played for the better part of 20 years.The band's next album, Death Magnetic, came in 2008, and was the most in-character effort they'd had in years in the sense of it being a return to their thrash roots. However, it was a casualty of the Loudness War, and whether it's any good depends entirely on who you ask. In 2011, they collaborated with Lou Reed on Lulu, which opened to mixed-at-best reviews from critics and was panned by just about every fan that had an opinion on it, although it received the unwavering support of David Bowie, who loved it and cited it as an influence on his final album, ★.In December 2011, to tie into their 30th anniversary mega-reunion shows, they released Beyond Magnetic, an EP consisting of four songs left over from the studio sessions for Death Magnetic. On November 30, 2012, they left Warner (Bros.) Records (where they'd been since being signed to subsidiary Elektra Records in 1984), with the rights to all their studio albums, master recordings and videos, and formed a new independent label, Blackened Recordings. Its first release, a month later, was Quebec Magnetic, a live DVD culled from two performances in Quebec City in 2009.In late 2016, the band released their 10th album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, which marked another clear return to their '80s thrash/speed metal roots. The effectiveness of the stylistic throwback at this stage in their career became a topic of debate, but it was a commercial success regardless. The album became Metallica's sixth to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, making them the second band in music history to have that many consecutive #1 debuts after Dave Matthews Band. Their 11th album, 72 Seasons, was released on April 14, 2023; it debuted at #1 in 20 different countries, but not America, being kept from the top of the chart only by Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time.Metallica is perhaps best known for their somewhat turbulent relationship with their fans, in part the result of their long career and their experimentation with musical styles. The fanbase tends to divide thusly: "hardcore" metalheads that stay away from anything after Justice, or after Master if they're not into prog-metal (Hetfield even mentioned in interviews that the band lost some especially vocal fans after the acoustic guitar intro on "Fade to Black" from Lightning); fans who got into the band with the Black Album and like their anthemic '90s style better; those who uncritically love everything the band releases; and some who seem to exist solely to antagonise the band and other fans.Further division among the fandom — in particular those who play guitar, bass or whatever — divide their material based on the band's line-up at any given time. Bass players tend to favour the Cliff Burton years, although Newsted has his fans as well, as does Trujillo (though even fans of Trujillo's work with other bands — mostly Ozzy or Suicidal Tendencies — split over whether his funk-influenced tone and style suit Metallica's material). Guitarists may debate whether Hammett's solos or Hetfield's riff-based rhythmic style are the true core of the band's sound. Others love to argue Hammett vs. Mustaine — still.If you really want to get an earful, round up three Metallica fans (bonus points for a token hater) and ask them if and when Metallica sold out. It was after Cliff died. It was when they slowed down the music. It was trying to follow the alternative music trend in the '90s. It was the advent of the gimmicky stuff like Garage, Inc. and S & M. It was trying too hard to get their old sound back after ReLoad. It was everything after Kill 'Em All. They never "sold out" at all, but got older and less angry and wanted to experiment in other styles, and besides, altering your artistic expression just to appease any fanbase, even your original one (thrash), is the very definition of "selling out." In short, there are likely as many possible answers as there are people who have heard of Metallica.Lars Ulrich's crusade against Napster also left a bad taste in the mouths of many, who wondered if he hadn't just shot his own band in the foot. Ulrich has never outright apologised for some of the things he said during this time (though he did mention he regretted the way he expressed some of his beliefs at the time), although the band has been much more Internet-friendly since then, playing nice with iTunes, putting up old shows online for free, and allowing recent concert-goers to download a copy of the show they attended.They also cottoned on with atypical shrewdness to the popularity of Guitar Hero and the potential that their guitar-driven songs had in the format. After licensing a few of their more popular tunes for the series, they went the whole hog by releasing their most recent album as downloadable content, and followed it up by co-developing Guitar Hero: Metallica, an entire game allowing players to perform as the band themselves. (The Metallica tracks in any given Guitar Hero or Rock Band game are generally amongst the hardest, because... Well, it's Metallica.) | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World! | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World!: "Fade to Black" is about someone on the verge of committing suicide in despair. | |
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse | |
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“The Four Horsemen�, like most of the unsubtle lyrics in the first album, is about the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (the song even provides the page quote). It’s also a bit of Heavy Meta, likening themselves to said Horsemen, and it’s since become a nickname for the band. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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The aforementioned cover of "Last Caress / Green Hell". Within the first four lines, the narrator, mentions raping someone's mother and killing their baby. | |
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Gaia's Lament | |
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Gaia's Lament: "Blackened", which foretells the The End of the World as We Know It through environmental catastrophe. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom / Would Hurt a Child: The cover of "Last Caress / Green Hell". | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "Disposable Heroes", which is an anti-war song about a young soldier whose fate is controlled by his superiors. Lars describes ...And Justice for All as the "CNN Years," where he and James would watch CNN and write songs on anything they disliked. | |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll | |
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: "Hit the Lights". "Master of Puppets", but it offers a far less positive view of the lifestyle. It was partially inspired by a friend of theirs who was drug addicted and wound up dying of AIDS. | |
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Continuity Porn | |
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Continuity Porn: Their 30th anniversary shows. The only thing they DIDN'T have was Cliff's ghost. It featured Jason Newsted, Glenn Danzig, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Lou Reed, Bob Rock, Dave Mustaine, Ron McGovney, Lloyd Grant, and Hugh Tanner and John Bush (who weren't even in Metallica; Tanner played with James in his previous band, and Bush had been approached to be Metallica's singer, but turned down the gig in favor of making it - or not - with his band Armored Saint, who were all high school friends) among others. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Quite common, though with "The Unforgiven" and "The Unforgiven II" it reaches Stealth Pun levels ("I dub thee unforgiven" and "Or are you unforgiven too?"). An easy-to-miss one in "One" during the last repeat of the chorus | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: Metallica: Through the Never is a feature-length film by the band that follows the story of Trip (Dane DeHaan), a young Metallica roadie who embarks upon a surreal adventure while on an urgent mission for the band. The film also features concert footage from Metallica concerts held in August of 2012. The film is described as being inspired by the Led Zeppelin movie The Song Remains the Same. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: A few are told from the point of view of people such as soldiers slaughtering others ("Disposable Heroes", "No Remorse", "Seek and Destroy"), people who snap out and murder ("Harvester of Sorrow") and Satan ("Jump in the Fire"). "Master of Puppets" is from the point of view of drug addiction personified. | |
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Revenge Ballad | |
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Revenge Ballad: "Fight Fire with Fire". The cover of Diamond Head's "Am I Evil" "Here Comes Revenge", obviously, either sung from the viewpoint of a personification of vengeance itself or someone set on revenge for a death regardless of consequences to himself or others. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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The phrase “suffer unto� crops up in a few songs (notably “Harvester of Sorrow� and “My Apocalypse�), but is fundamentally meaningless. Even if it did mean something, it would likely be closer to “put up with� than “suffer from�, which kind of robs the lyrics of their impact. It’s probably best not to think about it too hard. | |
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Ride the Lightning | |
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Ride the Lightning | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: The Black Album, Load and ReLoad, St. Anger, S & M. Inverted with Death Magnetic, an "Old Sound Album". Hardwired...to Self-Destruct provides a strange example because, unexpectedly, it combines elements of the sounds of Load and ReLoad and of ...And Justice for All alongside use of melody that perhaps eclipses that found on any previous Metallica record. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Ride the Lightning", "Master of Puppets", "...And Justice for All", "St. Anger"... and "Hardwired", which does employ a full Album Title Drop on the chorus. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: "The Four Horsemen", about the characters of the same name, and "Creeping Death", about the final of the ten plagues of Egypt — once the band was watching The Ten Commandments (1956), Cliff reacted to the newborn slaughter with "Whoa, it's like creeping death!". | |
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Steel Ear Drums | |
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Steel Ear Drums: Averted by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. To some, that could explain why Lars insisted that there was nothing wrong with the sound quality of Death Magnetic. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: James LOVES to add extra syllables-ah to his vocals-ah, with the shining example coming in "All Nightmare Long": Another great example from the same album: | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: "The Memory Remains" has Marianne Faithful doing an ominous "ladadada-dada" chant with her Smoky Voice. (live, it's the audience who does so) | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: "King Nothing" is structurally identical to "Enter Sandman". The last line of the song is "Off to never never land..." | |
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The Drifter | |
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"Wherever I May Roam" seems to be another drifter song celebrating the art of travelling until we get to the last chorus: | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Ride the Lightning ends with "The Call of Ktulu" (8:55). Load ends with "The Outlaw Torn" (9:49). ReLoad ends with "Fixxxer" (8:15). St. Anger ends with "All Within My Hands" (8:48). Inverted on Death Magnetic, which ends with "My Apocalypse" (5:01), the shortest song of the album. Beyond Magnetic ends with "Rebel of Babylon", the EP's only track with a duration of more than 8 minutes. Downplayed in Hardwired... to Self Destruct, where the first disc ends with the longest overall track, "Halo on Fire" (8:16). 72 Seasons ends with "Inamorata" (11:10). | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: When introducing the song "Seek and Destroy" live (as seen in their 1989 Seattle show), James would sometimes say the title in a faux-fancy manner. The band's lyrics in general can be this; they are often quite intellectual, based on literary sources or thoughtful political protest, but contain Precision F Strikes and the like. | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: Metallica, consisting only of an extremely dark Metallica logo and a coiled snake (taken from the historical Gadsden Flag) on a black background. | |
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Vocal Evolution | |
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Vocal Evolution: Along with James having more melodic singing instead of just shrieking like in the early days, he certainly sounds different due to all the screaming (he even blew his voice recording "So What") and smoking. To put this in perspective — James' voice on Kill 'Em All was extremely high, and sounded basically nothing like James Hetfield, even when compared to Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Just five years later, he had already grown into a low-register baritone, which is basically the opposite to his high tenor vocals just years earlier. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: The line, "I'm you" from "Sad But True". | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: In the first few years, James was skinny, baby-faced and had quite a bit of acne, basically making him look like a really tall fifteen year-old. Kirk, basically his entire life. Since he's always got a soft speaking voice, a young-looking face and a small build, he basically looked 10 years younger than the rest of the band at any given time. Hell, he looks the same these days as he did 20 years ago, only with grey hair. Lars counts to an extent. He's basically looked the same age their entire career, with only his weight and hairstyle changing. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: Dave Mustaine in a nutshell as far as his time in Metallica was concerned. He was an exceedingly talented guitarist whose ability was acknowledged by everyone. Unfortunately, he was also a godawful mean drunk with drug issues that were serious even then and a sober personality that was apparently not that much better. Lars, though not really in regards to his drumming. Say what you will about the man personally, but it's in large part his connections, business savvy and the fact that he is the one arranging most of the songs from whatever riffs and lyrics James makes that made Metallica something more than just a garage band. | |
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Terror Hero | |
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Terror Hero: The eponymous "Creeping Death" which pressures the Pharaoh into letting God's people go, one plague at a time. | |
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Lyrical Tic | |
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Lyrical Tic: The verb "die" and the word "death". "Fire" and "kill" also appear often. About every other line on the Black Album starts with "You". For an interjection case, YEAH-YEEEEEAAAAAAH! | |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night | |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: "Enter Sandman": | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Done to each other by James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine; the most notable incident is when James literally kicked Dave's pitbull for attacking Ron McGovney's 1972 Pontiac LeMans, resulting in Mustaine splitting his lip open. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice for All each have thematic elements linking their songs together (death, those whose fates are controlled by others or who control others' fates, and the miscarriage of justice, respectively). Death Magnetic is a borderline case, with Hetfield saying the general idea of the title was inspired by the untimely deaths of several friends and colleagues. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: "Ain't My Bitch," St. Anger to some extent, and most of all, their cover of the Anti-Nowhere League's "So What?". | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: Metallica's first album was called Kill 'Em All and the cover art was a hammer in a pool of blood. Then they spotted a fan wearing a home-made shirt at one of their shows that said "Alcoholica" and had replaced the hammer with a bottle spilling booze, and titled it "Drink 'em All." They stole the idea and printed up their own shirts. | |
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Rock Me, Amadeus! | |
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Rock Me, Amadeus!: Cliff Burton was a massive fan of classical music, and would often incorporate classical pieces and techniques in his playing, especially his solos. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: Showed up sometimes during their thrash days; for example the verses of "...And Justice For All" are in 7/4. They're back to using it a lot on Hardwired...to Self-Destruct. | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
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Vocal Dissonance: Watch any early interviews with James. That deep, powerful-speaking voice should not come from a zitty, skinny blond-haired kid, especially one who sung like a spotty teenager. Eventually averted progressively over the time between Justice and Load, during which, in addition to lowering his singing to match his standard voice, James aged and bulked up, growing into the voice. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: The narrator of "ManUNkind" has a firm belief in this. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "ManUNkind", a combination of mankind and "man (is) unkind". | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: A few of Metallica's albums seem to follow a specific formula when it comes to track order: A relatively slow song is placed as track four, the second-to-last track is an instrumental track with no singing, and the final track is a high-speed thrasher. Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, and Death Magnetic all follow this formula (with the sole exception that the places of the instrumental and the high-speed thrasher are switched on Ride the Lightning). | |
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Guest-Star Party Member | |
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Jason sung most songs for three concerts in 2000 where James was recovering from a back injury. Help was also given by co-headliners Kid Rock, Serj Tankian and Jonathan Davis. | |
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Song Style Shift | |
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Song Style Shift: "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", "One" and "The Day That Never Comes". Furthermore, their instrumental songs in albums after Ride the Lightning tend to mellow out considerably two thirds in before becoming heavy again. | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield. | |
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Human Popsicle | |
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Human Popsicle: "Trapped Under Ice", which is sung from the perspective of someone in a cryogenics chamber. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Lars has a tendency to strip down during shows, especially hot ones, until he is down to his tighty-whitey briefs with sweat flying everywhere. James also occasionally removes clothing, but he stops with his shirt, and so the majority of Metallica's fans have never seen James Hetfield in his underwear (unlike Lars). | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: Lampshaded, years before people knew what lampshading was, by friend of the band and Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez on that group's MTV Unplugged performance (which was filmed shortly after Load was released, with Metallica in the audience) when he scribbled "Friends don't let friends get Friends haircuts..." on his bass. Made Hilarious in Hindsight during the 30th Anniversary shows, when Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell performed with Metallica, and he was the one with the "Friends haircut". | |
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Four Is Death | |
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Four Is Death: The earliest version of "Fight Fire with Fire" has a chorus consisting of James shouting the title four times. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Jason Newsted quit Metallica because he was constantly mistreated by his bandmates, with the biggest reason for his departure being James Hetfield refusing to allow Jason to form another band as a side project. According to Dave Mustaine's book, Ron McGovney was this to Lars and James. They would apparently throw his stuff out of the car and talk shit about him, since he wasn't one to fight back. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: The title for "Call of Ktulu". The H. P. Lovecraft character is actually spelt "Cthulhu"; the explanation given for the title change is that writing (or for that matter, saying) "Cthulhu" in the story will summon him, and the band members chose this title as a reference. | |
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Hidden Villain | |
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Hidden Villain: Cthulhu from "The Thing That Should Not Be": Also in "Dream No More", though in that he is awakening. | |
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Rousing Lullaby | |
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Rousing Lullaby: Enter Sandman is about falling asleep and having an apocalyptic nightmare. | |
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One Nation Under Copyright | |
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One Nation Under Copyright: "...And Justice for All" (song). | |
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Changing Chorus | |
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Changing Chorus: "Enter Sandman" changes up the chorus slightly towards the end of the song. The chorus is normally "Exit light, Enter night, Take my hand, We're off to Never Never Land." The final iteration is "Exit light, Enter night, Grain of sand, Exit light, Enter night, Take my hand, We're off to Never Never Land." | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: Fast, loud metal with lyrics mostly about death and destruction, as manly as it gets! | |
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What Would X Do? | |
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What Would Cliff Do?: Popular among fans. Expect Cliff to be cited both against ("Cliff is spinning in his grave" is common) and in favour of (Cliff wasn't just into metal) whatever they've just announced. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Sad But True": "Wherever I May Roam" seems to be another drifter song celebrating the art of travelling until we get to the last chorus: Also used in "Mama Said". And long pause is added for extra dramatic effect: | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The pre-Kill 'Em All demos. James is imitating Sean Harris, Dave is writing lyrics about sex, Ron is plunking along and Lars' drum kit sounds like a cutlery cupboard being opened and closed. The production quality is also often (no surprise) quite poor. Kill 'Em All counts both in the production quality grounds (the sound isn't as clear as anything from Ride the Lightning onwards), and the NWOBHM-style music, having the band's only Heavy Meta lyrics. | |
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The Big Guy | |
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The Big Guy: Ignoring the height part, Rob Trujillo is a massive dude, just look at any live show where he goes sleeveless. | |
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Machine Worship | |
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Machine Worship: "Spit Out the Bone", a discussion on human dependency on technology - and in James's words, how the next step is "getting rid of the human flesh part" due to "convenience leaning into dependency" | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: On the "Wherever We May Rome" tour and the tour for Load, Jason Newsted would sing "Seek and Destroy" and "Whiplash." On very rare occasions, the entire band does a Chinese fire drill for "Am I Evil?" with Lars on lead vocals. Jason sung most songs for three concerts in 2000 where James was recovering from a back injury. Help was also given by co-headliners Kid Rock, Serj Tankian and Jonathan Davis. | |
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Mid-Vid Skit | |
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Mid-Vid Skit: The video for "One" contains several clips from a film version of Johnny Got His Gun between the vocal sections. This is justified, since the song is based on the book. This is also what is known as Sampling, and has been used frequently in audio-visual art. Their cover of "Turn the Page," where the video pauses for the protagonist to give a short interview excerpt. | |
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul | |
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: "Spit Out the Bone", which is inspired by the current generation's ever-increasing reliance on technology. | |
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Fan Remake | |
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Fan Remake: A rare music example. There exists a fan remake of St. Anger on YouTube that attempts to correct many of the complaints people had with the official release. It has vastly improved production, partially streamlined songsnote some of the more notorious parts of the album, like the bridge in "Invisible Kid", were removed altogether, while some of the extended jams were shortened to give the songs more focus, and the notorious snare of the original is ditched in favor of more standard drum tuning/mixing. On the other hand, guitar solos are still absent, and a number of Narm-tastic lines like "Fran-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tok!" were kept in. Nevertheless, despite being essentially a cover album with no involvement from the band itself, a number of fans have agreed that it's probably better to just listen to this instead of the official album. | |
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"Sesame Street" Cred | |
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"Sesame Street" Cred: Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield guest-starred in Dave the Barbarian as a pair of dragons. James also played a werewolf guitarist side-antagonist Wolfgang in Skylanders Academy. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: "Leper Messiah" is an attack upon televangelism. | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Metal Scream: Metallica are gods at this, though aren't really big users of these. James basically has two kinds. The first one is the high-pitched traditional kind, which mostly disappeared as his voice matured, the second kind is a more mid-ranged yell, much easier to pull of for a guy with his voice. Jason Newsted is well beloved for his punk/thrash screams, as well as his bona-fide death growls. | |
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Nightmare Sequence | |
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Nightmare Sequence: "Enter Sandman". | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: The very thing that resulted in James getting severe burns on the left side of his body and (indirectly) allowing Guns N' Roses to cause a riot by refusing to play for more than half an hour. They later mocked this very trope during the Load tour, where the stage setup "collapsed" during "Enter Sandman" and a member of the crew ran across the stage while on fire. They then came back out and played encores using small lights hanging from the scaffolding and mobile amps wheeled onto the stage. This was recycled for the concert portions of Through the Never. | |
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Religion Rant Song | |
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Religion Rant Song: "The God That Failed" is a "Hate the Faithful" type of song. The song is about James Hetfield's mother, who was a believer in Christian Science. Once she got cancer, Hetfield's mother forwent medical treatment, instead just praying to God to heal her. However, she died from the aforesaid lack of medical treatment as the cancer spread quickly. Hetfield felt that had she not followed her Christian Science beliefs, she could have survived. | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: Some songs seem made to elicit this effect. Go to a Metallica concert and you'll be able to chant "Die! Die! Die" along with the whole audience during the song "Creeping Death." | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
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Zombie Apocalypse: "All Nightmare Long." | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: The band has had: John Zazula (executive producer) and Paul Curcio on Kill 'Em All. Flemming Rasmussen for Ride the Lightning (only engineered), Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice for All. Bob Rock on all albums from The Black Album to the Some Kind of Monster EP (even playing bass on St. Anger). Rick Rubin on Death Magnetic (whom Kerry King claims to have been stolen). The band has self-produced (or at least co-produced) nearly the entire discography with the exception of Kill Em' All and Death Magnetic. | |
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Find the Cure! | |
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Find the Cure!: "Cure" | |
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We Have Reserves | |
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We Have Reserves: "Disposable Heroes" | |
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Sequel Song | |
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Sequel Song: The "Unforgiven Trilogy" consists of "The Unforgiven" from their 1991 self-titled album, "The Unforgiven II" from 1997's ReLoad, and "The Unforgiven III" from 2008's Death Magnetic. The original and "II" share an introductory sound of a horn being played, while "III" has the horn interspersed throughout the song instead. Lyrically, all three songs revolve around the concept of unforgiveness. The Unforgiven is about the narrator being unable to forgive others who have wronged him, II is about the narrator now having done wrong to somebody else and that person being unable to forgive him, and III concerns the narrator being unable to forgive himself. "Lux Æterna" from 72 Seasons can be viewed as something of a successor to "Hit the Lights" from Kill 'Em All. The song's name means "Eternal Light" in Latin, and both songs are short, punk-y affairs with a very similar structure and tempo. Also from 72 Seasons is "Sleepwalk My Life Away" to "Enter Sandman" from the self-titled, which shares much of the latter song's rhythm, melodies and lyrical themes. | |
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Working Title | |
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Working Title: "Until It Sleeps" was "Fobd" as they found it similar to Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days". And Demo Magnetic reveals some amusing ones ("Hi Guy", "German Soup", "Gymbag"), which apart from "UN3" for "The Unforgiven III" are all unrelated to the end result. “Atlas, Rise!� was initially “N.W.O.B.H.M. A.T.M�, which is presumably “New Wave of British Heavy Metal at This Moment�, putting its roots on display. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: Many were shed over Cliff's death. Try watching either this or this without shedding a few of your own. | |
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Enter Eponymous | |
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Enter Eponymous: "Enter Sandman". | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: Lars: Sanguine. James: Choleric. Kirk: Melancholic. Robert: Phlegmatic. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: "The God That Failed" is about James's mother, Cynthia, who was a strict Christian Scientist. She refused treatment for cancer due to her beliefs (for which the song doubles as Rage Against the Heavens), and died when James was 16. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Fade to Black", "Ride the Lightning", "...And Justice for All", "Disposable Heroes", "Enter Sandman" and "The Unforgiven III". Additionally, while "Enter Sandman" doesn't have a line that goes "enter sandman", it does have the following: | |
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Lead Bassist | |
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Lead Bassist: Cliff Burton, considered one of the best of his instrument in metal — and among older/more fanatical fans, the guy in the only albums worth hearing. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
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Cosmic Horror Story: The band has four pieces, three lyrical and one instrumental, directly inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos, of which Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton are / were huge fans: "The Call of Ktulu" from Ride the Lightning, "The Thing That Should Not Be" from Master of Puppets, "All Nightmare Long," from Death Magnetic (inspired by The Hounds of Tindalos, though most people just remember the zombies from the video) and "Dream No More" from Hardwired... to Self Destruct. | |
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The Power of Rock | |
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The Power of Rock: "Metal Militia". | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: "For Whom the Bell Tolls": | |
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Iconic Item | |
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Iconic Item: Cliff Burton's legendary burgundy Rickenbacker 4001, later his "Black N' Gold" Aria Pro 2, and of course his Morley fuzz wah. James' Explorer/Snakebyte model guitars, particularly the "Eet Fuk" one. Also his various other signatures like The Grynch and his Iron Cross Les Pauls. Kirk's horror movie themed guitars, and more recently the 1959 Les Paul "Greeny" previously owned by Peter Green and Gary Moore. Rob's 5-string Warwick basses. Jason, despite not having any particularly iconic basses, is noted as being one of the first big players to almost exclusively use 5-string basses, especially outside of really technical Jazz Fusion guys. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: They frequently have songs over 5 minutes long, but some really fit the trope, such as "One" (7:26), "To Live Is to Die" (9:49), "The Outlaw Torn" (9:52), "...And Justice for All" (9:46), "Suicide & Redemption" (9:58), and the Mercyful Fate medley "Mercyful Fate" (11:11). Considering the 5-minute referential, Death Magnetic and ...And Justice For All (the album) are 100% made of this trope. Each has only one song below six minutes ("My Apocalypse" and "Dyers Eve" respectively), but they later wrote a new intro available for free download to "My Apocalypse", which makes it over six minutes. Not to mention every album since the self-titled one surpasses the 70 minute mark (Load clocks in at 78:59, which was the longest the manufacturing company could guarantee them without causing the CD to skip! And that's after shortening "The Outlaw Torn", whose uncut version lampshades with "Unencumbered by Manufacturing Restrictions Version"). They've written only 6 songs shorter than 4 minutes: "Motorbreath", "Holier Than Thou", "The Struggle Within", "Wasting My Hate" "Hardwired" and "Lux Æterna". The Lulu album has 3 songs over 10 minutes, with the longest being "Junior Dad", which is almost 20 minutes long! Hardwired...to Self-Destruct and St. Anger both make extensive use of this trope, as well. After the first track, not a single track on Hardwired is less than five minutes long, and all but three are longer than six, with "Halo on Fire", the longest, topping out at over eight. And of course, the album itself is seventy-seven and a half minutes long. The bonus disc isn't as consistent an employer of this trope, but the longest track, the Ronnie James Dio medley, is over nine minutes long, and several other songs top the six-minute mark. As for St. Anger, every song tops the five-minute long mark and six of them top seven ("All Within My Hands", the longest track, is nearly nine minutes long). | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth", "The Call of Ktulu", "Orion", "To Live Is to Die", "Suicide & Redemption". The first four feature Cliff Burton prominently, even though "To Live [...]" only has a poem written by him, spoken by James Hetfield. "Suicide & Redemption", on the Guitar Hero soundtrack, actually has two versions, with solos from Hammett and Hetfield respectively. Their albums in The '90s don’t feature instrumentals, although “My Friend of Misery� on the Black Album (with its prominent bass riff by Jason) was originally intended to be one. Load and Re-Load also feature album-closers with long jam sections (“The Outlaw Torn� and “Fixxxer�, respectively), which fulfill much the same purpose. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Dave Mustaine, quite literally. The rest of the band told him he was fired and gave him a bus ticket back home. | |
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Get It Over With | |
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Get It Over With: "Ride the Lightning": | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: “Confusion� is sung from the perspective of a former soldier (whom the video portrays as having served in the Middle East during The War on Terror) afflicted with PTSD. “Hero of the Day� also portrays a veteran, but from a distance of years and reflecting on their physical wounds as much as the mental ones. | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: ...And Justice for All (the album) is a Type 2. "Don't Tread on Me" from The Black Album is a Type 1. James said they wrote the latter in response to the anti-American vibe that the former had given and that, even though he feels there is a lot of bad stuff in America, he still considers himself lucky to live there. | |
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Song of Song Titles | |
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Hardwired has the song "Murder One", named after Lemmy's amplifier, and filled with references to Motörhead to honor the recently departed frontman. Also, "Spit Out the Bone" takes its title from GBH's "Passenger on the Menu". | |
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Murder Ballad | |
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Murder Ballad: Their cover of The Misfits' "Die, Die My Darling". Not exactly a ballad, but... | |
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"Rashomon"-Style | |
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"Rashomon"-Style: The exact details of how Dave Mustaine left the band tend to change depending on who's telling the story - the only things for certain is the way he got sent home, and his reaction to the aftermath. | |
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Mature Animal Story | |
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Mature Animal Story: The video for "Here Comes Revenge" is the dark tale of a Serial Killer who is haunted by his victims. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Most of the band members have struggled with alcoholism at some point, to the point where the band was nicknamed "Alcoholica" by some fans, In particular, Dave Mustaine, whose alcoholism and violent behavior when he was drunk were the big factors in his being fired from the band, and James, who had to undergo rehab for his issues with it. | |
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Freak Out | |
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Freak Out: "The Unnamed Feeling", given it's supposed to be anxiety. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: Kirk's reaction when a fan managed to get his high school yearbook (the one with this picture to be precise) and had him sign it. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: During a Seattle concert in 1989: | |
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White-Dwarf Starlet | |
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White-Dwarf Starlet: "The Memory Remains", about a fading starlet grasping at whatever's left of her former fame. "Moth Into Flame" also features one, with the overall message of "Celebrity Is Overrated". | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Whenever James is being overtly evil, he screams and hams up. "CANNOT KILL THE BATTA-RY!" | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Compared to most Metallica songs, "That Was Just Your Life" from Death Magnetic counts. | |
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Signature Style | |
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Signature Style: Graphic artist Pushead's work is so synonymous with Metallica's image that the band really doesn't need a Mascot like Megadeth's Vic Rattlehead or Iron Maiden's Eddie the Head. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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The "Unforgiven Trilogy" consists of "The Unforgiven" from their 1991 self-titled album, "The Unforgiven II" from 1997's ReLoad, and "The Unforgiven III" from 2008's Death Magnetic. The original and "II" share an introductory sound of a horn being played, while "III" has the horn interspersed throughout the song instead. Lyrically, all three songs revolve around the concept of unforgiveness. The Unforgiven is about the narrator being unable to forgive others who have wronged him, II is about the narrator now having done wrong to somebody else and that person being unable to forgive him, and III concerns the narrator being unable to forgive himself. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: The two founding members of Metallica, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, are known for having very different personalities. Lars is known for being loud, outgoing, and enthusiastic while James is stoic, taciturn, and introverted. Dave Mustaine and Kirk Hammett - Dave was notoriously abrasive, and his erratic, aggressive behavior got him kicked out. Kirk is soft spoken, fairly down-to-earth, and has remained in the band with no real conflict for 35+ years. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: "The Thing That Should Not Be" is inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft, specifically "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", in which the eponymous Thing is Dagon. | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)" starts with Cliff Burton saying "Bass solo, take one." | |
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Fire and Brimstone Hell | |
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Fire and Brimstone Hell: "Jump in the Fire" which is sung from the perspective of Satan. | |
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Wild Teen Party | |
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Wild Teen Party: One of the most raucous house parties ever recorded on film for "Whiskey in the Jar." | |
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Rap Rock | |
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Rap Rock: "We Did It Again", a collaboration with rapper Ja Rule and hip hop producer Swizz Beatz, released on the soundtrack to the movie Biker Boyz - essentially they let Swizz Beatz come into the studio and rework a few unfinished riffs into a rap-rock beat on protools, with additional contributions then made by Kirk and James. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: James had his moments in the early days. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: Roberto AgustÃn Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz. Fans prefer to call him "Rob", for obvious reasons. | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: In "Harvester of Sorrow": | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: “The Four Horsemen�, like most of the unsubtle lyrics in the first album, is about the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (the song even provides the page quote). It’s also a bit of Heavy Meta, likening themselves to said Horsemen, and it’s since become a nickname for the band. “Fight Fire With Fire�, written at the height of 1980s Cold War tensions, is about how nuclear warfare will inevitably lead to the complete destruction of both sides (and everyone else). "Blackened" foresees environmental catastrophe, as well as an indifferent populace who’d rather live it up than do anything to stop the unfolding disaster that will kill even them. | |
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Wild Hair | |
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Wild Hair: During the '80s and early '90s, everyone. Since the Load era, only Kirk. And Robert, once he joined (though he often has it braided into pigtails, either for convenience or as a Shout-Out to his Mexican/Amerindian roots). | |
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Nature Metal | |
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Nature Metal: "Blackened" is a prominent example of a pro-environment, anti-pollution song; it's about how humanity is destroying the world (and itself) by squandering and destroying the Earth and its resources. | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door: Dave Mustaine can't seem to remember whether or not James Hetfield is his enemy. Currently, they seem to be getting along quite well, if the Big Four shows at the Sonisphere Festival are any indication. For whatever reason, though, Dave still dumps on Ron McGovney, the original bassist. The other members neglect him in favor of Cliff sometimes, too (it's honestly hard not to), but Dave went as far as referring to the Ron-era band as a three-piece with him happening to be around them and in their band, but not really important at all. Ron disputes this, saying that he learned to play bass in a short time, and without his house and sometime managerial skills, the group would never have gotten off the ground. | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune: "Enter Sandman" which quotes the "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" nursery rhyme verbatim. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
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Contemplate Our Navels: Started with "Dyers Eve" from ...And Justice for All. Increased on the Black Album and the Load and ReLoad years, reaching its peak on St. Anger and Some Kind of Monster. | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire- uh!" "Chasing Light" on 72 Seasons starts with "There’s no light!" | |
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Homesickness Hymn | |
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Homesickness Hymn: Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" is one of rock's most vivid examples of road fatigue, as it's told from the perspective of a world-weary, burned-out musician who's grown sick of being on the road and just wants to get home and be away from that life for awhile. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: James before and during the Kill 'Em All era. He hit some truly insane high notes as well, though - given his lack of training these were more like very convenient voicecracks rather than impressive displays. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: "The Unforgiven III" seems to be more like this than strictly the latest part of the "Unforgiven" trilogy (at least "II" still borrowed some elements from the original; "III" is a completely different composition). 17 years apart, "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets" appeared in both "Damage Inc." (1986) and St. Anger's title track (2003). Lux Æterna contains the line "full speed or nothing", referencing Motorbreath from Kill 'em All, and the song is on the whole very structurally similar to Hit the Lights from the same album. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Hetfield sometimes sings with great emphasis on syllables at times. A good recorded example is "Through the Never." (that album marks the point where this became prevalent in their music, apparently enforced: Bob Rock asked James to get less wordy and said the emphasis helped shorter lyrics fit the timing) | |
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Digital Piracy Is Evil | |
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Digital Piracy Is Evil: The Napster controversy. To the band's credit, they've been much better about embracing the Internet and new technology since then, but some downloaders are still bitter. Lars has joked that his obituary will have "Napster" in its first paragraph. Notably averted when they posted an ENTIRE ALBUM on the internet 12 days before it was fully released worldwide. They also allowed fans to stream Death Magnetic from their official web site prior to the album's release. When Hardwired...to Self-Destruct leaked early, the band responded by putting videos for every song on the album up on YouTube. | |
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Gratuitous Latin | |
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"Lux Æterna" from 72 Seasons can be viewed as something of a successor to "Hit the Lights" from Kill 'Em All. The song's name means "Eternal Light" in Latin, and both songs are short, punk-y affairs with a very similar structure and tempo. | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: Death Magnetic is particularly infamous for this. And yet the Guitar Hero song pack has the unaltered master tracks that avoid this, no seriously. The general rule for Death Magnetic is to buy the album, throw it out, and burn this version instead. Beyond Magnetic, being songs left over from the sessions for DM, has a rough mix that's very loud, but is more dynamic and less clipped than the original master of DM (though still quite clipped in comparison to most other albums, even in modern times). The remaster of DM is substantially more dynamic and substantially less clipped than Beyond, though. Death Magnetic was remastered in 2015/2016 (originally released as the Mastered for iTunes version, then the 24-bit masters for those were released on Metallica's site), and it's a substantial improvement. The new score is DR7, which isn't great, but is a hell of a lot better than the original's DR3, and more importantly, it avoids the original's clipping issues (it's still slightly clipped, but compared to most modern records it's not even noticeable). This is probably how the album was intended to sound in the first place. Hardwired...to Self-Destruct comes out to DR6, which isn't great, but is certainly a hell of a lot better than Death Magnetic. Radiohead and David Bowie's 2016 albums were louder than Metallica's, for whatever that's worth. | |
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General Ripper | |
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General Ripper: “Disposable Heroes� is sung from the perspective of one. He urges his troops to die by the thousands and calls them cowards when they try to fall back. | |
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Pro Bono Barter | |
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Pro Bono Barter: Basically how James and Lars got Cliff to quit Trauma (his old band) and come to them. He was unwilling to move to L.A. and made their relocating to San Francisco his only condition for joining. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: "One" is about a soldier who's been reduced to an insensate hunk of still-conscious meat after stepping on a land mine, ironically unable to scream. "Trapped Under Ice" which is about a person who is cryogenically frozen but still conscious. | |
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Medley | |
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Medley: Giving a recorded example, we have the appropriately named "Mercyful Fate" on Garage Inc. which mashes up five songs from King Diamond's old band. The album also has (from the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP) "Last Caress \ Green Hell", two unrelated Misfits songs. During the Load tour, a mash-up of older songs called "Kill / Ride Medley" was frequently used. Similarly, a medley of Justice songs was performed during the Black Album tour; a version of this can be found on Live Shit: Binge & Purge. The band recorded another medley of songs for a Ronnie James Dio tribute album, which they entitled "Ronnie Rising Medley". It's also available on the deluxe edition of Hardwired...to Self-Destruct. Though it wasn't officially called a medley, when they covered Black Sabbath's "Sabbra Cadabra", they also spliced part of "A National Acrobat" into it. | |
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Heavy Meta | |
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Heavy Meta: "Hit the Lights", "Whiplash", and "Metal Militia" from Kill 'Em All, their cover of "Helpless" from Garage Days Re-Revisited, their cover of "It's Electric" from Garage Inc. | |
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Nuke 'em | |
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“Fight Fire With Fire�, written at the height of 1980s Cold War tensions, is about how nuclear warfare will inevitably lead to the complete destruction of both sides (and everyone else). | |
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Myth Arc | |
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Myth Arc: "The Unforgiven" trilogy, possibly. They're united in subject matter, even if they're not about the same guy. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: "Fixxxer", the last track on ReLoad. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: During live performances—usually while playing "Battery"—James will often ask the audience "Are you alive?!" followed by "How does it feel to be alive?!" To a lesser extent, "Metal up your ass!", which was supposed to be the title of Kill 'Em All. It has notably been used as one of James' phrases in the pinball game. | |
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Animated Music Video | |
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Animated Music Video: 72 Seasons has "Shadows Follow", "Crown of Barbed Wire", "Room of Mirrors" and "Inamorata". | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: "King Nothing" includes the lines, "Careful what you wish / You may regret it / Careful what you wish / You just might get it". | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: "One" details the life of a soldier, after he loses all his limbs, his sight, his speech, and his hearing due to a landmine. He has machines that breathe for him, and so he's unable to die. His mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body. Going by the original work Johnny Got His Gun, the military honchos that kept him alive decide not to kill him and just ignore his pleas for a dignified death, which only adds insult to injury. | |
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Distinct Double Album | |
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Distinct Double Album: The compilation of covers, Garage Inc. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Ur-Example: Kill 'Em All is generally believed to be the first full-length Thrash Metal album ever released. Thrash metal had previously been included on various compilation albums, but Kill 'Em All was the first studio album entirely devoted to thrash. Others argue that Welcome to Hell by Venom was the first thrash metal album, but Kill 'Em All was the first one to sell a lot of copies. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: During one of their early tours, James dissed Exodus fans as "freaks" just before the band played "Phantom Lord". Also an example of Biting-the-Hand Humor considering the other guitarist, Kirk Hammett, came to the band from Exodus. | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: The EP The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited, including songs from Diamond Head, Killing Joke and The Misfits (this was also Newsted's debut). Later, an entire double album of them, Garage Inc., with one disc being reissues of their older covers and the other being new covers, including Bob Seger's "Turn the Page", Thin Lizzy's version of "Whiskey in the Jar", and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone". They also have tribute albums of their songs covered by other artists; Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Tribute by other metal artists and one by punk artists, A Punk Tribute to Metallica. There's also a quadrilogy of cover albums from the Cleopatra Records label. If you've ever wondered what Metallica would sound like through a gothic rock / industrial lens, The Blackest Album 1, 2, 3 & 4 may be for you. | |
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Forgotten Fallen Friend | |
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Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted totally with Cliff, as James, Lars, and Kirk will still talk about him readily if prompted, and always lavish praise on his musical talents and uncompromising personal beliefs. Jason was a huge Metallica fan before joining the group and has admitted to breaking down in tears when he read of Cliff's death, and though the other three's failure to deal with their grieving laid the groundwork of his ultimately leaving the group, he has always spoken fondly of Cliff himself. | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated | |
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"Moth Into Flame" also features one, with the overall message of "Celebrity Is Overrated". | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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The band's lyrics in general can be this; they are often quite intellectual, based on literary sources or thoughtful political protest, but contain Precision F Strikes and the like. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: "The Unforgiven", "The Unforgiven II", and "Until It Sleeps". | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus! | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus!: "Jump in the Fire" is sung from the perspective of Satan. "Devil's Dance" is a less literal example of this, as the song is actually using Satan as a metaphor for rape. | |
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Binge Montage | |
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Binge Montage: The video for "Whiskey in the Jar." | |
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Isn't It Ironic? | |
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Isn't It Ironic?: Not a particularly bad offender, but the use of "Master of Puppets" in the film Old School is a little odd during the scene where Beanie, Mitch, and Frank are kidnapping the pledges, seeing as the song is about drug addiction. The use of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in Zombieland. Again, not a bad offender, but the song is about war between humans and other humans, not between humans and zombies. | |
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Speedy Techno Remake | |
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Speedy Techno Remake: "YOU LIVE IT YOU LIE IT", a happy hardcore remix of "Frantic", made by the electronic musician Renard under their "Captain Gotobed" alias. | |
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Video Full of Film Clips | |
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Video Full of Film Clips: Inverted with "One," as the band actually bought the rights to Johnny Got His Gun so they could use it in the video. Unfortunately, they failed to license the film to a different company for home video for a couple of decades afterwards. | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Thrash metal, denim, and long hair. | |
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Embedded Precursor | |
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Embedded Precursor: All of the tracks from their 1987 all-cover $5.98 EP, as well as the original "Garage Days Revisited" (released in Europe as a B-side to the "Creeping Death" single), were included on Garage, Inc. which is a full-length Cover Album. | |
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B-Side | |
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2011 - Beyond Magnetic (EP of B-sides from Death Magnetic)note See the Death Magnetic page for information and tropes pertaining to this EP. | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: "For Whom the Bell Tolls", obviously. (the sound is actually Lars hitting an anvil) | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Kirk, Jason, and Cliff deserve special mention. | |
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Witch Hunt | |
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Witch Hunt: Invoked in "The Shortest Straw". | |
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Bedlam House | |
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Bedlam House: "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A (very off-key) bit of Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" plays at the end of the "Last Caress / "Green Hell" medley. They replied in a more jokey manner. "Prince Charming" has a lyrical reference to the Voivod album Nothingface. Jason Newsted is known as a huge Voivod fan and even became an Ascended Fanboy when he later joined the band for awhile. The title "Leper Messiah" is possibly borrowed from a line in David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust". During the ending of "The Memory Remains", along with the "ladadada-dada", Marianne Faithfull also says a quote from The Misfits that certainly fits a forgotten star ("Say yes, or at least say hello"). On early pressings of Master of Puppets, they featured a parody of Content Warnings: Comedy buffs will note that this list contains six of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words. Which one was excluded? "Tits", the one Carlin said "doesn't even belong on the list". Hardwired has the song "Murder One", named after Lemmy's amplifier, and filled with references to Motörhead to honor the recently departed frontman. Also, "Spit Out the Bone" takes its title from GBH's "Passenger on the Menu". | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: Metallica literally started out as a garage band formed by a bunch of teenage kids. They would go on to become the most successful heavy metal band of all time, and even 30 years after the founding of the band they can still pack arenas and every new album is guaranteed to go multi-platinum, be it Master of Puppets or St. Anger. Averted in the case of Lars Ulrich, whose father Torben Ulrich already was an established artist when the band was formed, and additionally had a successful tennis career behind him. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage Breaking Point: James hit this, understandably, when an inattentive security guard jostled his burned arm back in 1992. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Along with making "Alcoholica" merchandise, the cover for the "Whiskey in the Jar" single◊ consists solely of Garage Inc. negative reviews. | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Kirk Hammett, yes, even during the short-hair era. His short, slight build and soft, high-pitched voice help sell the illusion. James in his younger days as well, though nowhere near the extent of Kirk. Though he lost basically all of it after losing the baby face and growing a beard. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Cliff. The guy wore bell bottom jeans in the 80's, moved around on stage like he was possessed, and actually convinced the band to move from Los Angeles, the Metal hotspot of the 80's to San Francisco. Craziest thing? He made it work. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: A large factor behind Metallica's massive success, as the band downplayed their aggressive Thrash Metal sound in favor of more poppy and accessible material, especially the power ballads "The Unforgiven" and "Nothing Else Matters". Load and ReLoad fall under this as well, incorporating more influences from Blues Rock, Alternative Rock, and even Country Music. Played with the lyrical content, though. Despite the softer sound, they feature the band's darkest and most serious material. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: "The Day That Never Comes" is from the intentionally interpretable perspective from someone being constantly beat down and spat on by an outside force, implied to be an organization keeping many people down, from "seeing the Sun." As the song progresses, its protagonist goes from wishing for better days to swearing a rampage against them. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: Lots. They covered "Remember Tomorrow" by Iron Maiden for the Maiden Heaven tribute album. They also did a cover of "Ecstasy of Gold", one of the songs Ennio Morricone did for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and usually open their concerts with the original piece. There's also a heavier version of "Stone Cold Crazy" by Queen, which they even played at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. It was one of the earliest metal songs, and numerous metal bands have played covers as a way of tribute. Their latest is a version of Nazareth's "Please Don't Judas Me" in Helping Hands... Generally speaking, if Metallica covers a song, it's going to be awesome. Even The Wizard of Oz music. And the reverse works too: You know you made it really big when one of your favourite bands covers one of your songs. | |
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Every Episode Ending | |
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Every Episode Ending: When you hear the first notes of "Seek & Destroy", start heading for the doors. (or if it's a shortened concert, "Enter Sandman") | |
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Lyrics/Video Mismatch | |
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Lyrics/Video Mismatch / Music Video Overshadowing: Both "Turn the Page" (the song is about a musician, the video about a stripper) and "All Nightmare Long" (instead of an Eldritch Abomination, soviet zombies). | |
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Heartbeat Soundtrack | |
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Heartbeat Soundtrack: "That Was Just Your Life" starts with a few seconds of heartbeats before the opening riff. | |
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep | |
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Famously quoted verbatim in "Enter Sandman". | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: The aforementioned cover of "Last Caress / Green Hell". Within the first four lines, the narrator, mentions raping someone's mother and killing their baby. Their cover of the Anti-Nowhere League's "So What?", which is based on an argument the band heard two idiots having in a bar. The song's narrators claim to have had sex with a goat, a sheep, a schoolgirl, J.S. Bach, and the Queen of England, as well as having taken every drug imaginable and going to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne. note Though that one might have some dirty undertones given said coastal cities are full of sailors. | |
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Driven to Madness | |
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Driven to Madness: From "The Thing That Should Not Be": | |
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To the Tune of... | |
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To the Tune of...: Metallica borrowed the intro of Bleak House's "Rainbow Warrior" for "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"; the bridge is based on "Tom Sawyer". The latter was acknowledged / lampshaded by thanking Rush in the Master of Puppets liner notes. They lifted large parts of "Children of the Damned" by Iron Maiden for "The Unforgiven II". The opening notes of "Don't Tread on Me" are from "America" from the musical West Side Story. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: "The Four Horsemen", "Fight Fire with Fire", and "Blackened". | |
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Mysterious Antarctica | |
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Mysterious Antarctica: They played there to become the first band to play on all seven continents (within the same year, too!). At least unlike Pink Floyd in Pompeii, there was an audience. | |
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Nobody Loves the Bassist | |
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Nobody Loves the Bassist: Jason Newsted, treated as the new guy for 14 years, though ironically beloved both by fans and other musicians. Dave Mustaine praised the guy in multiple interviews. Ron McGovney, (original bassist, 1981-83). In Dave Mustaine's autobiography, he was not fond of McGovney at all, and neither were Lars and James allegedly. According to various sources (VH1 documentaries, books, interviews, etc.) Dave hated Ron so much he actually poured beer into his bass to the point it was unplayable, tore up his house and got his dog to get on his car to ruin the paint job. Dave only denies ordering the dog to jump on the car, not that the dog did it. At least within the band, averted with Cliff (who the fans also like) and Robert. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: Most of their albums have a Title Track in which this happens, but Death Magnetic is their only album without a title track to have a proper Album Title Drop. It is name-checked in the closing track "My Apocalypse." "Hardwired" gives the album's full title in the chorus: "We're so fucked! Shit outta luck! Hardwired to self-destruct!" | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Played with the lyrical content, though. Despite the softer sound, they feature the band's darkest and most serious material. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You / Hormone-Addled Teenager: Mostly averted. However, "The Four Horsemen" was originally called "The Mechanix", filled with double entendres about sex in an auto mechanic shop. It was released in the original form on Megadeth's debut album, Killing is My Business... And Business is Good!. Additionally, "Jump in the Fire", a song sung from Satan's perspective, was originally about teenage sexual frustration; this version can be heard on the No Life 'Til Leather demo. Notably, this one also had its origins with Dave Mustaine. Meanwhile, the only publicly released Metallica song that is clearly about sex is "Devil's Dance," which uses the image of Satan tempting followers as a metaphor for somebody soliciting sex. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: From "Ride the Lightning", which denounces capital punishment: | |
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Two Decades Behind | |
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Two Decades Behind: While the rest of the band had teased hair, wore tight-fitting black jeans, metal studs, and other common fashions of 80's thrash and speed metal, Cliff had long flowing hair, wore bell bottom jeans, and a jean jacket. He looked like we was straight out of the 70's. | |
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Cue the Sun | |
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Cue the Sun: The ending to "The Unforgiven II": | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: After being fired from Metallica for his drug, alcohol, and violence problems, Dave Mustaine formed Megadeth. After a few side projects and some years of silence, Jason Newsted started his own band, simply called Newsted, in late 2012. | |
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Avant-Garde Metal | |
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Avant-Garde Metal: Their collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu combines Thrash Metal with Post-Rock, Progressive Metal, Spoken Word and Noise Rock. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: "Master of Puppets": | |
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In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves | |
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In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: The title Hardwired... to Self-Destruct shows many of the songs in that album are about this, starting with the Title Track. | |
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Long-Runner Line-up | |
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Long-Runner Line-up: As much as Jason was the new guy for 14 years, his tenure was the longest of the band without changing members, until Robert (in the band since 2003) equaled it in 2017. Cliff likely would have stayed longer were it not for his tragic death. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: Sometimes they are just strings of cool-sounding phrases. James admitted the lyrics' crypticness aims for "anonymous but powerful", making sure they resonate with listeners. ("I'll put two powerful words put together, and sometime I won't know what they mean, but I'll apply them to my life somehow.") The line "No Life Til Leather" (which was both the title of their 1982 demo and the first line in "Hit The Lights") has no real meaning. The band, like most metal acts of the early-80's, just liked using the word "leather" in their lyrics due to its rough/cool sound. The phrase “suffer unto� crops up in a few songs (notably “Harvester of Sorrow� and “My Apocalypse�), but is fundamentally meaningless. Even if it did mean something, it would likely be closer to “put up with� than “suffer from�, which kind of robs the lyrics of their impact. It’s probably best not to think about it too hard. | |
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent | |
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played straight with "Slither," subverted with "Don't Tread on Me," as the reptile's fearsome qualities are meant to be associated with strength and honour (the title comes from the motto of the Gadsden flag, used by the Navy in the American Revolution, while the snake itself also appears on the cover of the Black Album, where the song came from). | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy: James has been the tallest member of the band since Cliff's death in 1986 (6'1"). Lars (5'6") and Kirk (5'7") are short, and apart from Cliff (6'2"), Jason and Robert are both 5'9". Photos such as the one in our page image or the cover of Garage Days Revisited◊ try to disguise it. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: "Dyer's Eve" is an angry call-out to both parents of a sheltered religious household. | |
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Keet | |
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Keet: Those who knew Lars Ulrich when he was a teenager describe him as being a hyperactive young man who was extremely enthusiastic about heavy metal. Brian Slagel of Metal Blade Records recalls that whenever they would go to the specialty record stores in the early 1980's to buy imported NWOBHM albums, Lars would jump out of the car before it had even stopped moving because he was so anxious to get new metal albums to listen to. After Slagel had founded Metal Blade records, he planned on putting together a compilation album called Metal Massacre featuring local heavy metal bands. When Lars found out about this he got so excited that he begged Slagel to let him record a song for the album despite the fact that Lars wasn't even in a band at the time. This motivated Lars to call up James Hetfield and Lloyd Grant (after the two realised they were short two members, and could get James to play bass) to help him record a song for the album, and that's the story of how Lars' keet-ness resulted in the birth of Metallica. Cliff had shades of this. Aside from his stage antics, about half of the pictures with him seem to have him making some goofy face, was known to carry around a hammer to go nuts with, and was generally quite an odd guy. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: James' memetic "Something-AHHH" Verbal Tic became much more pronounced after the "Black Album". | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Hetfield does all the backing vocals himself on the albums. At concerts, Kirk, Jason, and now Rob do the backing vocals. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: After growing his mutton chops, James, then in his mid-twenties instead looked to be at least in his thirties, ironically after spending the earlier part of his career looking about fifteen. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Nothing Else Matters", "Mama Said", "Low Man's Lyric", "Little Dog", and "Junior Dad". "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", "One", "The Day That Never Comes", and "Hero of the Day" start out like this, but build up in intensity. | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: "Until It Sleeps", which is full of imagery taken from the surreal paintings of 16th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. | |
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Single Mom Stripper | |
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Single Mom Stripper: The video for "Turn the Page" features one of these, and it just gets darker and more depressing from there. | |
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Lead Drummer | |
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Lead Drummer: In a case that has more "Lead" than Cliff's above, Lars formed the band, and is the backbone of the whole thing along with James. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", "Harvester of Sorrow", and "The Frayed Ends of Sanity". | |
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Mistaken for Terrorist | |
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Mistaken for Terrorist: James Hetfield was once detained at London's Luton Airport for questioning. The airport officials released him without any explanations, but everyone believe it was because of the Taliban-like beard he had at the time. | |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation | |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation: All the subjects of the three "Unforgiven", who have been battered by life with extreme prejudice. | |
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Once per Episode | |
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Once per Episode: "Are you alive? How does it feel to be alive?", usually said by James before the solo to "Battery" or "Fight Fire with Fire". After the release of Hardwired… to Self�Destruct he began asking the questions, followed by his own answer "If you want to live forever, then first you must dieee.", before playing the very fitting "Now That We're Dead". | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: James, during the late 1990's. During the band's post-Black Album hiatus, Lars and Kirk had developed interests (art, drugs) that he wanted no part of (him taking up hunting also kept him physically away from both during off-hours). During the Load period, they had been the primary forces behind the band's "new image." In particular, James hated the cover art by Andres Serrano, saying in a Guitar World interview that "I'm not a big fan of the man and his perversions. There's art and then there's just sick motherfuckers, and he's one of those." Additionally, he felt that the focus on the band's image was overshadowing what he felt was some of their more innovative work (as he said in the same interview "'Bleeding Me' is, I think, some of my best lyrics of all time. And what are people talking about? Lars' fuzzy jacket.") He had more in common with Jason (both were into hot rods and classic guitars, among other things), but years of hazing had effectively scorched that bridge to a crisp. As a result, being isolated from the rest of the band, he developed the "Doctor No" personality that led to Jason's departure and almost led to the band's breakup. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Disposable Heroes," and "One." "Hero of the Day" is a more arguable example, depending on how you interpret it. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: The narrator of "One" asks for this. | |
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Something Something Leonard Bernstein | |
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Something Something Leonard Bernstein: A few songs are sung so fast that can end up like this, such as "Battery" or "Fuel". | |
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You Bastard! | |
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You Bastard!: "Sad But True": | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: "Now That We're Dead" is all about this, though the lyrics alternate between "we're going to die" and "we're dead". | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: "Of Wolf And Man". | |
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Harsh Vocals | |
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Harsh Vocals: Given Motörhead is one of their influences, it's not surprising that James likes to mimic Lemmy's vocal tics. Jason Newsted's backing vocals as well. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
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Textless Album Cover: St. Anger's cover is solely an artwork by Pushead mainly consisting of a clenched fist with no other information. (the back cover shows it's a fig necklace) | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: "Fuel" is about road rage and / or street racing: | |
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Last Note Hilarity | |
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Last Note Hilarity: After their cover of "Blitzkrieg" ends, there's an atonal guitar squeal, someone belching loudly, someone giggling, and Lars informing everyone that he "fucked up in one place." Their cover of "The Prince" ends with a childish voice asking "Mommy, where's Fluffy?" | |
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Death Row | |
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Death Row: "Ride the Lightning" is about execution by the electric chair. | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: The song "Through the Never" does not appear in the concert movie Through the Never or the soundtrack accompanying it. | |
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Survivor Guilt | |
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Survivor Guilt: It is thought that a great deal of James' angst in the post-Puppets albums stems from having survived the bus accident that took Cliff's life. In their Behind the Music special, Kirk revealed that earlier that evening, the band had gotten into a mild argument about the sleeping arrangements and had drawn cards to determine who would sleep where. Cliff drew the highest card and claimed Kirk's bunk, which, due to faulty mounting and poor reinforcement of the window, led to his being partially ejected from the bus and killed. | |
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Bawdy Song | |
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Bawdy Song/Auto Erotica: Notably averted when the band re-purposed Dave Mustaine's "The Mechanix", full of double entendres about sex in an auto repair shop, into "The Four Horsemen", an ode to the Apocalypse. The song is arguably better for it, but don't let any Megadeth fans hear you say that... or Mustaine, for that matter. They then played it completely straight in their word-for-word Cover Version of the most profane British punk songs ever recorded, "So What?!", even though the song is a parody about two drunken idiots attempting to outdo each other. | |
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