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Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images 43 Years Ago Today, This Young Band Played a Chicago Show That No One Knew Was the Beginning of 80s Thrash Metal Domination
On this day in 1983, Metallica played a gig at The Metro in Chicago, setting the stage for thrash to become the next big wave of heavy metal.
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Photo by Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns Born 63 Years Ago Today in the Mexican Beverly Hills, the Thrash Guitar Legend Who Changed Heavy Metal Forever
On this day, legendary Metallica frontman James Hetfield was born in 1963. The 63-year-old metalhead shows no signs of slowing down.
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Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images If You’re a Metallica Fan, You Need to Be Listening to These 4 Bands
If you love Metallica and love finding new music, and you want something that brings back that old thrash vibe, you’re in the right spot.
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(Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) 40 Years Ago, These Thrash Metal Stars Went Mainstream With Groundbreaking Single That Nods to David Bowie
“Master of Puppets” was highly praised in 1986, but a TV show feature almost 40 years later had it charting in the US for the first time.
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(Photo by Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns) Metallica Just Found a Clever Way to Cover This 1960s Murder Ballad Banned at a Welsh Stadium
Was the rule really broken if Metallica didn’t actually sing the lyrics to Tom Jones’ “Delilah”?
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Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns This Throwback Metallica Commercial Promoting Their Most Divisive Album Feels Like a Fever Dream Now
Back in 2003, while promoting their eighth studio album, ‘St. Anger’, Metallica teamed with AOL for a really bizarre collab commercial.
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(Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage) Are These 3 Albums From 1986 Still Just As Good 40 Years Later?
What do you think, do these albums hold up 40 years later?
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Photo by Dave Simpson/WireImage Metallica Guitarist Kirk Hammett Makes Some Harsh Comments About Pop Music After Wearing a Controversial Taylor Swift Shirt on Stage
During a Metallica concert, Kirk Hammett wore a t-shirt that said “Taylor Swift Is A CIA Psyop,” and then he called pop music “crap.”
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Photo by Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images Metallica Sets Major Tour Record With ‘Biggest Show Ever’ at This International Arena
While on tour in Germany, Metallica played a record-setting show at the Olympiastadion in Berlin to more than 94,000 fans.
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Photo by Per Ole Hagen/Redferns WATCH: Megadeth Shred Through Cover of ‘Ride the Lightning’ by Metallica for the First Time Live
Megadeth pulled up to Bogota, Colombia, and unleashed their cover of Metallica’s legendary thrash classic “Ride The Lightning.”
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Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns 25 Years Ago, Metallica’s Recording Sessions for ‘St. Anger’ Grew so Intense That the Band Hired a Group Therapist
Jason Newsted’s departure from Metallica in 2001 was allegedly the catalyst for St. Anger‘s messy emotional explosion.
