Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members and primary songwriters Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, and bassist Robert Trujillo. Guitarist Dave Mustaine (who went on to form Megadeth after being fired from the band) and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton (who died in a bus accident in Sweden in 1986) and Jason Newsted are former members of the band.
Metallica earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and won critical acclaim with its first five albums. The band's third album, Master of Puppets (1986), was described as one of the heaviest and most influential thrash metal albums. Its eponymous fifth album, Metallica (1991), the band's first to root predominantly in heavy metal, appealed to a more mainstream audience, achieving substantial commercial success and selling over 16 million copies in the United States to date, making it the best-selling album of the SoundScan era. After experimenting with different genres and directions in subsequent releases, the band returned to its thrash metal roots with the release of its ninth album, Death Magnetic (2008), which drew similar praise to that of the band's earlier albums.
In 2000, Metallica led the case against the peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster, in which the band and several other artists filed lawsuits against the service for sharing their copyright-protected material without consent; after reaching a settlement, Napster became a pay-to-use service in 2003. Metallica was the subject of the acclaimed 2004 documentary film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which documented the troubled production of the band's eighth album, St. Anger (2003), and the internal struggles within the band at the time. In 2009, Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band wrote the screenplay for and starred in the 2013 IMAX concert film Metallica: Through the Never, in which the band performed live against a fictional thriller storyline.
Metallica has released ten studio albums, four live albums, a cover album, five extended plays, 37 singles and 39 music videos. The band has won nine Grammy Awards from 23 nominations, and its last six studio albums (beginning with Metallica) have consecutively debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 125 million albums worldwide as of 2018. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines such as Rolling Stone, which ranked them at no. 61 on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. As of 2017, Metallica is the third best-selling music artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, selling a total of 58 million albums in the United States.
Label: Blackened Recordings – BLCKND043-2D Format: 2 × CD, Album, DVD Country: United States Released: 2020 Genre: Rock, Classical, Metal Style: Symphonic Rock, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist CD1-1 The Ecstasy Of Gold CD1-2 The Call Of Ktulu CD1-3 For Whom The Bell Tolls CD1-4 The Day That Never Comes CD1-5 The Memory Remains CD1-6 Confusion CD1-7 Moth Into Flame CD1-8 The Outlaw Torn CD1-9 No Leaf Clover CD1-10 Halo On Fire CD2-1 Intro To Scythian Suite CD2-2 Scythian Suite, Opus 20 II: The Enemy God And The Dance Of The Dark Spirits CD2-3 Intro To The Iron Foundry CD2-4 The Iron Foundry, Opus 19 CD2-5 The Unforgiven III CD2-6 All Within My Hands CD2-7 (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth CD2-8 Wherever I May Roam CD2-9 One CD2-10 Master Of Puppets CD2-11 Nothing Else Matters CD2-12 Enter Sandman
Label: Blackened Recordings – BLCKND031-1 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, 180 Gram Country: United States Released: 2016 Genre: Rock, Metal Style: Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist A1 Hardwired A2 Atlas, Rise! A3 Now That We're Dead B1 Moth Into Flame B2 Am I Savage B3 Halo On Fire C1 Confusion C2 Dream No More C3 ManUNkind D1 Here Comes Revenge D2 Murder One D3 Spit Out The Bone
Label: Warner Bros. Records – 529084-2 Format: 2 × CD, Album Country: United Ststes Released: 2011 Genre: Metal Style: Alternative Rock, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist 1-1 Brandenburg Gate 1-2 The View 1-3 Pumping Blood 1-4 Mistress Dread 1-5 Iced Honey 1-6 Cheat On Me 2-7 Frustration 2-8 Little Dog 2-9 Dragon 2-10 Junior Dad
Label: Warner Bros. Records – 508732-2 Format: CD, Album Country: United States Released: 2008 Genre: Metal Style: Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal
Tracklist 1 That Was Just Your Life 2 The End Of The Line 3 Broken, Beat & Scarred 4 The Day That Never Comes 5 All Nightmare Long 6 Cyanide 7 The Unforgiven III 8 The Judas Kiss 9 Suicide & Redemption 10 My Apocalypse
Label:Blackened Recordings – none Format: 11 × File, AAC, Album, CD Country: United States Released: 2003 Genre: Metal Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist 1 Frantic 2 St. Anger 3 Some Kind Of Monster 4 Dirty Window 5 Invisible Kid 6 My World 7 Shoot Me Again 8 Sweet Amber 9 The Unnamed Feeling 10 Purify 11 All Within My Hands
Metallica With Michael Kamen Conducting The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – S&M (1999)
Label: Elektra – 62463-2 Format: 2 × CD, Album Country: United States Released: 1999 Genre: Metal Style: Heavy Metal, Symphonic Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist 1-1 The Ecstasy Of Gold 1-2 The Call Of Ktulu 1-3 Master Of Puppets 1-4 Of Wolf And Man 1-5 The Thing That Should Not Be 1-6 Fuel 1-7 The Memory Remains 1-8 No Leaf Clover 1-9 Hero Of The Day 1-10 Devil's Dance 1-11 Bleeding Me 2-1 Nothing Else Matters 2-2 Until It Sleeps 2-3 For Whom The Bell Tolls 2-4 - Human 2-5 Wherever I May Roam 2-6 Outlaw Torn 2-7 Sad But True 2-8 One 2-9 Enter Sandman 2-10 Battery
Label: Elektra – 62299-2 Format: CD, Album Country: United States Released: 1998 Genre: Metal Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist
New Recordings '98 1-1 Free Speech For The Dumb 1-2 It's Electric 1-3 Sabra Cadabra 1-4 Turn The Page 1-5 Die, Die My Darling 1-6 Loverman 1-7 Mercyful Fate 1-8 Astronomy 1-9 Whiskey In The Jar 1-10 Tuesday's Gone 1-11 The More I See
Garage Days Re-Revisited '87 2-1 Helpless 2-2 The Small Hours 2-3 The Wait 2-4 Crash Course In Brain Surgery 2-5 Last Caress / Green Hell
Garage Days Revisited '84 2-6 Am I Evil? 2-7 Blitzkrieg
B-Sides & One-Offs '88-'91 2-8 Breadfan 2-9 The Prince 2-10 Stone Cold Crazy 2-11 So What 2-12 Killing Time
Motorheadache '95 2-13 Overkill 2-14 Damage Case 2-15 Stone Dead Forever 2-16 Too Late Too Late
Label: Elektra – 62126-2 Format: CD, Album Country: United States Released: 1997 Genre: Metal Style: Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal
Tracklist 1 Fuel 2 The Memory Remains 3 Devil's Dance 4 The Unforgiven II 5 Better Than You 6 Slither 7 Carpe Diem Baby 8 Bad Seed 9 Where The Wild Things Are 10 Prince Charming 11 Low Man's Lyric 12 Attitude 13 Fixxxer
Label: Vertigo – 532 618-2 Format: CD, Album Country: United States Released: 1996 Genre: Metal Style: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Thrash Metal
Tracklist 1 Ain't My Bitch 2 2 X 4 3 The House Jack Built 4 Until It Sleeps 5 King Nothing 6 Hero Of The Day 7 Bleeding Me 8 Cure 9 Poor Twisted Me 10 Wasting My Hate 11 Mama Said 12 Thorn Within 13 Ronnie 14 The Outlaw Torn
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