The band was formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield. Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 125 million records worldwide as of 2018. 61 on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines such as Rolling Stone, which ranked them at no. The band has won nine Grammy Awards from 23 nominations, and its last six studio albums have consecutively debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
Often dubbed the ‘biggest metal band of all time’, ’Metallica has released ten studio albums, four live albums, a cover album, five extended plays, 37 singles and 39 music videos. Guitarist Dave Mustaine (who formed Megadeth) and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the f ounding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer.
Their story is, in essence, the story of metal itself: a push-pull of simplicity and complexity that continually challenges our understanding of fast and loud.Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Anger), and orchestral live albums (1999’s S&M). (Burton was killed in a bus accident in late 1986 and replaced by Jason Newsted the band regrouped for 1988’s epochal … And Justice for All.) Even as they became a global phenomenon in the wake of 1991’s record-breaking self-titled album, Metallica remained defiantly on their own path, dabbling in Southern rock (1996’s Load), high-concept dirges (2011’s divisive Lou Reed collaboration Lulu), stripped-down hardcore (2003’s St. Having moved to the Bay Area in the early ’80s to court bassist Cliff Burton, the band-Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett, guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield, and Burton-went on to fashion metal into a kind of art form, eschewing the glammy appeal of hair metal for ultra-serious, progressively complex song-suites that explored subjects like suicide, political corruption, and the psychological horror of war. Formed in 1981 when a “dorky, disenfranchised” teenager in Orange County, California-Lars Ulrich, his words-placed a classified ad name-checking Iron Maiden and Diamond Head, the band debuted in 1983 with Kill ’Em All and pioneered the blinding synthesis of punk and British metal we now call thrash. Metallica didn’t just help invent heavy metal, they evolved with it.
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