Band Members:
James Hetfield - lead vocals, rhythm guitars
Kirk Hammett - lead guitars
Robert Trujillo - bass
Lars Ulrich - drums

Former Members:
Dave Mustaine - guitars
Ron McGovney - bass
Cliff Burton - bass
Jason Newsted - bass

quote wikipedia

Metallica is an American heavy metal band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper, Metallica's original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney. These last two were later replaced from the band, in favor of Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton, respectively. In September 1986, Metallica's tour bus skidded out of control and flipped, which resulted in Burton being crushed under the bus and killed. Jason Newsted replaced him less than two months later. Newsted left the band in 2001 and was replaced by Robert Trujillo in 2003.

Metallica's early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed them as one of the "Big Four" of the thrash metal subgenre alongside Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. The band earned a growing fan base in the underground music community, and some critics say the 1986 release Master of Puppets is one of the most influential and "heavy" thrash metal albums. The band achieved substantial commercial success with its self-titled 1991 album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Some critics and fans believed the band changed its musical direction to appeal to the mainstream audience. With the release of Load in 1996, Metallica distanced itself from earlier releases in what has been described as "an almost alternative rock approach", and the band faced accusations of "selling out".

In 2000, Metallica was among several artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band's copyright-protected material for free without the band members' consent. A settlement was reached, and Napster became a pay-to-use service. Despite reaching number one on the Billboard 200, the release of St. Anger in 2003 disappointed some critics and fans with the exclusion of guitar solos, and the "steel-sounding" snare drum. A film titled Some Kind of Monster documented the recording process of St. Anger.

Metallica has released eight studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, twenty-two music videos, forty-two singles and has finished working on its upcoming ninth studio album, Death Magnetic. The band has become one of the most commercially successful and influential heavy metal acts. With 90 million records sold worldwide, including 57 million in the United States, the band has won seven Grammy Awards, and has had four albums peak at number one on the Billboard 200. The band's 1991 album, Metallica, has sold over 15 million copies, which makes it the 25th highest selling album in the United States.

Discography:

1983 - Kill 'Em All

1. Hit The Lights
2. The Four Horsemen
3. Motorbreath
4. Jump In The Fire
5. (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
6. Whiplash
7. Phantom Lord
8. No Remorse
9. Seek & Destroy
10. Metal Militia

1984 - Ride The Lightning

1. Fight Fire With Fire
2. Ride The Lightning
3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
4. Fade To Black
5. Trapped Under Ice
6. Escape
7. Creeping Death
8. The Call Of Ktulu

1986 - Master Of Puppets

1. Battery
2. Master Of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion
8. Damage, Inc.

1988 - ...And Justice For All

1. Blackened
2. ...And Justice For All
3. Eye Of The Beholder
4. One
5. The Shortest Straw
6. Harvester Of Sorrow
7. To Live Is To Die
8. Dyers Eve

1991 - Metallica

1. Enter Sandman
2. Sad But True
3. Holier Than Thou
4. The Unforgiven
5. Wherever I May Roam
6. Don't Tread On Me
7. Through The Never
8. Nothing Else Matters
9. Of Wolf And Man
10. The God That Failed
11. My Friend Of Misery
12. The Struggle Within

1993 - Live Shit: Binge & Purge

Disc One:
1. The Ecstasy Of Gold / Enter Sandman
2. Creeping Death
3. Harvester Of Sorrow
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Sad But True
6. Of Wolf And Man
7. The Unforgiven
8. Eye Of The Beholder / Blackened / The Frayed Ends Of Sanity / ...And Justice For All
9. Bass Solo / Guitar Solo

Disc Two:
1. Through The Never
2. For Whom The Bell Tolls
3. Fade To Black
4. Master Of Puppets
5. Seek & Destroy
6. Whiplash

Disc Three:
1. Nothing Else Matters
2. Whever I May Roam
3. Am I Evil?
4. Last Caress
5. One
6. So What? / Battery
7. The Four Horsemen
8. Motorbreath
9. Stone Cold Crazy

1996 - Load

1. Ain't My Bitch
2. 2x4
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

1997 - ReLoad

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

1998 - Garage, Inc.

Disc One:
1. Free Speech For The Dumb
2. It's Electric
3. Sabbra Cadabra
4. Turn The Page
5. Die, Die My Darling
6. Loverman
7. Mercyful Fate
8. Astronomy
9. Whiskey In The Jar
10. Tuesday's Gone
11. The More I See

Disc Two:
1. Helpless
2. The Small Hours
3. The Wait
4. Crash Course In Brain Surgery
5. Last Caress / Green Hell
6. Am I Evil?
7. Blitzkrieg
8. Breadfan
9. The Prince
10. Stone Cold Crazy
11. So What?
12. Killing Time
13. Overkill
14. Damage Case
15. Stone Dead Fever
16. Too Late Too Late

1999 - S&M

Disc One:
1. The Ecstasy Of Gold
2. The Call Of Ktulu
3. Master Of Puppets
4. Of Wolf And Man
5. The Thing That Should Not Be
6. Fuel
7. The Memory Remains
8. No Leaf Clover
9. Hero Of The Day
10. Devil's Dance
11. Bleeding Me

Disc Two:
1. Nothing Else Matters
2. Until It Sleeps
3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
4. Human
5. Wherever I May Roam
6. The Outlaw Torn
7. Sad But True
8. One
9. Enter Sandman
10. Battery

2003 - St. Anger

1. Frantic
2. St. Anger
3. Some Kind Of Monster
4. Dirty Window
5. Invisible Kid
6. My World
7. Shoot Me Again
8. Amber
9. The Unnamed Feeling
10. Purify
11. All Within My Hands

2008 - Death Magnetic

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

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Well, the other thread reached 37 pages, so I thought I'd make a new thread. Continue the discussion

This message was edited by Live Light on Sep 06 2008.

Haven't You forgotten Garage inc and S&M? Or do they not count?
Metallica rules

Oh yeah, I did forget those two. My mistake

Edit: fixed

This message was edited by Live Light on Sep 06 2008.

I just got master of puppets on cd in prep of death magnetic and it blew me away. My fav songs are Battery And Welcome Home (Sanitarium). The only other metallica cd I have is s&m but Im pumped for death magnetic.

Where's Live Shit: Binge & Purge? And maybe you should put in like a list of the former band members too.

'Tis done

quote Live Light

'Tis done

Coolio. Looks great. You make a fine opening Post for a and (judging from this and GNR) Live Light.

Frayed Ends Of Sanity is one of my favorite songs off of ...And Justice For All. I love the riffs and lyrics.



Lars isn't a total prick! Yay!

I've decided to relisten to every Metallica album, and have slightly rejigged my favourites order:

1) Ride The Lightning
2) Master Of Puppets
3) Death Magnetic
4) The Black Album
5) Kill 'Em All
6) ...And Justice For All
7) Reload
8) Load
9) St. Anger

I only counted their albums of original studio material, so that's why S&M and Garage Inc. aren't there. After listening to Master Of Puppets again I really did appreciate what an awesome album it is, and perhaps I was harsh in judging Death Magnetic to be better than it. However, I still stand by my opinion that Death Magnetic is easily good enough to break into the Big-Four Metallica albums, and that's why I put it third in my list.

I will also have to redo my list after hearing the masterpiece that is Death Magentic

1.Ride the Lightning
2.Kill 'Em All
3.Death Magnetic
4.Master of Puppets
5....and Justice for All
6.Black Album
7.Load
8.ReLoad
9.St Shitpile, I mean Anger.

I'll do mine after I buy Death Magnetic. But I've been listening to ...And Justice For All and Master Of Puppets and Black ALbum and Ride The Lightning alot lately. And I just don't know if it'll be better than any of those.

Btw, I thought you liked Black Album best Taker?

Haha, I change my mind every five mins as to which I prefer out of RTL, MOP and The Black Album.

I just bought Master Of Puppets and it should be coming in the mail within a few weeks. I'm so excited - I've heard every song off of it, but I listen to them only with youtube or something, so it'll be great having it in my collection. After this comes, I'll have RTL, MOP, TBA, and AJFA in my collection...and of course DM when it hits stores

quote Red Steel

Coolio. Looks great. You make a fine opening Post for a and (judging from this and GNR) Live Light.

Why, thank you

quote Xodus

Awesome thread header btw.

Haha, yeah, I love that episode