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Cliff 'Em All

Cliff 'Em All

Cunning Stunts

Cunning Stunts

A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica, Part 01 & 02

A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica-Part 1 A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica-Part 2 Sad But True The Unforgiven Wherever I May Roam Nothing Else Matters Enter Sandman AYear and a Half in the Life of Metallica Part 1 & 2

St. Anger

Some Kind Of Machine Invisible Kid Frantic Purity Shoot Me Again All Within My Hands St. Anger Sweet Amber The Unnamed Feeling Dirty Window My World

St. Anger

The Unnamed Feeling St. Anger My World Some Kind Of Monster Sweet Amber Purity Invisible Kid Dirty Window All Within My Hnads Frantic Shoot Me Again

St. Anger

St. Anger Invisible Kid Shoot Me Again Purity The Unnamed Feeling Sweet Amber Some Kind Of Monster My World Dirty Window All Within My Hands Frantic

Live Shit: Binge & Purge DVD

Through The Never Welcome Home Fade To Black Master Of Puppets Justice Medley Last Caress Seek & Destroy Battery Am I Evil? Sad But True Through The Never Wherever I May Roam For Whom The Bell Tolls Whiplash Seek & Destroy Whiplash Motorbreath Stone Cold Crazy Master Of Puppets Harvester Of Sorrow Of Wolf And Men The Unforgiven The Four Horsemen Motorbreath The Unforgiven One Harvester Of Sorrow Nothing Else Matters For Whom The Bell Tolls Justice Medley Enter Sandman Creeping Death Sad But True Last Caress Solos - Bass/Guitar Nothing Else Matters Solos - Bass/Guitar Battery Am I Evil? The Four Horsemen Fade To Black Wherever I May Roam Creeping Death One Stone Cold Crazy Enter Sandman Welcome Home Of Wolf And Man

Live Shit: Binge & Purge DVD - CD style case

Wherever I May Roam The Unforgiven Last Caress Am I Evil? Justice Medley For Whom The Bell Tolls Seek & Destroy Master Of Puppets Wherever I May Roam Harvester Of Sorrow The Four Horsemen For Whom The Bell Tolls Seek & Destroy Enter Sandman The Unforgiven Whiplash Through The Never Through The Never Solos - Bass/Guitar Battery Last Caress Solos - Bass/Guitar Fade To Black Harvester Of Sorrow Sad But True Creeping Death Sad But True Welcome Home Fade To Black One Nothing Else Matters Creeping Death Welcome Home Of Wolf And Men The Four Horsemen Nothing Else Matters Whiplash Justice Medley Battery Stone Cold Crazy Motorbreath Motorbreath Enter Sandman Of Wolf And Man One Stone Cold Crazy Master Of Puppets Am I Evil?

S&M

S & M

S&M

Bleeding Me The Thing That Should Not Be Human Hero Of The Day Battery No Leaf Clover Devil's Dance Master Of Puppets The Memory Remains Of Wolf And Man One Wherever I May Roam Until It Sleeps The Ecstasy Of Gold For Whom The Bell Tolls Enter Sandman The Call Of Ktulu Outlaw Torn Sad But True Fuel Nothing Else Matters

S&M

For Whom The Bell Tolls Wherever I May Roam Sad But True The Call Of Ktulu Nothing Else Matters Hero Of The Day Outlaw Torn The Thing That Should Not Be Human Enter Sandman The Memory Remains Fuel Of Wolf And Man Until It Sleeps Bleeding Me Battery Master Of Puppets No Leaf Clover One The Ecstasy Of Gold Devil's Dance

Cliff 'Em All

Cliff 'Em All

A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica, Part 01 & 02

AYear and a Half in the Life of Metallica Part 1 & 2 The Unforgiven Wherever I May Roam Sad But True A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica-Part 2 A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica-Part 1 Enter Sandman Nothing Else Matters

Cunning Stunts

Cunning Stunts

Garage, Inc.

Whiskey In The Jar Damage Case Overkill Crash Course In Brain Surgery Breadfan Tuesday's Gone The Small Hours So What Turn The Page Sabbra Cadabra Stone Dead Forever Astronomy Mercyful Faith Die, Die My Darling Too Late Too Late Am I Evil? Stone Cold Crazy The Prince Last Caress/Green Hell The Wait The More I See Killing Time Loverman Helpless Blitzkrieg Free Speech For The Dumb It's Electric

Garage, Inc.

Killing Time Loverman Stone Dead Forever Crash Course In Brain Surgery Too Late Too Late So What The Small Hours Astronomy The Prince Whiskey In The Jar Damage Case Mercyful Faith Sabbra Cadabra It's Electric Turn The Page Overkill Blitzkrieg Helpless The More I See Breadfan Am I Evil? Stone Cold Crazy Tuesday's Gone Last Caress/Green Hell The Wait Free Speech For The Dumb Die, Die My Darling

The Unforgiven II/The Thing That Should Not Be

The Thing That Should Not Be The Unforgiven II

Reload

Fixxxer Carpe Diem Baby Low Man's Lyric Slither The Unforgiven II Fuel Devil's Dance The Memory Remains Bad Seed Better Than You Prince Charming Attitude Where The Wild Things Are

The Memory Remains/For Whom The Bell Tolls

The Memory Remains For Whom The Bell Tolls

King Nothing/Ain't My Bitch

King Nothing Ain't My Bitch

Hero Of The Day (Live Medley)

Kill Ride Medley Hero Of The Day

Load

Thorn Within Mama Said 2 X 4 Wasting My Hate Ain't My Bitch The Outlaw Torn The House Jack Built King Nothing Poor Twisted Me Ronnie Bleeding Me Until It Sleeps Cure

Live Shit: Binge & Purge

Creeping Death Of Wolf And Man Motorbreath Seek & Destroy Through The Never For Whom The Bell Tolls One Wherever I May Roam Nothing Else Matters Last Caress Solos - Bass/Guitar The Four Horsemen Enter Sandman Stone Cold Crazy Master Of Puppets Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Whiplash Justice Medley Am I Evil? Sad But True Battery Harvester Of Sorrow Fade To Black The Unforgiven

One/Eye Of The Beholder

One Eye Of The Beholder

Metallica

Through The Never The God That Failed The Struggle Within My Friend Of Misery Of Wolf And Man The Unforgiven Sad But True Don't Tread On Me Wherever I May Roam Enter Sandman Nothing Else Matters Holier Than Thou

...And Justice For All

Blackened To Live Is To Live Dyers Eve ...And Justice For All The Shortest Straw Eye Of The Beholder One Harvester Of Sorrow The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

Master Of Puppets

Disposable Heroes The Thing That Should Not Be Master Of Puppets Leper Messiah Orion Damage, Inc. Battery Welcome Home

Ride The Lightning

Fade To Black Ride The Lightning For Whom The Bell Tolls Trapped Under Ice Creeping Death The Call Of Ktulu Escape Fight Fire With Fire

Kill 'Em All

Whiplash (Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth No Remorse Hit The Lights The Four Horsemen Phantom Lord Jump In The Fire Seek & Destroy Motorbreath Metal Militia

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Metallica Biography

When you're able to brandish the kind of musical firepower that Metallica has unleashed for more than two decades - 10 uncompromising albums, marking an unprecedented reign as the Greatest hard rock band in history - you learn a thing or two about where to aim. But curiously enough, the making of their first studio album since 1997's Re-Load, the primal, raptorial, St. Anger, found Metallica not behind the turrets this time, but in the firing line itself.

The trials and tribulations leading up to St. Anger are well documented. The fissures in what the band members themselves describe as the well-oiled "Metallica machine" were beginning to show; Bassist Jason Newsted's nebulous exit from the group. James Hetfield's voluntary sojourn into rehab and much-longed-for sobriety. Public squabbles over the illegal downloading quagmire. All of these issues revealed the kind of seismic fault-lines that even the Metallica jauggernaut could not navigate - could not negotiate away.

At stake? Nothing less than the very existence of the band itself. Metallica's three principals, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, along with their frequent producer/collaborator Bob Rock, found themselves at the kind of crossroads worthy of the themes in many a Metallica song. The kind of foreboding scenario Ulrich and Hetfield could write in their sleep.

The irony was, if this was Metallica's oft-predicted meltdown, each member would have to face it in his own way. And from the inside out this time, without the Metallica

heat-shield to fend off all the bullshit that tends to calcify when you're a member of the most exclusive rock club in the world for twenty-odd years. With James on an indefinite hiatus, the group admitted to becoming ‘professional speculators' themselves as to whether Metallica was headed for a rebirth, or withering away on life-support.

"It has been a very interesting three years," Lars Ulrich begins with atypical understatement. "A very different three years for us. Difficult. Awkward. It's been a ride that's taken us to places inside ourselves, inside the band, inside the potential of human beings and the music and everything else that we could not imagine existed. But if you asked me then, I would say for the first time in my life with Metallica, I was starting to prepare myself that maybe the ride was over."

If it sounds like the tenets of a Herculean struggle, who else but Metallica to apply for the job. The result of the ‘ride' Lars refers to can indeed be found in the sweat and blood and grooves of St. Anger. From the album's crushing title song and its burnished heaps of magnified guitar and drums, to the colossal time and tempo changes of "Frantic," to the chugging slabs and staccato exchanges of the exalting confessional "My World," Metallica has once again, in the boldest strokes imaginable, made music its most viable currency.

The three bandmembers, who gingerly refer to themselves as brothers - and mean it - emerged from the other side of their journey with their musical compass intact. St. Anger is an album that invariably will draw comparisons to their best work, to Metallica's halcyon days, most notably their classic 1983 opus Kill ‘Em All, and 1986's Master Of Puppets. Monumental in scope, the new album also recalls - by its sheer willfulness - the group's 15 million selling masterpiece known as the Black Album. But this is clearly a work that couldn't have been made twenty years ago. Not even a decade ago, though it fits the Metallica canon like a glove.

According to producer Rock (the Black album was his first collaboration with Metallica) St. Anger completes the circular creative cycle that only the greatest artists are able to sustain. "It's been my experience that only the big artists know how to achieve a goal in their career, like Metallica did with the Black album. Fewer still could have gone through what they experienced with all their personal journeys, throw away the rulebook and try and capture the soul and truth of Metallica again. I think the real vision was to almost take them back to where they were first getting together when three or four guys get together and say: ‘this is the kind of music we like, let's write some songs.'"

For James, whose own personal quest may have been the tipping point for Metallica's

inspirational sea change, the album was an important step in their evolution not just as bandmembers, but also as friends. "The early days of Metallica were about brotherhood, just survival mode, relying on each other and stuff. As the machine got bigger, you tend to forget about the friendship part and start worrying about where the machine is going. You get a little more protective, a little more isolated. Certain factors ignited the need to look inward again and just get to be friends. Now we're stronger than ever because we know what we're doing and we have experience on our side too."

Part of the familial equation the group had to deal with was the departure of Newsted and the search for a new bassist. Enter Rob Trujillo. A former member of Suicidal Tendencies and one of the masterminds behind the ‘90's cult band Infectious Grooves, the accomplished bassist has also played with none other than Ozzy Osbourne.

All three bandmembers immediately hit it off with the respected Trujillo, and the hole in Metallica's musical armor was filled. Trujillo came aboard too late to appear on St. Anger. The band members did not seem to be in any rush to hire a bass player. Bob Rock, in addition to being the co-producer and co-songwriter on St. Anger, was considered the 4th member of the band. Bob even filled in (quite masterfully) at a few live events with the guys. But, as Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett says, Trujillo's chemistry with the band is undeniable. "From the first rehearsal Rob was just mind blowing, because he had such a huge sound and he pulled with his fingers which is very reminiscent of Cliff Burton and we really liked that sound. He delivered on all fronts. He had a big sound and on top of that he's really a great, solid guy." Adds James: "He pounds. The power that comes through his fingers. He's a ball of energy and he's so calm and able and balanced. He's got great stuff to offer but his personality is just right. He's on fire, he's ready, he's plugged right into the strength of Metallica and helping it shine."

Another aspect of Metallica's rejuvenated approach on this album was for Hammett to join in on the lyric writing, territory previously exclusive to only James and Lars. "At first I was like I don't want anything to do with this, this is James' job. But Bob was very adamant. I looked at James and I said ‘Well, how do I do this?' James said ‘stream of consciousness.' I would scribble down some lines and James would single out the good ones. It was a great experience and I think it's all in line with the theme of the album, if there is an underlying theme, which is just being true to yourself and how important that is to the overall picture."

Which leads to what is sure to be another topic of discussion among Metallica-watchers when pouring over the epic arrangements and knife-edged nuances of St. Anger. For a band that is in the throes of introspection, and in a larger sense, collective healing, they sure have laid down some motherfucking aggressive music. For hardcore fans who patiently waded through their all-covers release, 1998‘s Garage Inc., a spry homage to the songs that shaped their early career, and the symphonic wanderlust of S&M, a stirring experiment that showcased Metallica with noted producer/writer/arranger Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Symphony, St. Anger is a thirst-quencher. But one that offers nothing but fire this time around.

Lars says there was no conscious effort to make this album louder or longer. "I think the great thing about Metallica is that we can pretty much chart where we want to chart. Playing other people's material (like on Garage Inc.) was something we talked about for years. It was the music the band was basically founded on. With the Symphony stuff we got a call from Michael Kamen who wanted to do it and the band was excited by the challenge - something Metallica has always embraced. "But now that we are back playing the stuff that people think is the purest, it is the most natural, it is the most effortless. The other thing I think we're challenging here is that most people have the perception that in order for things to be really, really, energetic that they can only come from negative energy. Metallica was fueled by negative energy for twenty years. Now we've spent a lot of times working on ourselves and on our relationships and we've turned that around. Now Metallica is fueled by positive energy that has manifested itself so it sounds like the album we've made."

 

 

Case in point: "Some Kind Of Monster," with its bristling, time-bomb refrain, and yet, underneath, a hint of affirmation: ‘this is the voice of silence no more.' You begin to understand the complex dynamics required for a world-renowned construct like Metallica to be even able to conceive of an intensely personal triumph like St. Anger. For James, the process obviously begins in a much quieter place than a recording studio. "It comes from us realizing the world doesn't revolve around Metallica. For me it began with ‘my name is James Hetfield.' St. Anger means to me that now that we've found our serenity we're capable of making this monster of an album going full-throttle all the time. Anger is an energy. It's a feeling. It's gotten a bad reputation but it's what you do with it after that gives it its reputation. I could squeeze out sideways with rage and stuff the shit down, yet it can be such a source of strength. Metallica has always been about invading places where we don't belong. We just took down the barbed-wire, that's all."

 

4/03

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