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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

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

St. Anger

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

St. Anger

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

St. Anger

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

Live Shit: Binge & Purge DVD

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

Live Shit: Binge & Purge DVD - CD style case

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

S&M

S & M

S&M

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

S&M

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

Cliff 'Em All

Cliff 'Em All

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

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

Cunning Stunts

Cunning Stunts

Garage, Inc.

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

Garage, Inc.

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

The Unforgiven II/The Thing That Should Not Be

The Thing That Should Not Be The Unforgiven II

Reload

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

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)

Hero Of The Day Kill Ride Medley

Load

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

Live Shit: Binge & Purge

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

One/Eye Of The Beholder

Eye Of The Beholder One

Metallica

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

...And Justice For All

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

Master Of Puppets

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

Ride The Lightning

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

Kill 'Em All

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

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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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