Metallica Biography

Metallica's blend of brains and brawn gave the genre a much-needed charge. As their career wore on the band's lyrics took on war censorship and other political issues metal didn't typically address and the group sharpened their focus as songwriters with singles like the horror-movie stomper Enter Sandman becoming huge rock anthems. Metallica ended the decade as the biggest-selling rock act of the Nineties. Hetfield and Lars Ulrich came from different worlds to form Metallica in the L.A. suburbs in 1981. Hetfield whose father owned a trucking company and whose mother a light-opera singer was raised in a strict Christian Science home. Ulrich a recently transplanted Dane had intended to become a professional tennis player like his father Torben Ulrich. What the two teenagers shared was an interest in the gritty music of U.K. hard rockers Motorhead. Adding guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney the band started writing songs and recording demo tapes. Metallica's lineup solidified after Clifford Lee Burton replaced McGovney in 1982 and Bay Area guitarist Kirk Hammett replaced Mustaine the following year. Mustaine who was booted out for excessive substance abuse went on to form Megadeth.

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