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Artist: Metallica
Genera: Rock/Heavy Metal
Latest Album: St. Anger

One of the most influential, engaging, vital, enduring and just plain rad bands of the past two decades, San Francisco's Metallica rule all that is metal. Their inexhaustible energy and masterful riffage have the uncanny ability to compel metal heads, indie geeks, hippies and punks to simultaneously pump their fists in the air. Combining genre-defining Speed Metal with spit-in-your-face punk attitude, Metallica provided perfect crossover material for millions of disaffected youth, garnering the band a legion of fans as loyal as they are diverse. The late 1990s found the group shifting toward a stripped down, blues-heavy style.

The change tested the resolve of some head banging fans, but tens of thousands of Metali-friends new and old still show up to every sold out show, knowing that they will leave completely satisfied.

The most consistently innovative metal band of the late 80s and 90s was formed in 1981 in California, USA, by Lars Ulrich (b. 26 December 1963, Copenhagen, Denmark; drums) and James Alan Hetfield (b. 3 August 1963, USA; guitar/vocals) after each separately advertised for fellow musicians in the classified section of American publication The Recycler. They recorded their first demo, No Life Til' Leather, with Lloyd Grand (guitar), who was replaced in January 1982 by David Mustaine (b. 13 September 1961, La Mesa, California, USA), whose relationship with Ulrich and Hetfield proved unsatisfactory. Jef Warner (guitar) and Ron McGovney (bass) each had a brief tenure with the band. At the end of 1982 Clifford Lee Burton (b. 10 February 1962, USA, d. 27 September 1986; bass, ex-Trauma) joined the band, playing his first live performance on 5 March 1983. Mustaine departed to form Megadeth and was replaced by Kirk Hammett (b. 18 November 1962, San Francisco, California, USA; guitar). Hammett, who came to the attention of Ulrich and Hetfield while playing with rock band Exodus, played his first concert with Metallica on 16 April 1983.

The Ulrich, Hetfield, Burton and Hammett combination endured until disaster struck the band in the small hours of 27 September 1986, when Metallica's tour bus overturned in Sweden, killing Cliff Burton. During those four years, the band put thrash metal on the map with the aggression and exuberance of their debut, Kill 'Em All, the album sleeve of which bore the legend "Bang that head that doesn't bang". This served as a template for a whole new breed of metal, though the originators themselves were quick to dispense with their own rule book. Touring with New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands Raven and Venom followed, while Music For Nations signed them for European distribution. Although Ride The Lightning was not without distinction, notably on "For Whom The Bell Tolls', it was 1986"s Master Of Puppets that offered further evidence of Metallica's appetite for the epic. Their first album for Elektra Records in the USA (who had also re-released its predecessor), this was a taut, multi-faceted collection that both raged and lamented with equal conviction.

After the death of Burton, the band elected to continue, the remaining three members recruiting Jason Newsted (b. 4 March 1963, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA; bass) of Flotsam And Jetsam. Newsted played his first concert with the band on 8 November 1986. The original partnership of Ulrich and Hetfield, however, remained responsible for Metallica's lyrics and musical direction. The new line-up's first recording together was The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited - a collection of cover versions including material from Budgie, Diamond Head, Killing Joke and the Misfits, which also served as a neat summation of the band's influences to date. Sessions for And Justice For All initially began with Guns N'Roses producer Mike Clink at the helm. A long and densely constructed effort, this 1988 opus included an appropriately singular spectacular moment in "One' (a US Top 40/UK Top 20 single), while elsewhere the barrage of riffs somewhat obscured the usual Metallica artistry. The songs on 1991"s US/UK chart-topper Metallica continued to deal with large themes - justice and retribution, insanity, war, religion and relationships. Compared to Kill 'Em All nearly a decade previously, however, the band had grown from iconoclastic chaos to thoughtful harmony, hallmarked by sudden and unexpected changes of mood and tempo. The MTV-friendly "Enter Sandman" broke the band on a stadium level and entered the US Top 20. The single also reached the UK Top 10, as did another album track, "Nothing Else Matters".

Constant touring in the wake of the album ensued, along with a regular itinerary of awards ceremonies. There could surely be no more deserving recipients, Metallica having dragged mainstream metal, not so much kicking and screaming as whining and complaining, into a bright new dawn when artistic redundancy seemed inevitable (the album was certified as having sold thirteen million copies in the USA alone by June 2001).

The follow-up Load entered the US charts at number 1. The album marked a change in image for the band, who began to court the alternative rock audience. The following year's Reload collected together more tracks recorded at the Load sessions, and featured 60s icon Marianne Faithfull on the first single to be released from the album, "The Memory Remains". Garage Inc. collected assorted cover versions, and broke the band's run of US number 1 albums when it debuted at number 2 in December 1998. The following year's S&M, recorded live with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, evoked the worst excesses of heavy rock icons Deep Purple. In January 2001, Newsted announced he was leaving after almost 15 years service with the band. He resurfaced with two unknown musicians in EchoBrain, before joining Canadian prog metal outfit Voivod. His replacement in Metallica was former Suicidal Tendencies' bass player Rob Trujillo.

One of the most influential, engaging, vital, enduring and just plain rad bands of the past two decades, San Francisco's Metallica rule all that is metal. Their inexhaustible energy and masterful riffage have the uncanny ability to compel metal heads, indie geeks, hippies and punks to simultaneously pump their fists in the air.

Metallica has been a force on tour since 1981. The drummer Lars Ulrich originally started the Metallica as a jam band, recruiting the original members, James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine through newspaper advertisements. The group took huge strides in popularity in the ‘90s that brought the thrash metal group out of the underground and into the forefront, making Metallica tickets one of the hardest finds ever since. The group has been through its share of tragedy and internal strife, but eventually the fearsome foursome of James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammet, and Robert Trujillo came out on top, ruling the world of rock and leaving everyone salivating for Metallica tickets.

Lars Ulrich had struck a deal with Metal Blade Records to get a song on the compilation album, Metal Massacre. After finding Hetfield and Mustaine the group recorded its first song. The band found its name through another of Ulrich’s friends, Ron Quintana. Quintana was brainstorming for titles for his fanzine and had narrowed it down to Metal Mania and Metallica. Ulrich convinced Quintana to use Metal Mania took Metallica for the name of his band.

Early on in Metallica’s history, the group went through several roster changes before even playing a concert. The original bassist, Ron McGovney was ousted in favor of Cliff Burton, who Ulrich and Hetfield saw at a concert at Whiskey a Go Go, in 1982. His addition moved Metallica to San Francisco in 1983. The original lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine, was replaced during the recording of the group’s first album in 1983 in Rochester, New York, after the group alleged he had issues with drugs and alcohol. He was replaced by Kirk Hammett and still holds a grudge to this day against the band despite his success with Megadeth.

Metallica struggled for years, failing to be much of a draw on early headlining tours or as a supporting act. Their concerts did not fail to impress record executives though, and in 1984 Elektra Records A&R director Michael Alago and Q-Prime Management co-founder Cliff Burnstein saw them perform and signed them to a record contract and management deal. The result was Metallica’s first commercially successful album, Master of Puppets. The album spent 72 weeks on the charts and peaked at number 29, their first time breaking in the Billboard 200’s top 100. Certified gold in November 1986 and platinum six times 17 years later, the album brought Metallica into the public sphere for the first time.

A tragic bus accident took the life of bassist Cliff Burton while the Metallica was on the European part of their Damage Inc tour in 1986. Shocked, the group tried to piece things back together by adding Jason Newsted and continuing with the tour schedule. The new lineup returned to the studios in 1987. The album, …And Justice for All, was released in 1988 and was a huge hit. The album was certified platinum just nine weeks after its release. Metallica tickets to the Damaged Justice tour became almost impossible to find.

The album was a commercial success despite being wrought with production problems, but still garnered the group’s first Grammy Award nomination for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrument. In a stunning upset that became fodder for comedians and sketch comedies, Jethro Tull, a jazz fusion group, won the award. Metallica followed the nominated album with a self-tiled release in 1991. The album gave Metallica their first number one album and went on to become the group’s best-selling album.

Heavy criticism from metal fans dogged the next two Metallica releases, Load (1996) and ReLoad (1997), for taking a more alternative rock approach, but the album still sold and Metallica tickets still sold very well, as tour dates constantly sold out. Metallica was accused of being out of touch with its fans, especially after their conflict with Napster in 2001. A demo that was supposed to be released on the Mission Impossible II soundtrack was leaked to radio stations and became a hit.

The band, however, discovered that the source of the leak was the peer to peer music sharing network, Napster. Metallica waged a public war with the popular site. They eventually won despite the backlash that blamed the high prices of the CDs despite their low production cost.

When the group returned to the studio in 2001, a documentary crew followed them and Hetfield went to therapy for drug and alcohol abuse. His decision to hire a therapist drew criticism from Newsted and in 2003 he was replaced by bassist Robert Trujilo. That same year, Metallica released their eighth studio album, St. Anger. Once again rabid fans rushed to get Metallica tickets ad the album. Fans and critics were critical of the change in musical direction for the album, with less guitar solos and the use of a snare drum. The title track won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2004.

Since then, Metallica has released one album, Death Magnetic, and one EP, Beyond Magnetic. Though these albums have been able to platinum, the fans still demand the old favorites. What is new, is that the fans are located south of the border in addition to through the United States and Canada and across the Atlantic Ocean. The TicketSpecialists have the Metallica tickets to see this legendary metal group live for every tour every year.

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Artist: Metallica
Genera: Rock/Heavy Metal
Latest Album: St. Anger

One of the most influential, engaging, vital, enduring and just plain rad bands of the past two decades, San Francisco's Metallica rule all that is metal. Their inexhaustible energy and masterful riffage have the uncanny ability to compel metal heads, indie geeks, hippies and punks to simultaneously pump their fists in the air. Combining genre-defining Speed Metal with spit-in-your-face punk attitude, Metallica provided perfect crossover material for millions of disaffected youth, garnering the band a legion of fans as loyal as they are diverse. The late 1990s found the group shifting toward a stripped down, blues-heavy style.

The change tested the resolve of some head banging fans, but tens of thousands of Metali-friends new and old still show up to every sold out show, knowing that they will leave completely satisfied.

The most consistently innovative metal band of the late 80s and 90s was formed in 1981 in California, USA, by Lars Ulrich (b. 26 December 1963, Copenhagen, Denmark; drums) and James Alan Hetfield (b. 3 August 1963, USA; guitar/vocals) after each separately advertised for fellow musicians in the classified section of American publication The Recycler. They recorded their first demo, No Life Til' Leather, with Lloyd Grand (guitar), who was replaced in January 1982 by David Mustaine (b. 13 September 1961, La Mesa, California, USA), whose relationship with Ulrich and Hetfield proved unsatisfactory. Jef Warner (guitar) and Ron McGovney (bass) each had a brief tenure with the band. At the end of 1982 Clifford Lee Burton (b. 10 February 1962, USA, d. 27 September 1986; bass, ex-Trauma) joined the band, playing his first live performance on 5 March 1983. Mustaine departed to form Megadeth and was replaced by Kirk Hammett (b. 18 November 1962, San Francisco, California, USA; guitar). Hammett, who came to the attention of Ulrich and Hetfield while playing with rock band Exodus, played his first concert with Metallica on 16 April 1983.

The Ulrich, Hetfield, Burton and Hammett combination endured until disaster struck the band in the small hours of 27 September 1986, when Metallica's tour bus overturned in Sweden, killing Cliff Burton. During those four years, the band put thrash metal on the map with the aggression and exuberance of their debut, Kill 'Em All, the album sleeve of which bore the legend "Bang that head that doesn't bang". This served as a template for a whole new breed of metal, though the originators themselves were quick to dispense with their own rule book. Touring with New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands Raven and Venom followed, while Music For Nations signed them for European distribution. Although Ride The Lightning was not without distinction, notably on "For Whom The Bell Tolls', it was 1986"s Master Of Puppets that offered further evidence of Metallica's appetite for the epic. Their first album for Elektra Records in the USA (who had also re-released its predecessor), this was a taut, multi-faceted collection that both raged and lamented with equal conviction.

After the death of Burton, the band elected to continue, the remaining three members recruiting Jason Newsted (b. 4 March 1963, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA; bass) of Flotsam And Jetsam. Newsted played his first concert with the band on 8 November 1986. The original partnership of Ulrich and Hetfield, however, remained responsible for Metallica's lyrics and musical direction. The new line-up's first recording together was The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited - a collection of cover versions including material from Budgie, Diamond Head, Killing Joke and the Misfits, which also served as a neat summation of the band's influences to date. Sessions for And Justice For All initially began with Guns N'Roses producer Mike Clink at the helm. A long and densely constructed effort, this 1988 opus included an appropriately singular spectacular moment in "One' (a US Top 40/UK Top 20 single), while elsewhere the barrage of riffs somewhat obscured the usual Metallica artistry. The songs on 1991"s US/UK chart-topper Metallica continued to deal with large themes - justice and retribution, insanity, war, religion and relationships. Compared to Kill 'Em All nearly a decade previously, however, the band had grown from iconoclastic chaos to thoughtful harmony, hallmarked by sudden and unexpected changes of mood and tempo. The MTV-friendly "Enter Sandman" broke the band on a stadium level and entered the US Top 20. The single also reached the UK Top 10, as did another album track, "Nothing Else Matters".

Constant touring in the wake of the album ensued, along with a regular itinerary of awards ceremonies. There could surely be no more deserving recipients, Metallica having dragged mainstream metal, not so much kicking and screaming as whining and complaining, into a bright new dawn when artistic redundancy seemed inevitable (the album was certified as having sold thirteen million copies in the USA alone by June 2001).

The follow-up Load entered the US charts at number 1. The album marked a change in image for the band, who began to court the alternative rock audience. The following year's Reload collected together more tracks recorded at the Load sessions, and featured 60s icon Marianne Faithfull on the first single to be released from the album, "The Memory Remains". Garage Inc. collected assorted cover versions, and broke the band's run of US number 1 albums when it debuted at number 2 in December 1998. The following year's S&M, recorded live with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, evoked the worst excesses of heavy rock icons Deep Purple. In January 2001, Newsted announced he was leaving after almost 15 years service with the band. He resurfaced with two unknown musicians in EchoBrain, before joining Canadian prog metal outfit Voivod. His replacement in Metallica was former Suicidal Tendencies' bass player Rob Trujillo.

One of the most influential, engaging, vital, enduring and just plain rad bands of the past two decades, San Francisco's Metallica rule all that is metal. Their inexhaustible energy and masterful riffage have the uncanny ability to compel metal heads, indie geeks, hippies and punks to simultaneously pump their fists in the air.

Metallica has been a force on tour since 1981. The drummer Lars Ulrich originally started the Metallica as a jam band, recruiting the original members, James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine through newspaper advertisements. The group took huge strides in popularity in the ‘90s that brought the thrash metal group out of the underground and into the forefront, making Metallica tickets one of the hardest finds ever since. The group has been through its share of tragedy and internal strife, but eventually the fearsome foursome of James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammet, and Robert Trujillo came out on top, ruling the world of rock and leaving everyone salivating for Metallica tickets.

Lars Ulrich had struck a deal with Metal Blade Records to get a song on the compilation album, Metal Massacre. After finding Hetfield and Mustaine the group recorded its first song. The band found its name through another of Ulrich’s friends, Ron Quintana. Quintana was brainstorming for titles for his fanzine and had narrowed it down to Metal Mania and Metallica. Ulrich convinced Quintana to use Metal Mania took Metallica for the name of his band.

Early on in Metallica’s history, the group went through several roster changes before even playing a concert. The original bassist, Ron McGovney was ousted in favor of Cliff Burton, who Ulrich and Hetfield saw at a concert at Whiskey a Go Go, in 1982. His addition moved Metallica to San Francisco in 1983. The original lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine, was replaced during the recording of the group’s first album in 1983 in Rochester, New York, after the group alleged he had issues with drugs and alcohol. He was replaced by Kirk Hammett and still holds a grudge to this day against the band despite his success with Megadeth.

Metallica struggled for years, failing to be much of a draw on early headlining tours or as a supporting act. Their concerts did not fail to impress record executives though, and in 1984 Elektra Records A&R director Michael Alago and Q-Prime Management co-founder Cliff Burnstein saw them perform and signed them to a record contract and management deal. The result was Metallica’s first commercially successful album, Master of Puppets. The album spent 72 weeks on the charts and peaked at number 29, their first time breaking in the Billboard 200’s top 100. Certified gold in November 1986 and platinum six times 17 years later, the album brought Metallica into the public sphere for the first time.

A tragic bus accident took the life of bassist Cliff Burton while the Metallica was on the European part of their Damage Inc tour in 1986. Shocked, the group tried to piece things back together by adding Jason Newsted and continuing with the tour schedule. The new lineup returned to the studios in 1987. The album, …And Justice for All, was released in 1988 and was a huge hit. The album was certified platinum just nine weeks after its release. Metallica tickets to the Damaged Justice tour became almost impossible to find.

The album was a commercial success despite being wrought with production problems, but still garnered the group’s first Grammy Award nomination for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrument. In a stunning upset that became fodder for comedians and sketch comedies, Jethro Tull, a jazz fusion group, won the award. Metallica followed the nominated album with a self-tiled release in 1991. The album gave Metallica their first number one album and went on to become the group’s best-selling album.

Heavy criticism from metal fans dogged the next two Metallica releases, Load (1996) and ReLoad (1997), for taking a more alternative rock approach, but the album still sold and Metallica tickets still sold very well, as tour dates constantly sold out. Metallica was accused of being out of touch with its fans, especially after their conflict with Napster in 2001. A demo that was supposed to be released on the Mission Impossible II soundtrack was leaked to radio stations and became a hit.

The band, however, discovered that the source of the leak was the peer to peer music sharing network, Napster. Metallica waged a public war with the popular site. They eventually won despite the backlash that blamed the high prices of the CDs despite their low production cost.

When the group returned to the studio in 2001, a documentary crew followed them and Hetfield went to therapy for drug and alcohol abuse. His decision to hire a therapist drew criticism from Newsted and in 2003 he was replaced by bassist Robert Trujilo. That same year, Metallica released their eighth studio album, St. Anger. Once again rabid fans rushed to get Metallica tickets ad the album. Fans and critics were critical of the change in musical direction for the album, with less guitar solos and the use of a snare drum. The title track won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2004.

Since then, Metallica has released one album, Death Magnetic, and one EP, Beyond Magnetic. Though these albums have been able to platinum, the fans still demand the old favorites. What is new, is that the fans are located south of the border in addition to through the United States and Canada and across the Atlantic Ocean. The TicketSpecialists have the Metallica tickets to see this legendary metal group live for every tour every year.