PSA I'm not a metal head, this was based off of everything my metal head mate has taught me over the years so I may be way off sorry, I did choose my username for a reason.
Edit: just checked the wiki and yeah Dead carried a dead crow around in a plastic bag and would huff it before shows sometimes.
Metallica is the reason that P2P file sharing is almost impossible post-Web 2.0. There's an argument to be made that someone else would've taken Napster to court if Metallica didn't, but they did, and the internet has been shit ever since. Fuck them and their friends who think their garbage variety of radio-friendly variety of Beer Metal is anything worth listening to
It was bad for like, a few months when Napster shut down. Then BOOM! Morpheus, Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, Soulseek, Usenet, then the magical world of torrents! (RIP what.cd)
Metallica singer James Hetfield has said he is proud that his music is used against enemies of the US
Metallica's Enter Sandman had became a particular favourite at the height of the War on Terror, when US interrogators admitted using music to break the resistance of captives in Iraq. The goal was to deprive them of sleep and offend their cultural sensibilities.
Unco-operative prisoners were exposed to children's TV music from Sesame Street, and the purple singing dinosaur Barney.
Sergeant Mark Hadsell of the Psychological Operations Company (Psy Ops) told Newsweek magazine: "These people haven't heard heavy metal. They can't take it.
"If you play it for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down and your will is broken. That's when we come in and talk to them."
Your metalhead friend was correct. I personally think that that "Metallica" died with Cliff Burton. No hate to Jason Newstead, but Cliff was the one in the band with musical integrity.
Justice was really important to me. It was the first album I ever loved at the age of eight. It introduced me to the rest of their catalogue and, of course, fell in love with Burton and bass guitar. Too bad they did Newstead dirty on that album. But Justice sparked some political consciousness in me. And musically, I think they stretched as far as they could. With Burton, it would have been farther, but still farther than those three had stretched before. The same is not true for the black album.
I agree completely. There are versions of Justice that can be found online where the bass is mixed back in, and I highly recommend them. Newstead put in work on that album.
When the black album came out, Metallic instantly went from legit thrash band to top 40 hard rock and was on the radio all day everyday... and somehow they still are and it's baffling.
Love Metallica's first few albums but honestly fuck them and what they've become. Went from a really solid thrash band to a million-dollar business with subpar dad rock and shitty titles like Don't Tread on Me. They go against everything thrash metal (and metal in general) was supposed to be.
And the direction Megadeth went, while not as bad, is still rlly disappointing. Dave could've been one of the coolest figures in metal but instead he became a right-wing conservative.
What a great image. You've got a guy on the far left eating elbow, the big beard guy with chipmunk teeth and the longest arm I've ever seen. Then when you look at the rest the crowd I don't think anyone's hands makes sense and I'm trying to make the T-shirt spell something but I just get Boabaneter?
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