![]() ![]() The group has managed to base in San Francisco for the most part of their career. James Hetfield got caught on fire during one of the band’s live performances. The band was birthed out of a newspaper advertisement Lars Ulrich put out, requesting other heavy metal artists who were interested in playing in his band. The heavy metal band is known to be responsible for bringing the metal genre back to earth, disregarding the usual pop style and creating their own.īelow are some exciting facts about the band and its members that their fans may or may not know: They have been inducted in the San Francisco Walk of Fame and earned their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2009. Metallica is reputed as one of the most commercially viable and successful rock bands of all time by many standards. They won two AMA awards for Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist in 1993 &1997, ECHO and NME awards for Best International Band in 2017. Some of those awards were won for Best Metal Performance, Best Recording Package, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Hard Rock Performance. They have been nominated 14 times and won 9 awards from the Grammys from 1989 till 2018. They were recognized as the third best-selling music artists in the United States in 2017 after selling well over 58 million albums in the US alone. Six of the band’s albums have remained in Billboard’s list of Best 200 Albums of All Time consecutively. ![]() Metallica has sold over 125 million records across the globe earning them a spot on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. With a career spanning more than 40 years, the group’s musical efforts have been acknowledged and celebrated by grandiose organizations and award shows. ![]() Kirk Lee Hammett (lead guitarist & songwriter).James Allen Hetfield (Lead Vocalist, primary songwriter & rhythm guitarist).There have been a few line-up changes for the group but its most consistent line-up consists of the following musicians: Metallica’s sound, in their primary years, was mostly influenced by other great heavy metal artists and bands such as Deep Purple, Queen, Kiss, and a few others.įor a period in the life of the band, they tried switching from their aggressive signature style to a non-metallic sound but faced sharp criticism in spite of the resulting commercial successes. ![]()
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