THEY CUT THEIR HAIR
“JUDAS!” we cried, as Hetfield’s mullet hit the floor at some point in the mid-‘90s. Then we saw they’d all been at it when the Load pictures came out. We looked at the back of it, then looked at the back of Kill ‘Em All. They looked kind of the same, but without the hair, they’d lost something, right? Just their hair, it seems. Load and Re-Load weren’t to everyone’s taste, but guess what? Like they were still like a T-Rex attack – hair or not. Although if they wanna grow it all back that’d be swell.
9. They Played In Antarctica
9. THEY PLAYED IN ANTARCTICA
Bit nippy out. Presumably in some sort of old-style race to get there before Iron Maiden could, Metallica semi-recently decided that the new territory metal bands had …show more content…
“What we were doing back then was so different from what was going on with radio and MTV in America that we felt sort of, why bother?” quoth Lars on why they sidestepped it. But they were doing just fine on word of mouth and road graft, without having to make a cheesy video to impress MTV execs. When they finally did one in 1988 for One, it wasn’t exactly what the men in suits were used to. Mixing footage and dialogue of the chilling war movie Johnny Got His Gun (about a soldier begging for death after a landmine blows off his arms and legs and renders him blind, deaf and speechless), with the song’s harrowing narrative, Metallica proved that they could do something on MTV, and they were going to do it their way.
6. They Took Fans To Court
6. THEY TOOK FANS TO COURT
Controversy alert! The debate as to whether or not the year 2000 lawsuits against Napster and fans using it to download and share Metallica’s music remains a hot one. But it was certainly a surprise that Lars Ulrich basically came out in defence of the music business in a time when very few people took digital music seriously, making himself the most hated man in music for a time. “We were right about Napster,” said Lars years later, when the effects of downloading had made themselves
“JUDAS!” we cried, as Hetfield’s mullet hit the floor at some point in the mid-‘90s. Then we saw they’d all been at it when the Load pictures came out. We looked at the back of it, then looked at the back of Kill ‘Em All. They looked kind of the same, but without the hair, they’d lost something, right? Just their hair, it seems. Load and Re-Load weren’t to everyone’s taste, but guess what? Like they were still like a T-Rex attack – hair or not. Although if they wanna grow it all back that’d be swell.
9. They Played In Antarctica
9. THEY PLAYED IN ANTARCTICA
Bit nippy out. Presumably in some sort of old-style race to get there before Iron Maiden could, Metallica semi-recently decided that the new territory metal bands had …show more content…
“What we were doing back then was so different from what was going on with radio and MTV in America that we felt sort of, why bother?” quoth Lars on why they sidestepped it. But they were doing just fine on word of mouth and road graft, without having to make a cheesy video to impress MTV execs. When they finally did one in 1988 for One, it wasn’t exactly what the men in suits were used to. Mixing footage and dialogue of the chilling war movie Johnny Got His Gun (about a soldier begging for death after a landmine blows off his arms and legs and renders him blind, deaf and speechless), with the song’s harrowing narrative, Metallica proved that they could do something on MTV, and they were going to do it their way.
6. They Took Fans To Court
6. THEY TOOK FANS TO COURT
Controversy alert! The debate as to whether or not the year 2000 lawsuits against Napster and fans using it to download and share Metallica’s music remains a hot one. But it was certainly a surprise that Lars Ulrich basically came out in defence of the music business in a time when very few people took digital music seriously, making himself the most hated man in music for a time. “We were right about Napster,” said Lars years later, when the effects of downloading had made themselves