Metallica Facts
Metallica once played with a second guitarist, Damien Philips, for one live show only.
Lars startes going to rock concerts by himself when he was 9 years old.
"One" was Metallica's first promotional video and it uses scenes from the 1971 movie Johnny Got His Gun which was directed by Dalton Trumbo.
Lars, Kirk and James are all currently married and Jason is divorced.
"Creeping Death" is about the tale of the plagues bestowed upon the Egyptians, inspired by the second half of the move The Ten Commandments
James, Jason, Kirk and Lars all wear earplugs when they play live.
Spastic Children was a "joke band" created originally by James, Cliff, Fred Cotton, and James (Flunky) Mcdaniel.
James Hetfield's father passed away during the making of load.
In 1990, Lars said that "the best thing that ever happened to James was when we played a show in some club, and he left his Spandex on a radiator to dry," only to burn a hole in them so he could never wear them again.
The "Black Album" has sold over 25 million copies and Kirk's theory is that "people are just wearing out their CD's and buying it for all their friends or something."
Van Halen's Sammy Hagar lives 10 minutes away from lars.
Jason's first gig with Metallica was opening for Metal Church at The Country Club in Reseda, California, in November 1986, and his second show was the very next evening at Jezabel's in Anaheim, California.
Ktulu is a tentacled, faces creature that lies dormant on the bottom of the ocean awaiting the call to awaken from his followers, created by author H.P. Lovecraft and actually spelled Cthulu.
Ride the Lightning spent 50 weeks an Billboard's Top 200 chart though it got no commercial airplay.
The two best drummers of all time for lars are Ian Paice of Deep Purple for ability, and Phil Rudd of AC/DC for his groove and swing.
James's skull ring used to be Cliff's.
Metallica played two warm up gigs for the "Monsters of Rock" tour in 1987 at the Troubador in L.A. under the name "Frayed Ends".
Dave Mustaine once said that for him, Metallica's success "was like seeing your old girl friend become a movie star".
Kirk had a chance to see the Sex Pistols at Winterland in 1978 but his mom wouldn't let him go.
In 1986 Cliff and Lars had to go out in front of a crowd of 15,000 and tell them Metallica would not be playing because James broke his wrist in a skateboarding accident.
James said "Facial hair has taken a back seat to head hair".
Cliff Burton's ashes were spread around at various points around the San Franciso area, including the Maxwell Ranch House area.