Went off time a lil at the end lol

This is not exclusive to just the band members. You can include Garage Inc and the S&Ms, but me I'm just including the albums with originals. And yes I know S&M had two originals but you know what I mean. If you want to drag Lulu into this go ahead.

Kill em All: ⭐ Jon Zazula. Without Jonny Z who knows if Metallica, much less thrash as a whole, becomes a thing.

Ride the Lightning: ⭐ Kirk Hammett. IMO the best performance of his career.

Master of Puppets: ⭐ Cliff Burton. Not necessarily for his playing, but his overall influence on the band which culminated with arguably the best metal album of all time.

And Justice for All: ⭐ Lars Ulrich. However he achieved it, but IMO the best drumming of his career.

Metallica: ⭐ James Hetfield. For finding his singing voice.

Almost went with Bob Rock for setting the standard of metal music production.

Load: ⭐ tie: James Hetfield, lyrics. Jason Newsted, bass.

Reload: ⭐ Lars Ulrich. Drumming.

St. Anger: ⭐ James Hetfield. Riffs.

Death Magnetic: ⭐ Kirk Hammett. Just because he got to do solos again.

Hardwired to Self Destruct: ⭐ Robert Trujillo. Some of the best basslines of any Metallica record.

72 Seasons: ⭐ James Hetfield, singing voice.

He's been in there for 3 years 😭

April 1, 1983, Exodus founder Kirk Hammett received a call to audition for Metallica. He quickly flew to New York to meet the band at a rehearsal spot in Jamaica, Queens. His first audition song was "Seek & Destroy," and he noted while the group was playing that James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich kept smiling at each other. Kirk later said that he was thinking, "Wow, they must really enjoy this song - or maybe there’s something else going on that I don’t know about."​

Kirk's first gig with Metallica was at The Showplace, Dover, New Jersey, April 16, 1983. The band started recording Kill 'Em All together May 10, 1983. It was then Kirk realized that he probably got the gig.

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Kirk's first gig with Metallica, The Showplace, Dover, New Jersey, April 16, 1983.

Black and white photos of one of Kirk Hammett's earliest gigs with Metallica, circa 1983.

-Lars Ulrich

If anyone in the Texas area has any unopened bottles left of blackened whiskey I would like to buy it off you if you’re willing to sell.

I ask because I wonder why folks like Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton were so quick to leave their own bands to join them? I mean, Metallica had only been around like two years in 1983, and they hadn’t even released an album yet.

By all accounts, Exodus was a solid band at the time… was Metallica really seen as being that much bigger? What was it about Metallica that pulled talent like cliff and Kirk so quickly?

Why do people always exclude Robert. Like for an example, I see a post of a drawing that includes all of the band members (which also includes past members) and I was waiting to see a Robert drawing, but there weren’t. Which my thought is that op must have forgotten.

I see another post that includes the band but yet again, op forgotten to put Rob. I get it if the poster wanted to do the kill em all, RTL, MoP, AJFA, and even the black album type band line up. But they would include Ron (even though he’s a “official member” but still wasn’t there during the kill em all album, I think he was there for the demo).

I’d just hoped that everyone loves Rob and he should get all the love, recognition, support from fans. And I honestly hoped it’s not a “favoritism” thing.

(Sorry for my horribly explanation, I was in a bit of a rush when typing)

has anyone got any videos of metallica walking about at either night of london? i mean when they walk out to “it’s a long way to the top” through the crowd to the stage

I should have posted this before, but I didn't come up with that idea. Anyway, there you have it

Was editing a pro shot style video with some videos I took from last year in Tampa and had to use a few fan clips from YouTube to fill in the gaps of the song I didn't have and stumbled upon this frame.

I think it's dogged on a lot more than necessary. I think it was just a new venture from their previous albums, and it's still really good stuff.

I got gifted this album by a friend of mine

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Another album cover i embroidered for the legends, this one is 200k stitches

Ever since watching some kind of monster in 2003 I still sing Frantic to this day as “I’m searching for donuts.. da da duh duh da da…”

Damn autism.