THE 10 BEST ROCKBANDS OF ALL TIME #9 METALLICA

American heavy metal band formed in 1981 in Los Angeles around Danes Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield. They were joined at the outset by Lloyd Grant and Ron McGovney, soon replaced by guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Cliff Burton, respectively. In 1982 Kirk Hammett took the place of Mustaine; In 1986, Cliff Burton's death in an accident led the group to Jason Newsted, who would be replaced fifteen years later by bassist Robert Trujillo.

After performing frequently on the local circuit, in 1983 the group recorded a first album on the Trash Metal line, Kill 'em All, on the independent American label Megaforce Records. The same label went on to publish the second record of the quartet: Ride the lightning. The multinational Elektra signed them, reissued Ride the lightning and promoted them internationally. Already in 1985 they participated in the Monsters of Rock of Donington, in Great Britain, authentic Mecca of the groups of hard rock and Heavy Metal worldwide.

His subsequent work, Master of Puppets (1986), was able to enter hard on the charts and gave the American band the opportunity to start a half-year tour as the opening act of Ozzy Osbourne, followed by a solo European tour . In the course of the same happened the misfortune: in September of 1986, in Sweden, overturned the bus in which they traveled. The bassist Cliff Burton (born in 1962) died in the accident, while the rest of the formation barely suffered a few scratches.

After recruiting a new bassist, they resumed their activity with concerts in Japan and the United States. At the end of 1988 they released the album And justice for all, that entered the top ten of his country with an excellent reception. Three years later the publication of Metallica took place, a more commercial sound album than the previous ones. With more than ten million copies, it is one of the best selling Heavy Metal albums in the history of the genre. In 1993 they released a compilation titled Live, shit, binge and purge that included videos of three American concerts.

En junio de 1996 salió a la luz Load, álbum que representó un brusco giro en su carrera, no sólo por el cambio de imagen, sino también por la inclusión de ritmos soul y de algunos otros estilos y por el abandono de la dureza de sus anteriores composiciones, lo que aproximó al grupo a las tendencias del Hard Rock y del rock alternativo. Reload (1997), tal y como sugiere el título, siguió la línea de su predecesor e incluyó una colaboración de Mariane Faithfull en el tema The memory remains. Sus últimos álbumes, St. Anger (2003) y Death Magnetic (2008), alcanzaron también la primera posición en las listas Billboard, aunque con cifras de ventas menos espectaculares.

And finally this year the album HARDWIRED TO SELF DESTRUCT

Play here last album:
https://play.spotify.com/album/1TKCBDHIWLiqjWTxomqniD?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open