Free themed post 2: Metallica

Ulrich, Hammet, Hetfield and Trujillo

Metallica is an american heavy metal band from San Francisco, California and was founded in 1981 by the danish drummer Lars Ulrich and the vocalist/guitar player James Hetfield. The other current members are Kirk Hammet on lead guitar and Robert Trujillo as bassist.

Lars was a talented tennis player who moved from Denmark to California at the age of 16,  for make easier his training and development. His another passion was the music and play the drums, so then he decided to publish an advertisement  in the newspaper, looking for musicians to form a band. Thanks to that, he met to James and his friend Ron McGovney (bassist), and Lloyd Grant (guitar).

In 1982 Ron and Lloyd  were replaced by Cliff Burton and Dave Mustaine respectively, two of the best heavy metal musicians ever. In the same year, Mustaine was replaced by Kirk Hammett because he had some drug addiction problems. After that, they released their first álbum “Kill‘em All”.

In 1986 the band suffered a bus accident and Cliff Burton died. He was replaced by Jason Newsted some months later. Newsted played the bass until 2000, tired for the band’s behavior, being replaced by the mexican Robert Trujillo.

Metallica is one of the most popular heavy metal bands in the world. They released more than ten albums and also are the only band which played in all the continents.