Biography

Easily the most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, Metallica expanded the limits of thrash, using speed and volume to enhance their intricately structured compositions. Their 1983 debut, Kill 'Em All, marked the beginning of the legitimization of heavy metal's underground, bringing new complexity and depth to thrash. With each album, their playing and writing improved, and they completely crossed over into the mainstream with 1991's Metallica, which found them trading in their long compositions for more concise song structures. By the '90s, they were the leaders of heavy metal, respected not only by headbangers but by mainstream consumers and critics. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• (anesthesia) Pulling Teeth

• ...and Justice For All

• Ain't My Bitch

• All Within My Hands

• Am I Evil?

• And Justice For All [recorded Live On October 18, 2010, In Brisbane, Australia]

• Angel Of Death

• Antisocial

• Battery

• Blackened

• Breadfan

• Crash Course In Brain Surgery

• Creeping Death

• Cyanide

• Damage, Inc.

• Die, Die My Darling

• Dirty Window

• Dragon

• Enter Sandman

• Fade To Black

• Fade To Black [recorded Live On September 18, 2010, In Sydney, Australia]

• For Whom The Bell Tolls

• Frantic

• Frustration

• Fuel

• Harvester Of Sorrow

• Hate Train

• Head Crusher

• Helpless

• Hero Of The Day

• Holy Wars...the Punishment Due

• Indians/heaven And Hell

• Jump In The Fire

• Madhouse

• Master Of Puppets

• Mistress Dread

• My Apocalypse

• No Leaf Clover

• Nothing Else Matters

• One

• Peace Sells/holy Wars Reprise

• Raining Blood

• Rebel Of Babylon

• Ride The Lightning

• Sad But True

• Seasons In The Abyss

• Seek & Destroy

• Some Kind Of Monster

• South Of Heaven

• Stone Cold Crazy

• That Was Just Your Life

• The End Of The Line

• The Four Horsemen [recorded Live On September 18, 2010, In Sydney, Australia]

• The Memory Remains

• The Unforgiven

• The Wait

• Tuesday's Gone

• Turn The Page

• Until It Sleeps

• Welcome Home (sanitarium)

• Wherever I May Roam

• Whiskey In The Jar

Discography

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• Lulu

  Warner Bros.

  2011

• The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria

  Warner Bros.

  2010

• Orgullo, Pasión, y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México

  Universal Music

  2009

• Death Magnetic

  Vertigo

  2008

• Reload

  Elektra

  1997

• Load

  Elektra

  1996

• Metallica

  Elektra

  1991

• ...And Justice for All

  Elektra

  1988

• Ride the Lightning

  Elektra

  1984

• Kill 'Em All

  Elektra

  1983