At least they are consistent I guess.
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Cliff was great. And Lars kinda sucks. But
Lars accidentally invented speed thrash metal so
Give Lars a break man.
Edit: canonically, Lars was a mediocre drummer with a ton of common bad drummer habits. Notably he sped up a lot when he was excited or nervous. Metallica, being a bunch of insecure alpha male bros refused to complain that it was too fast out of fear they’d be seen as ninnies by the others so they just went with it. Speed metal was born. Thrash metal. Whatever you wanna call it. It’s a fun story.
Every drummer I know thinks Lars sucks. But Lars has influenced every drummer I know more than they realize.
Lars did what now?
2 metalheads arguing about not just genre but origins of a genre?
I need some popcorn.
Apparently OP has never heard Motorhead or any of the NWOBHM bands.
No they stole the sound from Anvil like literally every other band of the day.
He's such a little turd though
cool, but Metallica still sucks for what they did to napster.
I still hold a YUUUUGE grudge towards metallica for what they did to napster. I will die on this hill damn it.
Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech) poster boys for the RIAA.
Napster was too big and too bold. They let themselves become synonymous with pirated music. There's no way capitalism would let that alone. If it wasn't Metallica, it would have to have been someone else.
On the upside, the Case was between Reload and St. Anger; their sales dropped by half and never recovered.
Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech)
you don't have to clarify that. You really have to be a ham fisted fucking idiot to do the things compositionally that metallica does with the music they have to hand. Master of puppets should have made a recurring theme of the chromatic (ish) intro, and they throw it away, they bash away at the same shitty, caveman riff for eight fucking minutes. And Justice for all has a great intro, and it gradually degrades until basically nothing is left.
check out this song that uses a theme similar to master of puppets for a better way to use a similar musical idea https://youtu.be/FoGoEQ8DUDo?list=RDFoGoEQ8DUDo&t=18
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Every single artist did it to Napster, Metallica were just the front men. Tbf Napster wasnt going to survive legally, and if it had remained popular they would have gone to shit with some sort of payment system
Not even in the slightest. Metallica went far above and beyond everyone else hunting down little old ladies to sue.
99% of bands didn't make money from album sales, which is what makes all the hand wrangling over Spotify funny. Musicians idolise a world that never really existed.
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Anyone played the star spangled banner backwards, just in case?
Good to know Lars is still a piece of shit and Metallica isn't worth listening to.
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I’m guessing this is about money, I can’t picture Metallica and James Hetfield being against Trump.
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When reached for comment, James Hetfield responded, "YEAH-YEAAAAH, WHOA."
OOOoooohhh
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How on earth did it take so long? I’ve been copystruck by these assholes at least three or four dozen times in the 30 years I’ve been pirating … Stuff.
Metallica loves imperialism for the most part, that's how.
Imperialism is a strong noun. Sure they've benefited greatly off the back of US imperialism, but Jesus, condemn us all. It's not like they didn't write "Disposable Heros" or "One." Sure they can be litigious twats, but saying they're pro imperialism is peak brain rot.
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Oh fun. This webiste's cookie banner only has a "accept everything" button.
Ah, sorry. My adblocker blocks those annoyong popups. I had no idea.
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Broken clocks, as they say.
After striking themselves this is a close 2nd of funniest Metallica strikes
Just here to confirm nobody knows Anvil invented this form of music.
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