Metallica
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Metallica is a legendary heavy metal band (depending on the market), known for staying true and loyal to their fans, whilst diversifying their music into a broad range of alternate rock and nu-metal. Metallica are also known for the controversy in suing Napster.
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[edit] History
[edit] Milking Mustaine's Material
Metallica were formed at least 100 years ago by guitarist James Hetfield, bassist Ron McGovny, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine (who got permab&) and Danish drummer Lars Ulrich. Hetfield initially used and abused his aspie friend from highschool McGovney for his van. Eventually McGovney quit taking their abuse after Mustaine trolled him by pouring beer down the neck of McGovney's bass, pwning him in the process and sending him flying across a room. Not that it mattered anyway as Metallica, being the jerkoffs they were, already had his replacement ready long before; Cliff Burton, another aspie who they actually liked and was actually talented.
However Mustaine was too much of an IRL tough guy, he would regularly beat the crap out of the other members after getting shitfaced on beer, which is ironic, since Metallica's nickname for a long time was "Alcohollica", so one has to imagine that Mustaine was in fact as hardcore as he told us. The final straw came when, Hetfield kicked Mustaine's dog, Mustaine proceeded to beat the crap out of Hetfield and tossed Ulrich across a room, so Metallica did what every other hardcore alcohol abusing band would do, they sent Mustaine on a bus home with all his crap and hired some half-Philippine effeminate guy called Kirk Hammett who played for a band that opened for them. Mustaine never actually recovered from this traumatic experience and is still butthurt over the whole ordeal. As we can see from clip below (from the shitty Metallica's in emo therapy movie Some Kind of Monster), Mustaine clearly has abandonment issues despite becoming a sellout and rich fuck with his own shitty metal band Megadeth.
With the new lineup, the band proceeded to make their first record Kill 'Em All, though being the unimaginative fucks they were, they decided that it wasn't enough to just boot Mustaine out of the band but they should also steal his material for at least half the songs on their debut album (and some later), it wasn't like they were gonna be famous or anything, amirite?
Having released their third album Master of Puppets, Metallica had managed to change metal from something that was about hairspray and eye-liner into something about leather and denim. It was also shortly after this, that they were touring Sweden, as it happens the tour bus was speeding down the highway and hit black ice. Unfortunately only one of the members died, the most talented one at that, Burton managed to go flying out of the top window next to his bunk and ended up crushed under the bus itself. When the rescue services arrived, they tried to save him but instead managed to drop the bus on him again, effectively permabanning him IRL in the process.
[edit] End of The Old Metallica
Metallica got butthurt for a while but eventually replaced him, by means of a mass audition, yet again they picked another aspie Jason Newsted, who this time they picked on and bullied cos he was the "new guy". They would troll him by pelting the food from the buffet tables at him, they would tell everyone he was gay and at hotels they would have him pay for all their room service and 50 uneaten lobster dinners.
Metallica went on to record their next album ...And Justice For All, notably with the death of the only talented member and having ran out of Mustaine's material, Metallica had to actually write original content for the first time. So basically, they thought that if Master of Puppets was awesome, why not do the same thing but make MOAR of it, cos people like more amirite? The end result was an album full of songs that were at least 7 minutes long and sounded like Master of Puppets II. Not only that, Ulrich being the short man with unwarranted self importance, appears to have much more presence than the other members, which is retarded as he is a drummer, not to mention it sounded as though Newsted's bass was turned off during recording. Despite this, rabid Metallica fanboys ate up the album like the sheep they were and to this day still praise it, despite Metallica knowing deep down inside, that they fucked this one up, as they never play any songs from that album live. Ironically, Metallica were nominated for a Grammy in the category "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" for this album in 1989 but lost out to some flute playing shitty band called Jethro Tull.
After passing out that turd, Metallica then fired their producer Flemming Rasmussen cos he was like totally responsible for the last album (and the two before but who's counting), and hired some glam metal producer Bob Rock. With the help of Rock they produced the biggest selling metal album of all time. Self titled otherwise known as The Black Album as it's affectionately called by Metallica fans, effectively boosted and cemented Metallica's already overinflated ego. However such success in metal never goes without butthurt though, as there was much backlash among a lot of the oldfag fans who missed the old Metallica, complaining that the new music was a lot slower, streamlined and insincere i.e. They sold out but hey what do they know, 22 million copies in sales can't be wrong, amirite?
[edit] Experimental Era
Metallica probably being the only metal band the average soccer mom knew, decided to take advantage of their mediocre fame. If fans were butthurt over the last album, one could only imagine the shitstorm following Metallica's next album, aptly named Load. Metallica knew that thrash metal was only a passing fad, a minor one at that, and that if they were going to eat lobster everyday for the rest of their lives, something had to be done...
When unsuspecting fans went out to buy their troll of an album, they were greeted on the front cover by a lovely "artistic" photo of an artist's own semen mixed with bovine blood. Also gone was the old logo and its place, a feeble attempt at reinventing themselves, and it got much worse. On the back we could see every indie/underground music loving fan's worst nightmare, one could see Metallica actually enjoying the fruits of their labour, fancy clothes and fine cigars, not to mention they cut their hair! All this and perhaps more may have been forgiveable had the CD itself had any redeeming music, but alas, Metallica in the best interest's of their fans decided to abandon metal music altogether and embrace alternative rock. No longer did they sing about death, pain, shitty literature references and injustice, they instead sung about their angst, and inner feelings. Not to mention the music itself was dumbed down yet again, and filled with uber funky cool effects that those angst ridden teens love.
The following year Metallica released Re-Load, it doesn't really deserve its own paragraph but to put it in Lars Ulrich's own words:
| —Lars being a little too honest |
Also to note, Metallica could have easily released a double album of this crap, but instead opted to further milk their fans by essentially releasing the same album twice and were totally open about this. Whether Metallica have the balls to do it again remains to be seen, but judging by their fanbase, it seems all too likely to happen again.
Metallica being hampered by some creative block as evident by releasing Load II, continued this trend of unoriginality by releasing a cover album Garage Inc. the following year. It consisted of songs by nobodies and shitty punk bands, who now make more money than they ever did playing for tips down their local titty bar because of Metallica. This is one of the few things that Metallica has ever done that has benefited someone else, even if it was by using other peoples music for their own gain.
Metallica with the ever growing ego, decided that they needed to record a live album with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. They released S&M in 1999, its tracklist was basically what the greatest hits album would look like and every old Metallifag's fears i.e. half the songs were from Load/Load II. However Metallica being somewhat decent, made it a double album so there was at least one album worth of ok material, well if you like heavy metal anyway. Another thing to note is how Metallica being the creative geniuses they were, actually believed that by throwing violins, trumpets and other obsolete instruments into the mix of their songs, that this actually somehow made the songs superior, what Metallica more or less achieved was more analogous to some dumb ricer, slapping several grands worth of bodykits onto a shitty front wheel drive compact.
[edit] OMG! Internet Not Just For Porn?
Metallica having spent too much time IRL due to their massive wallets (hey who wouldn't?), neglected the internets and so when they heard their unreleased single for the Mission Impossible II soundtrack: I Disappear on the radio, they shat bricks and were completely stumped at how their song could have gotten leaked. As it turns out, anyone with too much time on their hands and a triple digit IQ were using this P2P program called Napster. Basically Napster, before being raped by the music industry, let you download music for free. So if you thought Metallica were butthurt over a single, you can only imagine the BAWWWWWWWWW at having their entire discography available for free.
Eventually Ulrich actually got bored trolling penniless children and losers, so he and Metallica Hetfield went and sued Napster itself for great justice reparations, needless to say it was a fine example of American justice, with Metallicash winning.
[edit] Back To Their Roots
Not long after this great publicity, Newsted left the band in 2001 due to Hetfield becoming increasingly jealous and insecure over Newsted's shitty side band that never actually took off. Soon enough Newsted realised that he just eviscerated his cash cow and remembered that perhaps putting up with the rest of Metallica's shit was actually very lucrative, especially when compared to playing for drunkards down backwater bars and saloons. Alas, Metallica didn't care as they never did like Newsted in the first place.
| —Hetfield not realising that he himself is the cancer killing Metallica |
So Newsted moped about in some Canadian metal band Voivod allowing the other members to leach off his ill gotten money. Ozzy Osbourne in need of a new bassist, took pity upon Newsted, and took him up as his bassist. However, this didn't even last a year, as Newsted ever more confused by his aspie emotions, felt that he had to leave and concentrate on playing for that obscure Canadian band.
Metallica having generated some publicity with the loss of their bassist, decided it was the perfect time to record a new album. However many things had changed since when sexually ambiguous alternative-rock was dominating the 90s. Nu-metal was now the choice of music for angst ridden teens, it blended the musical qualities of hip-hop and metal. Metallica felt now was the time to return to their roots, old Metallica fans were once again fapping upon hearing Hetfield and Ulrich, say how they were going to make the next album loud, fast and angry again, like back in the good old days.
Metallica spent a whole year hard at work, recording this much hyped album (with producer Rock on bass), such that by the end of the process in 2003, nu-metal was almost dead. Surely this could only be a good thing, amirite? Metallica did say they were going back to their roots after all. The music critics and the media who knew best certainly thought so too, and gave the album much praise (seriously), Metallica fans were now assured that they would not be disappointed, went out and bought St Anger by the masses, propelling this to No. 1 and multi-platinum status. However what the Metallica fans didn't realise was that in the reviews given, the album was described as catchy, with plenty of bass, and angst. Which meant Metallica thought they could jump on the nu-metal gravy train, and release an album full of Hetfield's incoherent shouting, Ulrich bashing on tin pots, with the treble turned off, and the bass set on 10. As if that wasn't bad enough, Metallica didn't record a single solo, further cementing the undeniable claim that Metallica were a product to be sold, like condoms or cigarettes.
| —Hammett telling the truth, but being the most effeminate member, is at the bottom of the pecking order, so was ignored as usual |
Funnily enough this time around though, Metallica actually missed the boat as crappy music like Korn, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit were making way for shittier acts like My Chemical Romance, Funeral for a Friend and Panic! At The Disco. As previously mentioned, this didn't stop the album hitting No. 1 and as though that wasn't bad enough, Metallica went on to win a Grammy for the title song, further proving the superiority of our free and unabridged press to those fascists who filter theirs.
On a side note Roberto Agustín Trujillo filled in the bassist slot, after another audition. It's rather unfortunate for Metallica, that despite being within the same age bracket, Trujillo not only looks cooler than the other members but he also makes Metallica look a lot older by comparison. It doesn't help either when Metallica are in public they fondle and grope Trujillo, in the hope that his untainted charisma and novelty rub off onto them. Trujillo before being given the opportunity of playing in Metallica, made his fame in the punk metal band Suicidal Tendencies and was bassist in Ozzy Osbourne's band before being ironically replaced by Jason Newsted who had left Metallica.
[edit] Back To Their Roots II
When the time came to buy another fleet of Pagani Zonda record another album, it was the year 2007. Thanks to the likes of great bands like Dragonforce, Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet For My Valentine, solos and metalish music were once again socially acceptable though tainted. Not to mention innovative video games like Guitar Hero, made it ok again to masturbate the neck of guitars.
Metallica once again were hosting press releases, making more promises of going back to their roots and making another "classic" Metallica album. This time you may have thought the old Metallifag fanboys would have gotten so butthurt from last time, that they wouldn't have given a shit. However this time around unless Metallica completely fucked up by releasing an emo album, it was a pretty safe bet that they were actually telling the truth this time round and perhaps might deliver the goods...
Fast forward to 2008, with much hype and media rear ending, the album was released. Death Magnetic which was almost named Songs of Suicide and Forgiveness instead, went to No. 1 on pretty much every chart worth considering as expected, no dramatic twist here, Metallica actually went and made a metal album. Everyone (even the elitist ex-fans) came with glee at the thought of their child hood heroes returning to the good old days and many other fulfilled stupid fantasies. However from the eyes (or ears rather) of any other metalhead who didn't just kiss ass at the sight of a Metallica™ logo slapped onto a CD, the new album sounded mediocre. It was as though Metallica had picked up where they left off at the Black album, a one trick pony running out of ideas, it sounded like ...And Justice For All II which is epic fail considering ...And Justice For All sounded like Master of Puppets II. If the songs were perhaps just 2 minutes shorter for each one, then maybe Metallica could have been onto something, but that problem coupled with the retarded production values i.e. LOUDER IS XTREME/HARDCORE makes the album an unbearable thing to listen to in one sitting, like BDSM but for your ears. It is perhaps understandable why Metallica sold out now, in any case Metallica will win another Grammy for Best Metal Performance, remember you heard it first from Encyclopedia Dramatica.
[edit] Typical Metallica Lyrics
| —Taken from the song "Fade To Black" off the album Ride the Lightning, the whole thing is actually more depressing than this |
| —From the song Enter Sandman, on the Black Album, regarding one of Metallica's many fetishes |
| —Metallica's hard biting social commentary on the brevity of life, from the song Frantic, off the great album St. Anger |
[edit] Artist Facts
- Metallica loves bacon (seriously) and is this the source of a forced meme on Megadeth's forums.
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[edit] See Also
- Megadeth
- Slayer
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