About Metallica

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Useless/Interesting Facts about Metallica:

• The cover of Load is not fire (or whatever you think it is) - it is blood and semen, hence the title.

• In "For Whom the Bell Tolls", the bell rings 15 times in the begining (26 times in the entire song). Also the most predominant of the opening riffs is played by a bass guitar

• Load was originally going to a double album, however, they ran out of time to record the last 13 songs. These 13 songs make up Reload. Also, "No Leaf Clover" was written during the Load/Reload sessions but was not recorded until Metallica performed with the San Fransisco Symphony.

• At the very end of Breadfan, you can hear a kid say "Mommy, Where's Fluffy?" This has nothing to do with Breadfan. It is actually the begining of The Prince, a song about a girl who kills her parents because they lose her doll. It is at the end of Breadfan because of a mistake when they originally mixed the songs (they were recorded at the same time).

• Similar to the "Fluffy" mix-up, the very begining of King Nothing can be heard at the end of Until it Sleeps

• One is based (in part) on the 1971 movie "Johnny Got His Gun" written and directed by Dalton Trumbo. The Music Video has clips from the movie.

• The snake on The Black Album cover is from an American flag during the Revolutionary War. The slogan on the flag was "Don't Tread on Me."

• James Hetfield's mother and Cliff Burton died on the same day, September 27th, only in different years. The band has performed songs dealing with both tragedies: "To Live is to Die" is in memory of Cliff and "Until it Sleeps" and "The God that Failed" are about Hetfield's mother's fight against cancer .

• "Nothing Else Matters" was written after James' grandfather died. The words "So close, no matter how far/Couldn't be much more from the heart/Forever trusting who we are/And nothing else matters" are James' grandfather's last words.

• "The Mechanix" is a song which you can find on old Metallica demos/bootlegs. It is an early version of "The Four Horseman" with different lyrics. It later made it onto a Megadeth album (Mustaine wrote a lot of the song).

• The begining of "Blackened" is a guitar riff that was recorded and then played backwards on the tape.

• Metallica played their first live gig on March 16, 1982.