![]() ![]() He tells the story of how a tennis-playing, music-loving Danish immigrant named Lars Ulrich created a band with singer James Hetfield and made his dreams a reality. Mick Wall's thoroughly researched, insightful work is enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs, roadies, and fellow musicians. Until now there hasn't been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of the band. Their music has extended its reach beyond rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream, as they went from speed metal to MTV with their hit single "Enter Sandman". ![]() Metallica is the fifth-largest selling artist of all time, with 100 million records sold worldwide. Inventors of thrash metal-Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followed-it was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers. As Led Zeppelin was for hard rock and the Sex Pistols were for punk, Metallica became the band that defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal. They are Metallica, the most influential heavy metal band of the last thirty years. Then their singer went into rehab and they almost fell apart. As grunge threatened to overtake them, they reinvented themselves. Their bassist died and they survived to became the biggest-selling band in the world. The music they played-heavy metal mixed with punk attitude-became its own genre: thrash. Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple. Download Enter Night Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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