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Forty-eight hours before Metalli performed Las Vegas, rtrants and bars along the Strip were crammed full of pilgrims drsed brand gear: T-shirts, jerseys, sweatshirts, sneakers, tank tops, hats, beani, socks, wristwatch. The most grizzled vote wore ayg nim vts rated wh several s’ worth of patch. Metalli’s licensg team timat that about a hundred and twenty ln Metalli T-shirts have been sold sce 1995. The motifs are inic. There’s the one where a hand clutchg a dagger emerg om a toilet, alongsi the phrase “Metal Up Your Ass.” There’s the one where a skull is wearg scbs and performg bra surgery wh a fork, a knife, and s fangs. There’s the one where the skull has a fistful of stumpy straws and is announcg, “This shortt straw has been pulled for you!” You get the ia.</p><p class="paywall">Metalli is now s forty-first year. The band was a progenor, along wh Slayer, Anthrax, and Megath, of thrash, a subgenre of heavy metal marked by thick, suffotg riffs, played wh astonishg speed. Lyril them clu ath, spair, power, grief, and wrath. Though metal is often dismissed as unrground mic—antic, savage, niche—Metalli has sold some hundred and twenty-five ln rerds to date, puttg the band on par, mercially, wh Bce Sprgsteen and Jay-Z. It is the only mil group to have performed on all seven ntents a sgle lendar year. (In 2013, Metalli played a ten-song set Antarcti for a group of rearch scientists and ntt wners; bee of the agile ice formatns, the band’s amplifiers were placed isolatn bets, and the ncert was broadst through headphon.) Sce 1990, every Metalli album has débuted at No. 1 on the <em>Billboard</em> 200.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">In 2009, Metalli was ducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A speech was given by Flea, the bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who scribed the band’s mic as “this betiful, vlent thg that was unlike anythg I’d ever heard before my life,” and lled s motivatn pure. “This is outsir mic, and for to do what has done is tly md-blowg,” he said. Metalli is the only metal group to have had s mic add to the Natnal Rerdg Registry of the Library of Congrs. Kim Kardashian has been photographed a Metalli shirt on at least two ocsns. Beavis sported one for the entire ne-season n of “Beavis and Butt-Head.” Though the band has ma adjtments to s sound through the years—some mor, some seismic, all irratg to certa subsets of s fan base—’s hard to thk of another act that has outlasted the whims of the culture wh such vigor. The band recently fished wrg and rerdg s eleventh rerd, which will be released next year. “Metalli are the Mar of metal,” Stt Ian, a founr of Anthrax, told me recently. “First one , last one out.”</p><p class="paywall">Metalli’s current lp clus the sger and rhythm guarist Jam Hetfield and the dmmer Lars Ulrich, both of whom -found the band; the lead guarist Kirk Hammett, who joed 1983; and the bassist Robert Tjillo, a member sce 2003. Hetfield—fifty-ne, tall, grayg at the templ—mov wh the nfint snter of a well-armed wboy. Ulrich, fifty-eight, radiat so much ketic energy that ’s hard to image him yawng. Hammett, fifty-ne, and Tjillo, fifty-eight, are the band’s gentle, long-haired surfers, jazz enthiasts discled to dramatics. If Hetfield is Metalli’s heart—s mil center and primary lyricist—Ulrich is s bra, a visnary who stctively unrstands cultural terra.</p><p class="paywall">The night before the Vegas show, the band gathered at Allegiant Stadium for sound check. A scm of about a dozen people, mostly om Metalli’s tourg crew, stood on the floor to watch. (The band’s full road team has at least a hundred members.) Derek Carr, the quarterback for the Las Vegas Rairs, appeared, lookg as though he were ristg an tense urge to play air guar. Some clients of the private-plane pany NetJets sat the stands, enjoyg specialty cktails and cheerg. The band perdilly gathered around Ulrich’s dm k. “Is there anythg anyone wants to n?” Ulrich asked. But everyone knew what to do. At one pot, Tjillo glanced out at the vant seats and dad-joked, “I thought we were playg a sold-out show.” Even a mostly empty stadium, the band sound powerful, lucid, heavy.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa RaHuL body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn pLUZ llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO KhjZz AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image rponsive-image--expandable"><noscript><img alt="A photograph of the band Metalli 1984." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE iTuhkZ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hWyo iXWezO ptn__text">Metalli 1984, before the band’s first show the Netherlands.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd iicloT jbIJNS ptn__cred">Photograph by Robert Hoetk / Alamy</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The next afternoon, a pre-show event was schled for the Hoe of Blu, somewhere the belly of the Mandalay Bay so. I sent a seri of creasgly disoriented texts to a iend—“I’m the so, where are you?” “I’m the so?”—before we found each other. We were both wearg vtage T-shirts featurg the cemetery-themed art om “Master of Puppets,” the band’s third album.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">At the bar, we led up for plastic cups of the band’s own Blackened whiskey, a bourbon-rye blend that’s fished brandy sks while Metalli songs blare om large speakers. A product scriptn creds the mic wh enhancg the spir’s flavor: “The whiskey is pummeled by low-hertz soundwav which force the whiskey eper to the wood of the barrel, where picks up addnal wood flavor characteristics.” It tasted nice. You uld feel an anticipatory flutter the air. <em class="small">COVID</em>-19 had ground Metalli for long stretch of 2020 and 2021. (My backstage pass featured a skull wh a wispy Mohawk self-admisterg a <em class="small">COVID</em> tt—the rults, of urse, were posive.) Fans were slappg one another on the back, hootg about how much they had missed this. The feelg was: Let’s pop off. People were ready to have a good-ass time—to drk too many beers, to fet their earplugs, to buy a new Metalli T-shirt wh mons on and wiggle on over an old Metalli T-shirt wh mons on , to headbang, to ntort their fgers to vil’s horns and thst them upward, to go “Ahhh!” when the pyro shot off, to shriek “Searchg . . . seek and stroy!” along wh fifty thoand other wild-eyed people, to turn to a iend and mouth “Yo!” when someone was solog. Greta Van Fleet, a young rock band om Michigan, was openg for Metalli throughout the year. “Metalli has curated their own culture, and you n see the impact that’s had when you look out to the dience,” Greta Van Fleet’s sger, Josh Kiszka, told me. “Drivg to the venue, ’s Metalli everywhere. That’s part of how the band has changed the world a ltle b.”</p><p class="paywall">From afar, is easy to see Metalli as an stigatg force—an accelerant, turng unly hooligans more unly. But that ia alone n’t sta a voted followg for s. As we sipped our whiskey, my pann, Augt Thompson, a Metalli fan sce his boyhood ral New Hampshire, told me his favore lyric, om “Espe,” a thick and chargg song om “Ri the Lightng” (1984): “Life’s for my own, to live my own way.” Hetfield repeats the sentiment, wh slightly different phrasg, on “Nothg Else Matters,” a song om “Metalli” (1991): “Life is ours, we live our way.” “For people like me, who always felt out of place a hyper-vlent world, and the hyper-vlence that is masculy, there’s a lot of solace that,” Thompson said. Metalli’s mic is rooted feelgs of margalizatn, and the band, spe s achievements, has found a way to mata that pot of view for more than forty years. It mak sense that people are drawn to Metalli’s mic, bee they’re ill at ease a culture that relentlsly valoriz thgs (money, love, straight teeth) that are very easy to be born whout.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="aj8p"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">That night, Metalli opened s set wh “Whiplash,” om “Kill ’Em All,” s début album. On the floor, mosh ps formed; om the stands, they rembled ty riptis, bodi circlg one another, sometim submtg to a menacg current but mostly jt orbg. If you squted, almost looked like an ancient folk dance—somethg that might happen at a Greek weddg, late, after people had been drkg. “I thk the bt seat the arena is the send tier up, where you get to see the band but you also get to see all the fans,” Hetfield told me later. “Fet the band—look at the dience.”</p><p class="paywall">The days, the set list is mostly old songs, and the vibe is largely benevolent. Hetfield’s voice is low and scratchy, and n shift om ntemplative to feral a sgle note. He is prone to endg his phras wh a tight, curled snarl. He n still transform a “Yeah!” to a vast and terrifyg votn. He n also be tenr and earnt, which has recently led fans to ll him Papa Het. “This song go out to all who stggle,” Hetfield said before “Fa to Black,” a ballad about suici. “If you thk you’re the only one, ’s a lie. You n talk to your iends, talk to somebody, bee you are not alone.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">The band closed s enre wh “Enter Sandman,” another sgle om “Metalli.” Even if metal is not your bag, ’s hard to ny the menacg perfectn of the song’s openg riff: an E-mor chord, a wah-wah pedal, a sense that somethg dark and creepy is about to happen. Durg the chos, I looked over at Thompson, who had the dazed and exuberant look of someone who had been cured of a disease by an erant preacher. All around , people were rapt, ecstatic, and ee. “I get up there and sg, and I watch people change,” Hetfield told me.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Hetfield was born Downey, California, 1963. His mother, Cynthia, had two sons om a prev marriage. His father, Virgil, had fought the Send World War and started a tckg pany when he returned to California. “He did not have a great childhood,” Hetfield said of his father. “My grandfather was some crazy mician who me through town, and then off he went—image that,” he add, lghg. His parents were vout Christian Scientists, and had met church, where Virgil helped lead a weekly service. But Hetfield never nnected wh the relign. “It felt lonely,” he said. “When my dad was up there readg om the Scriptur, he was gettg tears his ey. It moved him. I didn’t get . I thought somethg was wrong wh me.” Hetfield relled beg embarrassed when he wasn’t allowed to attend health class, or receive a physil to play football. “I still rry shame about that,” he said. “How different we were to people.”</p><p class="paywall">When Hetfield was thirteen, his father left. “I went off to church mp, and I me back and he was gone,” he relled. Two years later, his mother veloped ncer, but refed medil treatment on relig grounds. “We watched her wher to nothg,” he said. “She had relign around her, si her. She had practners g over. But the ncer was stronger.” Hetfield is still not entirely sure what type of ncer she had. “Probably somethg really curable,” he said. For a long time, Hetfield was angry that his mother had rebuffed doctors. “I thought she red more about relign than she did her kids,” he said. “It wasn’t talked about, eher—if you’re talkg about , you’re givg power, and you want to take power away om . So admtg that you’re sick, that’s a no-no. We jt saw happeng.” Cynthia died when Hetfield was sixteen. “There was nothg solid to stand on,” he said. “I felt extremely lost.” On “The God That Failed,” an angry, punishg cut om “Metalli,” Hetfield sgs about the experience: “Broken is the promise, betrayal / The healg hand held back by the epened nail.”</p><p class="paywall">Ulrich had a very different sort of childhood. He was born Gentofte, Denmark, 1963. His father, Torben, was both a profsnal tennis player and a jazz cric (the saxophonist Dexter Gordon was Ulrich’s godfather), and his fay was worldly and cultured. (“We ate McDonald’s, he ate herrg,” Hetfield once said of the cultural divi.) Ulrich me to the U.S. 1979, when he was fifteen, to attend tennis mp. He end up at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Amy, Branton, Florida. He had been a promisg youth player Denmark, but he found the strictur of Amerin athletic trag stiflg. “Curfew at 9 <em class="small">P</em>.<em class="small">M</em>., ten o’clock lights out, four to a bunk room, and then wake up and eat rnflak and start htg forehands down the le for four hours, and then backhands crossurt for the next four hours,” he said. “That was jt too strgent and discipled for me.” When Ulrich was sixteen, his fay reloted to Newport Beach, California. “In Denmark, I was at the very top end of my age group the whole untry,” he said. “When I went to qualify for the tennis team at Corona l Mar High School, I wasn’t one of the seven bt tennis players at Corona l Mar High School. I don’t thk I was one of the seven bt tennis players on the street that I lived on.” Ulrich swched his foc to mic. 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origally known as <em>E-Z Buy E-Z Sell</em>. A iend of Hetfield’s answered the ad, and Hetfield tagged along. “He was pafully shy,” Ulrich said. “We stantly bond over the fact that we were loners and outsirs, and open to a bt-iend relatnship. Neher of had really found who we were yet.” Though their approach to songwrg were different—“He looks at mic as a math equatn, I look at as a flowg river,” Hetfield said—they plemented each other. “Both of were dreamers. At our bt, our relatnship was pletely ee of petive energy or one-up-ns,” Ulrich said. “But then when there were other people the room beme ‘Who is leadg?’ ”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Hetfield and Ulrich reced a send guarist, Dave Mtae, by placg another ad <em>The Recycler</em>. In 1982, Hetfield and Ulrich saw a group lled Trma perform at the Whisky a Go Go, a club on the Sunset Strip. They were awed by Cliff Burton, Trma’s twenty-year-old bass player, and began tryg to persua him to jo Metalli. Stt Ian, of Anthrax, said, “There was Cliff his flar and his Lynyrd Skynyrd p”—an afont to the punk-bted athetics of the thrash scene, which clud leather jackets, hefty boots, and studd belts. Unlike the members of Metalli, Burton had some mil trag. He played fgerpicked bass wh the boldns and harmonic sophistitn of a guarist. “He was always dog tricky stuff that would make me thk, Fuck, man, where is this guy gettg this om?” Kirk Hammett said. “He was jt so . . . mil.”</p><p class="paywall">In orr to get Burton, who was based El Cerro, a small cy across the bay om San Francis, Hetfield and Ulrich agreed to move there, rentg an unassumg hoe on Carlson Boulevard and rehearsg the garage. Mtae moved to a un on Burton’s grandmother’s property. Tim were lean. “We’d fd a tomato and some mayonnaise and make tomato sandwich and thk we were highbrow metalheads,” Mtae relled. Ulrich scribed the band’s early days as feelg immediate, unplited: “There was only that moment, and ‘Where’s the beer?’ ”</p><p class="paywall">In early 1983, Metalli was signed by Jonny Zazula—better known as Jonny Z.—a part-time ncert promoter who sold heavy-metal rerds at an door flea market on Route 18 East Bnswick, New Jersey. It was still difficult to buy imported metal albums at mastream rerd shops, and a scene of sorts had spng up around Zazula’s booth. One weekend, Zazula asked Stt Ian if he wanted to hear “No Life ’Til Leather,” a seven-song mo that Metalli rerd before Burton joed. The songs were raw and ranged, distguished by the band’s adolcent mania and Hetfield’s tenncy to down-pick, which rulted a thicker, heavier feel. “Holy fuck,” Ian said. “Nothg sound like that before Metalli. Straight up. It was like electricy was g out of the tape player. Jonny Z. said, ‘I’m brgg them to New York. We’re gonna make an album.’ I’m, like, ‘You know how to do that?’ And he go, ‘No!’ ”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="7zgut"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Zazula and his wife, Marsha, found Megaforce Rerds after shoppg the Metalli mo around and failg to get an offer. When the Zazulas started Megaforce, Jonny Z. was servg a six-month sentence a halfway hoe, for nspiracy to m wire d. (He’d been employed by a pany that passed off scrap metal as tantalum, a rare element ed the manufacture of pacors.) He spent his weekdays feedg quarters to a pay phone, attemptg to book shows. “I jt got ught this passn, like there’s this ltle Led Zeppel hangg out El Cerro, you know?” Zazula, who died earlier this year, told Mick Wall, the thor of “Enter Night: A Bgraphy of Metalli.” Zazula sent the band members fifteen hundred dollars so they uld drive east a U-Hl wh their gear. In “Mtae,” a 2010 tobgraphy, Mtae remembers rollg out of bed, “bleary eyed, huner, and smellg like bad ttage chee,” and noticg the tck parked out ont. “We stopped for beer ls than a e after pullg out of the driveway and remaed a dnken stupor for most of the trip,” he wrote.</p><p class="paywall">Although Mtae was tegral to Metalli’s early sound and songwrg, Hetfield and Ulrich felt that his feroc drkg ma him a liabily—no small feat a group that would later embrace the nickname Alholi. Not long after Metalli arrived on the East Coast, Mtae was hand a b ticket back to California. “I went to the only place that I uld go to—my mom’s—and started over,” Mtae said. That year, he formed Megath, which has sold fifty ln rerds to date, and which recently released s sixteenth album, “The Sick, the Dyg . . . and the Dead!”</p><p class="paywall">Mark Whaker, who managed Exod, another Bay Area metal band, suggted Kirk Hammett, Exod’s twenty-year-old lead guarist, to replace Mtae. Hammett was born San Francis 1962. He liked ic books and horror movi, and his mother, who was Filipo, turned him on to Billie Holiday and Ella Fzgerald. Hammett wasn’t close wh his father, a merchant mare. “When he drank, he was vlent. When he wasn’t dnk, he was verbally abive,” Hammett said. “I was a pulsive rear, and he would say thgs like ‘Kirk, he’s a bookworm, he’s not good at football,’ or whatever. I saw a lot of btal behavr when I was a kid. Who’s the tought? Who’s the meant? Who’s the most domant? Some of that bbed off on me.”</p><p class="paywall">That sprg, Metalli ved Hammett to e east to dn. It was his first time outsi California. “I might as well have land on Mars,” Hammett told me. He had first enuntered the band at a metal showse San Francis. “Jam was quiet, and probably the sknit person I’d ever seen. Lars . . . I’d never seen someone so European-lookg. I was om the hood, you know? I grew up around a bunch of Mexins, Filipos, Che, and Ain Amerins. I didn’t see Europeans. I didn’t even see full-on whe people.” The meetg was brief, and blurred by alhol. “When I me out to New York, I wasn’t a hundred per cent sure they remembered me or what I looked like,” Hammett said. The first song he played wh the band was “Seek and Dtroy.” He got the job. At the time, Metalli was livg a n-down practice space Jamai, Queens. There was no heat, hot water, showers, or beds. “I would wrap my leather jacket to a pillow,” Hammett said.</p><p class="paywall">“Kill ’Em All” was released on July 25, 1983, on Zazula’s Megaforce Rerds. Hetfield scrib the rerd’s them as “headbangg, ath, and blood.” “Ri the Lightng” followed a year later. From the start, Metalli refed to pulate, stylistilly or otherwise, to anythg happeng around . “They have, more than any other major morn band, nsistently ignored what other groups were tryg to do,” the cric Chuck Klosterman told me. The band members drsed as though they spent most of their days loerg outsi a gas statn. Their mic was harsh, fast, and difficult. “We were always g up agast people who were tellg , ‘We n’t play you on the rad,’ or ‘You guys are too ugly,’ ” Hammett said.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">For Metalli, the ia was never to sce an dience, but to ph away. The fans who stuck around—who perhaps unrstood this as a kd of love—beme voted, and received votn return.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">In 1984, Metalli left Megaforce, signed to Elektra Rerds, and agreed to a management al wh Q-Prime, a new firm specializg heavy metal. Cliff Burnste, an owner of Q-Prime, found that promotg Metalli to a general dience was nearly impossible. Ameri was the grip of a bizarre moral enzy—the Satanic Panic, which lked heavy metal wh monic ruals—and the band had cultivated a reputatn as dangero. “When we had a tour, I would get touch wh rad statns along the way and try to get them to play Metalli,” Burnste relled. “The typil rponse I’d get was ‘No, you will never hear Metalli on our statn.’ So then my rponse would be ‘I’d like to give you tickets to give away.’ And the typil rponse to that was ‘We will not even say the name Metalli on our statn.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">To some gree, trepidatn was warranted. Burnste relled a show at the Felt Fom, a smaller theatre wh Madison Square Garn. “Durg the first song, one person ripped a chair chn off and flung onstage. By the end of the song, there was not a chn left on a chair,” he said. “Instead of gettg paid, we paid Madison Square Garn for the damag.” At a particularly lamo show at the Long Beach Arena, California, “people were rippg fixtur out of the bathroom, people were hangg om the balny,” Burnste said. Hetfield and Ulrich later appeared on the rad to ask fans to stop trashg the venu.</p><p class="paywall">But the Metalli experience was not signed to be iendly. Hetfield would sometim antagonize the dience, growlg, “Hey, any time this stuff gets too heavy for you . . . tough sh!” Offstage, the members of Metalli provoked one another, particularly Ulrich and Hetfield. Their plex, brotherly dynamic—Hetfield was posssive; Ulrich was mandg—sometim threatened to overwhelm the band. “We would get dnk, and jt start ,” Hammett said. “I remember once Jam got up and phed Lars, and Lars lerally flew across the room. We would see each other and start wrtlg. We uld be a room of twenty people and we’d fixate on each other. No one else mattered.” To an extent, Metalli thrived on nflict. “Toxic masculy has fuelled this band,” Hammett said. “I’m still stg around sayg, ‘O.K., I’m gonna wre a really, really tough, kick-ass riff.’ Jt look at my rhetoric there: <em>tough</em>, <em>kick-ass</em> riff. It’s an aggrsn that everyone feels, but was ratcheted up —this weird mascule macho bullsh thg.”</p><p class="paywall">In September, 1985, the band flew to Copenhagen to make s next album, “Master of Puppets.” The rerd spent seventy-two weeks on the <em>Billboard</em> 200, and beme the band’s first album to go gold. <em>Rollg Stone</em> lled “pure apolyptic dread.” Many still nsir the greatt thrash rerd of all time. “Master of Puppets” clos wh “Damage, Inc.,” a sharp, floggg song that feels like beg locked a battg ge wh a malfunctng pchg mache. Lyrilly, offers both affirmatn and absolutn. “Fuck all and fuckg no regrets,” Hetfield screams.</p><p class="paywall">In 1986, the band secured a slot openg for Ozzy Osbourne, the former volist for Black Sabbath, on the Amerin leg of a solo tour. “I’ve had a special place my heart for Metalli ever sce they went on tour wh me the eighti,” Osbourne told me. “In my opn, they took over where Sabbath left off, and they serve everythg they’ve achieved.” The n was a succs. “Nety per cent of the people those sold-out arenas didn’t know who Metalli were, and they blew people’s bras out,” Stt Ian said.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="34secb"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO KhjZz AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image rponsive-image--expandable"><noscript><img alt="Members of the band Metalli their rehearsal space." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE iTuhkZ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hWyo iXWezO ptn__text">The band s rehearsal space.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd iicloT jbIJNS ptn__cred">Photograph by Ian Allen for The New Yorker</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">That fall, Metalli headled a European tour. On September 27th, the band was travellg overnight through Swen when s b skidd off the road. Cliff Burton, the bassist, was tossed through a wdow. Hetfield, Ulrich, and Hammett stood outsi their unrwear, the stark and igid dawn, starg at Burton’s legs while they waed for a crane to lift the b off the rt of his body. Burton was twenty-four. His ath was sudn and gome. Anthrax had been openg for Metalli. “We sat a room together and jt drank and drank,” Ian told me. “It was really hard for them the late eighti, gog to the neti, never really takg the time to properly grieve or procs .” He psed. “Who knew how to do that?”</p><p class="paywall">Ls than a month after Burton’s ath, the band hired the bassist Jason Newsted, and soon began rerdg s fourth album, “. . . And Jtice for All,” which is famo for the sgle “One,” and for ntag almost no dible bass. Whether that was the rult of Newsted’s hewg too close to Hetfield’s rhythm guar, or of hazg born om h grief, remas unclear. “When I joed the band, everybody was full alholic,” Newsted said. “They had lost their gui. Cliff was their teacher.”</p><p class="paywall">For s fifth album, “Metalli,” 1991—known as the Black Album bee of s “Spal Tap”-que monochromatic ver art, which featur only a iled snake and the band’s name—the band hired the Canadian producer Bob Rock, who had prevly worked on blockbter releas by Bon Jovi, Aerosmh, and Mötley Crüe. The rerd’s them are bleak (the sgle “Enter Sandman” was wrten about sudn fant ath syndrome), but the songs are limber, tchy, and dynamic. Hammett relled a nversatn wh Rock about how the band might achieve even greater fame. “The work don’t stop after you fish rerdg. Every sgle terview, every sgle appearance, every sgle everythg—you need to do all,” Hammett said. “That’s what Jon Bon Jovi did.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The Black Album ultimately spent six hundred and twenty-five weeks on the <em>Billboard</em> charts and sold almost thirty-five ln pi worldwi, beg one of the bt-sellg albums of all time. Five sgl—“Enter Sandman,” “The Unfiven,” “Nothg Else Matters,” “Wherever I May Roam,” and “Sad but Te”—entered the Hot 100, and the band beme a mastay on MTV and morn-rock rad. “A lot of people talk down about , or say that Metalli sold out,” Kerry Kg, of Slayer, told me. “Would I have wanted another ‘Damage, Inc.’? Fuck yeah. But wasn’t on that rerd. And that rerd ma them fuckg superstars.”</p><p class="paywall">The followg year, the band -headled a stadium tour wh Guns N’ Ros. At a show Montreal, there was a mismunitn about pyrotechnic cu durg “Fa to Black,” and Hetfield stepped directly to a twelve-foot plume of flame, sufferg send- and third-gree burns on his hand and arm. After he was taken to the hospal, Guns N’ Ros waed more than two hours to go on; Axl Rose, Guns N’ Ros’ mercurial ont man, then left the stage early. Rts broke out. Cars were turned over, bonfir were started, merch s were smashed wh rocks. In retrospect, Montreal was the end of somethg. Gnge, a righteo new subset of hard rock, ma a pot of rejectg the excs and dumbns of the eighti: no more women wrhg across the hoods of rs, no more peackg sktight leather troers. Metalli had always repudiated such extravagance—the members wore jeans and black T-shirts and worked hard—but the band was nohels at risk of beg stuck on the wrong si of the cultural divi.</p><p class="paywall">One potential solutn was for Metalli to posn self as anthetil to Guns N’ Ros and other bands of that ilk. The 1992 documentary “A Year and a Half the Life of Metalli” featur a scene which Hetfield mocks Rose’s personal backstage rir, which clud a cup of cubed ham, a rib-eye-steak dner, a gourmet chee tray, a h pepperoni pizza, Prgl, and a bottle of what Hetfield lls “Dom Perig-non.” In the vio for “Nothg Else Matters,” Ulrich is briefly shown pullg darts out of a photo of Kip Wger, the suave and flashy volist for the metal band Wger. In 1996, Metalli released “Load,” s sixth album, which was followed, 1997, by a pann piece, “Reload.” Both rerds are loose and bluy by Metalli standards. Before the release of “Load,” all four members cut their hair short, which ma certa fans apoplectic.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="mwdol"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Hetfield now believ that “Load” and “Reload” were shaped too acutely by a sire for reventn. “We’ve always been very anic. ‘Load’ and ‘Reload’ felt different to me,” he said. “Felt forced.” It was an unsteady time for Metalli. In 2000, the band, led by a seethg Ulrich, filed a lawsu agast the file-sharg work Napster, after an unreleased versn of “I Disappear,” a song rerd for the “Missn: Impossible 2” soundtrack, was leaked on the work. Ulrich sists that the lawsu was not about money but about ntrol. He was right to be outraged, but the technology was new, he was rich, and most of the people g Napster were llege stunts pajama pants. Ulrich was monized. He was also prcient. “I take no solace that at all,” he told me. “It was a street fight. It was ‘You’re fuckg wh , we’re gonna fuck wh you.’ And then jt ran amok. In retrospect, uld we have done a better job of seeg that g? Probably.”</p><p class="paywall">In 2001, Newsted left the band, cg physil damage to his body and a dispute wh Hetfield about a solo project. “When you’re one of the four that make the thg go round, the sacrific that you have to make . . . ’s not for everyone, man,” Newsted said. “That’s why there’s only one band like this.” Bob Rock agreed to temporarily fill on bass as Metalli began work on “St. Anger,” s eighth album. Three months to the ssns, Hetfield abptly entered an tensive rehabilatn program, mostly for alholism, and then he dited himself to afterre and fay therapy. In total, Hetfield took eleven months off om Metalli. 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He would work only om noon to 4 <em class="small">P</em>.<em class="small">M</em>., so that he uld attend meetgs and spend time wh his children. His bandmat chafed agast the new rtrictns. Wh some nudgg om Q-Prime, Metalli had been workg wh Phil Towle, a performance ach who functned more like a therapist, and kept him on the payroll until started to seem as though he wanted to jo the band. Ulrich’s father arrived om Denmark to listen to some early songs. His reactn? “I would lete that.”</p><p class="paywall">Metalli also still need to fd a permanent bassist. Robert Tjillo, a former member of the thrash-punk band Suicidal Tennci, was ved to dn. Tjillo, who was born Santa Moni 1964, to a Mexin mother and a Native Amerin and Spanish father, is thoughtful and serene. He wears his bass low and his long black hair braids. When he performs wh Metalli, he often creeps across the stage, seawg om one leg to the other, a move that fans have dubbed the “crab walk.” His bass dn took place over two days. “The first day, I was jt a fly on the wall. And then at about eleven o’clock at night Lars go, ‘Hey, do you want to go get a drk?’ We end up drkg until five the morng,” Tjillo told me. “People ask me, ‘Was there any hazg? Were you tted any kd of way?’ I thk that might have been part of for him. At 9 <em class="small">A</em>.<em class="small">M</em>. he’s on the treadl, and I’m there wh this massive haner.” That eveng, Metalli offered Tjillo a place the band. He was still wearg one of Ulrich’s Armani T-shirts om the night before. (Early the next year, they gave him a ln-dollar signg bon.)</p><p class="paywall">In what might be the most fortuo timg the history of documentary film, the directors Joe Berlger and Bce Sofsky had been place to shoot the makg of “St. Anger” for a goofy promotnal gimmick—a seri of late-night mercials advertisg the new rerd. Instead, they created a full-length film, “Metalli: Some Kd of Monster,” which was released 2004. The days, big-budget mic documentari tend to be produced or even directed by the artists themselv, and to unfold predictable ways: a ltle tensn, a lot of eback. But “Some Kd of Monster” shows Metalli, a band famo for beg seemgly imperv even to the ath of one of s members, at s clumsit and most vulnerable. When I first saw the movie, I was twenty-four and found the ngy of —some guy a sweater askg Metalli to talk about feelgs—funny; now, at forty-two, I fd unbelievably poignant.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">In the end, Metalli ma a rerd wh all the feated energy of a skg stone. “St. Anger” is airls, and lacks magic. (It also lacks guar solos.) “Eh, ’s hont,” Hetfield told me, shggg. “You might not intify wh , or you don’t like the sound. But that’s where we were, and that’s what we put out. It’ll have s time, maybe.” He lghed. “Maybe not!”</p><p class="paywall">Somehow, Metalli managed to survive. “It was the four of a room wh our stments, lookg at each other and gog, ‘O.K., starts aga, right now, this moment,’ ” Hammett said. The ia of movg on, and never lookg back, has long been central to the band’s ethos. Though would be strange to talk about Metalli’s mic as hopeful or optimistic— is not—the band has been propelled, a nearly pathologil way, by a kd of anti-nostalgia, a eic fah whatever next. “The past jt fucks thgs up—always,” Hetfield said to <em>Rollg Stone</em> 1993. Ulrich told me that he ntemplat the band’s history only when he’s beg terviewed, and that even then tends to assume an unnny, almost mythic qualy.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="4i7wlg"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">In 2007, the band hired Rick Rub to produce s nth stud album, “Death Magic,” and Rub proposed a thought experiment to the members: What kd of rerd would they make if Metalli didn’t exist? “The weight of the tle ‘Metalli’ is a heavy one,” Rub told me. “What is the mic you wre if nobody has heard of you before?” To an extent, every Metalli rerd is a ncept album about ath—wantg , fearg —but none embrac dyg que as explicly as “Death Magic.” The songs are fast, plex, ornery, and surprisg. There are elaborate, harmonized guar solos, rhythm chang, and lyrics that nsir the lite membrane separatg the still livg om the gone forever. “Jt a Bullet Away,” an outtake, se Hetfield aga imagg, a close and timate way, what might feel like to kill onelf. “All reflectns look the same / In the she of the midnight revolver,” he sgs, his voice shudrg. If Hetfield saw his mother’s unwillgns to receive medil treatment as an advertent embrace of ath, rather than as an exprsn of fah, would make sense for his life’s work to terrogate that impulse. “There are tim when I’m so aaid of dyg,” Hetfield told me. “Other tim, ’s, like, I’m good,” he said. “I feel cleaned up si.”</p><p class="paywall">In September, 2019, Hetfield returned to rehab, and the band ncelled a tour of Atralia and New Zealand; five months later, Metalli pulled out of two Amerin ftivals, bee, as Hetfield explaed a msage to fans, “I have cril revery events on those weekends that nnot be moved.” “It wasn’t a tune-up, that’s for sure,” Hetfield said of that stt rehab. “It was me droppg the toolbox and sayg, ‘I don’t need this. I’m tired of this.’ It was too much work beg on the road and tryg to stay nnected wh home. I was not rg for myself. I know that’s kd of the theme here—me not knowg how to take re of myself.”</p><p class="paywall">The hammerg tle track of Metalli’s tenth album, “Hardwired . . . to Self-Dtct” (2016), grappl wh whether ’s possible to thwart our most damagg tennci. “On the way to paranoia / On the crooked borrle / On the way to great stroyer / Doom sign,” Hetfield barks. His rponse to help is sometim aggrsn. “I don’t like beg told what to do,” he said. “I n intify what the problem is, easy. But what’s the solutn?” He psed. “I don’t know if I want to hear the solutn. I kd of want to still be stuck my sh.” Earlier this year, Hetfield filed for divorce om Franc Tomasi, his wife of twenty-five years. Hetfield ntu to ce Tomasi as ccial to his early sobriety. “She was the one that threw me out of the hoe to go fd help. 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I’ve felt , as a fan—the edg of my nscns get a ltle blurry, maybe I fet where I am. He nodd. “There are many nam for . I ll gettg the zone,” he said. “You’re not feelg shameful about past stuff, you’re not future-trippg fear about what’s g up next. You’re right there, and you’re dog exactly what you need to do.” He went on, “I thk everyone search for that sense of prence. I searched for the wrong medic for a long time. I jt wanted to turn my head off. That worked until didn’t work. Fdg a new god that isn’t alhol . . . yeah, that’s what I’m still work’ on.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">This past sprg, the San Francis Giants hosted Metalli Night at Oracle Park. Hetfield and Hammett were schled to perform an stmental versn of the natnal anthem on their guars, and Hetfield would throw out the first pch. The day before, they nvened at what Metalli lls HQ—an nspicuo, semi-dtrial plex San Rafael. It ntas the band’s admistrative offic, a stud, nference rooms, and a verno practice space rated wh hand-pated flags om around the world and other fan-ma ephemera. Hetfield and Hammett ran through the anthem a few tim. There was some msg around. There were some big riffs. In their hands, the anthem beme burly, lawls, and tough.</p><p class="paywall">The followg afternoon, Hetfield warmed up outsi the park wh one of the band’s physil therapists. He was throwg hard. “Better to go too far than to have bloop-bloop-bloop to the plate,” Hetfield said. Earlier, the greenroom, he had watched a vio of Mariah Carey’s famo first pch at the Tokyo Dome, 2008, which she spectacularly whiffed wearg four-ch platform heels, big sunglass, and short shorts. “This seems much harr to do hot pants,” he said.</p><p class="paywall">I asked Hetfield if he was more nervo about the pch than about the anthem. “Oh, yeah,” he said. Football is more his game. Hetfield grew up rootg for the Oakland Rairs, before the team moved to Las Vegas, and he said that playg the Rairs’ new stadium Vegas had been “a big al.” He met the quarterback Derek Carr that night after sound check. “He’s a super-spirual guy, and I nnected right away wh that,” he said. “I was a total dork, like, ‘Derek, this is gonna be weird, but n I get your phone number?’ I never ask anyone for that. We text back and forth.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa RaHuL body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT wPHY"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO KhjZz AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image rponsive-image--expandable"><noscript><img alt="Lars Ulrich's dm set photographed by Ian Allen." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE iTuhkZ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hWyo iXWezO ptn__text">Lars Ulrich’s dm set. From the start, Metalli refed to pulate, stylistilly or otherwise, to anythg around .</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd iicloT jbIJNS ptn__cred">Photograph by Ian Allen for The New Yorker</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">When was time to n through the anthem, which would take place near the pcher’s mound, a secury guard—olr, tty—stopped Hetfield. “I gotta sn ya,” he barked, reachg for Hetfield’s crential. “You gotta sn me?” Hetfield lghed, wh the crly of someone who has not been stopped by a secury guard several s. “I gotta sn ya,” the guy repeated, unmoved. On the field, players—cludg the outfielrs Mike Yastrzemski and Joc Person—led up to pay their rpects. Alex Wood, a pcher, appeared holdg a Sharpie and a bottle of Blackened whiskey that he keeps his locker.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">After sound check, Hammett and I sat high the empty stands, overlookg the bay. The sky was wi and cloudls. “This area here ed to be filled wh n-down wareho and factori om the forti,” Hammett said, potg across the water. “After school, me and my iends, still our Catholic-school uniforms, ed to prowl around down here and throw rocks. All the wdows were already broken out, but we’d try to get the last shards of glass.”</p><p class="paywall">Sce jog Metalli, Hammett has had to fd a way to survive a band led by two alpha mal. “If you’re a lead guarist of that kd of talent, the ia that you’d be third when people are listg band members—most people uld not live wh that,” Burnste, of Q-Prime, told me. “But Kirk is a pure player. He liv to play.” Hammett, who is Buddhist, will talk at length about nscns, God, enlightenment, ronance, Nirvana. He believ that the work he do wh Metalli is an extensn of some sublime and omnipotent creative force. “I put myself this space where I take all the creativy around me and I channel to create more,” he said. His hope is that Metalli facilat a healg sort of fellowship. “We are so nonnomatnal,” he said, lghg. “Come to the Church of Metalli. You’ll bee a member and rejoice! You don’t have to direct anythg at . You n direct at the experience that you’re havg.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="p9d55"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">That eveng, Hetfield and Hammett shredd their way through the anthem. Afterward, Hetfield hand off his guar and stro toward the pcher’s mound. The throw was good. Strong, assured, unwaverg. Straight across the plate.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">In July, the Netflix seri “Stranger Thgs”—which follows a group of rangy, anx teens as they attempt to save their home town om a spooky alternative dimensn known as the Upsi Down—débuted the send part of s fourth season. The show is the platform’s most watched origal seri. The ma protagonists are vote of Dungeons & Dragons and members of somethg lled the Hellfire Club, which is led by a sweet metalhead named Eddie Munson. In the season fale, Munson, who preach nonnformy as a kd of sanctifyg practice, volunteers—spoiler alert!—to sacrifice himself, and do so while standg on the roof of a trailer the Upsi Down, playg the guar solo om the song “Master of Puppets.” (The season is set 1986.) Two weeks after the episo was released, “Master of Puppets,” which is more than eight mut long, appeared on the Hot 100 for the first time, at No. 40. (The show gave a siar boost to Kate Bh’s “Runng Up That Hill (A Deal wh God),” which me out 1985.) “Master of Puppets” entered the Top Ten on Spotify’s U.S. chart, and the Top Fifty on s global chart; soon, had been streamed more than half a billn tim.</p><p class="paywall">Unsurprisgly, olr Metalli fans found the attentn annoyg. It’s easy to fet that, the mid-eighti, publicly intifyg as a Metalli fan often meant beg labelled a dggie, a weirdo, a creep; back then, a person suffered socially for an allegiance to thrash. The ia that te metal fandom requir weatherg such stigma is foundatnal and long-standg. Yet the band was quick to embrace s new alyt. Metalli’s members even filmed themselv wearg Hellfire Club T-shirts and jammg along to footage of Munson’s solo. In a pned ment on s official TikTok, the band clarified s open-door policy: “FYI—EVERYONE is wele the Metalli Fay. Whether you’ve been a fan for 40 hours or 40 years.” Well, fe. The solo was rerd for the show by Tye Tjillo, Robert Tjillo’s eighteen-year-old son. The hope was that would sound raw and eic, as though a teen-ager were playg . “I don’t thk Tye fully unrstood how this thg was gonna blossom,” Tjillo told me. “I liked that. At our hoe, we don’t have a whole lot of TV gog all the time. We live Topanga Canyon, and there’s a lot of time to play mic and make art and go hikg and surfg. In some ways, he’s sheltered om the energy around the kds of thgs. 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When the band first played the ftival, 1996, the bookg angered Perry Farrell, Lollapalooza’s -founr and the ont man of the alt-rock band Jane’s Addictn. “A lot of people were pissed,” Burnste told me. “I unrstand how Perry felt—like his alternative thg was beg -opted.” He add, “Of urse, there was Perry last night backstage, sayg hi to the guys.” The days, Lollapalooza is mostly distguishable om any other major Amerin mic ftival. The weekend’s other headlers clud the pop star Dua Lipa, the rapper J. Cole, and the pop-punk band Green Day. In the wake of “Stranger Thgs,” Metalli was now the most newsworthy act on the bill.</p><p class="paywall">The night before the show, the band met Grant Park to film a short sk wh Joseph Qun, the twenty-ne-year-old Brish actor who plays Munson. “You’re taller than on the TV,” Hetfield joked, shakg Qun’s hand. The band took Qun to s tung trailer to jam. “I’ll give you a four unt,” Ulrich said, dmsticks aloft. Qun left wh a signed guar; the vio was posted to the band’s social-media acunts. Afterward, the band went onstage to rehearse. It had raed earlier the day, and the ground was slick wh mud. I stood on a piece of plywood a mostly empty field and watched Metalli warm up.</p><p class="paywall">Hetfield has evolved to a magic ont man. Early on, he said, his stage persona—cky, aggrsive, hard—was mostly aspiratnal. “Beg up onstage is a fantasy world,” he said. “Everyone is out there sprklg you wh wonrful dt. You start to believe , and then you get home and you go, ‘Where’s my dt?’ ” he said. “Not so wonrful now, stg here alone wh two ts, takg the garbage out.” On tour, he said, the days off are harr than the days on. There’s nowhere to funnel the energy; time turns to a strange, limal expanse. “My body is tired, but my md is still gog. What do I do wh that?” he said. “I jt ask people the crew, or iends, or my assistant, ‘Hey, n you jt s down and watch TV wh me?’ ” “Moth Into Flame,” a song om “Hardwired . . . to Self Dtct,” is about the toxitn of celebry. “I believe the addictn to fame is a real thg,” Hetfield said. “I’ve got my ltle revery posse on the road to help me out. We’ll say a prayer before gog onstage: ‘Jam, you’re a human beg. You’re gog to die. You’re here dog service. You’re dog the bt you n.’ That is helpful for me.”</p><p class="paywall">The followg afternoon, the park filled wh thoands of Metalli shirts, many of which looked nspicuoly new. The atmosphere backstage was relaxed. I sat on a wicker uch wh Robert Tjillo and drank a brand of nned water lled Liquid Death. One of the group’s trailers was labelled “Yoga.” Shortly before Metalli’s set, I climbed a riser on the edge of the stage so that I uld see both the band and the crowd. Ftival sets n be hard—much of the dience had been bobbg the late-July sun for ne hours by the time Metalli took the stage—but the energy was high. “Master of Puppets” has been a fixture on the band’s set list for s, but now ’s been granted extra promence as the fal song of the enre. As Hammett began to play the solo, footage of Eddie Munson appeared on huge screens flankg the stage. The crowd went nuts. I clung to the edge of the riser. For a moment, felt as though all of Chigo were shakg.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-7 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">After Metalli’s set, Ulrich shed off to the Metro, a rock club near Wrigley Field. His two olst sons—Myl and Layne—play an excellent bass-and-dms duo lled Taipei Hoton, and had a gig openg for the Brish band Idl. “That was the past, this is the future!” Ulrich joked, sprtg toward a wag S.U.V. wearg a navy-blue bathrobe wh the hood up. At the Metro, he stood the V.I.P. balny, glowg wh pri. After the set, as Myl and Layne dutifully broke down their gear, Ulrich chatted wh the club’s owner, Joe Shanahan, about the first time Metalli played the Metro, Augt of 1983, openg for the metal band Raven. Ulrich was neteen.</p><p class="paywall">Later, over tea at his hotel, I asked Ulrich about the “Stranger Thgs” phenomenon. He leaned back, sangue: “If you and I were stg here twenty years ago, thirty years ago, back then was really only about the mic. Partakg the sorts of opportuni would have been nsired sellg out. But the culture is so much more fivg of the typ of thgs now.” He ntued, “When you’ve been around as long as we have, you have to kd of ebb and flow. I don’t thk there were any wrps about Lollapalooza this morng that didn’t mentn Eddie, didn’t mentn ‘Stranger Thgs.’ And ’s not like ‘Eh, what the fuck, is the mic not good enough?’ It’s like . . . ’s ol.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">In 2021, the band released “The Metalli Blacklist,” a llectn of fifty-three vers of songs om the Black Album, honor of the rerd’s thirtieth anniversary. Twelve of the fifty-three artists chose to ver “Nothg Else Matters,” which Hetfield wrote when the band was on tour support of “. . . And Jtice for All.” Elton John once pared “Nothg Else Matters” (favorably) to “Greensleev.” It is, by my acuntg, Metalli’s first song about romantic love. Hetfield n be y about s origs—he missed his girliend; he found that feelg embarrassg—but is also te that, sce s ial release, “Nothg Else Matters” has e to sound ls specifilly romantic and more like an o to any kd of life-stag votn. It’s technilly a waltz, but feels like the last of the great power ballads: momento, tortured, thartic, triumphant. The Metalli muny often talks about the track as a fan anthem of sorts. In moments of ep munn wh the band and s mic, nothg else matters. It’s an emotnal song, but a terrifyg one, too. “What’s heavier than love?” Stt Ian said.</p><p class="paywall">This sort of vulnerabily was once anathema to Metalli—“What I’ve felt, what I’ve known / Never shed through what I’ve shown,” Hetfield sgs on “The Unfiven”—but now feels central to the band’s missn. The sger and songwrer Kris Kristofferson, a longtime supporter, praised Metalli’s humany and good will. “I’m a huge fan of their mic, but even more so of the remarkable human begs they are,” he told me. “All heart.” In nversatn, I found Hetfield warm and disarmgly open. He often quired after my baby dghter. When I mentned that I was havg a hard time sleepg my hotel room, he remd me that was important to have somethg om home. “My dghter gave me the ston—what are they lled? Crystals,” he said. “You’ve gotta brg somethg. A pillowse, some lavenr oil.”</p><p class="paywall">One afternoon, I asked Hetfield if he felt as though he’d fally found the life and muny he’d always wanted: he liv Colorado, huntg, beekeepg, spendg time outdoors; he se iends; he tours wh Metalli. He psed to nsir the qutn. “Will I ever adm that I found ? Will I ever allow myself to be happy enough to say I found ? Maybe that’s a lifelong qut, the search for fay,” he said. “When my fay distegrated, early on life, I found mic, I found the band. I remember Lars beg the first one to buy a hoe and have iends over, and I was, like, ‘Who are the people? You didn’t ve me! You’re cheatg on me wh another fay!’ Obvly, our fans have bee a kd of worldwi fay. But at the end of the day they say they love you and you kd of go, ‘O.K. . . . what do that really mean?’ ”</p><p class="paywall">But they do at least love a versn of you, I ventured—the versn of you that exists the work.</p><p class="paywall">“Yeah, and what versn is that?” Hetfield untered.</p><p class="paywall">It was a naïve thought, prumg that he uld cloister or leate a self the ntext of a band he has led his entire adult life. “Metalli is bigger than the dividual members,” Burnste told me. “And to some extent, their liv, they are subservient to the ia of Metalli.” That feelg of obligatn has kept the band gog, by givg shape to what s members have sacrificed. “The fifth member of Metalli is the llective,” Ulrich said. “People say, ‘What do Metalli mean to you?’ It’s jt a fuck’ . . . ’s a state of md.” He psed. “Metalli is the whole energy of the universe. 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SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg egpoQR summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Tan Submersible Was “an Accint Wag to Happen”" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd jxOIpm cPtisA summary-em__k">Interviews and e-mails wh expedn lears and employe reveal how OceanGate ignored sperate warngs om si and outsi the pany. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY cgDBtc summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH dSEWiO byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" 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640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Elon Mk’s Shadow Rule" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd jxOIpm cPtisA summary-em__k">How the U.S. ernment me to rely on the tech billnaire—and is now stgglg to re him .</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY cgDBtc summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH dSEWiO byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd jslZfG gnILss 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