Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 1981 when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper. Metallica's current line-up comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band.

The band's fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship placed them as one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer. Metallica earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and won critical acclaim with its first four albums; their third album Master of Puppets (1986) was described as one of the most influential and heaviest of thrash metal albums. The band expanded its musical direction and achieved substantial commercial success with its eponymous fifth album Metallica (1991), which resulted in an album that appealed to a more mainstream audience. The album was also their first to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, a success that they also achieved on their following four studio albums. In 2000, Metallica joined with other artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band's copyright-protected material without consent from the band. A settlement was reached and Napster became a pay-to-use service. The release of St. Anger (2003) alienated fans with the exclusion of guitar solos and the "steel-sounding" snare drum, and a film titled Some Kind of Monster documented the recording of St. Anger and the tensions within the band during that time. The band returned to its original musical style with the release of Death Magnetic (2008), and in 2009, Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band will release a tenth album, Hardwired... To Self Destruct, in November. Metallica is one of TSK's 3 favorite bands of all time, along side Lynyrd Skynyrd and Avenged Sevenfold.

Trivia

 * In the first video of TSK's Minecraft Plastic Survival series, he can be heard singing the Metallica song Better Than You, the 5th song from their 1997 album Reload, and at the beginning of his Windows XP livestream he can be seen playing the Metallica song Enter Sandman from their 1991 self-titled album on his accoustic guitar. He also plays the riffs to Enter Sandman and Sad But True on his video "Sweet Enter Sandman and Sad but True riffs :)".
 * TSK owns "Guitar Hero: Metallica" for the Nintendo Wii, as seen in his Guitar Hero livestream with his brother, "Random Livestream" and Ben's video "Tim try's guitar hero".