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Everyone knows Metallica’s big hitters, but these predominantly later-period tracks also deserve your love and attention…
Words: Nick Ruskell
Back in 2000, we ran down a list of the most influential bands in rock history. At Number One were Metallica, with our reasoning summed up as: you’re a rock band formed in the past two decades, they will have had an impact on you.
A fair chunk of Metallica’s music is self-evidently important. Everyone knows all of Master Of Puppets. Everyone’s got The Black Album. It’s like eating food and saying you’re a fan of plates – it’s so fundamental that you don’t really get a choice, it’s just there, unless you like eating with your hands like some kind of savage.