Metallica

Metallica is a heavy metal band originating in the USA. Founded in 1981 in Los Angeles by Danish Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield, who would join them and Ron McGovney Lloyd Grant. These two musicians were later replaced by guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Cliff Burton, respectively. Mustaine was fired a year after joining the band due to his excessive addiction to drugs and alcohol, and founded the band Megadeth and was replaced by Kirk Hammett. Moreover, in 1986, the death of Cliff Burton in a bus accident in Sweden brought out to the group of Jason Newsted, [2] that, fifteen years later, after his defection would be replaced by current bassist, Robert Trujillo .

To date, the band has released nine studio albums. Metallica's total sales exceeding 100 million, [3] and are considered one of the big four of thrash metal along with Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. [4] In addition, the group has won numerous music awards, among which nine Grammys, two awards from the music channel MTV, two awards of the Academy of American Music and Billboard magazine award, and has a star on the Walk of Fame Kerrang