History Trivia / Metallica

** ''Series/StrangerThings'' Season 4 Volume 2 featured a pivotal scene involving "Master of Puppets". Spotify reported that "Masters of Puppets" was downloaded 17.5 million times in the week after the episode was released, and it quickly hit No. 1 in the US [=iTunes=] rock chart. Not bad for a 36 year old song.

** "Nothing Else Matters", a PowerBallad that holds the title as the only love song Metallica has ever put out. It reached number 11 on the Billboard mainstream rock tracks and is still frequently played on rock radio stations. Even on Website/YouTube, it's the most-viewed Metallica video by far.

** Because ''[[Music/AndJusticeForAll1988 ...And Justice for All]]'' was Metallica's first studio album to be recorded with the Platform/CompactDisc format in mind, its 65:25 runtime is too long to fit on a single vinyl record. Consequently, LP releases spread the album across two discs. ''Music/{{Metallica|Album}}'', ''Music/LoadAndReLoad'', ''Music/StAnger'', ''Death Magnetic'', and ''72 Seasons'' would continue the trend, featuring CD-oriented lengths that require them to be divided among two [=LPs=] each.

* OldShame:
** In ''Some Kind of Monster'', they acknowledge ''Load'' and ''Reload'' as this.
** Lars admits to misjudging people's reaction about Napster, also, and regretting it.
** The band themselves seem to agree their treatment of Jason is this, considering the immense hell the poor guy dealt with for 14 years for the ''sole'' fact he [[ReplacementGoldfish wasn't Cliff]].

** Because ''[[Music/AndJusticeForAll1988 ...And Justice for All]]'' was Metallica's first studio album to be recorded with the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format in mind, its 65:25 runtime is too long to fit on a single vinyl record. Consequently, LP releases spread the album across two discs. ''Music/{{Metallica|Album}}'', ''Music/LoadAndReLoad'', ''Music/StAnger'', ''Death Magnetic'', and ''72 Seasons'' would continue the trend, featuring CD-oriented lengths that require them to be divided among two [=LPs=] each.

** "Nothing Else Matters", a PowerBallad that holds the title as the only love song Metallica has ever put out. It reached number 11 on the Billboard mainstream rock tracks and is still frequently played on rock radio stations.

*** In [[http://www.eddietrunk.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/410456/pid/403499 a 2009 interview]], Hetfield was asked about the ''Load''/''[=ReLoad=]'' period. He revealed that Lars and Kirk were largely responsible for their image change starting with ''Load''. He accordingly hated the cover art (which he labeled a "piss-take" and said Lars and Kirk went with it to annoy him), Anton Corbijn's photos (he said he rejected at least half of them, and said the ones where Lars and Kirk were kissing were intended to annoy him), and agreed that they were musically "unsure" in that period. Despite this, he does like the music on both albums and has even said that "Bleeding Me" was lyrically his favorite Metallica song.

** In [[http://www.eddietrunk.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/410456/pid/403499 a 2009 interview]], Hetfield was asked about the ''Load''/''[=ReLoad=]'' period. He revealed that Lars and Kirk were largely responsible for their image change starting with ''Load''. He accordingly hated the cover art (which he labeled a "piss-take" and said Lars and Kirk went with it to annoy him), Anton Corbijn's photos (he said he rejected at least half of them, and said the ones where Lars and Kirk were kissing were intended to annoy him), and agreed that they were musically "unsure" in that period. Despite this, he does like the music on both albums and has even said that "Bleeding Me" was lyrically his favorite Metallica song.
** He also doesn't like "Don't Tread on Me", and in the infamous ''Playboy'' interview of 2001 also expressed disappointment with "Of Wolf and Man" and "Through the Never", calling them "a little wacky".
** ''St. Anger'' got this too, though they said it was necessary due to ironing out all the grievances the band had built up.

** Lars [[https://www.radio.com/music/rock/lars-ulrich-names-metallica-song-he-never-wants-to-hear stated that]] "Eye of the Beholder" is the one song he doesn't want to hear again, deeming it "forced" and feeling that it “sounds like it’s got two different tempos.”

** The band as a whole dislike "Escape" in part because it was the result of ExecutiveMeddling- when they thought they were done recording ''Ride the Lightning'', the label wanted one more song, so they had to quickly write something in the studio. They've only played the song live once, at the Orion Music + More festival in 2012, as part of a set where they performed ''Lightning'' in it's entirety: James admitted in his stage banter that it was the one song they'd never wanted to play live, and later said they'd probably never play it again.

** In [[http://www.eddietrunk.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/410456/pid/403499 a 2009 interview]], Hetfield was asked about the ''Load'' period. He revealed that Lars and Kirk were largely responsible for their image change starting with ''Load''. He accordingly hated the cover art (which he labeled a "piss-take" and said Lars and Kirk went with it to annoy him), Anton Corbijn's photos (he said he rejected at least half of them, and said the ones where Lars and Kirk were kissing were intended to annoy him), and agreed that they were musically "unsure" in that period. Despite this, he does like the music on both albums and has even said that "Bleeding Me" was lyrically his favorite Metallica song.

** Jason was asked once if he would have bought ''Reload'', and responded with "Not if I heard 'The Memory Remains' first".