120 Fun Facts About Metallica

In which city was Metallica formed in 1981, before it moved north?

Los Angeles was home only briefly: new bassist Cliff Burton agreed to join only if the band moved north to the Bay Area, and it did.

In which country was Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich born?

Denmark is where it began: at nine, Lars Ulrich got a spare ticket to a 1973 Deep Purple concert in Copenhagen and bought the band's album Fireball the next day.

Lars Ulrich moved to California at 16 to train professionally in which sport?

Tennis was the plan, but after failing to make the Corona del Mar High School team, Lars Ulrich turned to drums and formed a band.

Which lead guitarist did Metallica fire on April 11, 1983, just before recording its debut album?

Dave Mustaine was sent home on a Greyhound bus, and lyrics he scribbled along the way fed his next band, Megadeth.

Metallica's lead guitarist since 1983 had co-founded which Bay Area thrash band in 1979?

Exodus's demo song Die By His Hand supplied the riff under the Die by my hand chant in Creeping Death, carried over by the guitarist who left for Metallica.

Lars Ulrich took the name Metallica from a friend who was weighing it as a title for what?

A fanzine: Ron Quintana asked whether to call his Metal Mania or Metallica, and Lars Ulrich steered him to Metal Mania so he could keep Metallica.

Who played bass at Metallica's first gig, in March 1982?

Ron McGovney quit in December 1982 amid band tensions, and later said he never regretted leaving because it was not a lifestyle he could have survived.

Cliff Burton died in 1986 when Metallica's tour bus overturned in which country?

Sweden is where the bus overturned, near Dörarp; by one bandmate's account, Cliff Burton had won the bunk he slept in by drawing the ace of spades.

Which track on Metallica's debut album is a bass solo by Cliff Burton, backed only by drums?

(Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth was recorded with Cliff Burton alone in a big empty room upstairs, while the engineers set his sound in the control room below.

What was Metallica's debut album originally going to be called?

Metal Up Your Ass was dropped after distributors balked, and Cliff Burton reportedly yelled the new title, Kill 'Em All, in frustration.

Which independent label released Metallica's debut album, Kill 'Em All, in the US in 1983?

Megaforce was founded to release this album: when no label would take a chance on Metallica, Jon Zazula and his wife Marsha started their own.

The title 'Ride the Lightning' was lifted from a passage in which Stephen King novel?

The Stand; Metallica recorded the album through the night, because other bands had the studio booked during the day.

What object is shown being struck by lightning on the Ride the Lightning cover?

An electric chair; after Metallica signed with major label Elektra, the album was reissued on the new label in November 1984.

Which Ride the Lightning song was Metallica's first power ballad?

Fade to Black; Hetfield wrote it while depressed after the band's gear, including his favourite Marshall amp, was stolen.

Which Metallica album became the first metal recording chosen for the US National Recording Registry?

Master of Puppets; the Library of Congress said it showed the group moving away from its thrash history and exploring new ideas.

'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' was based on which novel?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; years later, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo realized his band's song 'Undone – The Sweater Song' was almost a complete rip-off of Sanitarium.

In 1986 Metallica played its first arena tour opening for which headliner?

Ozzy Osbourne; when Hetfield broke his wrist skateboarding mid-tour, he kept singing while a guitar tech played his rhythm parts.

Which Metallica track was played at bassist Cliff Burton's funeral?

Orion; Hetfield later had notes from the song's middle section tattooed on his left arm.

Who won the audition to replace Cliff Burton in late 1986?

Jason Newsted; the other members initiated him with pranks, including tricking him into eating a ball of wasabi.

At the 1989 Grammys, Metallica lost the first-ever hard rock/metal award to which act?

Jethro Tull; Metallica responded by adding a 'Grammy Award LOSERS' sticker to later copies of ...And Justice for All.

Which Metallica song got the band's first video, intercut with 'Johnny Got His Gun' scenes?

One; paying royalties to keep showing the film footage got costly, so Metallica bought the rights to Johnny Got His Gun.

What was made almost inaudible in the final mix of '...And Justice for All'?

The bass guitar; Ulrich later insisted it wasn't spite, saying the band just kept turning everything else up until the bass disappeared.

Which Metallica song opens with a phrase borrowed from 'America' in West Side Story?

Don't Tread on Me; a Canadian woman walking her dog once scared off an approaching cougar by playing the song on her phone.

Which Black Album track opens with the sound of a sitar?

Wherever I May Roam; the song is about life on the road, and Metallica named the album's world tour after it.

Who wrote the main riff of 'Enter Sandman'?

Kirk Hammett; he wrote it trying to capture the heavy riffs of Soundgarden's Louder Than Love, and Ulrich suggested repeating its first part.

'Enter Sandman' was the entrance music for which New York Yankees closer?

Mariano Rivera; the Yankee Stadium scoreboard staff chose the song, and Rivera himself was indifferent to his entrance music.

Which college football team adopted 'Enter Sandman' as its entrance theme in 2000?

Virginia Tech; when Metallica played Lane Stadium in 2025, fans jumping to the song registered as a small earthquake.

Which Metallica song is among the few where James Hetfield plays the guitar solo?

Nothing Else Matters; Hetfield wrote it for himself about a girlfriend, and at first thought a love song had no place in Metallica.

Hetfield was badly burned by pyrotechnics at a 1992 Montreal show co-headlined with which band?

Guns N' Roses; after Metallica's set was cut short, Axl Rose's band went on late and left early, and fans rioted in and around the stadium.

Which artist created the cover art for 'Load' by pressing blood and semen between sheets of Plexiglas?

Andres Serrano; Ulrich loved the image but Hetfield did not, and the band still went back to the artist for Reload's cover.

Which guest singer appears on 'The Memory Remains' from Reload?

Marianne Faithfull; Hetfield wanted her weathered, smoky voice for the song's story of an artist going insane as her fame fades.

Metallica's Grammy-winning cover of 'Whiskey in the Jar' was closely based on which band's version?

Thin Lizzy; they turned the folk song the Dubliners had made popular into a rock track, and it became their first hit.

The 1999 live album 'S&M' paired Metallica with which orchestra?

San Francisco Symphony; to mark the album's 20th anniversary, the band and orchestra reunited in 2019 to open the city's new Chase Center arena.

Who arranged and conducted the orchestral scores for 'S&M'?

Michael Kamen; the film composer had pitched a collaboration to the band years earlier, and they finally took him up on it for S&M.

A leaked demo of which Mission: Impossible II song triggered Metallica's 2000 lawsuit against Napster?

I Disappear; Metallica demanded that users sharing its songs be banned, and Napster banned more than 300,000 of them.

After the bassist quit in January 2001, who played bass on 'St. Anger'?

Bob Rock; the producer also took the stage as Metallica's bassist for the band's few live shows before a new bassist joined.

Which feature, common on earlier Metallica albums, is missing from 2003's 'St. Anger'?

Guitar solos; chasing the raw sound of a band simply jamming together, Metallica left every solo off the album.

Which filmmaking duo directed the 2004 documentary 'Some Kind of Monster'?

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky; though Metallica usually kept its music out of films, the band let the pair use its songs in their earlier documentary Paradise Lost.

What was the job title of Phil Towle, the man hired to help Metallica through its 2001-2003 crisis?

Performance enhancement coach; the band later felt Towle had grown too involved, and he resisted when they moved to end the sessions.

Robert Trujillo first rose to prominence as bassist for which crossover thrash band?

Suicidal Tendencies; the band supported Metallica on tour in the 1990s, which is how Trujillo got to know his future bandmates.

Who produced Metallica's 'Death Magnetic' (2008), their first in nearly two decades without their long-time producer?

Rick Rubin; the CD was compressed so heavily that the version made for the Guitar Hero game, with far more dynamic range, sounded better.

Which bassist gave the speech inducting Metallica into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Flea; when Metallica played that night, current bassist Robert Trujillo jammed on stage alongside a former Metallica bassist.

Metallica's 2011 double album 'Lulu' was a collaboration with which singer-songwriter?

Lou Reed; tempers flared during the recording sessions, and Reed even challenged drummer Lars Ulrich to a street fight.

Metallica's 2011 album 'Lulu' draws on the work of which German playwright, also author of 'Spring Awakening'?

Frank Wedekind; the band first planned to re-record its collaborator's older songs, until he proposed songs he had written for a stage production instead.

Where did Metallica play a 2013 concert that its audience heard only through headphones?

Antarctica; to meet the Antarctic environmental protocol, the band played without amplifiers, and the show made Metallica the first band to play all seven continents.

What is the name of the independent record label Metallica launched in 2012?

Blackened Recordings; it launched as Metallica ended its Warner Bros. contract and took ownership of all its master recordings.

'Murder One' on Hardwired... to Self-Destruct is a tribute to which musician?

Lemmy Kilmister; for his 50th birthday in 1995, Metallica played his party as a tribute band called the Lemmys.

The 2023 album title '72 Seasons' refers to what?

Hetfield described it as the period that forms 'our true or false selves'; the record won Best Metal Performance at the 2024 Grammys.

In which Netflix series does the character Eddie Munson play Metallica's 1986 title track?

Stranger Things; the 2022 scene sent the song onto the US and UK singles charts for the first time, 36 years after its release.

James Hetfield was raised in which religious movement, which disapproves of medical treatment?

Christian Science; his mother died of cancer after refusing medical treatment, which later inspired Hetfield's song 'The God That Failed'.

Metallica's future lead guitarist took lessons from which Berkeley-based guitar virtuoso?

Joe Satriani; early in his teaching career, he had also given guitar lessons to Steve Vai.

Who sang 'Moth Into Flame' with Metallica at the 2017 Grammys?

Lady Gaga; during the live broadcast, James Hetfield's microphone failed for much of the song.

Which actor starred alongside the band in the 2013 3D concert film 'Metallica: Through the Never'?

Dane DeHaan; months before the film's release, Metallica played a surprise 2013 festival set under the name 'Dehaan', performing its debut album in full.

Which Ennio Morricone piece has introduced Metallica concerts since the 1980s?

The Ecstasy of Gold; the band's early manager suggested it to replace their old intro tape, the sound of a speeding heartbeat.

The band's first Grammy, in 1990, was the first ever awarded in which category?

It went to a song from ...And Justice for All, a year after the infamous loss in the combined hard rock/metal category.

Which US festival did Metallica headline in the summer of 1996?

Lollapalooza; the same year, the band unveiled a new look with short hair, eyeliner and a redesigned logo.

The 'Big Four' of thrash first shared a bill in June 2010 in which country?

Poland; days later in Bulgaria, members of all four bands shared Metallica's stage to play Diamond Head's 'Am I Evil?'

In which newspaper did Lars Ulrich place the 1981 ad that led to Metallica's formation?

The Recycler; guitarists James Hetfield and Hugh Tanner answered it.

Which producer worked with Metallica on both 'Ride the Lightning' and '...And Justice for All'?

Flemming Rasmussen; Metallica sought him out because the band loved the sound of Rainbow's 'Difficult to Cure', which he had worked on.

Which horror writer inspired Metallica's 'The Thing That Should Not Be'?

H.P. Lovecraft; his work also inspired 'The Call of Ktulu', whose title respelled the monster Cthulhu simply to make it easier to say.

Which Kerrang! journalist used the term 'thrash metal' in a 1984 article about an Anthrax song?

Malcolm Dome; before the new label spread, Metallica had named its first demo 'Power Metal', after a phrase on the band's early business cards.

At which club did Hetfield and Ulrich first see Cliff Burton, playing bass with Trauma, in 1982?

Whisky a Go Go; blown away by his playing, the pair pursued Burton after the show and asked him to join Metallica.

Which company made the bass Cliff Burton played on Metallica's debut album, 'Kill 'Em All'?

Rickenbacker; rather than play it stock, Burton pulled its original pickups and fitted replacements from Gibson and Seymour Duncan.

Cliff Burton's early band EZ-Street included Jim Martin and Mike Bordin, both later members of which band?

Faith No More; a 1981 battle-of-the-bands video of Burton with Martin shows him already playing the intro of Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'.

Which Elektra Records A&R man signed Metallica to the label in 1984?

Michael Alago; he and Cliff Burnstein of Q Prime saw the band live together, and Metallica came away with both a major label and new management.

Metallica's 'All Nightmare Long' video imagines Soviet scientists finding alien spores at which site?

Tunguska; in the video, the spores from the 1908 blast site can revive the dead, and they end up unleashing a zombie outbreak.

Which singer's hit ballad inspired James Hetfield's vocals on Metallica's 'The Unforgiven'?

Chris Isaak; the song's intro was lifted from another recording and reversed so it couldn't be identified.

Robert Trujillo produced a documentary about which late jazz bassist, his childhood hero?

Jaco Pastorius; when a shop owner refused to return Jaco's stolen 'Bass of Doom', Trujillo helped the Pastorius family win it back.

What was the first single from Metallica's 2023 album, released in November 2022?

Lux Æterna; after online commenters mocked its lead guitar part as too easy to play, the band's lead guitarist said he was playing for the song.

Death Magnetic made Metallica the first band to do what on the Billboard 200?

Have five straight number-one debuts; when Death Magnetic leaked online about 10 days before release, Lars Ulrich, who had once fought Napster, shrugged it off.

Metallica's ...And Justice for All takes its title from the closing words of which American text?

The Pledge of Allegiance ends with those four words, and the album argues the promise is broken: its cover shows a cracked statue of Justice bound in ropes, her scales spilling dollar bills.

Which animal lurks in one corner of the nearly all-black cover of Metallica's 1991 self-titled album?

A snake shares the darkness with the band's angled logo, both printed so faintly that fans simply call the record the Black Album.

On which animated series did Metallica voice themselves in a 2006 season premiere?

The Simpsons made the band the idols of bus driver Otto, who is suspended from his job after Bart humiliates him in front of them. The Times later ranked it among the 33 funniest cameos in the show's history.

Finnish band Apocalyptica made its name playing Metallica songs on four of which instrument?

Cello quartets were no obvious route to metal fame, but four students at Helsinki's Sibelius Academy turned eight Metallica covers into a career that later reached the Billboard rock charts.

In a 2019 film, Metallica's James Hetfield played the Utah officer who first arrested which serial killer?

Ted Bundy's first arrest fell to officer Bob Hayward, the part Hetfield took opposite Zac Efron in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, a film that also plays a song from Metallica's debut album.

Which hobby injured James Hetfield so often that Metallica's managers wrote a ban into his contract?

Skateboarding broke his wrist twice in the 1980s; on tour a guitar technician played the rhythm parts while Hetfield only sang, and a Saturday Night Live appearance was cancelled.

Which online game hosted a virtual Metallica concert in 2024 and sold outfits of all four band members?

Fortnite also built a summer season of its rhythm mode, Fortnite Festival, around the band, adding playable Metallica songs alongside the virtual show.

In which Soviet city did Metallica play a free 1991 show to one of history's largest concert crowds?

Moscow hosted the Monsters of Rock bill at Tushino Airfield weeks after a failed coup and three months before the Soviet Union dissolved; crowd estimates run from 600,000 to more than a million.

Metallica won a Grammy for covering 'Stone Cold Crazy', a 1974 song first recorded by which British band?

Queen cut the original for Sheer Heart Attack, and James Hetfield later sang Metallica's rougher version with Queen's surviving members at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

Which British band's 1973 concert, seen at age nine, set Metallica's Lars Ulrich on course for a music career?

Deep Purple so mesmerised the boy that he bought the album Fireball the next day. Decades later he campaigned for the band's place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and gave the induction speech himself.

Which band completes thrash metal's 'Big Four' alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax?

Slayer rounds out the quartet. Although all four bands formed in the early 1980s, they never shared a single bill until 2010, when one of the shows was beamed by satellite to cinemas.

Which American novelist's Spanish Civil War story gave Metallica the title of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel supplied the name and the scene, five soldiers killed in an airstrike on a hill. Hemingway had himself borrowed the phrase from a 1624 meditation by John Donne.

Which English festival did Metallica headline in June 2014, between nights topped by Arcade Fire and Kasabian?

Glastonbury gave the band its Saturday headline slot on a farm in Somerset, a booking Metallica took in an attempt to attract new fans.

Which part of Lars Ulrich's kit gave Metallica's St. Anger its much-criticised clanging, ringing sound?

The snare drum rang with a metallic clang because Ulrich recorded with its wires switched off, at first by accident; he liked the tone and kept it for the whole album.

What white object sits at the centre of a magnetic field on the cover of Metallica's Death Magnetic?

A coffin lies in a grave at the heart of the image, and James Hetfield read its shape as a door to another experience. A deluxe edition of the album even came in a coffin-shaped box.

Why did Metallica put '$5.98' in the title of its 1987 covers record, Garage Days Re-Revisited?

To stop shops overcharging, the band printed the intended price in the name itself. The American CD had to be retitled The $9.98 CD, and Australian copies carried a sticker saying the figure was only a title.

Which MTV cartoon character usually wears a Metallica T-shirt, beside a friend in an AC/DC one?

Beavis is the blond one in the Metallica shirt, though on merchandise it carries different wording, a swap made to avoid licensing issues.

During the 2020 pandemic, Metallica filmed a concert at a California winery for screening at which kind of venue?

Drive-in theaters across the United States and Canada showed the set on one August night; only a few crew members had watched the band play it at the Gundlach-Bundschu winery in Sonoma.

Which bloodied tool lies beside the shadow of a hand on the cover of Metallica's debut album, Kill 'Em All?

A hammer was Cliff Burton's suggestion to the photographer, replacing an earlier design, a dagger rising from a toilet bowl, that was judged too offensive to sell.

Away from Metallica, James Hetfield wins show awards for building what, such as a 1936 Auburn named Slowburn?

Custom cars are his workshop passion: Slowburn, a 1936 Auburn boat-tail speedster, was named Goodguys West Coast Custom of the Year in 2010. He also farms and keeps bees.

Fans unhappy with the distorted CD of Metallica's Death Magnetic shared cleaner versions taken from which video game?

Guitar Hero stored each instrument as a separate track, so its copy of the album escaped the heavy compression that critics called a casualty of the loudness war.

Which band did a teenage Lars Ulrich cross the Atlantic to see in London in 1981, months before co-founding Metallica?

Diamond Head won him over with the album Lightning to the Nations, and he travelled from California for one London show. Metallica's early sets leaned on covers of the group's songs.

Which New Jersey punk band wrote 'Last Caress', a song Metallica covered on its 1987 Garage Days EP?

Misfits had disbanded in 1983 and stayed underground, but Metallica's cover carried Glenn Danzig's old band to a far wider audience than it ever reached while together.

By one bandmate's account, Cliff Burton won his pick of Metallica's tour-bus bunks in 1986 by drawing which card?

The ace of spades gave him first choice of bunk in the guitarist's telling, though Lars Ulrich remembers drawing straws. Hours later the bus overturned and Burton, aged 24, was killed.

Metallica's debut album title, Kill 'Em All, began as Cliff Burton's angry remark about which group?

Record distributors had balked at the band's first, cruder choice of title, and Burton's outburst about them became the replacement.

Metallica's lead guitarist published a 2012 photo book devoted to his lifelong collection of what?

Horror memorabilia has gripped him since he spent his milk money on monster magazines as a boy; he later sold those magazines to buy records, and in 2014 he founded his own convention, Fear FestEvil.

Metallica's lead guitarist owns a famed 1959 Les Paul once played by Gary Moore and which Fleetwood Mac founder?

Peter Green's guitar, nicknamed Greeny, passed to Gary Moore before the Metallica man bought it in 2014 and began taking it out on tour.

Lars Ulrich of Metallica set an auction record for which New York painter by selling Profit I at Christie's in 2002?

Basquiat's 1982 canvas Profit I fetched $5.5 million, beating the artist's previous auction record of $3.3 million; the drummer sold it with four other works from his own collection.

Which tenor saxophone star of the bebop era was godfather to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich?

Dexter Gordon stood godfather to the future drummer, who also counts the singer Neneh Cherry as a childhood friend.

Metallica's 1982 demo No Life 'til Leather made the band's name by circulating through which underground network?

Tape traders copied the cassette for one another until it reached a New Jersey record-store owner, who brought the band east and financed its first album.

Metallica was one of only five acts to play both the 1994 and 1999 revivals of which famous 1960s festival?

Woodstock revivals in 1994 and 1999 both booked the band; only Sheryl Crow, Live, Collective Soul and the Red Hot Chili Peppers can say the same.

What did Metallica give Robert Trujillo on hiring him in 2003, a moment shown in Some Kind of Monster?

A million-dollar advance came with the job, and the cameras making the documentary caught both his audition and the moment the offer was made.

What did Metallica's lead guitarist lose, never backed up, that held some 250 riff ideas for the band's next album?

His phone held nearly 250 riff ideas and he could recall only eight of them, so the album that followed became the first since the band's debut with no songwriting from him.

Which future funk-metal bandleader, a school friend of Metallica's lead guitarist, auditioned to replace Cliff Burton?

Les Claypool admits he was no metal fan and joked at the audition about jamming on Isley Brothers tunes. He went on to lead Primus instead.

Which NHL team takes the ice to Metallica's 'Seek & Destroy', with band members among its fans?

San Jose Sharks skaters take the ice to the 1983 song because several band members follow the team; wrestling fans know the same track as the entrance music of Sting.

Which biblical epic film, watched on the VCR at Cliff Burton's house, inspired Metallica's 'Creeping Death'?

The Ten Commandments shows the final plague as a fog that kills Egypt's first-born; watching it, Burton blurted out the phrase that became the title, and Hetfield told him to write it down.

Which 2009 comedy plays Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' over its opening credits?

Zombieland sets its opening credits to the 1984 song, whose famous introduction is no guitar at all: Cliff Burton played it on bass through distortion and a wah pedal.

With Lars Ulrich in hospital, the drummer of which masked band played most of Metallica's 2004 Download Festival set?

Slipknot's Joey Jordison took over for most of the night after answering a last-minute call for volunteers, while another guest and Ulrich's own drum technician handled the first three songs.

Metallica's charity, founded in 2017 to fight hunger and fund job training, is named after which St. Anger song?

All Within My Hands is the album's closing track; the foundation that took its name is dedicated to workforce education, the fight against hunger and other local services.

For which veteran rock band did stadium-filling Metallica agree to open at two hometown shows in 2005?

Rolling Stones fans at a baseball park on 13 and 15 November saw a rare support slot from a band long used to closing the night itself.

Which 1996 documentary about three accused Arkansas teenagers was the first film Metallica let use its music?

Paradise Lost follows the trials of the West Memphis Three, teenage Metallica fans whose taste in music played a part in the case against them; the band's songs stand in for an original score.

Which photographer, known for his work with U2 and Depeche Mode, shot Metallica's new look for the Load booklet?

Anton Corbijn photographed the band in tailored shirts, leather jackets and make-up for the album booklet, the short-haired new image that announced a break with its metal roots.

Which Armored Saint singer turned down James Hetfield's early-1980s invitation to become Metallica's frontman?

John Bush stayed loyal to his friends in Armored Saint, so an unsure Hetfield kept the microphone. In 2011 Bush finally sang 'The Four Horsemen' with Metallica at its 30th anniversary show.

Which graphic artist, founder of the hardcore band Septic Death, drew Metallica's St. Anger cover and many T-shirts?

Pushead made his name with gruesome skeletons and corpses before metal bands came calling; his designs for Metallica have since appeared on posters and even sneakers.

Which Metal Blade Records founder gave Metallica its first release by asking for a song for his 1982 compilation?

Brian Slagel asked for the track before the band had even settled its line-up. He hoped to release Metallica's first album too, but could not afford to make it.

Metallica toured Europe in February 1984 as support to which black metal pioneers on the Seven Dates of Hell tour?

Venom headlined, and the two bands played to 7,000 people at a Dutch festival. The headliners' 1982 album Black Metal later gave an entire genre its name.

Cliff Burton agreed to join Metallica in 1982 only if the band relocated to which East Bay city near Berkeley?

El Cerrito became the band's base: a rented suburban house there, nicknamed the Metalli-mansion, served as its practice space for the next few years.

What kind of performer was the mother of Metallica's James Hetfield, the son of a truck driver?

A light opera singer, Cynthia raised a son who took piano lessons at nine, moved on to his half-brother's drums and only picked up the guitar at 14.

What mistake did early pressings of the 1982 compilation Metal Massacre make with Metallica's first released track?

Misspelled the band's name: early copies read Mettallica, with an extra T, which angered the young group. The track, 'Hit the Lights', was the first Metallica song ever released.

Which American rocker wrote 'Turn the Page', the touring ballad Metallica covered as the lead single from Garage Inc.?

Bob Seger wrote it in 1972 about a musician's life on the road. Metallica's version spent 11 straight weeks at number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.