Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple.
The music they played.heavy metal mixed with punk attitude.became its
own genre: thrash. Their bassist died and they survived to became the
biggest-selling band in the world. As grunge threatened to overtake
them, they reinvented themselves. Then their singer went into rehab
and they almost fell apart. They are Metallica, the most influential
heavy metal band of the last thirty years.

As Led Zeppelin was for hard rock and the Sex Pistols were for punk,
Metallica became the band that defined the look and sound of 1980s
heavy metal. Inventors of thrash metal.Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth
followed.it was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed
to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers.

Metallica is the fifth-largest selling artist of all time, with 100
million records sold worldwide. Their music has extended its reach
beyond rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream, as they went from
speed metal to MTV with their hit single "Enter Sandman". Until now
there hasn.t been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of
the band. Mick Wall.s thoroughly researched, insightful work is
enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs,
roadies, and fellow musicians. He tells the story of how a tennis-
playing, music-loving Danish immigrant named Lars Ulrich created
a band with singer James Hetfield and made his dreams a reality.
Enter Night follows the band through tragedy and triumph, from the
bus crash that killed their bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 to the 2004
documentary Some Kind of Monster, and on to their current status as
the leaders of the Big Four festival that played to a million fans
in Britain and Europe and continues in the U.S. in 2011.

Enter Night delves into the various incarnations of the band, and
the personalities of all key members, past and present.especially
Ulrich and Hetfield.to produce the definitive word on the biggest
metal band on the planet.

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