I love Megadeth, hate that Dave became a Trump supporting, anti vax, conspiracy nutjob.
and one of them was outed as a nonce recently
A nonce like the mathematical extra used in cryptography?
There is no god 😑
Its too bad both James and Dave are both first class d-bags. At least James tries to hide it
It's insane how hard of a 180 Dave pulled. Dude went from being an anarchist icon to hanging out with Alex Jones.
Money does awful things to people...
Metallica is the reason that P2P file sharing is almost impossible post-Web 2.0. There's an argument to be made that someone else would've taken Napster to court if Metallica didn't, but they did, and the internet has been shit ever since. Fuck them and their friends who think their garbage variety of radio-friendly variety of Beer Metal is anything worth listening to
Permanently Deleted
This is the weirdest reasoning I've heard for the internet being sterile
The internet entered its sandman era post Metallica lawsuit
laughs in still using soulseek in 2024
I mean... Soulseek is still going strong.
Fuck Metallica for this, but their music lyrics are shit too. Megadeth is a million times better.
Megadeth is a wonderful band, and even their best albums have some downright terrible lyrics.
I mean, Psychotron is an excellent song, but there's no defending the lyrics.
James Hetfield made a statement that he was happy for Metallica music to be used for torture in Guantanamo bay.
Source?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40090809
Metallica singer James Hetfield has said he is proud that his music is used against enemies of the US
Metallica's Enter Sandman had became a particular favourite at the height of the War on Terror, when US interrogators admitted using music to break the resistance of captives in Iraq. The goal was to deprive them of sleep and offend their cultural sensibilities.
Unco-operative prisoners were exposed to children's TV music from Sesame Street, and the purple singing dinosaur Barney.
Sergeant Mark Hadsell of the Psychological Operations Company (Psy Ops) told Newsweek magazine: "These people haven't heard heavy metal. They can't take it.
"If you play it for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down and your will is broken. That's when we come in and talk to them."
My metal head friend said that Metallica became a pop band when they released the black album.
Your metalhead friend was correct. I personally think that that "Metallica" died with Cliff Burton. No hate to Jason Newstead, but Cliff was the one in the band with musical integrity.
Justice was really important to me. It was the first album I ever loved at the age of eight. It introduced me to the rest of their catalogue and, of course, fell in love with Burton and bass guitar. Too bad they did Newstead dirty on that album. But Justice sparked some political consciousness in me. And musically, I think they stretched as far as they could. With Burton, it would have been farther, but still farther than those three had stretched before. The same is not true for the black album.
When the black album came out, Metallic instantly went from legit thrash band to top 40 hard rock and was on the radio all day everyday... and somehow they still are and it's baffling.
Permanently Deleted
I didn't really listen to them but have always associated them with being fragile babies. In the early file sharing era, other bands were like, "I dropped an entire album as a free download, fuck the system." Meanwhile Metallica was whining and sobbing about college kids on Napster stealing their pennies.
System of a Down literally named an album "Steal This Album" and made the CD art look like a burnt CD with sharpie label.
It's one of the few albums I later purchased. Never would have gotten that into soad without piracy, other than their singles that most people from that era would know.
Permanently Deleted
Engaged in crime I grasp my throat,
Enraged my mind starts to smoke,
Enforce a mental overload,
Angry again, angry again, angry YEOW!
