Music Magazine  |  Classic Rock: Metallican 5th Ed.
Few bands have travelled as far – or had as much impact – as Metallica. Luckily, the writers of Classic Rock and Metal Hammer have been chronicling this story from the start. Writing for other magazines initially, and then picking up the stories with the launch of Metal Hammer and Classic Rock, Metallica have graced countless front covers and filled acres of column inches over the years. Those stories are collected in the special bookazine you hold right now. It’s a remarkable story. Outrageous, funny, boozy, tragic, cruel, dirty, inspiring – the Metallic Drama was played out in public and it's a credit to the band’s various members that they’ve been so open over the years. But forget what they’d said. What’s really amazing is what they did. Because, as grandiose as it sounds, Metallica actually changed the world. The rise of Metallica proved that metal was a force to be reckoned with. In 1983, when their debut album was released, the biggest-selling records of the year were Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Lionel Ritchie’s Can’t Slow Down and the Flashdance soundtrack. Faced with that banality, a record called Kill ’Em All struck a chord. Over the following years, this once tiny subculture and its brutal music connected like-minded people all over the world, creating an alternative to the mainstream that was as big as the mainstream itself. This is the story of how that happened…
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