At least they are consistent I guess.
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cool, but Metallica still sucks for what they did to napster.
I still hold a YUUUUGE grudge towards metallica for what they did to napster. I will die on this hill damn it.
This is basically the same thing.
Napster had a standing army? Neat!
Nah, we were mostly sitting while searching for obscene "weird al" songs
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Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech) poster boys for the RIAA.
Napster was too big and too bold. They let themselves become synonymous with pirated music. There's no way capitalism would let that alone. If it wasn't Metallica, it would have to have been someone else.
On the upside, the Case was between Reload and St. Anger; their sales dropped by half and never recovered.
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Cliff was great. And Lars kinda sucks. But
Lars accidentally invented speed thrash metal so
Give Lars a break man.
Edit: canonically, Lars was a mediocre drummer with a ton of common bad drummer habits. Notably he sped up a lot when he was excited or nervous. Metallica, being a bunch of insecure alpha male bros refused to complain that it was too fast out of fear they’d be seen as ninnies by the others so they just went with it. Speed metal was born. Thrash metal. Whatever you wanna call it. It’s a fun story.
Every drummer I know thinks Lars sucks. But Lars has influenced every drummer I know more than they realize.
Lars did what now?
2 metalheads arguing about not just genre but origins of a genre?
I need some popcorn.
Apparently OP has never heard Motorhead or any of the NWOBHM bands.
He's such a little turd though
No they stole the sound from Anvil like literally every other band of the day.
How on earth did it take so long? I’ve been copystruck by these assholes at least three or four dozen times in the 30 years I’ve been pirating … Stuff.
Metallica loves imperialism for the most part, that's how.
Imperialism is a strong noun. Sure they've benefited greatly off the back of US imperialism, but Jesus, condemn us all. It's not like they didn't write "Disposable Heros" or "One." Sure they can be litigious twats, but saying they're pro imperialism is peak brain rot.
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When reached for comment, James Hetfield responded, "YEAH-YEAAAAH, WHOA."
OOOoooohhh
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Oh fun. This webiste's cookie banner only has a "accept everything" button.
Ah, sorry. My adblocker blocks those annoyong popups. I had no idea.
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Anyone played the star spangled banner backwards, just in case?
Good to know Lars is still a piece of shit and Metallica isn't worth listening to.
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I’m guessing this is about money, I can’t picture Metallica and James Hetfield being against Trump.
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Broken clocks, as they say.
After striking themselves this is a close 2nd of funniest Metallica strikes
Good! Fuck letting Nazis appropriate anything into their culture of bigotry and hate.
i have bad news about who metallica has shown themselves to be in the last 5 years
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