Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield has revealed the lengths the heavy metallic titans needed to undergo to make it by way of the early ’80s – and that they often needed to flip to “thieving”.
Hetfield made the revelation on the brand new episode of official podcast The Metallica Report, the place he reminisced on recording traditional albums Ride The Lightning (1984) and Master Of Puppets (1986) in Candy Silence Studios, Copenhagen.
Whereas in Copenhagen, Hetfield says, the band needed to resort to theft in order that they might afford to remain.
The frontman remembers (per Guitar.com): “[We were] up within the attic, sleeping on the ground and stealing meals from different bands that have been coming by way of there, stealing bikes simply to get round, stealing empty beer bottles to go flip them in for extra beer.
“There was numerous thieving.”
Hetfield continued with fun: “We didn’t have something, we didn’t have shit. So it wasn’t thieving, we have been simply borrowing it perpetually.”
Metallica returned to Copenhagen on June 14 and 16 as a part of their ongoing M72 world tour. The tour options ‘no repeat weekends’, the place the band play two two-hour-long units at every cease that includes completely totally different songs.
Professional-shot footage of the band performing 1983 Kill ’Em All minimize in Parken Stadium on the June 14 date was lately uploaded to Youtube. Watch the clip beneath.
Metallica will proceed their European tour tomorrow (June 29) with a headline set at Hellfest in Clisson, France.
They’ll be performing within the continent till mid-July, then begin a tour of North and Central America in August.
See the complete checklist of Metallica’s 2024 reside dates and get tickets beneath.
Jun 29: Clisson Hellfest, France
Jul 05: Warsaw PGE Narodowy, Poland
Jul 07: Warsaw PGE Narodowy, Poland
Jul 12: Madrid Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Spain
Jul 14: Madrid Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Spain
Aug 02: Foxborough Gillette Stadium, MA, USA
Aug 04: Foxborough Gillette Stadium, MA, USA
Aug 09: Chicago Soldier Discipline, IL, USA
Aug 11: Chicago Soldier Discipline, IL, USA
Aug 16: Minneapolis US Financial institution Stadium, MN, USA
Aug 18: Minneapolis US Financial institution Stadium, MN, USA
Aug 23: Edmonton Commonwealth Stadium, Canada
Aug 25: Edmonton Commonwealth Stadium, Canada
Aug 30: Seattle Lumen Discipline, WA, USA
Sep 01: Seattle Lumen Discipline, WA, USA
Sep 20: Mexico Metropolis Foro Sol, Mexico
Sep 22: Mexico Metropolis Foro Sol, Mexico
Sep 27: Mexico Metropolis Foro Sol, Mexico
Sep 29: Mexico Metropolis Foro Sol, Mexico