Metallica Dictionary
- Alcoholica
- A nickname for Metallica, given to
them somewhere in Europe in 1985, because of their love
of drinking. A fan was spotted wearing a T-shirt he had
made of the cover of Kill 'Em All, only instead of
a hammer and blood, the T-shirt showed a bottle spilling
Vodka. The band members liked it so much, they adopted it
for their own use.
- Apocalyptica
- Apocalyptica is a Finnish band that
released their Metallica tribute album in May '96. They
are a quartet that consists of four guys playing cellos.
The songs on this album where chosen because they could
be arranged for the cellos, so songs with fast guitar
solos weren't selected. They even did a video for Enter
Sandman!
- Billboard
- Kill 'Em All at #120 in
February of 1988, 5 years after being released.
- Ride The Lightning at #100
in the spring on 1985.
- Master Of Puppets at #29
shortly after its release.
- Garage Days Re-Revisited at
#28 about a month after release.
- ...And Justice For All at
#6, four weeks after release.
- Metallica debuted at #1 and
stayed there for 4 weeks.
- Load debuted at #1.
- Blitzer
- When Lars and Jayms tried to find a
suitable name for the band, all they could come up with
at first was "Blitzer", "Grinder" and
"Red Vette", but as you probably know, they
ended up with "Metallica".
- Blood and Semen III
- The image on the cover of Load is
a photograph called "Blood and Semen III" by
Anrdes Serrano. It was done by mixing bovine blood and
the artist's own semen between two sheets of plexiglass.
Kirk discovered the photo while looking through a
collection of the artist's work at a bookstore.
- Devils Dance
- A track meant to be on the Load
album, that was pulled out in the last minute. The song
was performed live a few times prior to that album. Devils
Dance will probably appear on the 7th album.
- Die Krupps
- This is a German band that released
a nine song tribute album. Their interpretation of the
songs is considerably different than that of the
originals. There is some guitar, but mostly keyboards,
electronic drums and a strong accent from the vocalist.
- Ecstasy of Gold
- Metallica's intro tape on their
shows. Ecstasy of Gold is composed by Ennio
Morricone, and is from the Clint Eastwood flick "The
Good, The Bad and the Ugly."
- influences
- - James Hetfield: Black Sabbath,
Motorhead, Ted Nugent
- - Lars Ulrich: Diamond Head,
Motorhead, Deep Purple
- - Kirk Hammett: Jimi Hendrix, UFO,
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Joe
Satriani
- - Jason Newsted: Kiss, Rush, Black
Sabbath, Ted Nugent
- Johnny Got His Gun
- The movie clips on One are
from the film "Johnny Got His Gun", which was
adapted from the book by Dalton Trumbo, who also directed
the movie.
- Ktulu
- From the song The Call Of Ktulu.
Ktulu comes from the mind of author H.P. Lovecraft. He
writes fascinatingly twisted and disturbed books and
Metallica was influenced a bit by him after Cliff Burton
had introduced his writings to the rest of the band.
Ktulu is contained within a book that H.P. Lovecraft
wrote. They are great books that explore the macabre to
it's fullest.
- The logo
- James is responsible for it's
design.
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Make-A-Wish Foundation is an
organization that attempts to make the dreams of
seriously ill youngsters come true. Metallica actively
support and assist as often as possible.
- Megaforce Records
- The first record label who signed
Metallica. Kill 'em all was first released on this label
- Metal Massacre I
- A compilation album including bands
like Ratt, Bitch, Malice etc. The Metallica song Hit
The Lights appeared on this album, which was the
first vinyl release featuring the four M's.
- Metal Militia
- Metallicas first official fan club.
- Mechanix
- Dave Mustaine wrote a few tunes
with Lars and Jayms while he was a member of the band. Mechanix
is one of these, which later was changed a bit and given
a new name, The Four Horsemen. The original
version can be heard on some old demos, as well as on the
first Megadeth album.
- The Name
- Lars stole the name Metallica from
"Mr. Metal" of San Francisco, Ron Quintana. He
was getting ready to launch a metal fanzine and had a few
names. He asked his friend Lars for help, and after
hearing the name "Metallica," Lars quickly
suggested a different name and kept "Metallica"
for himself!
- Paradise Lost
- "Paradise Lost," the
movie - not the band. The film is about three kids from
Tennessee (or some south-eastern state) who listened to
Metallica and other metal. They ended up murdering
somebody and the people blamed the music the kids
listened to. The tracks Sanitarium, Orion
and Ktulu are on it.
- Q-Prime
- The band's management company.
Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch are two of the guys
employed here, and they work with Metallica.
- Recycler
- Lars had placed an ad in a
newspaper called The Recycler, saying he was looking for
people to jam with. James answered the ad, but was
unimpressed with Lars' playing, partly due to the fact
that Lars' cymbals fell over every time he hit them!
Shortly thereafter, Lars went to England to follow his
favorite band, Diamond Head on tour, and after returning
to the States, got a spot on Brian Slagel's "Metal
Massacre" album. Using this as bait, he talked James
into recording a song for the album, and the rest is
history.
- Scary guy
- Jaymz came up with the Scary Guy
logo, which first saw the light of day on the 3 track
limited edition CD-single Live At Wembley. You
will also find the skull design on the "Live,
shit..." box, as well as on T-shirts and
merchandise.
- Scrap Metal
- At the 1987 Aardshok Festival in
Zwolle, Holland, a group of Metallica roadies under the
name SCRAP METAL opened the nine hour festival, that
Metallica headlined, playing a set of covers!
- The Snake
- The "Snake" that you can
see on the cover of the Black Album is from the Culpepper
Minutemen flag, from which the motto "Don't Tread On
Me" also originates. The flag is actually from the
Revolutionary War. There are a couple of different
versions of it. There is a yellow one, a white one, and
one with red and white stripes, which was the first
American Flag! The white one reads at the top "The
Culpepper Minutemen", and the yellow one just has
the snake and "Don't Tread On Me" at the
bottom.
- Snake Pit
- The Snake Pit was a large pit in
the middle of Metallica's diamond-shaped "Wherever I
May Roam" stage, set aside so a few lucky fans could
stand right in the middle of the action on stage. It is
also an online meeting place for Metallica fans on AOL.
- 'The Ten Commandments
- The lyrics for Creeping Death
are about the tale of the plagues bestowed upon the
Egyptians, inspired by the second half of the movie
"The Ten Commandments."
- Pushead
- The artist behind some Metallica
covers like "One" and "Harvester of
sorrow" as well as merchandise and t-shirts
- Q-Prime
- Metallica's management. Cliff
Burnstein and Peter Mensch aren't just employees of
Q-Prime, they are the founders and heads of Q-Prime.
Q-Prime is one of the most successful management
businesses in the world. It's clients include: Metallica,
Def Leppard, Hole, Queensyrche, Vercua Salt and
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- Tommy's Joint
- Tommy's Joint is a Hofbrau (meat,
potatos and BEER!!!) located in San Francisco and was a
hangout of Metallica's; it is also the place where Jason
was asked to join the band!