#Metallica ride the lightning drum movie#

Their vast stage sets and ambitious visual production set the standard for any rock band to follow. Both bands continued to tour and release quality material for another twenty-five–plus years, but this was one of several peaks for both bands, particularly Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden, the most successful act to hail from the NWOBHM that Lars loved so much, released their mighty Egyptian-themed Powerslave that year, while Judas Priest-that other force of British metal-were flying high with Defenders of the Faith. Some of the more established bands enjoyed career-high success, while new acts-including Metallica-were trying to crash the party. In many ways, 1984 was a pivotal year in the genre. Far from being a time of media censorship and cultural repression, there was an outburst of aural productivity, and it was an exciting time to be a metal-head. When 1984 rolled around, it was less Orwellian than some had predicted. De biografie komt op 11 april uit via uitgever Lesser Gods. Lees hieronder een voorpublicatie van Chapter 6: 1984 and Beyond.

Als een levenslange fan word ik daar ontzettend blij van.' 'Ik heb zelfs gehoord dat So Let It Be Written ervoor heeft gezorgd dat er weer vriendschappen zijn hervormd uit James' tienerjaren. Dat leidde vaak tot een dood spoor, maar het resulteerde ook in een paar fascinerende onthullingen van mensen uit James' vroegere leven en de eerste dagen van Metallica.' Volgens Eglinton is de biografie daardoor uniek. 'Om écht nieuwe en interessante informatie te presenteren, was het belangrijk om op een of andere manier mensen te vinden die James kenden en daar nooit echt over hebben gepraat. Zo schreef hij mee aan de biografie van Pantera-bassist Rex Brown en werkte hij aan het boek van Nergal van Behemoth.Įglinton vertelt aan Noisey dat het schrijven van dit boek als een ingewikkelde puzzel was. If you watch The Ten Commandments and read the lyrics, there’s definitely a… how can I put this… similarity.Auteur en ghostwriter Mark Eglinton – die James Hetfield en Cliff Burton in 1986 ontmoette tijdens de 'Damage, Inc'-tour – is als geen ander bekend met het schrijven van metal-memoires. That’s where the words ‘Creeping Death’ come from. Then this fog appears out of the moon and comes down and starts creeping across the ground, smoke machine-style, and everybody who’s caught in it falls over and dies on the spot. There’s a scene where Moses goes back to try and get his people out of Egypt, and when the Pharaoh reneges on that, the firstborn must die. We didn’t have a VCR, so James and I went down to Cliff’s parents house with The Ten Commandments, and we sat and watched the movie.

#Metallica ride the lightning drum movie#

Lyrically, when I was a kid I was obsessed with the movie The Ten Commandments, with Charlton Heston. Lars: Musically it was one of those songs that came quickly, and then became its own thing just as quickly. A staple of the band’s live set for the last three decades. Long before Enter Sandman, Metallica’s signature song was this quasi-biblical epic, complete with the immortal ‘Die by my hand!’ refrain. The things that people get caught off-guard about are completely normal in my mind, but maybe we don’t do a good enough job of explaining them. There’s the Metallica I live and breathe every day, and then there’s the Metallica I read about.

Often I feel like there’s two Metallicas. Lars: Probably because there was a group of people who had a different view of what Metallica was – that we were a lot more of a one-dimensional entity. Why did people react to it the way they did at the time? By the time Cliff and Kirk had come onboard, we felt we had the ability to go down that path. That kind of song was always in the background for us – we knew in our hearts that was part of the Metallica sound, but we just didn’t have the skill or finesse to tackle it on Kill ’Em All. But if you step back further than that, you get to Deep Purple’s Child In Time and Judas Priest’s Beyond The Realms Of Death, even Stairway To Heaven – those big, brooding, epic songs. You can hear that the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal inspired the first record. Lars: Everybody seemed to be caught off-guard by the fact we’d done it. At the time, thrash purists screamed “sell-out!” The album’s big left-turn – a brooding semi-acoustic ballad.