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| Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth. At a time when big hair and small ideas dominated heavy metal — Metallica's dense blend of brains and brawn gave the genre a much-needed charge. Instead of playing the usual rock star games of metal stars of the early '80s, the band looked and talked like they were from the street. They expanded the limits of thrash, using speed and volume not for their own sake, but to enhance their intricately structured compositions. By 1991, fans had responded to Metallica's message in droves, buying 6 million copies of the group's fifth full-length album, Metallica, and elevating their previous LPs to platinum. In the process, grim-faced guitarist-singer James Hetfield became not only a hero for the nation's largest fraternity of misfits — suburban metalheads — but also a critically respected songwriter and bandleader. Metallica ended the decade as the biggest-selling rock act of the '90s. |
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