Metallica

Year:
2009
Inducted by:
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Category:
Performers

Cliff Burton
Kirk Hammett
James Hetfield
Jason Newsted
Robert Trujillo
Lars Ulrich

Introduction

Heavy metal went mainstream thanks to Metallica.

A thrashing Bay Area quartet fond of breakneck-speed riffs glinting with menace and aggression—owing to their affinity for new wave of British heavy metal bands—the group are responsible for some of the most brutal, enduring rock & roll albums of the '80s and '90s.

Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers Inducts Metallica

Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers Inducts Metallica at the 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers Inducts Metallica

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Metallica Acceptance Speech

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"Master of Puppets"

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Lars Ulrich of Metallica Inducts Deep Purple

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Hall of Fame Essay

2009

Deborah Frost

Happy families, Leo Tolstoy noted, are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

That goes double, if not quadruple, for bands, particularly those who achieve greatness. The picture has never been painted so graphically as in Some Kind of Monster, the 2004 documentary that chronicled the previous three years and crack-up of Metallica, at the very pinnacle of its fortune and fame.