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Metallica

METALLICA

YEAR

2009

INDUCTED BY

Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

CATEGORY

Performers

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.

Cliff Burton

Cliff Burton

Kirk Hammett

Kirk Hammett

James Hetfield

James Hetfield

Jason Newsted

Jason Newsted

Robert Trujillo

Robert Trujillo

Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By 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.

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