Metallica History
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Desde su formación en 1981, Metallica ha sido una de las bandas de metal más influyentes y exitosas de todos los tiempos. Con una carrera llena de éxitos y giras exitosas, la banda ha llevado su música a todo el mundo, ofreciendo una experiencia en vivo única y emocionante a sus fans. Aquí están algunos de los shows en vivo más notables de Metallica hasta la fecha:
Beginnings
First contacts
Metallica's history is considered to have begun in 1980 when young Lars Ulrich, originally from Gentofte, Denmark, moved with his family to Los Angeles. The son of professional tennis player Torben Ulrich, Ulrich had developed an enormous fondness for heavy metal during the 1970s, when the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) was booming in the European underground scene. With his move to the United States, planned by his father with the original objective of preparing a career in professional tennis, Ulrich's hobby would become practically an obsession, concentrating especially on unknown groups of the new English current. His priority when he arrived in Los Angeles was to exploit his musical ability along with other young people, which led him in 1981 to publish an advertisement in Recycler magazine, in which he requested a guitarist to form a band with influences from the bands of the NWOBHM,7 specifically his favorite bands: Diamond Head, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden and Tygers of Pan Tang. Young James Hetfield, the son of a trucking company owner and an opera singer who educated their children in Christian Science,6 responded to her ad. They began rehearsing together, and although Hetfield was initially unconvinced of Ulrich's playing, they eventually formed a band. The key to this union was the theme that he had reserved by his friend Brian Slagel, founder of the newly created record company, Metal Blade Records, on the first compilation that the label would release, entitled Metal Massacre.9
The name of the group was the idea of a friend of Lars named Ron Quintana,10 who had "Metalmania" and "Metallica" as possible names for a new musical fanzine, although he was more inclined towards the latter. Ulrich liked "Metallica" so much that it quickly came to him (Quintana) to name the fanzine "Metalmania." Thus, Ulrich and Hetfield's band took the name Metallica.11
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