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...JAMES HETFIELD...
Metallica has survived every heavy-metal cliche known to man. The original bassist, Cliff Burton, died in a horrendous 1986 tour-bus accident. In 1991, seven years after This Is Spinal Tap, the band put out its own black album. A year later, lead singer James Hetfield was nearly immolated onstage by some bad pyro. Metallica has even committed the ultimate sin of heavy-metal piety: the classical album, with the sheepish help of some cellists in the San Francisco Symphony...
...that on its 11th record, St. Anger, Metallica is in position to do something original? Largely because it has not only survived all the cliches; it has survived, period. Metallica is the first credible heavy-metal band to reach something approaching middle age, and after years of alcoholism, Hetfield, 39, says he's not only sober but also serious about making an album that deals with his new adult identity and responsibilities. St. Anger starts promisingly enough with Frantic, which has Hetfield growling over a classic, violent speed-metal riff, "If I could have my wasted days back/Would...
...Hetfield is the son of a truck driver and a light-opera singer, and while he writes with all the subtlety of a Peterbilt, he can sing. What saves St. Anger from being a victim of its own self-pity, and actually elevates it into the category of a pretty good metal record, is his voice. Producer Bob Rock has wisely taken the gloss off Metallica's sound, and Hetfield is the biggest beneficiary. On tracks like My World, he comes through in all his gruff and gravelly glory. The unaffected strain in his voice acts as a form...
...them of price fixing--but in the past few months, more and more artists have begun speaking out, and they stand a better chance of winning sympathy. For years musicians and other artists were reluctant to address file sharing, in part because they saw how uncool Metallica's James Hetfield looked when he tried. But in September the likes of Nelly, the Dixie Chicks, Brian Wilson and the incontrovertibly cool Missy Elliott delivered televised antipiracy scoldings. In April, Ben Affleck appeared in an antipiracy spot on behalf of the movie industry. Still, you don't have to be Alanis Morissette...