Metallica (discography, members, The Napster controversy, the Cliff Burton death and the awards)

Hello, here I am again this time I am speaking of albums, the death of Cliff Burton, the controversy with Napster, the members who belong and those who already belonged and those that have won awards and recognitions that had.

Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning (1983-1984)
In 1983, the Metallica traveled to Rochester, New York, to record his first album, Metal Up Your Ass, produced by Paul Curcio.
Due to conflicts with the band's publisher and distributors to refuse the release of the album with that title, it was renamed Kill 'Em All Released in the U.S. and Europe, the album culminated in paragraph 120 of the Billboard 200.
Metallica recorded their second studio album, Ride the Lightning, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Launched in August 1984, the album has remained at number 100 on the Billboard 200. The album includes songs such as "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Creeping Death" (which tells the story of the biblical exodus of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt, speaking on the various plagues on the Egyptians launched), and the instrumental "The Call of Ktulu ".

Master of Puppets (1984-1986)
The director of A & R for Elektra Records Michael flooding, and co-founder of Q-Prime Management Cliff Bernsteins, attended a concert of Metallica in September 1984. Impressed with what he saw, he hired the Metallica to Elektra Records and made the band a client of Q-Prime Management. The growing success of Metallica was such that the British publisher Music for Nations issued a limited edition of the music Creeping Death, which sold 40,000 copies.
Two of the three songs the record (cover versions of Diamond Head "Am I Evil?", And Blitzkrieg "Blitzkrieg") appeared on the relaunch of Kill 'Em All in 1989 by Elektra Records.
The Metallica embarked on his first European Tour. Returning to the U.S. marked a tour with WASP and Armored Saint. The Metallica played its largest show at the Monsters of Rock festival on August 17, 1985, with Bon Jovi and Ratti at Donington Park in England, playing before 70,000 people. A show in Oakland, California in the Days Festival on the Green saw the band playing in front of 60,000 people.
The third studio album from the Metallica, Master of Puppets was launched in March 1986. The album reached number 29 on the Billboard 200, and stayed for 72 weeks in the same position. It was the first album the band for album of gold on November 4, 1986, and was six times platinum in 2003.

Death of Cliff Burton (1986-1987)
On September 27, 1986, during the European tour of Damage Inc., Cliff Burton died near Ljungby, Sweden (on a trip between Stockholm and Copenhagen), when the tour bus slid on the frozen road and fell down. The death of Burton resulted in a questioning on the future of the band. Finally the three members decided to continue the work, and with the support of the family of Burton began to search for a replacement. The song "To Live is to Die" was recorded later in honor of Burton. In music can be heard phrases in the voice of Burton: "When a man tells a lie he kills some part of the world. These are the pale deaths in men who squander their lives. All this I can not bear more, witness. The kingdom's salvation I can not take home. " The body of Cliff was cremated and the ashes thrown into Maxwell Ranch. At the ceremony, the music was played "Orion" (an instrumental) from the album "Master of Puppets". The Metallica played this song in a medley in 1992 in San Diego in California along with other songs, including "My Friend of Misery" and "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth" from the album Kill 'Em All
Since the hearings for the choice of a new bassist was Les Claypool, a childhood friend of Hammett. The band's bassist liked, but felt his style very different from the style of Metallica. The call was made to Jason Newsted. Jason joined the band officially on 28 October 1986, three weeks after the funeral of Burton. The tour was completed in the first months of next year.
In July 1987 recorded The Garage Days Re-Revisited to test a new studio they had built and to test the talents of Newsted.

... And Justice for All (1988-1990)
... And Justice for All was launched in 1988, the first studio album since the death of Burton.o album had great commercial success, reaching the sixth position in the Billboard 200, was the first album the band to be among the first ten . Despite criticism, in 1989 the band received its first nomination for the Grammy for the album to the category of Best Performance Hard Rock / Metal Vocal or instrument. Meanwhile, the prize was won by the band Jethro Tull. The result was very controversial. The members of the Jethro Tull had not even gone to the ceremony, assuming that winning the prize was unlikely.
Followed by the release of ... And Justice for All, the Metallica took the major media of music with his first music video for the song "One". The band made the song a deposit abandoned, and the video was a remix version with scenes from the movie Johnny Got His Gun. Instead of organizing a licensing agreement to present scenes of the film, the band simply bought the rights of the work. The video was sent to MTV, with an alternate version only with the band playing, if the station does not accept is the original version. Despite its long duration, MTV has accepted the video.

Metallica (1990-1993)
In 1991, the Metallica launched the album Metallica (popularly known as The Black Album), which includes songs like "Nothing Else Matters", "Enter Sandman," "Sad But True," "The Unforgiven" "Holi Than Thou," " Wherever I May roam "and" Of Man And Wolf. " The recording was co-produced with Bob Rock, who had worked with hard rock bands like The Cult, Bon Jovi and Motley Crue. The album has an entire black cape with a pale image of a snake in the corner, with the name of the band in the opposite corner. The recording sessions have become a long and arduous process, lasting more than a year due to conflicts between members of the band with Rock and arguments about the direction of the album and sound. The cost of recording surpassed one million dollars. However, despite the battle to the end, the album became the most successful launch of the band, reaching the top of Billboard.
The first single from Metallica was "Enter Sandman", showing a style of music slower than earlier work in the band. Due to the new style of sound, more speculations were directed to Metallica through the 1990s. In 1992, during a tour very successful financially with the Guns N 'Roses, Hetfield suffered severe burns in the second and third degree because of the pyrotechnics used during the opening of "Fade to Black", preventing him from playing guitar for a period of tour. John Marshall filled in the position of guitarist Hetfield during that period.

Load, Reload and Garage Inc. (1994-1999)
After nearly three years to support the album, including a presentation at Woodstock 1994, the band came in studio to write and record his sixth album, Load. Discontinued this period in mid-1995 and presented in three open-air concerts, call the Escape from The studio Tour 1995. Load was launched in 1996, during its production and the intention was a double album. However, it was decided that it would be better to launch only half the songs first, continue the work in other songs and releasing them the following year. This continuation of work resulted in the album following the band, reload, 1997.
These two albums represented a significant change for the Metallica music. The fast tracks of heavy metal were replaced by blues music and Hawaiian guitar. Its sales were lower sales of the three previous albums.
In 1998 was launched Garage Inc. compilation, consisting of a double album. The first CD contains recordings of unpublished covers of bands such as Killing Joke, The Misfits, Thin Lizzy, Mercyful Fate, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave and Bob Seger. The second CD contains recordings of old covers, including Garage Days Re-Revisited.
The March 7, 1999 the band was shown to walk of fame in San Francisco. The city's then mayor Willie Brown, proclaimed that as the "Official Metallica Day" in San Francisco. A month later on 21 and April 22, the band recorded two presentations with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, at the time led by Michael Kamen. Kamen, who had worked with Bob Rock on "Nothing Else Matters", had come into contact with the band eight years before, soon after the release of the album Metallica, with ideas on the junction of the music of Metallica with a symphonic orchestra. Kamen and his team composed of orchestra additional material for a number of songs the band, and concerts presented a selection of songs dating to the time of Ride the Lightning. The band also wrote two new songs with Kamen for the event, "No Leaf Cover" and "Minus Human." The recording audio and video of the concert were launched in November 1999 under the name S & M, on CD, VHS, VCD and DVD.

The Napster controversy (2000-2001)
In 2000, the members of Metallica discovered that a demo version of their song "I Disappear," which was supposed to be released from the soundtrack of the movie Mission: Impossible II, was passed in radios. After discovering the source of distribution, the band found the file on the Napster network, and also discovered that its entire catalog was freely available. It was initiated legal action against Napster with Metallica leaving the prosecution in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Napster violated three areas of law: infringement of copyright, illegal use of audio interface device digital, and Racketeer influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
Court actions were also launched against the University of Yale, University of Southern California and University of Indiana for not blocking the Napster. The following year, both parties agreed outside the courts block the accounts of users of Napster, and the band did not initiate legal actions against individuals for violation of copyrights.

Output Newsted, St. Anger (2001-2005) 
Back to the studios in 2001, Newsted left the band in January claiming injury after several years playing with the group. However, subsequent interviews with Newsted and the remaining members revealed that the desire for Newsted to launch a CD and put into his tour with Echobrain parallel project, and Hetfield of intense resistance to the idea, was the primary cause of the exit of the musician. Jason also claimed that there was not space for him to compose because James Hetfield "imposed" this barrier.
In July 2001, Hetfield entered into rehabilitation due to alcoholism and other items, and for almost a year came into the band gap. With the return of the singer, the band came back slowly as a trio for the writing and recording the next album. The task down of the recording sessions was made by the producer and the band known Bob Rock. Recording the album was documented for the film Some Kind of Monster.
In early 2003, after recording the album, Metallica started the hearings for the choice of permanent replacement for Newsted. Robert Trujillo was chosen as the new bassist. Jason Newsted has just met with the thrash metal band Voivod in 2002.
Also eventually replacing Robert Trujillo of Ozzy in the band during Ozzfest 2003 tour.
In June 2003 he was released the eighth studio album from Metallica, St. Anger. Intentionally dry and rough, was followed by criticism from fans. Nevertheless, the album won a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Metal Performance.
After extensive tours disclosing the album in the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003 and the Madly in Anger with the World, the band stopped the concert and had "holiday".

Death Magnetic (2006-present)
The February 16, 2006 the band announced on its official site that after a relationship of more than fifteen years, the long-running musical producer Bob Rock would not be present to record the next studio album of Metallica.
The band was in Portugal to June 28, 2007, in its Sick of the Studio Tour, providing a big concert in the festival Superbock Superock, along with Joe Satriani and Mastodon, which played a few themes in their usual concerts, as the instrumental "Orion "And" ... And Justice for All ", which song the band has not played live eighteen years. The June 5, 2008, the band acted on the Rock in Rio Lisbon, where he played classics like One, Nothing Else Matters and Seek and Destroy. At the end of the concert Hetfield promised to return to Portugal in 2009, featuring the work of his new album, published in September 2008, called the Death Magnetic, album that follows the style adopted by the band in the 80s. According to the band itself, which was heard at the time was something much more pure, with simple and direct.

States
Current training
• Lars Ulrich - Battery (1982 - present)
• Robert Trujillo - low (2003 - present); former Ozzy Osbourne, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Label Society and Infectious Grooves
• Kirk Hammett - guitar (1983 - present)
• James Hetfield - voice and guitar (1982 - present)

Ex-members
• Ron McGovney - low (1982)
• Cliff Burton - low (1982 to 1986) (who died in an accident during the tour)
• Jason Newsted - low (1987 - 2001); former FLOTS and Jets (1986), ex-Voivod, currently in Supernova
• Dave Mustaine - Guitar (1982 - 1983), currently leader of Megadeth (1984 - present)
• Lloyd Grant - guitar 1982 (left the band before recording the first demo)

Discography
• Kill 'Em All (1983)
• Ride the Lightning (1984)
• Master of Puppets (1986)
• ... And Justice for All (1988)
• Metallica (1991)
• Load (1996)
• reload (1997)
• St. Anger (2003)
• Death Magnetic (2008)

Awards and Recognition
Grammy Award
• 1990 - Best Metal Performance for "One"
• 1991 - Best Metal Performance for "Crazy Stone Cold"
• 1992 - Best Metal Performance with Vocal by Metallica
• 1999 - Best Metal Performance for "Better Than You"
• 2000 - Best Hard Rock Performance for "Whiskey in the Jar"
• 2001 - Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "The Call of Ktulu," with Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Symphony
• 2004 - Best Metal Performance for "St. Anger"

MTV Video Music Awards
• 1992 - Best Music Video of Metal with "Enter Sandman"
• 1996 - Best Music Video of Metal by "Until it Sleeps"

American Music Award
• 1996 - Favorite Artist of Heavy Metal / Hard Rock by Load
• 1996 - Song of Favorita Metal / Hard Rock with "Until it Sleeps"

Billboard Music Award
• 1997 - Rock and Roll Artist of the Year Billboard
• 1999 - Catalog Artist of the Year
• 1999 - Catalog Album of the Year by Metallica
Kerrang! award
• 2003 - Hall of Fame