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Metallica lost me with the Napster shit. No moves on their part since then have corrected that course.
They have always been awful people (even if I do enjoy their earliest albums)
Their documentary is a painful two hours of the whiniest, most insufferable, overprivileged, man babies. If you ever think the Napster bullshit was a temporary blip, there’s ample evidence that the rot goes all the way through:
there is an unintentional trilogy out there :
They don't even know how to treat their own members with dignity and respect.
Metallica stop being relevant when they started suing everyone proving that their lyrics had no bearing on reality and their greed knew no end.
Sad but true
Olivia Rodrigo is more metal than Metallica
Her music isn't my cup of tea, but I absolutely love everything she stands up for and what she does. Metallica knows a lot of their base are probably MAGA and I bet most of the band vote MAGA. Fuck those assholes.
Been a metalhead my whole life and fully agree with this statement.
Metallica is the Walmart of metal.
I’ve said it before. Metallica are the old prejudiced white guys of metal. They’re rich and fly around in private jets. They had all kinds of anti-establishment and anti-war lean in their early music and they have walked back those lyrics to “not really mean what they say” these days. Their concert parking lot tailgaters fly Trump flags, thin blue line flags, Gadsden flags, and and firearms flags. Just like the concert attendees wearing clothes featuring Grunt Style, raggedy flags and punisher logos. Then they tour with performative military rock bands like Five Finger douche punch.
They were anti-authority metal that grew up, made money, and decided to be the ones holding the batons and riot guns instead. And they sued fans, ruining lives over money that didn’t affect their rich asses one bit.
Fuck Metallica.
They also love to make a big thing about donating money thats not even theirs.
was like 6 years or so ago, tthey made a big deal about donating 250 grand to a romanian childrens hospital.
I said that was a bullshit amount that was perfectly calculated to sound like a lot of money to poor people, without being an actual lot of money, and that it was little more than them buying publicity and advertising, because that 250k was a fuckload cheaper than actual advertising cost, but it got them wall to wall coverage.
and people ripped my ass open in all 8 cardinal directions for it
and it ended up the money didnt even come from them, it came from mastercard it was just funneled through some charity they supposedly control. So they got all the fame for it, without costing themselves one single goddamn cent.
Did anyone expect Metallica to be principled? They're copyright trolls for decades, something tells me moral backbone isn't their strong suit.
They have always been posers. Less metal than a BYU Glee Club.
I grew up in the 80s, and this is just not true, they were metal AF. However, in the 90s they decided to become Bon Jovi, and these days they belong musically in "classic rock", and their mentality belongs in "out of touch millionaires".
Had James just not brought it up, it wouldn't be a problem. I don't think that bands are required to bring up politics and defend a side. Sheeran had his hand forced and at that point had to pick a side, and he fucked up. The only reason Metallica is getting scrutinized is because Jamie boy had to make some dumbass comments about not getting political while taking a shot at Macklemore. I was at a concert last weekend, and no bands said anything to draw themselves into a political discussion, and they're not in the headlines now. It's simple.
It is not even political to be anti genocide
I'm an anarcho-communist and with the current state of the discourse around the word "political" I think I could fairly claim communism isn't political.
They just had to go be the musical version of a pick-me, not like other bands! "We don't do politics" he said, doing politics.
Exactly. Silence was an option.
Metallica died with Cliff Burton
The shitty Metallica members don't fall far from the Lars...
ba dum tshhh
(out of tempo)
This is so disappointing...is it ok to still listen to their old stuff and just pretend that they broke up after Master of Puppets?
Of course! I pretend they broke up after Ride the Lightning. One fantastic raw thrash album, one masterfully crafted thrash album, move on.
You can, but you should know deep down that most of their lyrics are just “bandwagon rides” and pretentious.
Personally, this situation would fall into issues I have with other bands/authors/popular figures and how I handle their material. If I own copies of their media, whether on CD or downloaded files or physical books, I will continue to listen to or read it if I do enjoy it. I will no longer purchase anything new, stream on any platform, or borrow anything from the library as a way to show my non-support.
An example: I loved Coraline by Gaiman. That guy is a gross creep, but I already own a copy of the book and the Blu-ray, so I keep my copies and do not purchase anything I do not already own.
Edit: fixed some grammar because I’m a dork
Gaiman didn't do any of the real work on teh film, so feel free to enjoy it
The Sandman is what hurts me, but again, he just wrote the words and made the story. There were lots of other people involved and they arn't creepy assholes
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🦜
Posers
fuck em Dethklok > Metallica
Who's getting their political takes from celebs or artists? Stop.
Plenty of apolitical people do. Is it a good idea? Prolly not. Has that stopped them before?
Art has been political since the invention of art. You cannot separate the two.
Ot is not cowardness to bring the topic. He is simply a genocide supporter
