Metallica. Where do I even start with you?
No, this has nothing to do with the Napster debacle of 2000. This was a full year before.
For many, Metallica died with Cliff Burton. For others, it was the black album or Load/Reload. Look, I tell people I liked Load. I’ll admit it. They get mad at me. I clarify: “I liked it as a rock album, not a metal album.”
No, Metallica died for me the moment I heard the third track from the second disc of S&M, about 3:45 into the track.
James Motherfuckin’ Hetfield, in a moment that he hopefully regrets for the rest of his life, bellows “You Betcha!” into his microphone and out into disgrace during For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Brah. Come one. You Betcha? When did Metallica change genres to Disney Metal?
That was November 23rd, 1999. It was a cold day, indeed. Trapped Under Ice cold.