This chud is dead to me since he displayed pride in their music bring used to torture iraqi pow.

Dude is the definition of a sellout. Like it's a toss up between Metallica or U2 when it comes to people pointing out bands that sold out and only care about the money.

Did anybody ask him for his opinion or did he just decide to be a loser dweeb unprompted?

what a fucking moron lmao

Gimme fyoo gimme fyaaaa gimme dawaeydesah but no politics pls

The whole Napster thing 25 years ago already showed me these losers don’t believe in anything other than embiggening their wallets.

He's planning to be the first band to play in Gaza after it's taken

Post-Cliff Metallica really ain't shit anyway. Some tracks from Justice are aight, but let's keep it real.

So he's cool with genocide, got it

FIRE BAD! FIRE BAD!

Hetfield said Metallica was not there to influence fans with political agendas

Remember that US victory lap you did in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union? Yeah..."not political".

Metallica fucking sucks anyway. Their shit is written for cis white uncs who think they're better than everyone else just for the music they listen to.

"Anyway, here's 'One'"

Im aware people like him gives zero shits about anything but I will say this and lib out a bit, this is the same fucking alcoholic dickhead that was part of making And Justice for all is truly something and the whole Napster thing with that band (i really like the U2 of metal analogy from PKMKII) just make everyone outside of like maybe Newstead(unless he's not a good person too as I haven't heard anything outside of bass being MIA due to rest of the pos members)

Metallica was uncool and not very heavy when i was a kid. Some things never change i guess

McDonalds frontman (and fellow clown), Ronald McDonald, criticized restaurants that use meals to provide nutritional value

help them escape the outside world through “love, energy and heavy music.”

yeah, it'd be a real shame for anyone to even try to fix or improve the conditions they're hoping to escape from

Fire Bad!

I am forever vindicated in my disdain for Metallica. I never liked their shitty music, then they cried about Napster, and now this.

Wouldn't saying youre trying to help people escape through love, energy and heavy metal imply your show contained any of those 3 things?

Why are they such crybabies?

at least its easy to find better bands than metallica

Pedo snek is not amused

Playing at the Sphere is in itself a political statement, one that positions artists within a mode of cultural production that is fully aligned with capitalism. The entire venue down to its archietecture and audio, lighting and visuals systems only makes sense within cultural politics that produce rock stars, that make it economically viable for a tiny handful of artists to play the same location over and over again, charging astronomic ticket prices from a crowd that makes attending the show part of a vacation in the absurdist city-turned-theme park that is Las Vegas.

Obviously somebody who has adapted to that is deeply uncomfortable with anything that may endanger the mass appeal of their art, and probably also the owner of the Sphere, James L. Dolan, who is not only a close associate of Trump and ofc also has SA allegations against him, but who has in the past also been known for his obsessive stalking of a trans woman at New York Knicks games.

I'm not even gonna get into the Napster stuff or how much Lars Ulrich sucks, everybody knows this.

I don't think I've ever cared less about a musician having a lib take. I already think Metallica are wayyy too bougie, this changes nothing. They've always had lib ideas.

And Justice For All was famously not a political album.

anyways, here's Torturing James Hetfield

Political is when you are disruptive by merely expressing your non-status quo political beliefs nowadays lmao (bad vibes to James et al)

Non-political or apolitical is when you don't challenge anything politically of the status quo but instead reguirgitate it (good vibes to James et al)