Most Controversial Metallica Moments

The Top Ten
1 Teaming up with Lou Reed for Lulu
2 The band's conflicts and experimentation that led to St. Anger The Band was a Canadian-American roots rock group formed in 1965 . Which originally consisting of Rick Danko (bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, vocals), Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards, saxophones, trumpet), Richard Manuel (piano, drums, vocals) and Robbie Robertson ...read more.
3 Suing Napster
4 Cutting their hair

Seriously. If you think musicians cutting their hair is bad, then maybe music isn't for you.

5 Experimenting with alternative, blues, etc on Load & Reload

Metallica lost a lot of die hard fans with this move... initially, I was one of them, but then I realized that even though I didn't think Load and Reload were all that great, it didn't diminish the quality of their earlier albums. They rebecame my favorite band after I could not longer pretend there was music I preferred over their early stuff.

6 Becoming mainstream on The Black Album
7 The One music video
8 Becoming less thrash on Master of Puppets
9 Fade to Black and Escape off Ride the Lightning
10 Kicking out Dave Mustaine
The Contenders
11 Performing with Lady Gaga at the 2017 Grammys
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