It's the sort of story that scriptwriters would get laughed out of conference rooms for proposing. The sort of story that illustrates perfect synchronicity between hunger, passion and time. The sort of story that only happens every 30-odd years. And the sort of story that would need approximately 500 pages to do it true justice.

Metallica. A household name. The 7th biggest selling act in American history.

Who'd have thought it when, on October 28th, 1981, drummer Lars Ulrich made guitar player/singer James Hetfield an offer he couldn't refuse: "I've got a track saved for my band on Brian Slagel's new Metal Blade label."

Metallica 1960. Foto: metallica.com

Metallica 1981. Foto: metallica.com

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Metallica 2011. Foto: Google search

1991 hörde jag Enter Sandman för första gången. 20 år senare har jag sett bandet 92 gånger live, ett stort antal CD-skivor och vinyler, bilder, tatueringar, vänner för livet. Metallica har format min livsstil. Grattis på 30-årsdagen! Nu siktar vi på 30 år till!

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