Every metal band wants to be Metallica. Whether they know it or not, all aspiring metal musicians pick up an instrument with the goal of doing exactly what James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich and Cliff Burton/Jason Newsted/Rob Trujillo did: broadening heavy music’s reach to unprecedented audiences.
This means that California’s heavy metal heavyweights have plenty who sound just like them. However, that’s not intrinsically a bad thing. Below, Hammer’s listed 10 magnificent songs that Metallica could have written, but were instead penned by those treading the road which was paved by our genre’s most trailblazing force.
