Thanks to the headline-generating feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, diss tracks have been a hot topic in mid-2024. However, the form of attacking someone via the medium of song isn’t reserved exclusively for hip-hop. Certain metalheads know this because, in 2010, anarcho-punks Chumbawamba, famous for their smash hit 1997 number one single Tubthumping, used music to take shots at one of the figureheads of heavy music: Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield.
The groundwork for the British band’s sonic takedown against Papa Het was laid two years prior. In 2008, the musician responded to news reports that his band’s music, specifically mainstream megahit Enter Sandman, had been used to torture inmates in Guantanamo Bay.
