Metallica: 'War has its purpose' – a classic interview from the vaults
Metallica headline Download festival this weekend, playing their classic Black album in its entirety – and to mark the occasion, here's a classic interview with James Hetfield by Steven Wells, taken from Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism. It first appeared in NME in May 1992James Hetfield leads Metallica on stage at the Aids Awareness Tribute to Freddie Mercury and he doesn't look, as the Independent once claimed, "like Lemmy – only uglier".No, he look...
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