Berlinger & Sinofsky got all the footage together to make that documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004. Newsted shared in the documentary that he thought it was pretty lame for his mates to bring in a therapist to sort out…
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The title track, St Anger, won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2004 – big whoop.
** In June 2003 Metallica’s Eighth studio album – St. Anger – hit number one in the Billboard 200. But the critics just loved it to bits. Ulrich’s new snare drum sound was getting lots of hate and so was the fact that there are no guitar solos on the…
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Thats a pretty good song title – Metallicas St Anger comes out and gets used as the theme song for the WWEs SummerSlam 2003 event
** For the whole of the St. Anger recording session, Robert Rock was on bass duties – and even ended up playing the bass for some live shows while they were doing it. And once the album was all wrapped up, Metallica started to look for someone to replace Newsted…
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September 3 2002 – a US bankruptcy judge blocks Napster from selling off to Bertelsmann & forces them to liquidate under Chapter 7
June 3 2002 – Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Lets get on with it – the band head back into the recording studio on April 12 2002 – with a set of rules laid down for Hetfield – he can only work for 4 hours a day between noon & 4 & spend the rest of his time with…
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Hetfield checks out of rehab on December 4 2001
Hetfield checks himself into rehab on July 19 2001 to sort out his booze & other addiction issues – the recording sessions are put on ice & the whole future of the band is suddenly thrown into doubt.