Did you know that...

MetallicA once played with a second guitarist, Damien Philips, for one live show only?

Lars started going to rock concerts by himself when he was only 9 years old?

"One" was the band's first promotional video and it utilizes scenes from the 1971 film Johnny Got His Gun, which was written and directed by Dalton Trumbo?

"Creeping Death" is about the tale of the plagues bestowed upon the Egyptians, inspired by the second half of the movie The Ten Commandments?

All the band members wear earplugs when they play live?

Spastic Children was a "joke band" created originally by James, Cliff, and Fred Cotton and James (Flunky) McDaniel?

James Hetfield's father passed away during the making of Load?

Lars said in 1990 that "the best thing that ever happened to James was when we played a show in some club, and he left his spandex on a radiator to dry," only to burn a hole in them so he could never wear them again?

The "Black Album" has sold over 25 million copies and Kirk's theory is that "people are just wearing out their CDs and buying it for all their friends or something?

Sammy Hagar lives 10 minutes away from Lars?

Jason's first gig with MetallicA was opening for Metal Church at The Country Club in Reseda, California, in November 1986, and his second show was the very next evening at Jezebel's in Anaheim, California?

Ktulu is a tentacled, faced creature that lies dormant on the bottom of the ocean awaitng the call to awaken from his followers, created by author H.P. Lovecraft and actually spelled Cthulu?

Ride The Lightning spent 50 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 chart though it got no commercial airplay?

The two best drummers of all time for Lars are Ian Paice of Deep Purple for ability, and Phil Rudd of AC/DC for his groove and swing?

James' skull ring used to belong to Cliff?

MetallicA played two warm-up gigs for the "Monsters of Rock tour" in 1987 at the Troubadour in Los Angeles under the name "Frayed Ends"?

David Mustaine once said that for him, MetallicA's success "was like seeing your old girlfriend become a movie star"?

Kirk had a chance to see the Sex Pistols at Winterland in '78, but his mother wouldn't let him go?

In 1986 Cliff Burton and Lars had to go out in front of a crowd of 15,000 and tell them MetallicA would not be playing because James broke his wrist in a skateboarding accident?

James recently said "facial hair has taken a backseat to head hair"?

Cliff Burton's ashes were spread at various points around the San Francisco Bay area, including the Maxwell Ranch House area?