Members

• James Hetfield - lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1981 - present)
• Kirk Hammett - lead guitar (1983 - present)
• Dave Mustaine - lead guitar, backing vocals (1981 - 1983); fired from Metallica and later formed Megadeth)
• Ron McGovney - bass, backing vocals (1981 - 1982)); replaced by Cliff Burton in 1982. Subsequently ceased his career as a musician and auctioned all his Metallica possessions on eBay.
• Cliff Burton - bass, backing vocals (1982 - 1986); he died in a freak bus accident on September 27, 1986 in Sweden)
• Jason Newsted - bassist (1986 - 2001); came after Cliff Burton's death - 2002; joined Voivod) - present; joined Ozzy Osbourne)
• Robert Trujillo - bass (2001 - present); left Ozzy Osbourne, and joined the band after Jason Newsted's retirement)
• Lars Ulrich - drums (1981 - present)

• "No life 'til leather / We're gonna kick some ass tonight!" - Hit the Lights (Kill 'Em All)
• "Exit light / Enter night" - Enter Sandman (Metallica - 1991)
• "But we'll never stop / We'll never quit / 'Cos we're Metallica' - Whiplash (Kill 'Em All)
• "Fortune fame, mirror vain, gone insane / But the Memory Remains" - The Memory Remains (ReLoad - 1997)
• "Hold my breath as I wish for death / oh please God wake me!" - One (...And Justice for All - 1988)
• "What I've felt, what I've known, never shined through in what I've shown / Never be, never see, won't see what might have been / What I've felt, what I've known, never shined through in what I've shown / Never free, never me, so I dub thee Unforgiven" - The Unforgiven (Metallica - 1991)
• "It hates you so hold me / until it sleeps" - Until It Sleeps (Load - 1996)
• "Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond / call me what you will!" - Wherever I May Roam (Metallica - 1991)
• "Mirror stares back hard / Kill, it's such a friendly word, seems the only way for reaching out again." - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Gimme fuel / Gimme fire / Gimme that which I desire" - Fuel (Reload - 1997)
• "Do you bury me when I'm gone? Do you teach me while I'm here? Just as soon as I belong, then it's time I disappear!" - I Disappear
• "Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train comin' your way" - No Leaf Clover (S&M - 1999)
• "Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters" - "Nothing Else Matters" (Metallica - 1991)
• "Yesterday seems as though it never existed / Death greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye" - Fade to Black (from Ride the Lightning - 1984)
• "Take a look to the sky, just before you die / It's the last time you will" - For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ride the Lightning - 1984)
• "Who made you God to say / I'll take your life from you" - Ride the Lightning (Ride the Lightning - 1984)
• "So let it be written / So let it be done / I'm sent here by the Chosen one / So let it be written / So let it be done / To kill the first born Pharaoh's Son / I'm Creeping Death!" - Creeping Death (Ride the Lightning - 1984)
• "Seeking no truth / Winning is all / Fighting so grim, so true, so real!" - ...And Justice for All (...And Justice for All - 1988)
• "This is the voice of silence no more" - Some Kind of Monster (St. Anger)
• "Master of puppets / I'm pulling your strings / twisting your mind and smashing your dreams" - Master Of Puppets (Master Of Puppets - 1986)
• "The higher you are| the farther you fall| the longer the walk| the farther you crawl" - The House Jack Built (Load - 1996)
• "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets." - St. Anger (St. Anger - 2003) / Damage Inc. (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Wildness is the preservation of the world / so seek the wolf in thyself!" - Of Wolf and Man (Metallica - 1991)
• "When a man lies he murders some part of the world / These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives / All this I cannot bear to witness any longer / Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home" - To Live is To Die - borrowed from the chronicles of Thomas the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson (...And Justice For All - 1988)
• "Dear mother, dear father / You clipped my wings before I learned to fly / Unspoiled, outspoken / I've outgrown that FUCKING lullaby!" - Dyers Eve (...And Justice for All - 1988)
• "Freedom of choice is made for you my friend / Freedom of speech is words that they will bend / Freedom no longer frees you!" - Eye of the Beholder (...And Justice for All - 1988)
• "Darkness / Imprisoning me / All that I see / Absolute horror / I cannot live / I cannot die / Trapped in myself / Body, my holding cell... / Landmine / Has taken my sight / Taken my speech / Taken my hearing / Taken my arms / Taken my legs / Taken my soul / Left me with life in hell" - One (...And Justice for All - 1988)
• "I was born for dying!" - Disposable Heroes (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Send me money, send me green / Heaven you will meet / Make a contribution / And you'll get a better seat / Bow to leper messiah" - Leper Messiah (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback / Stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back!" - Damage, Inc. (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "The brightest flame burns quickest" - Mama Said (Load - 1996)
• "Outta my way, Outta my day, Out of your mind and into mine; Into no one, Into not one, Into your step but out of time" - Ain't my bitch(Load - 1996)
• "Master, Master / Where's the dreams that I've been after?

• "Black heart scarring darker still" - The Unforgiven II (Reload - 1997)
• "Anger, Misery, You'll suffer unto me" - Harvester of Sorrows (And Justice For All - 1988)
• "Renew our faith which way we can, To fall in love with life again" - Fixxxer (Reload - 1997)
• "I've fucked a sheep, I've fucked a goat, I rammed my cock right down it's throat, so what" - So What (Garage, Inc. - 1997) - Originally recorded by: the Anti-Nowhere League - 1981
• "Caught under wheels roll, Oh the bleeding of me..." - Bleeding Me (Load - 1996)
• "Damn it all down, Damn it unbound, Damn it all down to hell again" - Ain't my Bitch (Load - 1996)
• "And I can't bear to see, what I've let me be, so wicked and worn" - Low Man's Lyric (Reload - 1997)
• "I'm madly in anger with you!"-St. Anger (St. Anger - 2003)
• "My life-style determines my death-style"-Frantic (St. Anger - 2003)
• "Get the fuck out of here / I just wanna get the fuck / away from me / I rage, I glaze / I hurt I hate / I hate it all/ why why why me?" - The Unnamed Feeling (St. Anger - 2003)
• "Life it seems to fade away / Drifting further everyday / Getting lost within myself / nothing matters no one else" - Fade to Black (Ride the Lightning - 1984)
• "No more can they keep us in / listen, damn it! We will win" - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Blood will follow blood / Dying time is here / (whispering) Damage, Incorporated." - Damage Inc. (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Shoot me again, I ain't dead yet." - Shoot Me Again (St. Anger - 2003)
• "All the shots I take / I spit back at you. / All the shit you fake / Comes back to haunt you. / All the shots, all the shots. / All the shots I take / What difference did I make? / All the shots I take / I spit back at you." - Shoot Me Again (St. Anger - 2003)
• "Are we the people / Some kind of monster / Some kind of monster / Some kind of monster / This monster lives!" - Some Kind of Monster (St. Anger - 2003)
• "Searching, seek and destroy!" - Seek & Destroy (Kill 'Em All )
• "Smashing through the boundries / Lunacy has found me / cannot stop the BATTERY!" - Battery (Master of Puppets)
• "BACK TO THE FRONT! / You will do, what I say, when I say / BACK TO THE FRONT! / You will die, when I say, you must die / BACK TO THE FRONT! / You coward, you servant...you blindman." - Disposable Heroes (Master of Puppets - 1986)
• "Then it all crashes down / And you break your crown / And you point your finger but there's no one around! / Just want one thing, just to play the king / Then the castles crumble and you're left with just a name / Where's your crown, King Nothing?!" - King Nothing (Load - 1996)
• "I'll die if I let go/ control is love / love is control" - All Within My Hands (St. Anger)
• "She holds my hand and I lie to get a smile" - Sweet Amber (St. Anger)
• "Mama they try and break me" - Hero of the Day (Load)
• "The window burns / To light the way back home" - Hero of the Day (Load)
• "Soldier boy/ Made of clay / Now an empty shell / Tewnty-one / Only son / but he served us well / bred to kill / not to care / Do just as we say / Finished here/ Greetings death / He's yours to take away" - Disposable Heroes (Master of Puppets)
• "Suicide / I've already died / you're just the funeral I've been waiting for / Cyanide / Living dead inside / break this empty shell forever more." - Cyanide (Death Magnetic)
• "Love is a four-letter word / And never spoken here / Love is a four-letter word / here in this prison." - The Day That Never Comes (Death Magnetic)
• "Hey hey hey, here I go now, here I go into new days." - I Disappear
• "Birth is pain / Life is pain / Death is pain / It's all the same" - Frantic (St. Anger)
• "I suffer this no longer / I'll put an end to / This I swear / This I swear / the son will shine / This I swear! / This I swear! THIS! I! SWEAR!!" - The Day That Never Comes (Death Magnetic)
• "Deadly vision / Prophecy reveal / Death Magnetic / Pulling closer still" - My Apocalypse (Death Magnetic)
• "Say is that rain, or are they tears? / They stain your concrete face for years /The crying weeping shedding strife / Year after year, life after life" - Cyanide (Death Magnetic)
• "We hunt you down without mercy / hunt you down all nightmare long" - All Nightmare Long (Death Magnetic)
• "How can I be lost if I've got nowhere to go? / Search for Seas of Gold, how come it's got so cold? / How can I be lost? In rememberance I relive / So how can I blame you, when it's me I can't forgive?" - The Unforgiven III (Death Magnetic)
• "They scratch me / They scrape me / They cut and rape me!" - Brocken, Beat, & Scarred (Death Magnetic)
• "Same thing I've always heard from you / do as I say not as I do!" - Dyers Eve (...And Justice for All)
• "Almost like your life / almost like your endless fight / curse the day is long / realize you don't belong / disconnect somehow / never stop the bleeding now / almost like your fight / and there it went / almost like your life!" - That Was Just Your Life (Death Magnetic)
• "Wash your back so you don't stab mine." - Sweet Amber (St. Anger)
• "The motherfuckers got in my head / tried to make me someone else instead" - My World St. Anger)
• "I'm your dream, make you real / I'm your eyes when you must steal / I'm your pain when you can't feel / sad but true" - Sad But True (Metallica - 1991)
• "Open my eyes just to have them closed again." - The House That Jack Built (Load)
• "Guilty as charged, but damn it, it ain't right!" - Ride the Lightning (Ride the Lightning)
• "Careful what you wish / Careful what you say / Careful what you wish, you may regret it / Careful what you wish, you just might get it!" - King Nothing (Load)
• "Drop the hourglass of time / Spilling sand, we will not find / As we gather here today / We bid farewell / The slave becomes the master..." - The End of the Line (Death Magnetic)
• "Forgive me... / Forgive me not... / Forgive me... / Forgive me not... / Forgive me... / Forgive me not... / Forgive me... / Forgive me! Why can't I forgive me?!" - The Unforgiven III (Death Magnetic)
• "Ash to ash / dust to dust / fade to black" - The Memory Remains (Reload)
• "Tyrant awaken my apocalypse! / Demon awaken my apocalypse! / Heaven awaken my apocalypse! / Suffer forever MY APOCALYPSE!" - My Apocalypse (Death Magnetic)
• "You live it or lie it." - Frantic (St. Anger)
• "Still lies / immolation / still lies / infamy / Hallucination / Heresy / Still you run / What's to come / What's to be?" - All Nightmare Long (Death Magnetic)
• "Death Contagious Deity" - The End Of The Line (Death Magnetic)