METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD - "Embrace Your Dorkiness On Stage"

December 1, 2016, 7 years ago

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METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD - "Embrace Your Dorkiness On Stage"

Even Metallica's James Hetfield doesn't always get the song right, reports David Friend of Niagara This Week.

It happened earlier this week as he dove into the opening riff of "Fade To Black" during an intimate show at Toronto's Opera House.

The problem is, he was supposed be playing another song — "One" — with a similar intro. Once he realized his mistake, he laughed it off and tried again.

"The fact you've got all your brothers up there, if something goes wrong it's like, 'OK, we can all enjoy this moment together,'" he says with a chuckle afterwards in a hotel room.

"Being able to laugh at yourself, embrace your dorkiness on stage and talk about it is so freeing."

Hetfield and his bandmates were in Toronto on Tuesday to hold a benefit concert for the Daily Bread Food Bank. The show was filled to the brim, hitting the venue's 950-person capacity limit, and fans were ready to rock from the second Metallica took the stage.

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Metallica has one more show this year, December 17th in Oakland, California at The Fox Theatre. View the band's complete tour itinerary here.

Hardwired…To Self-Destruct was released on November 18th worldwide via Blackened Records and has already gone Platinum in Canada, selling over 80,000 units. Check out the photo below of Metallica receiving their awards:

Hardwired... To Self-Destruct debuted at #1 on the album charts in both Canada and the US.

In addition to the United States and Canada, Hardwired...To Self Destruct is #1 on the album charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and Sweden with many of these markets having their best sales week of 2016. A complete list of the 20+ countries where the album debuted at #1 will be available midweek when the respective charts are published.

In the United States, Hardwired...To Self Destruct debuted atop the Billboard Top 200 chart with over 291,266 equivalent album units and 281,645 actual album sales, and is the band's sixth consecutive #1 album in the United States.

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct is Metallica’s first studio album since 2008's multi-platinum Death Magnetic. The album was produced by Greg Fidelman, who engineered and mixed Death Magnetic, and is available at Metallica.com in various configurations including: CD, Vinyl, Digital, Deluxe, and Deluxe Deluxe Versions.

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