-"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.

-All the band members wear earplugs when they play live.

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

-James' father passed away during the making of Load.

-Lars said in 1990 that 'the best thing that 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 CD's and buying it for their friends or something".

-Van Halen's Sammy Hagar lives 10 minutes away from Lars.

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

-Ride the Lightning spend 50 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 chart though it got no commercial airplay.

-The 2 best drummers of all time to 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 beling to Cliff.

-Metallica played 2 warm up gigs for the Monsters of Rock tour in 1987 at the Troubadour in LA under the name "Frayed Ends".

-Dave Mustaine said that for him, Metallica's success "was like seeing your old girlfriend become a movie star".

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

-Kill 'Em All was originally going to be called Metal Up Your Ass, but Megaforce Records wouldn't let Metallica name it that because it as "too offensive", so they changed the name to Kill 'Em All as in "kill all the record execs"!