Metallicas James Hetfield becomes sincere about just being oneself

In the new documentary Metallica saved my lifeWhich premiered at the New York City Tribeca festival this week, says fans from all over the world gripping stories about how the legendary heavy metal band’s music affected them, especially through times of personal challenge and struggle. These feelings are also related to Metalincluding the singer and guitarist James Hetfield, who previously spoke of his uncertainty and Stint in rehabilitation 2019.

“When I get up on stage, I feel so much more comfortable up there than in ordinary life many times,” Hetfield told New Yorker Author Amanda Petrusich during a question after screening with the other members of the Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and Bassist Robert Trujillo-Wednesday evening, June 11, at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

“I feel that I am so easy to be me with these fans,” Hetfield, 61, continued, “and the more I am I, the more they like it. It is just so opposite to how I have been taken up. Being yourself was not always welcome for some reason. But to talk my truth there and other people understand that it has been so much that has been so possible

He also acknowledged that his recovery changed how he thought about creating music. “I’ve learned so much about myself and other people,” he said, “about how to live life better and not take things quite seriously and be on stage and be yourself. We have to do it. I got the best job in the world. The end.”

Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, Metallica saved my life Investigates the decades long relationship between the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Group and their dedicated global fanbase from America to Japan to Botswana. The film explores how Metallica’s music created a sense of community, shaped people’s identity and bonds, and – as the title suggests – saved lives.

“It has been brewed for a few years,” says Ulrich, 61, people at the film premiere. “There is such an incredible diversity among fans and so many different stories and so many different worlds that they all come from and that they all inhabit. We were thinking of sharing that diversity would be very fun, and to celebrate the fans and scream from the roofs about who they are and turn on spotlight a little away from us and on them because they are metal as we are.”

“For me, I am affected by much almost everything in there,” says Trujillo, 60, about the stories in the film. “There are some highlights there that are more at international level and how we touch people in areas in the world that you can’t imagine. Again the fans mean as much to us as the music, like everything we do. We are interconnected and that goes to certain parts of the world and it is a very powerful thing to have in our lives actually.”

As Metallica saved my lifeAfter screening questions and answers deeply into the personal in addition to the music, such as how much the fans have ordered for the members of Metallica and the importance of staying grounded after coming out of tournament,

“I like to put myself in situations and around people where it is like an immediate equalization and it just strikes me from the pedestal that I may have been on the last three or four weeks,” said Hammett, 62, during the conversation. “It is usually to put a surfboard in the water, go down on the beach, surf, look up by the sea.

After 44 years Metallica is still busy performing live on stage as their M72 tour Recently extended To date in Europe next year. As I said in the new movie, it is to be a Metallica fan who goes to their shows is similar to being part of a family. Hetfield said he likes to see the audience’s eyes while he is on stage.

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“We got older and so did our fans and our fans started having children,” he said. “We see three generations at an exhibition. When you are as happy as we should have been going on for decades, you will see a huge abundance of different fans. It was not on purpose. The one thing that is purposeful is (it) we want to be as intimate as possible when we are on stage with the audience. That is what has always been number one with each show.”