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Metallica: Masters Of What?

Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 21 March 1987

First and biggest! METALLICA stumbled across the secret of speed-metal and threw open the door for the hairy hordes that followed. In the process, they've become effortless fillers of stadia and shifters of vinyl. DELE FADELE goes to Paris to witness their latest triumphs and to ask them if anything has really changed in the world of HM.

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