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“Cliff Burton didn’t just play bass—he detonated the damn thing. The kid from Castro Valley rolled into Metallica like a denim-clad warlock with a wah pedal and Bach in his back pocket, dragging classical harmonies into the mosh pit and making a four-string sound like it had a vendetta. ‘Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)’ wasn’t a solo, it was an exorcism. He took Metallica from leatherhead thrashers to something darker, smarter, way more dangerous. Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets weren’t albums—they were sermons, and Cliff was the heretic priest pulling the strings. Then, Sweden happened. A freak accident, a broken bus, and just like that, the future of metal got buried in a cold ditch near Dörarp. But Cliff didn’t vanish—he haunted every bassist who ever dared to step out of the shadows and into the frontlines.”
In September 2024, James Hetfield remembered his former bandmate Cliff Burton on the 38th anniversary of his death on a new episode of The Metallica Report.
Hetfield: “Cliff still lives in all of us. The way he lives in me is I get to channel, you know, ‘Cliff, what would be really cool right here?’ And I do — I do hold him in such high regard that I ask for his help still. And I challenge myself, ‘Would Cliff like this?’ That, to me, is a pretty high standard. We already have high standards for ourselves, but you know, if I could impress Cliff, it was a good day.”
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