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immediate success, the beginning of a legend

The group was founded October 28, 1981 by singer / guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. The two, who met a few weeks before an announcement by the U.S. magazine The Recycler, a few weeks they recruited bassist Ron McGovney and some transient guitarists, including Brad Parker and Jeff Warner. Their first session was held in Ulrich's garage, by the latter, by Hetfield, and Lloyd Grant. Metallica
The moniker was coined in 1982. Drummer Lars Ulrich was in fact helping Ron Quintana, an agent specializing in the launch of the show bands, to choose a name for a magazine he founded with intent to promote metal bands and New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Quintana Ulrich suggested two names: "Metallica" and "Metal Mania", Lars said that Metal Mania was a name that is more suited to a newspaper and decided instead to use "Metallica" to name his new band, discarding of fact other moniker "Blitzer," "Grinder," "Red Vette" and "Hcirlu Sral" (the same name Lars read backwards.)
Early in 1982 Metallica recorded their first song, Hit the Lights, which was published in the Metal Massacre collected and then inserted into the future track list of their first album. Lars Ulrich was to convince Brian Slagel, head of Metal Blade Records, to put the song in your collection. Solos guitar of the first version of Hit the Lights were composed by Lloyd Grant, who did not, however, never became a permanent member of the group. In fact, a few months after this publication, Ulrich of Metallica hired as permanent guitarist Dave Mustaine from Huntington Beach and former member of Panic.
few months after this change of formation Metallica recorded the demo No Life 'Til Leather, which began to give fame to the group. Meanwhile, however, because of quarrels with Mustaine, McGovney and the band went in search of a replacement, decided to see a performance of Trauma bassist Cliff Burton. Lars and James saw him at the San Francisco Metal Night, and from that time were struck by his ability; the three musicians decided to recruit immediately. Cliff agreed almost immediately to join Metallica, the band on the sole condition that it transferred its headquarters to San Francisco because Burton did not have much respect for Los Angeles, defined by the musician too chaotic. Accepted the proposal, Cliff immediately gave his contribution to the band, contributing his technical and musical ideas for a compositional level, the contribution of Burton was, for many, essential to the future international success of Metallica.