James Hetfield was asked by Marky Ramone about the “Here Comes Revenge” track off Metallica’s latest album “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct,” to which he replied:
“Being a father, I’m affected by stuff differently than I was before, seeing things and how the world’s just so screwed.
“But then I realized how my kids are pretty smart. They’re pretty open, they’re gonna be okay. But my dad was – ‘The world has gone to hell!’ And his dad said the same thing.
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“And I get it – it’s therapy. You get to complain a little bit about what’s going on.”
Focusing on the song, James added:
“There’s a fan of ours, and I was just trying to put myself in their shoes.
“There’s a couple that showed up at so many shows, and they got into Metallica because their young daughter was a big fan, and she had gotten killed by a drunk driver.
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“And it just hit me.
“‘How can you guys find something positive in the world to connect you to your daughter again,’ which was Metallica, the music she loved, ‘instead of just snapping and wanting to just become bitter and attack whoever did this?’
“So I’m kinda putting myself in those shoes and how revenge must feel really powerful and great to do, but it doesn’t satisfy that urge. I don’t know…”