To Live Is To Die
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To Live Is To Die

The Life & Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton: Revised Third Edition

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eBook - ePub

To Live Is To Die

The Life & Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton: Revised Third Edition

About this book

'One of the best biographies you'll ever read.' – Robb Flynn, Machine Head

Today, Metallica are known as consummate musicians, but it wasn't always that way. Their early career is marked by a gradual evolution from garage thrash to sophisticated, progressive heights – an evolution driven by their bass player, Cliff Burton, who pushed the band to new heights with his songwriting ability and phenomenal bass skills across the band's first three albums, including their undisputed masterpiece, Master Of Puppets.

Cliff's life was short but influential; his death at the age of 24 in a tour bus crash on a Swedish mountain road was sudden and shocking. Following his passing, Metallica went on to huge global success, but by their own admission they never pushed the creative envelope as radically as they had done during the first four years of their career.

The cult of Burton grows year on year, and so too the list of bassists acknowledging his influence in metal and beyond. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Metallica's debut album, Kill 'Em All, this revised and updated edition of To Live Is To Die adds a new chapter that looks at Burton's enduring legacy from a fresh perspective and includes commentary from current Metallica bassistRobert Trujillo and Aquaman star Jason Momoa, as well as an eyewitness account of the opening of the Cliff Burton Museum in Ljungby, Sweden, in 2022. There is also a brand new preface by Testament bass master Steve Di Giorgio, who shares his memories of meeting Burton as a teenager and then watching on from close quarters as Metallica began to take off.

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Information

Publisher
Jawbone Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781911036999
eBook ISBN
9781911036135
Edition
3
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Author’s note
  2. Preface by Steve Di Giorgio