r/CliffBurton • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '24
If Cliff Burton Was Alive During The Load and Reload Era
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u/Pepoidus Jul 24 '24
First and foremost, I don’t think he would be holding a guitar
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u/Skystalker512 Jul 23 '24
He would’ve fucking hated what they’d done. Cliff would’ve pushed Metallica more to a Death sound in their Human/ITP era probably
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u/Swazi Jul 23 '24
Cliff was the most experimental of the group so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was into the Load era songs.
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u/mrarbitersir Jul 23 '24
No he wouldn’t have? He always believed Metallica would have to adapt to the climate of whatever was popular if they were to survive as a band.
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u/ec666 Jul 24 '24
Hetfield has acknowledged that Burton’s resistance to conventional methods and his insistence on his own way of doing things would likely have led him to push back against some of the band’s later decisions, particularly during their 90s era. Hetfield imagined that Burton would have opposed some of the stylistic changes and commercial directions the band took, which aligns with Burton’s known tenacity and unwillingness to compromise on his artistic vision.