“DISPOSABLE HEROES”
Metallica
THIS EIGHT-MINUTE epic from Metallica’s classic 1986 album is a thrash metal tour de force, featuring a complex, fast-paced ensemble arrangement with shifting tempos and time signatures, a multitude of intense, pummeling single-note and power chord riffs, tightly doubled by guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, and a blistering, well-crafted solo from Hammett. Drummer Lars Ulrich and original bassist Cliff Burton turn in amazingly precise and powerful performances as well, lending the song a tight-fisted impact.
Hetfield and Hammett employ their celebrated down-picking technique throughout the song, the only exceptions being the 16th-note and eighth-note triplet rhythms, for which, out of technical necessity, they resort to
