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Hetfield adds that, somehow, his bandmates overheard him playing the song and saw potential in it. “They saw something there, something real from deep inside,” he continues.

“I feel like I'm so easily able to be me with these fans,” Hetfield, 61, continued, “and the more I'm me, the more they like it. It's just so opposite of how I was brought up.

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So it at least made sense to write a song in that tempo, in that vein,” James Hetfield explained. In the years since Metallica released Load, many have compared the album to much of the ...

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“I feel like I'm so easily able to be me with these fans,” Hetfield, 61, continued, “and the more I'm me, the more they like it. It's just so opposite of how I was brought up.

Within the discussion, James Hetfield revealed how "King Nothing" from the Load album was essentially the band's "answer" to "Enter Sandman." "'King Nothing' was kind of an answer to 'Sandman' really.