How Metallica’s Most Personal Song Became Their Biggest Hit

James Hetfield was exhausted from a world tour and to make matters worse he missed his girl so in a burst of inspiration he wrote an extremely vulnerable song called Nothing Else Matters that was hell bent on no one EVER hearing… Later his bandmates in Metallica happened upon this personal song and tried to talk him into recording it for their next record…but he wanted no part of it. Get this… He was convinced the song would make the band's fans HURL. Find out what happened next and how the song became Metallica's biggest song ever and how it propelled the Black album to the top of the charts on professor of rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .