Heavy Metal Genealogy: James Hetfield and the Salem Witch Trials
5 min readMay 3, 2021
San Francisco, an interesting place. It was the home of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and then not too many years later the cradle of American Heavy Metal, largely due to Metallica.
My guess is that the metal explosion was the result of a new generation rebelling against the “Make Love Not War” of their parents. They were all about war, and…