Lars Ulrich: How Dave Mustaine Tried To RUIN Metallica!

During a conversation with Louder, drummer Lars Ulrich discussed Mustaine’s early contributions to the band.

“Dave brought in some things he had from his old band, Panic – things he’d been jamming, bigger-picture ideas, stuff like that,” Ulrich revealed. “The song ‘The Four Horsemen' was, in its early version, called ‘Mechanix,’ and it was literally a song about sex. There were lyrics about taking the hose and sticking it in the tank – a gas-station stop disguised as sexual engagement.”

The drummer went on to explain that Mustaine’s sexually themed lyrics didn’t jive with Metallica’s direction. “It didn’t make a lot of sense to me at the time, but we knew that was the sort of thing we wanted to move away from – the sexual stuff that hard rock bands were singing about at the time, which we thought was a little light and a little obvious,” he said.

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