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When Grunge took the Rock and Roll scene by storm in the early 90s, bringing music back to the basics, many Heavy Metal bands struggled with ticket and record sales, as they were no longer getting the same exposure they once had. That wasn’t the case for Metallica, fronted by James Hetfield, who released their self-titled album in 1991. It became their best-selling record, showing that the band was evolving their sound. Throughout his career, Hetfield had the chance to meet many bands and musicians from that movement and share his opinions about them. One of those groups was Soundgarden and he also spoke about the late singer Chris Cornell. What is James Hetfield's opinion on Soundgarden and Chris Cornell James Hetfield has always been a huge fan of Soundgarden and Chris Cornell. When asked by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008 to list the greatest singers of all time, he ranked the late vocalist in fourth place. He was in front of names like Johnny Cash, Freddie Mercury, Steven Tyler, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, and Bon Scott. The only singers he placed above Cornell were Rob Halford, Layne Staley, and Ronnie James Dio. Soundgarden was a big inspiration for Metallica when they were making their self-titled 1991 record, also known as the "Black Album". As Kirk Hammett told Classic Rock in 2021, the "Enter Sandman" guitar riff was inspired by the Grunge band. "I'd been listening to Soundgarden all day. They were a band that me and James loved. I was just trying to capture that feel. That riff came out of nowhere," he said. James believes that Soundgarden’s songs stood out from the rest because of Chris Cornell and the way they approached the vocals in their music. "What we had learned about a different way of songwriting from Soundgarden was you play one riff through the whole song and the singer just goes all over the place and for that to work." James Hetfield continued: "You actually have to have a really good singer like Chris (Cornell), but that was very, very intriguing to us. 'King Nothing' makes sense in that. It was one of the first ones right after the Black Album, cause it was. It was a nod to 'Sandman.'" James Hetfield said in an interview with Q Prime and MX2 Media in 2025. Besides “King Nothing,” another track from *Load* that was compared to Soundgarden’s music was “Until It Sleeps.” An early demo of the song, recorded in 1995, was titled “F.O.B.D.” because the band thought it sounded a bit like “Fell on Black Days.” Both songs share the same time signature at certain points. On the exclusive Metallica fan-club CD *Fan Can #1*, there’s an early demo in which the band can be heard mentioning the name of the Soundgarden song before playing a part of their track. James Hetfield says there are many sad stories in Grunge, including Chris Cornell’s death Chris Cornell tragically died in 2017 at the age of 52 and at the time Metallica paid tribute to the musician during a live concert. Hetfield said “We forgive you, Chris”, after the band performed the track “Unforgiven”. James and Lars Ulrich were later present on Cornell's funeral. In an interview with WAAF Boston in 2017, he talked about Chris' passing, saying: “It does make you hug those around you, for sure. Bandmates, family that it’s out here, family at home. It makes you realize that there is a darkness that anyone and everyone can find, and feel that they’re trapped in.” “I know the depth of my darkness at times. It is difficult when you’re in that space to even fathom that there’s someone there that can help you or has been through that before. Sometimes you’re just in such a loss.” James Hetfield continued: “I can’t obviously explain what he was going through. But we have our darkness. So check in with each other, let each other know how you’re doing. It’s a sad story. There’s a lot of sad stories recently. Especially in the Grunge world,” James Hetfield said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). In 2019 Metallica was part of the all-star Chris Cornell tribute show. They played two Soundgarden songs: “All Your Lies” and “Head Injury“ and also the Metallica songs: “For Whom The Bell Tolls” and “Master Of Puppets”. Chris Cornell covered U2’s “One” using the lyrics from Metallica’s song of the same name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBjyl1LvBF4&list=RDrBjyl1LvBF4&start_radio=1 All the members of Soundgarden liked Metallica and Cornell curiously even performed the band's song "One" back in 2013. He used the melody of the U2 song of the same name but the lyrics of the Metallica track. That performance happened at the Santander Arts Center in Reading, PA. Before starting the song, he said: Sometimes I try songs and they don't sound so good. So I googled the lyrics because I didn't know them. I just put in 'One lyrics', hit the first thing that came up and there was. But it wasn't the U2 lyrics, because apparently the most Googled for a song called 'One' is from a band named Metallica. (...) So when the lyrics came up I thought: 'Well f*ck, that sounds like them'. I figured it out and this is what it sounds like," Chris Cornell said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). Since the early days Cornell believed Metallica was different from other Heavy Metal bands because they had different influences. "I don't necessarily like most of the music that I would consider in the same genre as Soundgarden," offers Cornell. "Most of these late 80s Metallica-ish metal bands—you hear their records and you can tell that all they listen to is other metal bands." Chris Cornell continued: "It's the same in the interviews: 'Yup, Deicide still rules.' But then you read a Hetfield interview. He says his favorite guitarist is the guy in the Butthole Surfers, and it's 'Okay. Yeah, makes sense.' That's why Metallica have some depth; they look around," Chris Cornell told Musician magazine in 1994. During their careers, Metallica and Soundgarden often shared the same bill at festivals around the world and got to see each other perform. They were also rivals at the Grammy Awards and in 1991, for example, Metallica won in the Best Metal Performance category. The Thrash Metal band won the award because of the “Black Album”, beating Soundgarden’s "Badmotorfinger". Other albums by Megadeth, Anthrax, and Motörhead were also competing.The post James Hetfield’s opinion on Soundgarden and Chris Cornell appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

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