After Corey Taylor revealed the horror movie that defined his career inspirations Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich shared which song inspired him to dream of being in a band.
In an interview with GQ , the musician was asked when he first heard a song he wished he had written. In response, Lars reveals, “When I was 15 or 16, I was living in Los Angeles – I’d moved from Denmark a year or two before – and I was going to school in Orange County. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal [NWOBHM] was happening. It was around 1979-81 and I would get all these records sent from England. There was this mail-order thing called Old Records, where you sent your money and all the latest releases would show up. So, I got a compilation album from MCA Records called Brute Force . I had recently read about this band called Diamond Head in Sounds magazine that I hadn’t heard of before, so they were the opening act on this compilation album – the song was called ‘It’s Electric’.”
“When I heard it, I think I ended up playing it, like, 9,000 times the following month. If there was ever a song that made me want to be in a band, it was that one. I wasn’t in a band at the time – I was still messing around with tennis, although that was going down the drain quickly – and that song was like, ‘Holy hell, if I could just play this song or be in some kind of scenario where I could live my life playing a song like this, that’s what I want to do,’” the drummer concludes.
It goes without saying that Ulrich's dream came true, right? And Metallica even recorded several covers of the band's songs, including "Am I Evil" as the B-side of their 1984 single "Creeping Death," and included it again on their 1998 covers album, Garage Inc.
Check out below the song that changed Lars Ulrich's life, "It's Electric" by Diamond Head.
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