As it turned out, Some Kind of Monster was so pivotal in opening conversations about mental health in the music industry that, rather than being a cringeworthy moment in Metallica’s story, the film was rereleased 10 years later with bonus material. At the time, it seemed unfathomable that such a band – afforded godlike status by millions – would choose to reveal the mess that lay beneath. It’s nearly two decades since the release of the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster, which followed the heavy metal behemoths into group therapy. Whatever pedestal I’m on, on that big old stage, I’m just a person … I still put my pants on one leg at a time Winston McCall Instead of touring, frontman McCall, guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, bassist Jia O’Connor and drummer Ben Gordon began regular sessions with a counsellor in a neighbouring town to their native Byron Bay. “We feel the limit has been reached and we don’t want to fuck this up,” they wrote. A Facebook post went up in April, announcing they were cancelling their US tour ahead of their new, seventh album Darker Still. At a crisis point like this in a mammoth band’s trajectory, at least two members usually throw down the gauntlet and launch solo careers.

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