Know Your Trivia for Week of 6/9/25    METALLICA 

Metallica was just in concert in Tampa! Here are some fun facts about this 9 time Grammy award winning band:

Ron Quintana came up with the name Metallica. 

Though many believe that the members themselves came up with the name, Lars Ulrich’s friend Rob Quintana was the one who suggested Metallica. At the time, Quintana was trying to come up with an interesting name for a metal music magazine and narrowed his choices down to MetalMania and Metallica. Since Ulrich liked the name Metallica, he suggested that Quintana name his magazine MetalMania. 

Metallica is one of the only bands to have played on every continent!

Not many artists can say that they’ve played shows in every continent across the world, but Metallica can definitely tick this one off their list. Throughout their career, the band has played more than 1,700 shows worldwide, with more than 40 shows in their hometown of San Francisco, California. Back in 2013, Metallica played an hour-long show in Antarctica called Freeze ‘Em All. This show won them the Guinness World Record for being the first band to play shows on all the continents!

James Hetfield has a guitar made from a place the band rehearsed in. 

James Hetfield got a custom guitar made from the wood in a garage that the band used to rehearse in! After Metallica moved to the Bay Area in San Francisco, they started rehearsing at a garage in El Cerrito. They wrote some of their most famous material there, like Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, and the garage held sentimental value for the band. However, after the owners of the garage decided to tear it down, Hetfield saved a few pieces of wood and hired Ken Lawrence to make him a custom guitar.