Best known as the frontman for heavy metal band Metallica, Los Angeles raised James Hetfield helped write such hits as “Enter Sandman” and “The Memory Remains”. Hetfield grew up in a heavily Christian Science influenced household, which ended up playing a large part in his youth and in turn, the lyrics of many of Metallica’s songs. At the age of 9, Hetfield took piano lessons before taking on brother David's drums and finally picking up a guitar in his pre-teens. Hetfield hooked up with fellow band member and drummer Lars Ulrich, who had placed an ad in the newspaper looking for someone to jam with, and in October 1981, Metallica was born. In 1986 they toured to promote their third album, Master of Puppets.

The gear list of a rock star is most definitely an extensive one, and Hetfield is no different sporting several ESPs, Trussarts, Gibsons, and a beautiful butterscotch Fender Telecaster B-Bender. Mesa Boogies dominate Hetfield’s amp gear and a Shure Super 55 stage microphone help him belt out his classic hits. In this Guitar Center video, Metallica's James Hetfield discusses how he became a musician, and his rise to fame. Throughout the video, he can be seen playing riffs on his one of his signature ESP guitars, the Iron Cross James Hetfield Signature Electric Guitar (Snow White color).

Hetfield goes into some details on some of the principles behind building this guitar: 'I wanted to play drums on guitar pretty much so I wanted a really percussive sound. One that really reacts quickly and is punchy, but also if you hang on a chord, it’s gonna fill the room. I wanted a Les Paul shape that was a little lighter, a little more road-worthy. This has a little cut-out for me. I like to wear my guitars pretty low, this has a little more sharpness to it, I can get up a little higher even though, you know, you don’t want to hear me solo. I've tested - probably - I think we went through about 30 different kinds of poles, different kinds of windings, different kinds of metals.

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And that's what I want in a guitar sound - but not abrasive - something that's gonna give you complete ear fatigue after a concert.' James bought this guitar in 1980 for $200, and it was his second electric guitar. He played it on Metallica’s first album “Kill ’em All”, and kept playing it up until 1984 when the neck snapped after an accident on stage. At that point the guitar had two Seymour Duncan Invader humbuckers, a Tune-o-Matic Bridge.

Just prior to recording “Death Magnetic” in 2008 James decided to restore this guitar. He changed a couple of things, including the pickups which he replaced with the EMG 81/60 set, and reparation of the headstock which was broken more than one time in the past. The guitar was James' first ESP guitar. He bought the guitar around c.1987 and used it to record parts of And Justice For All. James added the EET FUK logo in 1988 while finishing up the master recording for the album it also sports middle finger inlays.

This was his main axe through out the damaged justice tour. He retired this guitar right before the black album was recorded and he now uses as a recording guitar.