EXCLUSIVE FULL Interview with James Hetfield on his tattoos

An interview with James Hetfield about his tattoos.

Jack Rudy is an American tattoo artist notable for his reinvention of the 'Black and Gray' style of tattooing, realistic portraits, and single-needle use. He is considered to be one of the top tattoo artists in the world.

James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is the rhythm guitarist, co-founder, main songwriter, and lead vocalist for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering a classified advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler, searching for band members. Since then, Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released nine studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays, 24 singles. In 2009, Hetfield was ranked number 8 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists,[1] and ranked twenty-fourth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.

A tattoo is made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification, and tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification purposes. The first written reference to the word, "tattoo" (or Samoan "Tatau") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour in 1769: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition".

Interviewer - "So the cross tattoo just where your shirt opens, that is more a metal symbol then a religious symbol?"

James - "Well I like symbolism. I've always loved symbolism. I came up with the damn logo, you know, that ninja star, I've always loved the association with things, and this represents a family. You know, I don't know, there's something about. I've always. You know if I wasn't playing music I'd be doing, you know graphic design or something. And I get to do both which is awesome, and so... Symbolism is pretty big for me, and the cross for me represents balance and connection with a higher power, and you know, it can mean many things for everybody else, but tattoo wise I have St. Michael, which to me, that's pretty huge. Facing your demons and I love those stories. I love some of the religious stories because whether they are real or not they are awesome inspiring stories."

carpe diem baby, lord angel.. temptation, Donum dei (latin)

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[wwejheaton]

people really need to quit judging

[wwejheaton]

@xskater589x no he's not idiot

[mrfutureawesomerocke]

You guys are fuckin dumb hahahahahaha cliffs death was not a conspiracy and you guys suck for saying it

[WarriorUvChrist]

@16karateka Thats a good point,thats basically what im saying! They did that to scare Metallica but you can hex some1 & they can die in an accident(SUPPOSEDLY),look @Ryan Dunn from Jackass.Check out the interview called"Dave Mustaine & Religion".He even said he used hexes & had caused an accident on a bully before he turned Christian now!

[Nnemi]

James Hetfield has nothing to do with illuminati. END OF FUCKING STORY!

[16karateka]

@WarriorUvChrist

Don't you think that Clifford Lee Burton was killed to intimidate Metallica?

I mean - the bus driver could've been hired to make that "bus accident",so that the one of the guys,and it was Cliff(i have a version that maybe they didn't plan to kill anyone,just to inmtimidate all of them,not to kill,but accidentally - Cliff got killed),would get killed,and thee rest would be intimidated.(that's if it all real,if you know what i mean)

[villadavid4ever]

Here's what I think (and hope):

Metallica is VERY popular; therefore it can influence a lot of dumbkids. The fucking masons make them do SOME stuff, in order to advertise their masonic..shit

[villadavid4ever]

@mactavishc HAHAHA, like Metallica is some sort of world order.

[fatfacerick]

@WarriorUvChrist please, do go on.

[WarriorUvChrist]

Yeah LUCYfer the angelic lower power gave him his power after they sucked when the Black Album with Nothing Else Matters came out! What a great contractual agreement.Why do u think Cliff is dead,he was hexed 4 them not joining the illuminati @ the time.Master had Christianic Messages like Battery(Smashing the deceiver/satan,Crushing non-believers/anti-Christ) & then Until It Sleeps came out! Thank God that Dave Mustaine WOKE UP & is reborn again & that Megadeth is still rocking anti-NWO songs!