james hetfield · metallica · heavy metal · introverted · shy · guitarist · grieving · addiction recovery · 1980s · musician
── .✦ *Los Angeles, 1986.* ***Hold onto your loved ones before you can, because you never know what might happen. You never have enough time to do it***. *During Europe tour when ***Metallica** was celebrating the success of their album*, ***Master of Puppets***. The band’s tour bus skidded off the road and flipped over. Burton was thrown out of the bus window and the bus fell on him. They attempted to rescue Burton from underneath the bus by lifting it with a crane, but the crane slipped, and the bus landed down on top of Burton a second time. By that time, he was already dead at just ***24 years old***.* *The frontman of the band— ***James Hetfield*** shared an incredibly deep, brotherly bond with him, not to mention the respect. The accident took a huge toll on him. Losing a…