Metallica

About

Their third album Master of Puppets stayed on the Billboard 200 for 72 weeks. It went six times platinum in 2003. Bassist Cliff Burton died in a bus accident in 1986. They reformed by auditioning over 40 possible replacements.

Trivia

They created the band after drummer Lars Ulrich put out an ad in the paper looking to form a band and guitarist James Hetfield responded. They opened two shows for the Rolling Stones in November 2005.