James Hetfield: The Boy Who Lost Everything, the Man Who Conquered the World

Biography of James Hetfield Before Metallica. James has recounted many episodes from his life over the years. I tried to arrange information from various sources in chronological order. This is an eight-minute video created in a single take in Unreal Engine. Credit: Photo of the house in Norwalk - Ron McGovney. Perhaps one of the best books covering this period of his life is "Birth School Metallica Death, Vol". I by Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former editors of Kerrang!. Other valuable sources include Metallica: "Enter Night" by Mick Wall and "So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica's James Hetfield" by Mark Eglinton. In Absent (2011), an independent film directed by Justin Hunt, there is a 13-minute segment in which James Hetfield talks about his childhood.