Town & Country: How Metallica Is Balancing Banging Heads and Giving Back
In addition to serving face-melting guitar riffs and throaty vocals, and making millions of people want to bang their heads until they require traction, James Hetfield also has a heart of gold. The Metallica frontman may be the poster boy for hard rock raising an iron glove, but there is a velvet fist inside.
In 2017 Metallica created All Within My Hands, a nonprofit dedicated to giving back to the communities that have supported them for four and a half decades. Two years later they launched the Metallica Scholars Initiative, aimed at something decidedly less glamorous than dazzling pyrotechnics and sold-out stadiums: workforce education.
