James Hetfield's Strings

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This advertisement states that Hetfield has used Ernie Ball Power Slinkys since 1988.

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Listed on the Official Metallica website.

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In this video from Ernie Ball, James Hetfield discusses his signature strings.

The heavy core was a major milestone in strings. Heavy? I want heavy! I'm kind of a little bit of a barbarian when I play. You got to have some of these Metallica calluses to play some of these things some times.

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In this instagram post from fabianexp84 a scanned image from an unspecified 1984 James Hetfield interview states "On my axes i use Dean Markeley Magnum custom light stirngs"

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