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James Hetfield was famously burned by faulty pyro in Montreal in 1992, but those aren’t his only scars. “I think at one point we did a body scan and put it in our fan-club magazine, highlighting my broken wrist, broken ribs, the burns, this and that,” explains the Metallica frontman. “I ruptured a disk in my back on the Summer Sanitarium Tour a few years back. That’s the nagging one.” But as he and his band have proven with the already-platinum number one album Death Magnetic, what didn’t kill him only made him stronger. Click below for more from Hetfield, including what his favorite Metallica memorabilia is and who he wants to join him if the band gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• Q&A: James Hetfield

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