James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder, and a primary songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica. He is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionally performs lead guitar duties and solos both live and in studio. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering an advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler. Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released 11 studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays, and 24 singles. Hetfield is often regarded as one of the greatest heavy metal rhythm guitar players of all time. More about James Hetfield
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In 2009, Hetfield was ranked at No. 8 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists and No. 24 by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. In Guitar World's poll, Hetfield was placed as the 19th greatest guitarist of all time, as well as being placed second (along with Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett) in The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll of the same magazine. Rolling Stone placed him along with bandmate Kirk Hammett as the 23rd greatest guitarist of all time.In total, we tracked 566 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of James Hetfield (James Hetfield Signed Guitar Custom 1/1 JSA COA Metallica Ride the Lightning) was sold in March 2024 for $2999.99 while the cheapest item (Metallica James Hetfield signed 8x10 Photo) found a new owner for $0.01 in December 2019. The month with the most items sold (55) was December 2023 with an average selling price of $215.00 for an autographed item of James Hetfield. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2023 with $1999.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.25 was October 2019. In average, an autographed item from James Hetfield is worth $87.01.
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