metallica's influences just a thought but it seems to me that listing black sabbath deep purple and led zeppelin as the band's primary influences is misleading while those bands certainly did influence metallica i think it'd be more useful to substitute the bands metallica by their own admission imitated according to the 'garage inc ' booklet metallica initially set out to be a combination of diamond head and motorhead besides the above quote this influence in immediately apparent to a greater degree than the influence of the three bands currently listed i feel that this change will make that particular section more accurate thoughts