James Hetfield still has "nightmares" before going on tour with Metallica. The 60-year-old singer - who has been part of the 'Enter Sandman' heavy metal legends since the group's formation in 1981 - admitted that even now, he can "doubt himself" before going back on the road. Speaking on 'The Metallica Report' podcast, he said: "Obviously before heading out on tour, sitting there trying to remember the myriad of pretty awesome songs we have and then just trusting that once we get together, it’s like, oh yeah, it’s muscle memory.
“But yeah, over the last month, I will say that the normal thing happens where I start to doubt myself. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. "I start to feel insecure that, whoa, we’re old, we can’t do this and blah blah blah – all that bulls*** that everyone tells themselves before they go into something that they care about and is important.
“So having the nightmares of, you know, I’m the only one who cares about what we’re doing here. You know, where is everybody?” Hetfield - who is part of the group with Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo - has strange dreams in the lead up to tours, where everything is going wrong. He revealed: "I show up at the gig, everyone’s goofing off or there’s 200 people backstage and where’s my stuff? You know, where’s the setlist? What songs are we doing? “And then typical things like, the guitar neck is made of rubber and there’s.