Do you like heavy metal?  Metallica is my favorite heavy metal band.
I grew up in the 1980's so I heard a lot of heavy metal growing up!  
It's crazy how they attracted such a wide audience while being derided by critics.
I guess it was like any generation's "rebel" music, like Elvis was criticized in his day, punk got criticized too.
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield, and has been based in San Francisco, California for most of its career. The group's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo
being certified Silver in the United Kingdom.
In 2015, Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis stated "My favorite Faith No More record is "The Real Thing". That's when Mike Patton took over. That's the one. [Although] I do like "We Care a Lot". We got a lot of our influences from "The Real Thing". It showed everybody you could do heavy music and not be "metal". It was something completely different."
Legacy.
"Epic"