I'd like to add another thing about Metallica. Why don't they just quit? I mean, has anyone else seen their movie Some Kind of...? It's like a 2hr episode of the Jerry Springer show and who has the bigger dick. You're not a band anymore when you struggle that hard, ready to kill each other, to create a song. It isn't even music anymore.

Their St. Anger album was bits and pieces of music put together to make a song.

They have lost it, and good for Hetfeild for the quitting drinking, but it seems drinking was the only thing holding that band together. They got used to one kind of lifestyle in the studio, having some drinks and getting creative, but that missing now, I think they have forgot how to make music, sober.

A band shouldn't fight like that though. They seem to spend more time filming their therepy sessions than creating music. If something drives you to that breaking point, I think your body is trying to tell you to stop.