James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich had one major fight while making Hardwired…to Self Destruct.
Hetfield tells Metal Hammer, “About eight months ago we were in the studio and it was like, ‘Hey, I’m the guitar player, I like this guitar part, I wanna play it. He’d be like, ‘This part is better,’ and I was like, ‘Since when are you the riff police?’ So at that point it was, ‘Okay, I’m done for now, I have to leave.'”
Hetfield adds that the spat didn’t last long. “A week later we were talking again.”