B.J. LISKO 4 months ago

Father Of Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Passes Away At 95

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Lars Ulrich’s father, Torben, famously appeared in the band’s 2004 “Some Kind Of Monster” documentary. The doc featured the band as longtime bassist Jason Newsted exited and they began to work on their polarizing “St. Anger” album.

Torben told his son, “I would delete that,” when asked for an opinion of a new song. Lars laughed, and Torben added: “For me, it doesn’t cut it. It sounds like a guy shouting in some kind of echo chamber.”

Sadly, the 95-year-old former tennis player, poet, musician, radio and newspaper journalist, painter, filmmaker and performer passed away at the age of 95.

Lars wrote: “Torben Ulrich: 1928-2023. 95 years of adventures, unique experiences, curiosity, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo, tennis, music, art, writing….and quite a bit of Danish contrarian attitude. Thank you endlessly! I love you dad”.

In 2017 Lars said of his father: “I think he appreciates Metallica, especially when we’re daring and a little unorthodox, when we play strange sideways tempos that I don’t even know what are. He appreciates that side of it. When we play a little straighter and a little safer, he raises an eyebrow.”

Lars added: “Metallica fans know that he’s been a fairly large presence in and out of Metallica’s history for 35 years. There’s a famous clip in ‘Some Kind Of Monster’ — a scene where he comes to listen to some of the stuff we were working on. He’s standing over the mixing desk and he doesn’t look too pleased. And I ask him, ‘What do you think of this music?’ There’s a long, long, long pause, and he goes, ‘I would delete that.’ [Laughs] A lot of Metallica fans know him by association, so it’s very cool.”