Sep 27, 2015 · But the band's year ended with a crushing blow after bassist Cliff Burton died in a bus accident while touring overseas. The group had cemented their position as the kings of thrash metal...

While touring in 1986 to support Master of Puppets, Burton died following a bus crash in Sweden. He received posthumous writing credits on ...And Justice for All (1988) for the song "To Live Is to Die". He was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of …

Sep 27, 2023 · Tragedy struck just six days later when, in the early hours of a journey between Stockholm and Copenhagen, the band’s tour bus skidded – supposedly on a patch of ice – …

Sep 27, 2024 · Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was thrown from his bunk out of a window, causing the bus to crush him as it tipped over. The future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was 24 years old at the time of his death.

But on Sept. 27, 1986, in the midst of a European tour, tragedy struck as Burton was killed in a bus crash.

Sep 20, 2022 · Metallica ’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett have recalled the tour bus crash that killed bassist Cliff Burton 30 years ago this month – and how their first reaction to the tragedy was anger.

Burton died on September 27, 1986. The band was on a tour bus in Sweden when the driver lost control, flew down an embankment, and caused Burton to fly out the window. The bus eventually rolled...

Apr 7, 2019 · Burton was sleeping shortly before 7 am on September 27 when, according to the driver, the bus skidded off the road (the E4, 12 miles (19 km) north of Ljungby), and flipped onto the grass in Kronoberg County.

Cliff Burton died in a tour bus accident on September 27th, 1986 at the age of 24. Burton was the bassist for San Francisco, California-based heavy metal band Metallica.

Cliff Burton, the group’s groundbreaking bassist, tragically died in a bus accident while the band was touring in Sweden. At just 24 years old, Burton’s death sent shockwaves through the metal world and marked the end of an era for Metallica, a band that …