Rest in peace Cliff
God bless you
Wherever you are whatever you do
Thanks again for your beautiful music

Twenty years ago the music world, Metallica fans in specific, suffered a huge loss when the tragic bus accident that took Cliff Burton’s life.  Twenty years later, the band and fans alike continue to morn, suffer, and remember Cliff.

“We would never have written guitar harmonies or instrumental songs, or songs with very complicated melodies and orchestrations without Cliff” - James Hetfield of Metallica.

“Some of us, I'm included, were too young to know it yet, but every Metallica fan lost something really fucking special in the early morning of September 27th, 1986.  Music lost something.  The band lost something.  Most of all Cliff’s parents lost something. He was a phenomenal young musician and from everything I've read and seen seemed like an amazing friend to those who were lucky enough to have known him in his short life.” – A Metallica Fan.

This summer, during the Escape ’06 Tour, Metallica paid tribute to and honored Cliff by playing Orion in it’s entirety for the first time ever during their Master of Puppets Anniversary set.  “It was the highlight in the set for me,” said James Hetfield. “It is a summary of Cliff, and I cried every time we played it, but it was good tears. I was overwhelmed of gratitude to have been playing in the same band as Cliff, and to have had the opportunity of learning things of him.”

In Connection with the 20th anniversary of Cliff's death (i.e. 27th September), on Saturday 30th September, the special memorial stone, created by Manuel Pino, was placed close to the site of the accident and uncovered at 17:00 CET. After the stone was uncovered a remembrance concert was held at the nearby restaurant/pub, Gyllene Rasten, where these bands performed: Age of Fury, The Haze, Killersqueze and Morbid Insultor.

Please log on to their website, www.cliffinourminds.com, and read more about the project, including pictures and video of the unveiling, and an interview with James Hetfield!