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Jason Newsted is an American bassist, singer, and composer born in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1963. He performs heavy metal, traditional heavy metal, thrash metal, and progressive metal music. His primary instruments are the bass guitar and voice. He has been active since 1982 and is a member of the groups Newsted, Flotsam and Jetsam, Metallica, and Spastik Children. He also uses the pseudonym Jasonic.
In addition to his musical career, Newsted has worked in the acting department. He speaks English and is identified as male. His work is associated with tags such as thrash metal, heavy metal, and bass.
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Film & TV
Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Jason Newsted is a musician. He is best known as the former bassist for the American band Metallica. He joined Metallica in the year 1986 and quit the band in 2001.
Known for
- Avenged Sevenquads: Revenge of Hue Sevenfold: Part 2 — Hue Sevenfold2026
- Metallica: Studio Shit + U.K. Shenanigans — Self2025
- Metallica: Polar Beach Party — Self2025
- Metallica: Poor Swedish Me '96 — Self2025
- Metallica: On the Air (Music Videos + TV Appearances) — Self2025
- VOÏVOD: We Are Connected — Self2024
- Metallica: Wherever We May Roam — bass2021
- Metallica - Live At Frankenhalle, Nuremberg, Germany - November 29th, 19922021
- Metallica - Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica Outtakes2021
- Metallica - Live at Gentofte Stadion, Copenhagen, Denmark - August 10th, 1991 — Self2021
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1963
Member of
- Flotsam and Jetsam1984–1986
- Metallica1986–2001
- Judas1994–1994
- Judas1994–1994
- Fatso1994–1994
- Fatso1994–1994
- IR81994–1994
- IR81994–1994
- Sexoturica1994–1995
- Sexoturica1994–1995
- Papa Wheelie1996–2002
- Papa Wheelie1996–2002
- EchoBrain2000–2002
- Voivod2001–2008
- Rock Star Supernova2006–2007
- Papa Wheelie2011–2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,482
- Total plays
- 7,576
Tags
For Jason Newsted solo band, see newsted. Jason Curtis Newsted (born March 4, 1963 in Battle Creek, Michigan) is an American bass guitarist a member of Voivod and Supernova, but is best known as a former member of the metal band Metallica. Jason left Flotsam And jetsam to take on full duties as the Bassist for Metallica, replacing the oft lamented Cliff Burton in 1986 after a tragic accident on their tour bus threw Cliff out the window and onto the road where he was then crushed when the bus
Key facts
- Also known as
- Jasonic, Jason "Newkid"
- Born
- Jason Curtis Newsted , ( 1963-03-04 ) March 4, 1963 (age 63) , Battle Creek, Michigan , U.S.
- Genres
- Heavy metal thrash metal hard rock
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Bass guitar vocals
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Member of
- Newsted
- Formerly of
- Voivod Metallica Flotsam and Jetsam Papa Wheelie Rock Star Supernova Echobrain Ozzy Osbourne Band Spastik Children WhoCares
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jason
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Battle Creek
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- hard rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- newstedheavymetal.com
- Image
- 13-06-09 RaR Newsted 07.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jason Newsted
- date of birth
- 1963-03-04
- member of
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- name in native language
- Jason Newsted
- pseudonym
- Jasonic
- social media followers
- 3024
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Encyclopedic overview
Jason Curtis Newsted (born March 4, 1963) is an American musician, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam for the first five years of his career before joining Metallica in October 1986 to succeed Cliff Burton, who died the month prior. Newsted performed on the albums ...And Justice for All (1988), Metallica (1991), Load (1996), Reload (1997) and Garage Inc. (1998). He left the group in January 2001.
After leaving Metallica, Newsted was a member of metal bands Echobrain and Voivod, using the pseudonym Jasonic for the latter, and toured with Ozzy Osbourne. Since 2012, he fronts heavy metal band Newsted. Newsted was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Metallica in 2009.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jason Newsted” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.