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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.
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- 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
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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.
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