James Alan Hetfield is the guitarist and vocalist of the American heavy metal band Metallica. James Hetfield born on August 3, 1963 in United States. He began to play guitar at the age of fourteen.
Hetfield has been a major endorser of ESP Guitars, and is best known for playing custom-made Explorer-style guitars. Hetfield's main guitar from the early days was a Flying V copy made in Japan, used almost exclusively until 1984 when he switched to the Gibson Explorer model.
ESP produced the first of his signature model guitars during the mid-1990s. Hetfield often uses guitars from Gibson and other companies instead of ESP despite his endorsement.