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Most of their older songs (first 5 albums) are in standard tuning.

Metallica went down to drop C for St. Anger but tuned back up to standard E for Death Magnetic. Most of their songs are in E.

Drop C tuning is (low to high) CGCFAD

Added on December 14 2010 by Shea84:

Don't forget to mention that all of the songs from the old days that are in standard tuning are played a half step down live nowadays :-)

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