James Hetfield detailed the type of nightmares he had just before Metallica headed out on tour.

The frontman mentioned dealing with poor dreams was just aspect of his functioning life, and he’d discovered to reside with it more than the years.

In a current interview with The Metallica Report, Hetfield confirmed he’d gone by way of the similar routine just before the band started their existing European tour.

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“[T]he normal thing happens, where I start to doubt myself,” he explained. “I start to feel insecure – ‘Well, we’re old; we can’t do this; blah, blah, blah.’ All that bullshit everyone tells themselves before they go into something they care about.”

The normal expertise, he continued, integrated “having the nightmares [where] I’m the only one who cares about what we’re doing here. … I show up at the gig, everyone’s goofing off. Where’s my stuff? Where’s the set list?

“The guitar neck is made of rubber and there’s only two strings on it – where’s my roadie? And the guitar cord won’t let me get to the microphone. Silly stuff like that.”

He reflected: “That has to happen, and I don’t freak out over it… You have anxiety build up, and don’t let it get the best of you because you have that balance of anxiety and faith. And as soon as you get up there, it’s all gonna be good.”

Hetfield cited a different instance, of setting foot on the band’s newest stage set, which he’d helped style. “Between that time and then actually seeing it built, where it’s kind of too late, [I’m thinking] ‘Oh, shit – this thing is so big.’

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“The anxiety level was off the charts… Like, how are we going to cover this stage? And, of course, my ego is saying, ‘Well, the other guys don’t have to sing; they don’t have to run over there, they don’t have to do all this. Ah, no one knows the woes I have and all the worries!’

“But as soon as I share them with the other guys, they’re like, ‘Yeah, but I got this, and I got that.’ It’s like, ‘Oh, okay. I want mine back!’”

But – for now at least – Hetfield had consigned these thoughts to the previous. “Now, it’s just fun,” he mentioned. “We’ve broken that stage in; it’s well-trodden on and it’s worked fantastically. And so we just get to step back into it, and do what we do best.”