Lars Ulrich Net Worth: Lars Ulrich is a Danish musician, producer and composer who has a net worth of $ 300 million. Lars Ulrich has earned his net worth as one of the founding members of the American heavy metal band Metallica. Ulrich was the first Danish to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when Metallica received that honor in 2009. He was born in Gentofte, Denmark, on December 26, 1963 into a middle-class family. Ulrich’s father, Torben Ulrich, was an acclaimed tennis player from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Torben was also a musician in a jazz band that played with some of the greats, including Stan Getz. Miles Davis and the legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon, who was also Lars‘ godfather. At the age of nine, Lars was fascinated by the performance of the band Deep Purple, especially his album “Fireball”. In his youth, Lars was also a tennis player and was to receive professional training at the age of 16, however, he chose to focus on drums. Lars soon moved to Los Angeles, California, where he posted an ad in a place called The Recycler. Through this announcement, Ulrich met James Hetfield, with whom he formed Metallica.
Ulrich has changed his drum style many times throughout his career. At the beginning of the 80s he was known for his fast, aggressive and, more or less, basic rhythms. He often used the contrabass technique, which today has become very popular among heavy metal drummers. Many of Metallica’s first songs, such as “Metal Militia” by Kill ‘Em All, “Fight Fire with Fire” by Ride the Lightning, “Battery” by Master of Puppets and “Dyers Eve” by … And Justice for All, contain Ulrich’s Thrash drum beat style. Ulrich uses groove in his drum style, which includes clean and fast double bass rhythms in many songs and heavy drum fills. He also likes to play in sync with the rhythm guitar that Hetfield plays. Simplification in Metallica’s general musical style during the 90s and early 2000s made her change her musical style to a simpler drum style. However, in Death Magnetic, the release of Metallica‘s ninth album, it returned to its old style of the 1980s, in which it played more complex and fast rhythms. Lars has said that his fellow heavy metal drummers, Ian Paice and Bill Ward, were a major influence on his playing. Ulrich supports Tama Drums, also has a complete drum kit and lacquer finish, Zildjian Cymbals and Remo Drumheads.
Lars is notorious for leading the campaign against file-sharing companies such as Napster in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In April 2000, Metallica filed a lawsuit against Napster for copyright infringement and extortion. Ulrich has been married twice. He has two children of his second wife, Skylar Satenstein. Since her divorce in 2004, she has been dating Danish actress Connie Nielsen, the couple shares a son who was born in 2007. They currently live in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco.