He wanted his signature humbucker to have a thick crunch that sags just a little when you really lay into it. It gave extra teeth to his solos. You get that warm tone with the distortion mixed in and it has the low end that’s kicking you in the butt while the top end is cutting your face off in the right way, but not ripping your face off.
i still like my jamse hetfield EMG signature set in my BC RICH warbeast
the pickups are vary hot he played out of a solid state amp and i have a marshall 900 tube amp sounds great but vary hot have great crunch they probably sound real good on solid state will try different thins but still i like