
Every time James picks up a guitar, there’s a riff in there,” he said.

“The biggest issue we have is … we have too much material. When asked about how they weed out bad song ideas, Ulrich explained that that’s rarely a problem. Metallica are confident in their continued riff-writing abilities. How True Is 'Respect'? Fact-Checking the Aretha Franklin BiopicĢ. “The sound on Through the Never was so powerful and huge, we felt it was a mistake to not use him.” “ And at the end of the day, we know Greg, he knows us,” Hetfield added. Let’s get someone who doesn’t know rock even, go really sideways.'” The group decided to use Greg Fidelman, engineer for the group’s 2008 LP Death Magnetic. “What does it mean to use somebody new – a name producer? ‘Let’s really mix it up. “We did discuss who we were going to use,” Hetfield said. They considered working with a non-rock producer. Here are the most interesting things we learned.ġ.

EST on the network’s “Mandatory Metallica” station (channel 37), but Rolling Stone sat in and listened. The segment won’t run in full until November 17th at 5 p.m. The band members – James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo and Lars Ulrich – were in good spirits and gamely answered the queries. Metallica stopped by SiriusXM’s New York studios on Monday to answer fan questions for the network’s Town Hall segment in anticipation of the November 18th release of the group’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct LP.
