In 2008 whereas recording their ninth studio album “Loss of life Magnetic,” Metallica determined to alter issues up and half methods with longtime producer Bob Rock (who labored on every part from 1991’s self-titled album to 2003’s “St. Anger”). As a substitute, they selected to go together with famed producer Rick Rubin.
In a lately resurfaced interview with MTV Information from 2008, guitarist Kirk Hammett spoke about how Rubin’s fashion labored for the band on the time.
“The beauty of working with Rick is he’s by no means round,” Hammett defined. “I might say that’s a really robust level, in that it leaves the 4 of us to tackle the complete brunt of the work and the planning that goes into the songwriting course of and the recording course of. In fact, Rick was there for a part of that course of — once we recorded drums and vocals — however the truth that we have been remoted in our studio, engaged on the songs ourselves, made a giant distinction, as a result of it stored our sound pure. We obtained extra Metallica that means than we had beforehand with Bob Rock.”
He continued: “Bob would add a whole lot of his personal musical enter, and with that got here a whole lot of his personal influences and elegance and jurisdiction and idiosyncrasies. And it might ultimately make it into our sound. However with Rick, as a result of he wasn’t there, it’s virtually one hundred pc undiluted Metallica. He’d are available in and say, ‘That’s good, that isn’t, change that.’ And we must determine that out for ourselves. That is essentially the most pure we’ve sounded in a very long time.”