Return to old school metal for Metallica
The new album is expected early next year.
“The last album was an unusual METALLICA album in that no one brought ideas into the studio. Everything you hear on that album was given birth to in the studio,” the drummer notes. “This time around we’ve each brought in ideas as we used to — as well as working on some jams we had from from two summers ago — and James [Hetfield] and I are sorting through our CDs of riffs to put together stuff as we did back in the day.
That goes some way towards explaining why the album turned out to be as crap as it was.
I wouldn’t see Rubin as being that much a of a radical departure from Bob Rock. They are both fairly commercial producers. I think in Metallica’s case they need someone more a bit more extreme.