Metallica: Still Heavy After All These Years

[Rolling_Stone]

Band returns to speed metal on new disc with Rick RubinThis is the advice producer Rick Rubin gave Metallica over two years ago, as the band knuckled down to write its next album: "I said, 'Imagine you're not Metallica,' " Rubin recalls. " 'You don't have any hits to play, and you have to come up with material to play in a battle of the bands. What do you sound like?' ""It was the obvious thing —that we didn't see," says singer-guitarist James Hetfield. Rubin, a longtime friend and fan who was producing a Metallica album for the first tim...

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