Kirk Hammet said in a recent told MTV news that the great thing about Rick Ruben producing the labum was that he was never around. Maybe this is a good thing and maybe a bad thing. Maybe the reason Metallica have been all pussified out for the last 14 years is because Bob Rock was up their asses 24/7 and this time around they are having their own influence on the music again. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. And then after I wrote this I read the following…
“The great thing about working with Rick is he’s never …read more

Lets face it, if it wasn’t for make-ups, break-ups, and line-up changes in bands we wouldn’t have a lot of the great music we have today from different bands. Line up changes is often a necessity for a band to survive and thrive. Metallica is the band that everyone loves to hate and hates to love. I hope Rick Rubin can bring them back to there roots. With all the trash I’m talking about the band you’d expect me to want them to fail miserably but that’s just not the case.

I’m going to touch base on a band, no wait, The band that always gets people fired up and that’s exactly what I plan on doing right now. Metallica. Perhaps one of the greatest heavy metal bands of our time that pioneered the way for metal to go more mainstream and to gain enormous popularity. We all know the history so I need not explain.
Anyway, here we are in 2007. In March Metallica finally starts recording the as always highly anticipated new record. Exit Bob Rock (been a long time coming if you ask me), enter Rick Rubin. Where will …read more