Rick Rubin

[duellist]

Is it true that Rick Rubin is producing the new metallica Album? if so cool and this is rather interesting if he is he's going form producing the new Dixie Chicks Album to Metallica.

 

[The Amazer]

yep, he is indeed.

According to James, he lives up to his reputation by not being there unless necessary.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I can't wait to hear what comes from his and Rob's involvement.

 

[Goreripper]

Metallica should have dispensed with Rock years ago, long before Stanger. Hopefully Rubin can make them relevant again. That said, it's as much up to them as it is them.

I'm going to take a drink because the Duellist suddenly posted.

 

[phlogiston]

I've been listening to "Load" a fair bit recently. If you try and forget that you're listening to Metallica, it's a great album.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I totally agree. Awesome heavy rock.

 

[Goreripper]

Yeah, Load wasn't too bad really. I really don't mind anything they've done except the last album. It was shit beyond words.

 

[The Amazer]

Load is my 3rd fav Metallica album

 

[Goreripper]

That's not surprising coming from you.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

What annoys me is, so many people seem quick to blame Rock for "ruining Metallica". Umm hello, he doesn't write the songs!

Sure, St Anger was a massive fuck-up on everyone's behalf but Rock's job was to make the albums before that sound good. And from that point of view, he did a fucking brilliant job

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Yeah, he just helped them to do what they wanted. They wanted a polished metal album, they got the black album. They wanted grungey rock, they got Load. They wanted a garage Metal album, they got Garage Inc. They wanted rough an angry, they got St Anger. Makes sense.

 

[Southy]

It does make sense,

I think the reason Rick Rubin has been the top of the production game for eons is how he goes about it, no matter who he is producing, he leaves the band alone to nut out how they want things to be without interupption, he comes in, sticks his two bob in, twiddles the knobs, always to perfection, fault me there, please, simply because I cannot think of a bad album Rick Rubin has been involved in, and fucks off to another job, to do it all over again

 

[duellist]

Load is a good rock album from great metal band. I thought St Anger was awful until I wathc there documentry and was amazed that it was finished in the first place, especially when you had the pycho-thearpist trying to become the 5th Member of Metallica.

 

[Goreripper]

Yeah Some Kind of Monster was a great insight. Doesn't make the album any better though.

 

[Winmar]

It'd be nice if Metallica wanted to make a decent thrash metal album. Sounds like Mr Rubin could help them achieve that. It's only been 18 years or so.

 

[phlogiston]

I like St. Anger too. Top stuff on it.

 

[Keeper of the Seven Cheese]

Yeah, Load wasn't too bad really. I really don't mind anything they've done except the last album. It was shit beyond words.

I couldn't have said that better.

 

[Southy]

I have said it before, St Anger is a good album, with shocking production, if it is even produced, the songs are a bit long sometimes, but it is basically the diary of a bunch of people in rehab. If the sngs weren't so long in some instances, and it was actually produced properly, it would of been a stellar return to form

 

[phlogiston]

I like the production too. It fits the tone of the songs. Raw and angry. If it was too produced it would remove a lot of the emotion in the songs.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

I didn't mind the raw production... but for fucks sake, at least fix the god-damn snare!