Metallifreak 
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Metallica has done several interviews while touring Europe this summer, and here are bits and pieces..
James Hetfield about Rick Rubin, the new producer, to metal magazine Kerrang
Oh, I met him once, I bumped into him in a corridor! [Laughs] No, we were well aware of his reputation when we signed up. On "St. Anger", [longtime METALLICA collaborator] Bob Rock did everything — he was producer, engineer, bass player, babysitter, father figure. And Rick is pretty much the opposite; he's not there to babysit. When we first came in, his opening statement was, "I want you guys to impress me; I want you to feel like you're starting out again." He really wants us to get in the mind-set of "Master of Puppets". It's impossible to recreate what we were 20 years ago, that's silly, but we had to get that hunger back. Rubin is really good at feeling songs, and he'll tell you straight-up if he doesn't like something. We started with 20 songs and we've whittled it down to 14 since he came in. He won't say "This fucking sucks," but he'll make suggestions and I'm definitely open to that.
James about lyrics to Kerrang again
James: I have phrasings and something vocally to at least feel what the song is like. I forgot about "Let's please everyone in the band." Now it's, "This is where my head's at." I think people will identify with it.
Hetfield to Metal hammer magazine about being stoped at the airport in London
Hetfield said of his beard, "There's a rumour going around that I was stopped at an airport for having this. They thought I was it's just a made-up rumor that I was some terrorist or something. I haven't seen many terrorists with tattoos!
On the new album to the TV station NRK in norway
As good as we can right now, I would say, and that's all it ever has been. [Producer] Rick Rubin is extremely good at getting the best out of any artist he's worked with, whether it's Beastie Boys, Neil Diamond, Slayer, Slipknot he does all, he does rap… anything! Somehow he taps in. He's got a good vibe, and a good ear, and we think we do too. So sometimes there's a little bit of this — we like our things the way we like them, he likes his things the way he likes them — but with two great powers putting something together, I think we'll come up with something pretty amazing. He's having us focus a lot on the feeling around 'Master of Puppets' what was going through our minds? what was it like? the hunger around 'Master of Puppets'."
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