Metallica Announces Producer For Next Album

[Evil Chase K]

From Metclub.com...

"We just wanted to let our friends know that we have been jamming, writing, just plain messing around and having fun in the studio for the last few weeks.

Oh, and by the way, this up and coming producer guy named Rick something-or other, has been coming by the studio every now and again to listen to some of our new stuff and throw his two/three cents in.

Since this Rick dude is new to all of this, we thought it would be a nice gesture to help break him into the music business by asking him to produce our next record. We're very happy he said yes! In other words, we are psyched to share with you that Rick Rubin is producing the next Metallica album! FUCK YEAH!"

[Farmer Reil]

Is he that guy that is basically credited with creating Nu-metal?

[Liam]

Ignore whatever I was thinking

Edited February 17, 2006 by rvdwannabe

[tristy]

Is he that guy that is basically credited with creating Nu-metal?

Edited February 17, 2006 by The Man They Call Tristy

[ACCBiggz]

Glad they are just back in the studio. I'll withhold judgement until I hear the album probably in 07 or late 06.

[Summers]

Rubin's good.. urm.. I'm not exactly excited about it, I mean last time we had St. Anger, but we'll see.

Edited February 17, 2006 by Sumzy

[zero]

When does Rubin fucking sleep? Here's a list of everything he's worked on in the last year:

Make Believe - Weezer (2005)

Out of Exile - Audioslave (2005)

Mezmerize - System of a Down (2005)

Hypnotize - System of a Down (2005)

Fijación Oral 1 - Shakira (2005)

Oral Fixation 2 - Shakira (2005)

12 Songs - Neil Diamond (2005)

Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers (2006)

Just In Time - Justin Timberlake (2006)

Unknown - Linkin Park (2006)

Unknown - Metallica (2006/2007)

I'm really excited about this, but it'll be strange to see a Metallica album not produced by Bob Rock.

[GRIFT]

I am not a huge Bob Rock fan so seeing someone else at the helm interests me, even if it is for Metallica.

[The Hardcore Canuck]

I personally hated St. Anger, but I'm not going to start bashing the new album until it comes out (if it's bad, of course).

[Ananas]

Is he that guy that is basically credited with creating Nu-metal?

[Herr Matzat]

metalica need to learn that music dos mater more than monney before i care about them again.

they are on tour this year right? why record an album if you are touring? (i know that they at least play festivals)

[fineintent]

Can't wait for the JT album.

This'll no doubt be an improvement, the last Metallica album sounded like it was made in a large tin can.

[Benji]

I'm not much of a fan of Metallica, but Rubin is an phenomenal producer, he'd easilly be my first choice producer for any music I ever did, he's worked with some great artists and made them even better for the experience

[fourstarfizzle]

Let's hope Rubin can make Metallica sound decent again. And lets hope he takes that fucking biscuit tin of a snare drum off Lars.

[prime time]

I'm glad that they got a new producer, each Bob Rock produced album continuously got weaker, and with St. Anger being their last album, I can't even imagine how bad this one would have been if they had stayed with Rock. I don't really know a lot about Rubin so I can't comment on him as of yet.

[Skummy]

I haven't rated Metallica for a long time, and I don't even consider some of their earlier work the "classics" they were hailed as, even their best albums are still fairly formulaic, if listenable, metal, but nothing amazing. I have to admit, though, I'm interested about this one. Rick Rubin as a producer could, hopefully, breath some new life in to them, and hopefully Rob Trujillo will be involved in the writing process in a big way, seeing as he's my favourite bassist not named Les Claypool or Jaco Pastorius, but that seems unlikely.

If Lars gets his act together as well, this could turn out amazing. I won't hold my breath, but I'm intrigued as to how it will turn out.

[Liam]

With Metallica's old stuff, I always thought it was a timing issue as to why thier older stuff is so highly regarded. I love it, but I must admit, I don't find it stands up as well today as it probably was back in the day.

[Guest barber]

i thought their last album st anger was very ordinary, the only song i really liked on the album was st.anger.

[Skummy]

i thought their last album st anger was very ordinary, the only song i really liked on the album was st.anger.

Welcome to popular opinion, how's the weather?

[K]

Frantic was alright.

I didn't like the album to start with, then I saw Some Kind Of Monster and I liked it even less.

Just kind of killed some of the magic to see them pulling meaningless lyrics out of their ass.