Bob Rock Speaks Out!

[Guest Respect The 'Taker]

BOB ROCK SPEAKS OUT

As reported by blammermouth.net: In the latest issue of Mixdown magazine (issue #100, dated August 2002), METALLICA producer Bob Rock commented on the recording process for the band's much-anticipated new album and the musical direction of said effort, calling it "different" but emphasizing that the changes that have taken place in the group's sound are, for the most part, "subtle". Here are a couple of select quotes from Rock as they appear in the magazine:

On the recording process for the new album:

Bob Rock: "We've really kind of changed our process in the way we're approaching this one, starting with kind of, like, where we've done it. The first half of the album we did last year, and what we did was we ended up renting out an army barrack, and we loaded in a lot of my equipment from my studio, my Neve stuff and microphones and other stuff, and we recorded there for two months, and we put down kind of 18 songs. Then METALLICA were building their kind of version of a studio — it's like a big warehouse with a control room in it, and they bought an SSL console. And we've been working ever since. It's definitely a different approach to the whole thing. It is very much a live feel, a live off-the-floor feel, and we're really concentrating on that."

 

On the new album's musical direction:

Bob Rock: "The funny thing is, like all great bands, it's, like, I guess really different, but to most people when they hear it, it's kind of, like, subtle changes. But they'll always sound like METALLICA and it's still based on that really heavy kind of stuff. It's different, but really it sounds like them."

 

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Is it just me...or does it sound as if this album could be heading a bad way? I dunno..Bob Rock's choice of words just puts me off...something is up, but i just can't grasp it yet.

 

This has...oh you know the rest

[Guest redbaron51]

18 SONGS?!

 

better be a double disc or else *grabs sniper gun*

[Guest Respect The 'Taker]

I actually just got done watching the new Metallica video posted on their 'Jump In The Studio' site that they have lauched to follow their progress in the studio, and Lars commented that the band have hit north of 20 ideas for songs etc.

 

So im guessing this will either be like Load & ReLoad where the extra material is released slightly later after the original material is released, or it'll be a double disc.

 

Here's hoping for the latter one.

 

This has been the Taker Mark

[Guest NoCalMike]

Wow Bob Rock makes it seem like the new album will totally suck.....but then again, NO SUPRISE here

[Guest Shaved Bear]

mayeb bad for Bob Rock=good for us, anyway, just because they wrote all the songs doesn't mean that they are gonna be put on albums

[Guest TheyCallMeMark]

Just read in Guitar World that they had 30 songs done and were just going to pick half for the new album. Sounds like Load all over again.

[Guest Ozymandias]

I can't fucking believe they're STILL recording albums with this joker