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The Newsted departure is an undercurrent on a new Metallica song, “All Within in My Hands,” the nearly nine-minute epic that closes the album. So the bassist exchanged a spot in one the biggest rock bands ever for the freedom to play in bands such as Echobrain and Voivod. The bassist has said in interviews that he was chafing because his passion for side projects was viewed by Hetfield as betrayal behavior. Newsted’s decision to quit shocked the band. “I was there with them through this period of therapy and what it’s done for them - the freedom, the communication - is amazing. “I can’t explain to somebody how different they are,” he said. Anger” sessions found not just a new sound, but also a new band. Rock, who has worked with Metallica for more than a decade, said the “St. We didn’t go back to fix things, it was one take and, if it works, it works.” “I’ve been doing this 25 years and this is the purest thing I’ve ever recorded. “It’s funny, it’s nice being a little scared, waiting to see how people are going to react to it,” Rock said. Anger” producer and session bass player, said there is an exciting uneasiness anytime a juggernaut like Metallica changes course. The sound would seem to fit well in the hard-music scene today that has room for the meandering spirits of System of a Down, Tool and Linkin Park, but Bob Rock, the “St. There is also a sense of jagged improvisation that is far removed from the carefully constructed theater of its 1991 hit “Enter Sandman” and many of the signature songs since then. Now there are more breaks, rhythm changes and mood variations. The raw music has a wider palette of styles than early Metallica songs that barrel along like runaway trains from start to finish. Anger,” which is due June 10 from Elektra Records. The upheaval of 2001 and the dramatic healing of 2002 are vividly documented on the band’s new album, “St. The badly rattled band did not name his replacement until three months ago, when former Suicidal Tendencies member Robert Trujillo officially came on board, and at the Fillmore, the stocky, affable Trujillo was still learning the band’s songs. Not everyone made it - Jason Newsted, the band’s bassist for 14 years, walked away disenchanted in January 2001. I’m just glad we made it to here, to this point.” “It was good fun, and we’re still getting rid of the cobwebs. When Hetfield stumbled on the lyrics to the Misfits song “Die, Die My Darling” during an encore, the grinning band members even pulled two fans up on the stage to sing a second run-through.Īfter the show, guitarist Kirk Hammett said the performance was hardly flawless, but it was pitch perfect in reflecting the mood of the band. On Wednesday, the band was loose, energetic and giddy. The Fillmore shows have been a dress rehearsal of sorts for the band’s headlining run with the Summer Sanitarium tour (Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park are also on board for the tour that visits the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Aug. Later, beaming, Hetfield added: “We’re very grateful to be here alive and well.” He may have been talking about the set’s late start, but the jubilant crowd heard a broader statement. “Yeah, we made it,” lead singer James Hetfield told the audience a few songs into Wednesday’s show, the third of four nights.
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But after some rehab time, the departure of one member, much soul-searching and the recording of a new album, a reconstituted Metallica found itself this week at the storied Fillmore Auditorium for a series of shows that, clearly, were too loud to be a wake. Metallica has been singing about, oh, this grim reaper or that dark abyss for two decades now, and in 2001 the band seemed to be finally facing its own doom from internal strife.