Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich Breaks Band's Silence on Death Magnetic Loudness Controversy

You gotta remember, when we put out …And Justice for All, people were going, ‘What happened to these guys, this record? There’s no bass on it. It sounds like it was recorded in a fuckin’ garage on an eight-track.’ And now …And Justice for All is sort of the seminal Metallica record that supposedly influenced a whole generation of death-metal bands. The difference between back then and now is the Internet.

Lars, Justice still sounds like shit. We just put up with it because the music kicks it. St. Anger sounded like shit, and Rick Rubin had nothing to do with that. With the Guitar Hero version rolling around as proof, you look like a massive jackass when you say it’s supposed to sound like it does.