I had to prove myself constantly on that album.' When The National's Ian Hanomansing noted that Rock and METALLICA became not only colleagues but also friends, Rock said: 'Eventually.

And the thing about that METALLICA album that you hear is that James started singing rather than yelling, and I think it's his most personal lyrics on any record he's made.' Not fighting, but there was that edge through the whole project, and that ended up being something special.

I think what made it different for me is that they were very opinionated and it was really hard to do the record, but they challenged me and I challenged them, and I think we ended up that it wasn't all just happy.

He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): 'When you make a record, you really don't know how it's gonna turn out. Anger'.īob touched upon his work on 'Metallica' in a new interview with CBC News' The National. Rock helmed METALLICA's subsequent albums, through 2003's 'St. 1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 281 weeks. Rock first teamed with METALLICA for the band's self-titled 1991 album (a.k.a. Canadian producer Bob Rock, who has been responsible for some of the biggest rock and metal albums of the last 30 years, including all of METALLICA's studio output during the 1990s and early 2000s, says that he had to prove himself constantly when he first started working with the band.

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