Press Interviews With Metallica

Dan Aquilante of the New York Post caught up with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for a Q&A session, where they talked about the band's latest effort 'St. Anger', and their battle with Napster. Asked if they understood what was happening from the start, Lars responded, "Initially, we were blindsided by it. We were ignorant of all that Internet stuff; we didn't understand it at all. It started one day when I got a call from my manager who told me some early versions of a song we were working on called "I Disappear" had surfaced on radio. We traced the release back to a company called Napster. I said, What the fu** is Napster?" As for talk that the group was greedy, Lars responded, "It hurt a lot more than I ever let on. I really couldn't understand how anybody could say we were greedy." Read the full interview on the New York Post.

Steve Morse of the Boston Globe caught up with Metallica frontman James Hetfield and asked him about the many seven-minutes-plus songs on their new album 'St. Anger'. Hetfield says that drummer Lars Ulrich was mainly responsible for their length. "It's a little hard to put a (live) set together now," Hetfield admitted, "because you want to play at least 16 songs or so on stage, but the set gets to be three hours long. The album is self-defeating live somewhat, but in the studio, it just felt right. And if we need to chop these songs to play live, then we can. Still, I think it's the most free that we have been in the studio. We were feeling very comfortable with failure in front of each other, and with trying new things. ... And it really made us get better as players.'' Read the full interview on the Bloston Globe.

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