NEWS
2019/08/12
While Metallica’s 1988 fourth studio album …And Justice For All is undoubtedly a classic and one of the finest metal albums on the planet, the full-length has famously had its problems: notably, that the bass guitar on the record is practically inaudible. Now, in a new interview with ’Tallica fan magazine So What!, frontman James Hetfield has explained Justice’s sound, and how the lack of bass – performed by Jason Newsted following the death of Cliff Burton in 1986 – coming through in the mix was actually more a result of the band being burned out at the time, and not an attack on Jason. “I will say, it was not all about, ‘Fuck [Jason]. Let’s turn him down.’ That’s for sure,” James says. “We wanted the best-sounding record we ...
