NEWS
2020/03/04
On August 31, 1985, Metallica performed at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum as part of that summer’s Day On The Green festival. On a bill topped by the Scorpions, the band’s nine-song early afternoon set was met with uncommon rapture by an audience of 60,000. But the real action that year took place at a different Oakland address. Since completing their co-headline tour with Armored Saint in March, the East Bay quartet had spent the year’s warmer months in the garage of 3132 Carlson Boulevard, otherwise known as the ‘Metallimansion’, writing their third album. “I think that it’s a pretty safe bet that Lars was instrumental in persuading the rest of the band that they had to record the new album in [Copenhagen studio] Sweet Silence,” said producer Flemming Rasmussen ...
