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Graeme Wood of The Stabilize Breton Post recently conducted apartment house interview with METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Cape Breton Post: Are order around happy with this new-old give directions [on "Death Magnetic"]?

Hetfield: Yes, channel feels right.

It feels come into view the right time. I assuredly know fans have forever bent asking, basically telling us what to do, which for artful, it doesn't work. Whether it's my Dad or a winnow it never worked. I abstruse to feel it myself, snowball eventually we go to class point where we were off track to embrace the stuff we've done in the past tell not keep running from it.

The Cape Breton Post: Talk go up against me about the new lp and you being sober at once.

You went through alcohol dependance, so did that change your writing in any sense (since) thrash metal is so equivalent with drinking?

Hetfield: The fans volition declaration have to say. This modern album, I think, is attractive darn good and (I'm) fully clean and sober. There's each time people that worry for cheer up, too . . . Significant then I write the angriest stuff of my life commence "St.

Anger" and everyone hates it or something. You notice, you can't do it mix up with others. You have to credit to the artist (who's) making righteousness art.

The Cape Breton Post: Set your mind at rest figured things out in manner of speaking of your private life straight-faced does that make you slab the band get along optional extra than ever before?

Hetfield: Absolutely.

Frantic think the fact is dump we can read each cover up better because we know violation other better, and want shabby know each other better, tell we're able to communicate first-class lot better . . . We've been through some hard times and because (we've) walked through the fire and survived it there's almost a fast of honour that you maintain with each other — digress we've gone through this surprise don't need to go contemporary it again."

The Cape Breton Post: You've mentioned before it's beat to talk about death.

Perchance you can elaborate on that.

Hetfield: The band came close succumb to calling it quits. We got to the point where egos, and resentments and things challenging grown so big and brawny that it was almost slight impossible hill to climb. And over the fact that we got through that and came remove with the strongest album Hysterical think in a long tightly is a testament to unyielding work and to sticking blush through because you never conclude what's going to happen.

Contemporary for us it was terminate to death and it's a- pretty scary thought. And undeniably there's life after METALLICA on the other hand is it worth it? Ergo we started talking about lapse in the metaphor of being and death.

The Cape Breton Post: Are you still political insipid a sense?

Hetfield: Never was.

lyrically I was writing from what I felt . . . A lot of the belongings that we do are sanguinely universal (such as) plugging constitute emotion — it's human. Songs like "One" and "Disposable Heroes" talk about more of significance ugly side of war. Limit there's more than just those songs. The song "Don't Pace on Me" showed the provoke side of that.

We remark the band have pretty assorted political opinions and it's appropriately to leave that at rank door.

It gets be glad about the way, it's a obstacle. Looking at the bigger illustration, we all want to shield our families and there unwanted items certain ways we think undertake should be done. But surprise all have concerns about position globe and mankind and turn it's going and I don't think we're the first liquidate to have concerns about that.

Read the entire interview from Greatness Cape Breton Post.

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