Episode 208 - Steffan Chirazi

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Steffan Chirazi is the editor and creative director for So What! Magazine, an in-house publication for Metallica. He is also a journalist and photographer who began covering Metallica for Sounds magazine in 1984. He has been an important figure behind the scenes in the Metallica world ever since. In this episode we talk through his beginning years as a young journalist covering Motorhead, becoming friends with Cliff Burton and Faith No More, the early Bay Area thrash days, the Load/Reload era, forcing the band to open up in revealing round table discussions, Jason Newsted's departure, the dedication of Lars Ulrich to Metallica fans, a defense of St. Anger, Guns N' Roses, Hardwired, Lemmy and more. We hope you enjoy getting to know Steffan as much as we did. Cheers!

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:23.3	Oh, not bird.
0:27.7	Hey, this is Mick Wall, and you are listening to Metal up your podcast.
0:51.4	And I'm Clint Wells.
0:53.2	And this is episode 208. And
0:55.5	Clint Wells, you know who we got on the show today? A very special person. Really special,
1:00.2	Stefan Shurazi. Now, many of you know who he is. I know that for a fact. And those of you who don't
1:07.2	will have undoubtedly read his work. He is the editor-in-chief of Soap Magazine. He's a
1:13.2	journalist. He's worked with a million great bands. He wrote for a million great publications. But
1:18.6	for what's relevant for this podcast is he's the editor-in-chief of the So-It Magazine. He also does
1:22.7	photography on the road live with the band. You've seen him. You've read his stuff. He does
1:27.3	the roundtables.
1:28.8	Very intelligent and very sweet man.
1:31.7	And, you know, I've been reading his stuff for decades.
1:35.7	And so it was such an honor to get to meet him.
1:38.5	I want to give a shout out to Dave Ferraro for brokering the deal, as it were.
1:43.7	Not all heroes wear capes, Ethan. You know were. Not all heroes wear capes, Ethan.
1:45.2	You know this.
1:46.1	Not all heroes wear capes.
1:47.0	Honey, please, I know this.
1:48.3	And, you know, he got us in touch with Stefan.
1:50.8	Stefan and I had a phone conversation this week,
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