Episode 340 - Steffan Chirazi Returns!

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

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This week we are honored to have back on the show the wonderful and charming Steffan Chirazi! On episode 208 we heard the story of how Steffan came to be the editor in chief of Metallica's in-house fanzine, So What. He's written for many esteemed publications (Sounds, RIP, Kerrang!) and worked with many notable artists. Steffan graciously took time out his busy schedule on tour with Metallica to treat us to the always fascinating inner workings of his mind. Here's what we discussed: - guilty plesures - re-evaluating Limp Bizkit - tribalism - curiosity about the creative process - Motorhead - David Bowie and James Brown - interview styles - Ginger Baker and Meatloaf - interviewing Kurt Cobain - interviewing Metallica - Hetfield as a great lyricist - Hetfield as a songwriter - Chris Cornell - the price of genius - Layne Stayley - Ministry - fraud syndrome - on and off the record - an interesting phone call with Axl Rose - Kurt Cobain’s last interview - hanging with H.R. Giger - not taking Metallica for granted - Setffan’s Patreon (link below) - Steffan’s future book - Steffan’s Tottenham podcast (link below) - imposters

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal! Oh, not burn.
0:26.0	Hey, this is Jay Weinberg from Slipknot, and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast. The The
0:57.0	The Welcome to middle of your podcast.
1:22.9	I'm your host, Clint Wells.
1:24.2	This is episode 340, very special guest, friend of the show, Stefan Shirazi
1:29.8	returns. So nice to talk to Stefan again. He was on back in December of 2020, episode 208,
1:41.7	I believe. If you don't know who he is, first of all, you should have heard that episode
1:45.4	where we burn down all of his history with Metallica. His history is a journalist, very interesting,
1:50.2	basically his entire life story. He is the editor-in-chief of Soap Magazine, a journalist. He started
1:55.4	rock and roll writing at age 15. He's worked with a million great bands. He's written for publications
2:00.3	like Sounds, Kerrang,
2:02.0	Rip, spin. He travels with Metallica frequently as a photographer. And he edited the Metallica
2:07.0	book So What, The Good, the Mad, and the Ugly, which all of you should own just some of the
2:11.5	best excerpts of the So What magazine, the fan magazine from the years. He recently did the 72 seasons interviews with the
2:19.4	band, which have been, of course, as always, insightful and at times stunning revelations
2:24.3	into the still sort of fascinating process of what goes into making a Metallica album.
2:30.1	We did chat before the episode and both agreed to keep Metallica talk to a minimum because we talked about Metallica a lot on his first appearance on Metal Up Your podcast.
2:41.4	We mostly stuck to it.
2:43.1	We covered everything from David Bowie, James Brown, different interview styles, H.R. Geiger, Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, a re-evaluation of Limp Biscuit, a surprising
2:53.6	conversation with Axel Rose, but of course could not resist talking about the Metallica Boys,
2:58.9	particularly James Hetfield as an unlikely but important role model for rock music fans and his somehow
3:04.5	underrated status as a lyricist and songwriter, even though he's
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