Episode 99 - Talking Metallica and the Music Industry

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 November 2018

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Darren Edwards does press, promo, marketing and label management for all of the rock bands on Warner Records, Roadrunner Records, Nuclear Blast and others. He works behind the scenes with such bands as Slipknot, Mastadon, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slash, Megadeth, Zack Wylde, Alice In Chains, Dream Theater, Motley Crue, Korn, Gene Simmons and, believe it or not, a lot more! Visiting Nashville for work all the way from Sweden, Darren graciously found time to come to HQ2 to talk about his career in the music industry and his favorite metal band, Metallica! We also do a Metal Madness (Kill 'Em All vs. Master of Puppets) and Clint asks the age-old question, "is Ethan out of touch?" If you think the show has value please consider leaving us a positive iTunes review and getting involved with Patreon here: http://www.patreon.com/metalupyourpodcast Official Website: http://www.metalupyourpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal.
0:23.3	So fucking what?
0:45.6	Hey, this is Jay Weinberg from Slipknot, and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast, I'm Ethan. And I'm Clint Wells.
0:46.5	This is episode 99, and we're going to be talking some Metallica with our new friend Darren Edwards.
0:51.9	Yeah, so Darren, he does press and promo, marketing label management for the rock bands on Warner, Roadrunner.
0:58.5	He works with Slash, Slipknot, Massadon, Slayer, Zach Wild.
1:02.0	Every cool rock band in the world.
1:03.7	Right.
1:04.3	I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that.
1:06.4	Hey, Darren, how you doing?
1:07.3	Good, guys, good, how you doing?
1:08.5	Welcome to HQ2.
1:09.7	You're one of the few.
1:11.6	I'm loving it, man.
1:11.8	It's... It's been here.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.0	First thing I see is the Gibson.
1:14.3	There you go, yeah.
1:15.3	As you can tell, Darren is not from here.
1:18.4	He's from Australia.
1:19.7	However, lives in Sweden.
1:21.7	Sweden!
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