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The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 — The Black Album

Side 6. Team. Ugly.

The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 — The Black Album

Metallica & Amazon

Music, Music History

4.8774 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

While recording this episode, Metallica coined a new nickname: Team Ugly. It’s about going from being the underdogs to selling millions of concert tickets and records – while never forgetting who they are and where they came from. Guests include: Robert Trujillo, J Balvin, Tomi Owó, David Fricke, Ron Quintana, and Brian Slagel.

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0:00.0

Lars Ulrich.

0:03.0

The Black album, it's sold 5, 7 million copies already,

0:07.2

and who the fuck knew that that was even possible?

0:10.9

James Hetfield.

0:13.6

We're all here at the same time hearing some new music,

0:17.0

and as scary as that is in itself,

0:20.4

it is like revealing a part of yourself

0:22.6

and we were out there like raw on our own.

0:25.6

Kirk Hammett.

0:26.6

That was the first tour where we got to see

0:32.6

just the appeal of heavy metal in all these weird places.

0:36.6

We knew we had fans everywhere. We knew we had fans everywhere.

0:38.8

The Metallica podcast.

0:53.2

The Black Album.

0:54.8

This is Side 6, Team Ugly.

0:58.6

And so we're playing in England and we're now in London.

1:01.9

And every single member of the press is there.

1:04.8

And finally, we're gracious enough to come over and play in Europe.

1:08.3

And obviously a different band than when we played at Hammersmith, Odeon, you know,

1:12.8

on the Justice Tour or three years before.

1:15.0

We're at Wembley Arena.

1:16.4

We've got this big fancy stage.

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