Side 9. The Fans. Weigh In.
The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 — The Black Album
Metallica & Amazon
4.8 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
30 million Black Album fans can't be wrong. In this bonus Episode 9 we hand them the mic and they take over – in their own words and in their own voices. The Black Album has changed lives – through birth, school, work, marriage, and death, and in crazy stories that you just can't make up. It's been an inspiration, companion, and soundtrack for people all over the world. These are their stories. Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, and Kirk Hammett also chime in to share their thoughts and appreciation of Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, and Kirk Hammett also chime in to share their thoughts and appreciation for their fans.
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| 0:00.0 | Lars Ulrich. |
| 0:02.7 | I think we were sort of driven by still trying to be on conventional and still always, |
| 0:08.8 | how can we do things that are just more us? |
| 0:11.8 | And we sort of lived in our own world, how autonomous we were, how detached we were from |
| 0:17.1 | conventional approaches that we had this whole, this world that we created, that we lived |
| 0:24.9 | in, that our fans, just there was a different connection. |
| 0:28.9 | Kirk Hammett. |
| 0:31.6 | That was the first tour where we got to see just the appeal of heavy metal in all these weird places. |
| 0:40.7 | We knew we had fans everywhere, but we just didn't know what the extent of it was until that |
| 0:47.8 | tour and that album. |
| 0:49.8 | James Hetfield. |
| 0:52.9 | Our fan base started to relate a lot more to what those lyrics meant. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm not the only misfit out there or the person who thinks this way. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm scared too. I don't want to say it, but, you know, if we're scared together, it's okay. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah. The Metallica podcast. |
| 1:20.4 | The Black Album. |
| 1:22.8 | We're turning over the podcast to you, the Metallica fans. |
| 1:28.0 | For this bonus side nine, we asked you to take over in your own words and voices. |
| 1:34.5 | And take over you did. |
| 1:36.4 | Of course, Lars, James and Kirk will be here to thank you for joining in on the insanity of what we do in this very special podcast. |
| 1:46.1 | The Metallica Podcast Volume 1, The Black Album, Side 9, The Fans, Way In. |
| 2:08.6 | Hello, my name is Cheyane. I'm originally from Iran and currently residing in the UK. I'm a long-time Metallica fan and the crazy black album story that I wanted to tell you today. |
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