NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to bassist Robert Trujillo and founding drummer Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica about their latest album and their four decades of music-making.
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor says Metallica “knew the direction we were going” with digital music…
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Back in 2000, Metallica copped an awful lot of shit for more or less grassing up their own fans over illegally downloading and distributing their music on file-sharing service Napster. Drummer Lars Ulrich has admitted that it made him “the most hated man in rock’n’roll”, but has also stuck by it, saying that this new world of digital music was something artists and labels needed to get on top of.
Now Corey Taylor has agreed that, despite the look of the thing, Metallica actually made a very good point. Speaking with Jackass star Steve‑O on his Wild Ride! With Steve‑O podcast, the Slipknot vocalist recalled (via Blabbermouth), “I remember everyone giving him so much shit ’cause of that, and he was so right on so many fucking levels, dude.”