Behind-the-scenes of "Here Comes Revenge" songwriting/recording. I
love these types of videos. Metallica releasing this kind of stuff during The Black Album was one of the reasons why they became my favorite band as a youngster: they show you everything. It's so cool to have an inside look at the writing process inside the studio. Originally known as "R L 72 - Riff Lord 72" and one verse being described musically as the "Faith No More verse."
Conspicuously absent from the entire songwriting-to-arranging process? Kirk "I Want To Contribute More" Hammett.
Very cool video!
There was a pretty good interview in this months Metal Hammer magazine. I've written this out very fast from the interview as it deals with Rob and Kirks involvement in the writing process. Spelling mistakes may occur
"Given that Rob Trujillo echoes the excitement about the new material that his band mates have thus far exuded, we can't help but ask about the fact that he and Kirk Hammett, on a creative level at least, have seemed to have had very little to do with it. Lars earlier mentioned that it was very much he and James at the core of the creative process this time around, and indeed a quick glance at the writing credits corroborates this - there's only one nod to Rob - on the track ManUNkind - and none at all for Kirk. What's going on there exactly? "For some reason, Lars felt it was really important to connect with James" Rob offers diplomatically. "It was evident that there was a surplus of riffs that were coming from James and I think Lars focused more on simplifying the creative journey, and locking into James and really bringing him in for this album.But I was still there every day. It's not like they're over there by themselves writing the album - I'm with them and I'm there supporting them with my bass But no, I didn't sit there and show James my [ideas]. Death Magnetic was a collaborative album, there were a lot of Kirk riffs in there, and there were a lot of my ideas, too. This isn't like that. It's Lars vision, and I'm happy to support whatever we need to do" So, Hardwired...is officially the Lars and James show. While Rob comes across as genuinely happy to toe the company line on this one, Kirk seems marginally less impressed, if still decidedly philosophical about the situation, when we raise it with him later on. "For me, being in this band, I always want to contribute, " he shrugs. "I always have a lot of musical concepts and ideas to bring to the table. Obviously, that was not meant to be [this time] and I had to accept that fact, even though it was a very bitter pill to swallow" Given that Kirk had already had to shrug off the artistic trauma of losing hundreds of riffs he'd written for the album after the phone he recorded them on went AWOL - Kirk has also had to sit back and accept that his influence on Hardwired...was to be relatively minimal. When he emphasis that it was not a situation of his making, he seems to have begrudgingly accepted that, if Metallica are to progress into the next stage of their career, it's one that has to happen. "I want to write for the band, because it's part of what I do, but if it's not meant to be, OK I really didn't have much of a choice", he offers. "And so, I focused on my solos, and just making sure that my playing on the album was at its best, at its full potential. Hopefully I can bring my ideas to the next Metallica album. I just hope it's not another eight years..." It speaks volumes of the place Metallica are at in 2016 that Lars and James can assume almost total creative control without too much tension rising in the ranks, and as Rob notes, it marks a stark difference from the atmosphere he found himself stepping into when he joined the band in 2003. "
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