Jason Newsted is resurfacing into the world of interviews, following the news he's firing up his Newsted metal project again with a new lineup. And unsurprisingly talk in his extended chat for Dean Delray's Let There Be Talk podcast turns to his former band. And that inevitably makes for some interesting listening.
"There was never any big bass on Metallica's albums until the Black Album," Newsted muses on his role recording the infamous … And Justice For All album and his perception as a fan of the band joining, to recording with them as a members from the preceding 1987 Garage Days Re-revited covers EP onwards. "There was audible bass [on] For Whom The Bell Tolls, solos obviously, Call Of Ktulu, Orion… these things were out there where there was lead bass. But as far as the body and the depth and the girth of the bass frequencies, they didn't exist in Metallica albums other than the bass drum until the Black Album."
