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Phil Weller

“Kurt said, ‘I want the guy that did the Slayer album’”: How Kurt Cobain brought a more aggressive edge to Nevermind with the help of Slayer’s producer

Kurt Cobain and Kerry King.

Producer Andy Wallace says he got the gig working on Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind because of his work with Slayer – which had found a fan in Kurt Cobain.

Wallace had worked on three records with the thrash metal heavyweights – Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, and Seasons in the Abyss – before Cobain, who apparently felt Nevermind needed a more aggressive mix, came calling.

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