Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1 Quotes

“For the authors it has been an excursion into the world of a ‘family’ that at times resembles a mafia organisation, occasionally a cult, and often the coolest gang in the world.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“Cuando el genio le puede o cuando las circunstancias se lo demandan, Hetfield puede ser tan desagradable como para infundir miedo. Ese es el Hetfield que se encontró Dubin.”
― Paul Brannigan, Nacer. Crecer. Metallica. Morir: Volumen I (Cultura Popular)

“Metallica are too proud to dress up; their uniform is the uniform of their average fan, the teenage American slob: sneakers, ripped jeans, T-shirts.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“Lars Ulrich decided that if he were going to be hung it may as well be for stealing a sheep as a lamb:”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“Inside the studio walls the alpha male personalities of James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich battled for territory, their sometimes discordant creative visions coalescing to the point where no aspect of the music being made was left unexamined or unsubjected to alternative methods of interpretation. The pair were learning that in order that an instrument in a song be emphasised, by definition another instrument must be de-emphasised, thus beginning a battle between guitarist and drummer, the energy from which would fuel the group for years to come.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“Interviewed twenty-seven years and three days after the recording of Master of Puppets began, today it seems as if its producer’s abiding memory of the entire process is that of watching James Hetfield track one devilishly precise rhythm guitar part on top of another. ‘I’ve never seen anything like that since,’ he says. ‘And neither do I expect to.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“I’m still trying to work out why I love this band so much,’ wrote Xavier Russell in his Kerrang! review of the group’s Donington set,”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“Mustaine and Hetfield were like two brothers that didn’t get on, each pushing the other out of the way, but it was so exciting. There’s certain bands where the minute you see them, you just know they’re going to go all the way.’ In the early hours of October 19, Russell placed a phone call to his bosses at Kerrang! ‘In ten years’ time,’ he told them, ‘this will be the biggest band on the planet.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album stands as a death knell for the idealistic hippie dreams of the Sixties. Inspired by horror movies, bad dreams, drug come-downs and the terminal grind of the factory floor, it was designed to unnerve and unsettle”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“With appetites whetted by the release of the album’s lead-off single ‘Enter Sandman’ earlier that same week, on the evening of Saturday August 3, 1991, no fewer than 10,000 people convened on 7th Avenue in order to be the first to hear the fruits of Metallica’s labours. Among this number were the members of that summer’s other most celebrated band: Nirvana.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“The idea,’ admits Ulrich, ‘was to cram Metallica down everybody’s fucking throat all over the fucking world.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography

“So far so “Fuck you”.”
― Paul Brannigan, Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography