Tag Archives: Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin Wanted Ginger Baker To Drum On Sabbath Album

Posted by on February 11, 2013

While we’re really looking forward to hearing what Black Sabbath’s 13 sounds like when it comes out in June, it nearly had a different drummer than Rage Against the Machine’s Brad Wilk, who replaced original drummer Bill Ward. Tony Iommi told Rolling Stone that producer Rick Rubin was pushing for Cream drummer Ginger Baker to play on […]

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Kerry King Explains The Delay In Slayer’s New Album [Spoiler: Partly Rick Rubin’s Fault]

Posted by on February 4, 2013

For the better part of 2012, we kept hearing “updates” on Slayer’s long-awaited follow up to 2009’s World Painted Blood. But by the end of the year, nothing surfaced. Hell, even the originally planned two-song EP never came to fruition. So what’s the hold up? Well during an interview with Eddie Trunk for Samson Zoom […]

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Review: ‘Sound City’ Is A Love Letter To Rock And Roll

Posted by on February 1, 2013

It’s not a spoiler by now to say that Sound City, which premiered yesterday in theaters and is available on demand today, climaxes with a jam session featuring Paul McCartney, director Dave Grohl’s musical idol, and the surviving members of Nirvana. And anyone that’s seen the trailer for the film, about the rise and fall […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 5: Reasons Brad Wilk Recording With Black Sabbath Makes Sense

Posted by on January 14, 2013

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. As you likely know by now, Black Sabbath revealed that their new album 13 was recorded with Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave drummer Brad Wilk. The announcement came as a surprise to many, though most are simply still upset that Sabbath’s […]

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Black Sabbath Recruit Rage Against The Machine Drummer For New Album, Reveal Title And Release Date

Posted by on January 12, 2013

One of the most shocking moments of 2012 came when drummer Bill Ward publicly withdrew from Black Sabbath’s reunion plans, including both in the studio and on tour. It was assumed that Sabbath would be recording the new album with Tommy Clufetos, who filled in for Ward onstage last year. As it turns out, though, […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 5: Odd Cover Songs

Posted by on May 29, 2012

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5xSxGhlHfc[/youtube] We love a good old fashioned cover song, especially when the artist is able to make said song completely their own. However, we recently saw video of a half-naked Ukrainian folk band called Los Colorados covering Rammstein’s “Du […]

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Metallica Perform “The Struggle Within” For The First Time Ever; Provide Update On New Album

Posted by on May 9, 2012

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeHQBtQwNNg[/youtube] On Monday night (May 7), Metallica kicked off their European tour at Synot Tip Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. As you likely already know, this specific tour will find Metallica performing their landmark 1991 self-titled record, aka The Black Album, in its entirety. Thus, their show in Prague marked the first time “The Struggle Within” […]

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Corey Taylor Fine With Rick Rubin Producing… Black Sabbath

Posted by on December 16, 2011

Remember that time when Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor talked about what a joy it was to work with Rick Rubin? Oh wait, no he didn’t do that. In fact, he went on a rant at one of his solo shows recently about  how little Rubin actually did during the sessions for Volume 3 (The Subliminal […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 5: Biggest Surprises Of 2011

Posted by on December 5, 2011

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. We’re coming close to the end of another year. Soon Metal Insider’s contributors will be revealing their favorite albums from the past year. However, in addition to a lot of great music being released, 2011 also had its fair share […]

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In Case You Weren’t Sure How Corey Taylor Truly Felt About Rick Rubin

Posted by on November 29, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah3jw6bkbvI[/youtube] Chances are you’ve already seen video of Taylor sharing his experience working with producer Rick Rubin while in Dallas, TX for the An Evening With Corey Taylor tour (the same night where he revealed that “there will be another Slipknot album”). In case you haven’t, though, the main thing to take away from it […]

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