Metallica

I've talked about it before on my other blog, but Metallica's self-titled album still remains one of my favorite albums sonicly. The Black Album came out in 1991 and because of that it's one of the albums I've grown up listening to. After almost 20 years since it first came out, it still holds it's own against records for having the best sound.
I read Classic Tracks: Metallica's Enter Sandman on mixonline.com by Sarah Benzuly, and article about how Enter Sandman and really all of the Black Album was recorded ans it was pretty interesting. It was told by Bob Rock, the producer of the record, and Randy Staub, the engineer. They didn't really talk about what equipment that used, but rather the methods and techniques both Rock and Staub used to get the sounds that the record came out with. One of the things they said that they changed was the guys in Metallica would record verse by verse, chorus to chorus, and so on, but they wanted them to play through the whole song so the the songs themselves what have that long feeling to them and not broken up.
Another interesting tidbit was how James Hetfield wanted a crunchier sound to his guitar and how it was acquired. Randy Staub said that "to Bob and myself, crunch was more of a high-end thing, but to him crunch was more bottom end. What he wanted was when he hit the low strings, he wanted to have some length to it. And the only way to get that length was by curtaining off this small room around the cabinets and we’d have some mics farther away to get some ambience.”
It's always interesting to learn about things that you grew up with and the article i read was no exception. It provided a neat insight on what when on when recording some of the most famous songs around. I mean who hasn't heard Enter Sandman at least once? It's iconic.