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"Old-school metal is huge and coming back, and there's so many people wanting to play, and get riffy again, get solo," Hetfield claims. Times have changed trying to wind back the clock is a pose, and metalheads usually hate posers with a passion. Or when you're stone-cold rich, auctioning your art collection and hating on downloaders who you believe are slicing off tiny chunks of your pie in the sky.

But that is hard to do when, for example, you're being interviewed by MTV, who wouldn't even talk to you back when you were making Master of Puppets. Rubin's psychoanalytic time travel had the goal of returning to band to its hungrier years.
