After that they went, ‘We’re never gonna try to please anybody else but ourselves.’” So it was kind of their way of pleasing a major label without knowing what they really wanted … hat’s the only time we kind of talked, ‘Is this too short? Too poppy? Too whatever?’ That’s the only thing where they ever questioned, ‘Are we gonna do the song or not?’ … But what happened then was once they got that major deal because the album sold pretty well and that was mainly because of ‘Ride the Lightning’ and ‘Creeping Death’ and songs like that. But they were on that Megaforce label and they desperately wanted to go on a major label. … hey kind of felt that they were maybe selling out a bit. The only thing on ‘Ride the Lightning’ was that they did a pretty short song that they more or less did so that they had like a single. “I think they had pretty big confidence in their songwriting and the songs they were doing.
A few years ago, producer Flemming Rasmussen, who worked on three albums with the group in the 1980s, said that on their sophomore record, 1984’s Ride the Lightning, those anxieties were already there : That’s not true, of course, but if you’ve followed this band at all, it’s a question that usually comes up: When did Metallica truly and completely compromise their principles in the quest of courting the mainstream? This wasn’t just a debate out in the world - the band members worried about it, too. Metallica have been around for 40 years, and for most of that time, they’ve been busy selling out.
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