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South China Morning Post
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Sinners director Ryan Coogler on how Metallica inspired his horror movie about blues music
Growing up in the 1990s in Oakland, in the US state of California, director Ryan Coogler was fuelled by his city's magnetic hip-hop scene and artists such as Digital Underground, 2Pac and E-40. Advertisement But it was Bay Area heavy metal legends Metallica who helped provide a structure for his new movie Sinners, the director says over a Zoom call from Chicago. Starring Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as Smoke and Stack, twin brothers in Mississippi in the early 1930s, the movie takes on the history of blues music and mixes it with a supernatural story about a pack of bloodthirsty vampires. Coogler says he had Metallica on his mind when he was laying out the story's rhythms and beats. 'I wanted the movie to have the simplicity – and simultaneously, the profound nature – of a Delta blues song. But I wanted it to have the contrast, variation and the inevitability of a great Metallica song, like 'One',' he says. Advertisement 'One' is the signature song from the band's 1988 album, …And Justice For All. 'It starts off with almost like an easy-listening solo, you know what I'm saying? And then it just goes bats*** insane, in a way you could have never seen coming – and at the same time, it felt like it was going there all along,' Coogler says. 'The movie's basically that.'
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Metallica's …And Justice For All pushed bass players 'to the back' in the 1990s, claims thrash legend
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Metallica's …And Justice For All pushed bassists into the background during the 1990s, according to one famed thrash metal player. Steve Di Giorgio, who mans the low end in Bay Area favourites Testament and previously played in death metal originators Death, makes the claim in a new interview with D'Addario. He says that the 1988 album, which infamously features inaudible bass from then-newcomer Jason Newsted, contributed to the instrument being de-emphasised in the metal scene in the years that followed. 'And then the 90s hit, and this new standard [had] come out of bass players being pushed down, pushed to the back, mixed out of there,' Di Giorgio says (via Ultimate Guitar). 'It was happening before …And Justice For All, but that's the famous example of the bass being turned off during the recording.' He continues: 'A combination of that album and then the time period and this style, the bass was getting to the point where it was, like, embarrassing. That fuelled me to play even more obnoxious and give it a reason to be back in the mix.' The lack of bass on Justice has been a talking point among Metallica fans for decades now, with some speculating that it was a form of hazing against Newsted, who replaced the late Cliff Burton in late 1986. In a 2021 interview with Metal Hammer, Newsted admitted that he was 'fucking livid' when he first heard the album's mix, but said it was simply a carryover from the band's earliest days. 'They always made the records that way, from [1982 demo] No Life 'Til Leather, it was Lars [Ulrich] and James [Hetfield], guitar and drums,' he said. 'On the original cassette, in Lars' handwriting, in ink pen, on the label [it reads] 'Turn bass down on stereo.' On No Life 'Til Leather! It's just been that way their entire lives.' Di Giorgio first emerged with California progressive thrash metal band Sadus, before playing session bass on death/doom pioneers Autopsy's debut album Severed Survival (1989). He joined Death in the early 90s, playing on their Human (1991) and Individual Thought Patterns (1993) records. He joined Testament in 1998 before leaving in 2005, then rejoined in 2014. Testament will play two US festivals this spring – Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio on May 9 and Welcome To Rockville in Daytona, Florida on May 18 – then will tour Australia in June. See dates and details via their website.
