Blog: Kings of A&R

The Wall Street Journal posted a column titled ' Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain That Today's Music Is Too Loud!!! '. It's about time the loudness in modern day recordings is creating legitimate noise. "Some fans are complaining that "Death Magnetic" has a thin, brittle sound that's the result of the band's attempts in the studio to make it as loud as possible" "Metallica and the album's producer, Rick Rubin , declined to comment. Cliff Burnstein , Metallica's co-manager, says the complainers are a tiny minority. He says 98% of listeners are "overwhelmingly positive," [...]