Metallica’s former producer has offered his theory on why 1988 album …And Justice For All infamously has no audible bass.. Fleming Rasmussen, who also produced the venerated Ride The Lightning ...

The band's first album with Newsted, ...And Justice for All was marked by the band's increasingly progressive and technically intricate bent – and barely audible bass parts ...

Metallica brought Jason Newsted in as their new bassist in October of 1986, just a month after the death of Cliff Burton. Newsted has admitted in interviews that he "was fucking livid" the first ...

In reference to the notion that Metallica's classic lineup was peaking in the mid-'80s, Hammett says, "And it just makes me wonder what …And Justice For All would've been like with Cliff. That's ...