Rick Rubin

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RICK RUBIN Reflects On His Work On SLAYER's 'Reign In Blood': I ... (BLABBERMOUTH.NET)

In a new interview with Channel 4 News, producer Rick Rubin reflected on his work on SLAYER's classic third album, "Reign In Blood".

On the topic the controversy surrounding "Reign In Blood"'s lyrical content, SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman previously said, "'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. "Reign In Blood" was SLAYER's first album to enter The Billboard 200 chart (at No. magazine described the record as "the heaviest album of all time," and a breakthrough in thrash metal and speed metal. "If you look at it in hip-hop, if you make it like it's an R&B record, it's an R&B record with somebody rapping," he continued. The opening track, "Angel Of Death", which refers to Josef Mengele and describes acts such as human experimentation that Mengele committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, provoked allegations of Nazism. In each case, it comes from my lack of experience, lack of the 'right way' to do it.

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RICK RUBIN Says His "Lack of Experience" Helped Create ... (Metal Injection.net)

"When you treat everything the same, it waters down what it is. Speed metal was a new thing. The people who were recording speed metal up until Reign In Blood, ...

And you want to hear the precise tightness of it. If you make it like going to the hip hop club, It's hip hop. Lack of the 'right way' to do it.

RICK RUBIN On Producing Reign In Blood - The Right Way To ... (bravewords.com)

Rick Rubin is the legendary music producer who founded Def Jam records, one of the most important hip hop labels of the 80s. He has won nine Grammy awards ...

The right way to record rock drums is the way Led Zeppelin did it. I wasn't experienced enough to know this is how you do it, I'm listening to it for what it is, and for what it is is this very precise type of thing. And you want to hear the precise tightness of it. In each case, it comes from my lack of experience, lack of the right way to do it. If you make it like going to the hip hop club, It's hip hop. If you look at it in hip hop, if you make it like it's an R&B record, it's an R&B record with somebody rapping.

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