With a 40-year career and ten studio albums, Metallica has built an unparalleled legacy and become one of the greatest metal bands. Lars Ulrich has been present at every stage of the journey and is proud of many of the group's moments – except for one song.
The track that displeases the drummer is “Eye of the Beholder,” released on the 1988 album …And Justice for All , just before the single “One.” “Whenever I listen to that song, it sounds… I don’t think we want to be super disrespectful to it, but it sounds very forced,” the musician confessed in an interview with Vulture . “It sounds like you put a square peg in a round hole. It sounds like it has two different time signatures. There’s a four-four feel to the intro and verses, and then the choruses are more like a waltz rhythm. It literally sounds like two different worlds rubbing against each other.”
Despite considering the music “very strange” and not being a fan of the band's performance on the track, Ulrich tries to maintain an understanding attitude towards the process of each album so as not to succumb to perfectionism. “I think the observation is that, for me, we did the best we could at each moment,” he continued. “It's the thing that the past is the past, I don't spend much time there. And there's not much I can do about it [laughs] and, honestly, I don't even listen to it.”
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