Joe Berlinger en Bruce Sinofsky volgden metal-band Metallica gedurende 3 jaar, toen de band werkte aan het album St. Anger. Oorspronkelijk bedoeld als promotiefilm is het geheel nu een 2 uur durende documentaire die binnenkort onder de naam Metallica: Some Kind of Monster in de bioscopen zal verschijnen.

Website ComingSoon sprak met zanger James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich en gitarist Kirk Hammett.

[eng]Can you talk a bit about the genesis of the film and how it came to be made?

Lars: Our relationship with Joe and Bruce goes back to Paradise Lost, where we gave them access to our catalog for their film. We've always talked about maybe working together one day, and in one of those roundabout kind of ways, this whole thing started happening. We had a 30-second handshake deal that went " Film whatever you want. When someone tells you to turn the cameras off, you turn them off. And when it's all said and done, we'll figure out what the f*ck to do with all this footage." That was literally the extent of it.

Kirk: The movie started out as a promotional film. As we were shooting, we had no idea that it would ever become a full-length documentary. It kind of just ended up that way. We had no idea it was heading in that direction, so we were just totally casual with it. I also think that's why it's so intimate and there's so much honesty. [/eng]

Lees hier het hele interview.