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Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.