Quote Originally Posted by Bothrops View Post
Lars is widely regarded as a shell of his younger self, but the drum tracks he laid down on the Justice album are some of my all time favorite rhythms. He did a masterful job on that record.
Man. Couldn't agree more on all points. (and AJFA is my vote for greatest metal album of all time) If you can find the article, there was a write-up on how that album was recorded. The engineer (Bob Rock?) told Lars that he was hitting so hard that they had to stop every 8 bars or so to re-tune. The truth is that Lars can't keep time to save his life and speeds up every song, and (I believe) refused to change his playing. They spliced it all together at the end somehow.

There is a somewhat recent clip of them doing One floating around somewhere. Lars doesn't even make an effort to play that part anymore.