Rick Rubin Talks about Black Sabbath and System Of A Down

Recently, legendary producer Rick Rubin sat down for a rare hour-long interview with BBC Radio One’s Zane Lowe at his Shangri-La studio in Los Angeles. The Grammy-winning mastermind behind such canonical records as Beastie Boys’ “License to Ill,” Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” and Justin Timberlake’s “FutureSex/LoveSounds” talked at length about a variety of topics.

On recording Black Sabbath’s first new album in nearly 20 years: (9:45) “I try to imagine what them at their best is, and set up whatever situations we have to allow that to happen. It’s like fishing: you can go out fishing but you can’t say ‘I’m going to catch three fish today.'”

On System of a Down: (39:58) “When I saw them live, I was laughing the whole time. They were so over the top, so extreme — Armenian folk dancing with heavy metal riffs . . . They transcended not fitting in. KROQ said, ‘We will never play them.’ A year later, they’re playing them. They’re like Rage Against the Machine, another revolutionary band.”

Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUksi4RrrWo

Source: Billboard