Robert Trujillo (Metallica) confesses the moment that scares him most at Metallica concerts: “It’s the scariest thing there is”

No matter how much we talk about one of the most successful bands in history, there are always special moments at concerts, even if you have given thousands throughout your career. In the case of Robert Trujillobassist of Metallica For more than two decades now, that moment that defines as “the scariest thing there is” It is, paradoxically, one of the apparently most relaxed and even fun concerts. We talk about duos with Kirk Hammett in which they pay tribute to local artists or classics, as we were able to experience in previous visits to Barcelona and Madrid.

During the interview with Nikki Blakk from The Bone on 107.7of which we recently highlighted how Robert felt “like swimming with the pressure of the show”, We can see that the bassist continues to seek the limits just like his band, maintaining tension so as not to enter either them or the audience into tedious comfort: “At Metallica we stay alert and take a lot of pride in trying to maintain a certain… kind of energy that really reaches our fans, and that they can have fun with it, and we can have fun doing it, so that nothing gets boring. That it’s fun”.

The addition on his part to this challenge with the public came with something that Trujillo truly claims terrifies him, that moment of facing audiences from all over the world alone, he and his friend Kirk, even singing in their languages: “Also, for me, the duet moment with Kirk, where he and I get up there and we’re really alone, that can be very scary. But it’s also, again, challenging, because we’re a little bit naked. It’s just me and him, and what are we going to do? We’re going to present and play this song that we just wrote two hours ago, this instrumental for this crowd in Montreal or whatever.

And in Europe we covered songs that perhaps were classics in that city or in that country. In Warsaw or Moscow, we cover an artist who is a great icon in that country, we cover that song and I sing it in his language. It’s the scariest thing ever, but it’s what we do. We try to keep things interesting. In a crazy way, sometimes, we just push it to the limit. And that is, I think, one of the great qualities and who we are as musicians and what we do within Metallica.”

Robert insists on those duets of which in Spain we remember the surprises that came in 2018 with the particular versions of the “We are doing very well” by Obús and “Rockers go to hell” by Barón Rojo and “The Living Dead” by Peret: “I mean, Kirk and I go up there and, I’m not going to lie, we’re nervous. At that point, we’re really nervous. So that keeps us on our toes. And luckily… I don’t know, maybe lucky or not so lucky, “I don’t know what to call it, but Kirk is pretty reckless, so he’s willing to take some of the risks that I’m willing to take.”

Metallica will return this year (June 12 and 14) to our country with the tour ‘M72’. With the tickets for both nights already sold outthe next notice arrives for the Friday the 12thwhich will have the participation of Architects and Mammoth WVH as opening acts, whose tickets are also close to being sold out definitively. Something that will not be surprising to happen on a few dates also for the day of the sunday 14which will complete the actions of Five Finger Death Punch and Ice Nine Kills. The album presentation ’72 Seasons’ in Madrid it is going to become a milestone in the history of the city. The dwindling number of tickets left on sale are still available at LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.es.

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