Lars Ulrich was asked by 92Y about the impact grunge explosion had on Metallica and whether it “stressed you guys out,” to which he replied (transcribed by UG):
“No. It was inspiring, more than anything.
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“The good thing about Metallica is that we’ve always felt completely autonomous.
“We’ve never felt that we’ve belonged to anything. So the good thing is – we never feel we belong to anything and when all these other things are going on, we still feel that we’re just kind of over in our own world.
“And when that thing dissipates and goes away – we were never part of it. We’re just kind of over here doing our thing.
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“I loved Alice in Chains, those first two records never left my CD player in ’91-’92. When I think of 1992 all I heard was that ‘Dirt’ album.
“I loved Nirvana, the first couple of Soundgarden records – that was inspiring.
“No, there was nothing threatening about that at all.”