Metallica have been in town, after playing live at the Belville Velodrome on Wednesday night. We’ve found a cool interview with Rob Trujillo, as well as these pics of him surfing Llanduno!

Here’s a pic of Rob making a beeline for the next set:

The series of photos from ZigZag Magazine, were taken by Ian Thurtelland Matt van Wieringen and you can see the rest of them here.

Now check out this cool interview with Rob Trujillo, from the Bizcommunity website:

There are people out there who feel that Metallica are the greatest band in the world. Do you feel like you play for the greatest band in the world?

Robert Trujillo: Um yeah, I feel like that. I don’t like to look at things that way much ’cause my whole thing is to keep your feet on the ground and go with the flow, and what our existence is and stay humble. But that is a very, very nice thing for them to think. I understand why they would think that. We’re a special band and the reason for that is because we’re very involved. I appreciate that, I like that. I get shy about that, I’m kinda like: Aah, God no, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Haha.

Being in Metallica is incredible, ’cause they’re my heroes, you know. We’re a team; we’re a family so I feel blessed to be a part of this team.

Any surprises lined up for tonight’s performance?

RT: Well the last time we were here, I’m not sure it might have been six years ago or longer, and I feel that we are now a better band and we have a stronger more adept repertoire of songs. We have Death Magnetic, which wasn’t out when we were here last time, we were still writing it. It’s been a huge success for us these last few years so we get to play a couple of those songs, some new music that we didn’t play last time and we’re playing two nights, so we can mix it up a bit. The venue is a little bit tighter and indoors, which is also different from last time. So there are a lot of factors that make it exciting for us.

Many bands, when doing their World Tour, bypass Africa completely. Why the decision to come to play here?

RT: Well we always try to get to places where we know we have a strong fan base and it is difficult to get here, it is sorta off the beaten path. The population here is so diverse you may just have a small legion of metal fans, you know what I mean. So to have the fans really want us that bad makes the desire to come here to play all that much stronger. But its involved ’cause our production is big, it’s expensive you know. It’s not easy, but we’re here and we’re going to have a great time and hopefully we will be back again.

In a 2012 interview with the band in Rolling Stone you were quoted as feeling like the newbie of the band even though you had been with Metallica for many years. Do you still feel like this now, even though it’s 10 years later?

RT: You know you always feel new, ’cause the band has been around for 30 years and I have only been around for 10. The great thing is that since the last time I was here we have made an album together, so creatively there is much more of a connection for me – especially with Lars and James and being part of the writing it’s been really, really cool. There is a lot of trust now, I’ve been able to do some things with and through the band and on my own. So that right there was a sign of trust. And, like I said, I feel we’re a better band and I feel partly responsible for that, you know. There are certain things I do for the other guys, like I’ve kinda adopted the role where I pick up the slack, when I would think they didn’t want to deal with certain things, like I would deal with it. So everything seems to be firing on all cylinders. There is more of an understanding and creative responsibilities. It’s a fun time to be in Metallica.

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