In heavier styles of music, it’s often the case that you notice the bassist isn’t playing before you notice you can’t hear them anymore. Only a handful of bassists rise above that. Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz is definitely a bassist of whom you can say that. Most fans of heavy metal will know him simply as Robert Trujillo from Metallica. In this blog, you’ll read what it is about his bass playing style that gives him such a distinctive sound.

From the album ‘Through the Ashes of Empires’ right up to the full-length record ‘Catharsis’, Phil Demmel was a member of Machine Head. After founder Robb Flynn, he’s the guitarist who spent the longest time in this famous Northern California groove metal band, and in that role he’s absolutely left his mark on the legacy of these metal giants.