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Before Metallica had a record deal, before they had a producer, before anyone outside the San Francisco Bay Area had seriously heard of them, they flew to Copenhagen. This is not the obvious place for that story to go. But Sweet Silence Studios, operating out of a converted space in the Danish capital from 1977, had developed a reputation that was pulling in international acts long before the internet made that kind of discovery easy. They came for the room. They came for Fle