METALLICA - New Album To Be Released In February?
October 23, 2007, 16 years ago
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich spoke to Tom Lanham from Examiner.com recently about a number of topics including the band's long-awaited new album, set for release next February. It's almost finished; the band will be polishing up vocal mixes until December.
Fans may be stunned by the decision to waive longtime producer Bob Rock for Rick Rubin. "But for our own sanity, our own creative survival, we needed to work with a different set of circumstances and dynamics," Ulrich says. "So we've been stripped of our defense mechanisms, and it's been very invigorating to be challenged again. Rick's taken everything we've known about making records and completely turned it upside down."
And song titles? Ulrich says, "There's one called '19,' '10,' 'German Soup', 'Glass Cow', and even 'Black Squirrel'. Just names that relate to where the idea came from, like Glasgow, Scotland became 'Glass Cow.' And when we don't have anything clever to call it, we just call it a number. They're just silly working titles."
It's been five long years since the quartet's last onslaught, St. Anger. Are the songs punchier, four or five minutes long? "Well, the most of the intros are four to five minutes," he says. "I don't know - Metallica and short songs just don't go that well together. But whereas St. Anger was an exercise in over-pummelling the listener, these new songs echo some of our stuff from the '80s - long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a lot more melodic."
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