In what is sure to be one of the most talked-about alliances of the year, LOU REED & METALLICA's Lulu album will be released by Warner Bros. Records on November 1st in North America (October 31st elsewhere). 30-second samples of all tracks can be heard below on Soundcloud below:

Lulu (30-second Samples) by Lou Reed & Metallica

The complete Lulu tracklisting is as follows:

'Brandenburg Gate' (4:19)

'The View' (5:17)

'Pumping Blood' (7:24)

'Mistress Dread' (6:52)

'Iced Honey' (4:36)

'Cheat On Me' (11:26)

'Frustration' (8:33)

'Little Dog' (8:01)

'Dragon' (11:08)

'Junior Dad' (19:28)

The lyrics for 'Junior Dad' can be found below:

Would you come to me

If I was half drowning

An arm above the last wave

Would you come to me

Would you pull me up

Would the effort really hurt you

Is it unfair to ask you

To help pull me up

The window broke the silence of the matches

The smoke effortlessly floating

Pull me up

Would you be my lord and savior

Pull me up by my hair

Now would you kiss me, on my lips

Burning fever burning on my forehead

The brain that once was listening now

Shoots out its tiresome message

Won’t you pull me up

Scalding, my dead father

Has the motor and he’s driving towards

An island of lost souls

Sunny, a monkey then to monkey

I will teach you meanness, fear and blindness

No social redeeming kindness

Or – oh, state of grace

Would you pull me up

Would you drop the mental bullet

Would you pull me by the arm up

Would you still kiss my lips

Hiccup, the dream is over

Get the coffee, turn the lights on

Say hello to junior dad

The greatest disappointment

Age withered him and changed him

Into junior dad

Psychic savagery

The greatest disappointment

The greatest disappointment

Age withered him and changed him

Into junior dad

Check out the lyrics for 'Brandenburg Gate' below:

I would cut my legs and tits off

When I think of Boris Karloff and Kinski

In the dark of the moon

It made me dream of Nosferatu

Trapped on the isle of Doctor Moreau

Oh wouldn’t it be lovely

I was thinking Peter Lorre

When things got pretty gory as I

Crossed to the Brandenburg Gate

I was feeling snappy perhaps I’d been napping

And I’d just ate

A following heart can tear you apart

On a midnight to 8 shift

A graveyard romance can only give one chance

As the tombstones weave and breathe

Feeling happy when my heart got beating

On a Sunday afternoon

I dreamt of breezes going through the treeses

And stars were still illumed

I have three hearts that I keep apart

Trying to relate

To normal feelings and the nightime reelings

And some absynthe drunk so late

The cook got drunk and all the whores they shrunk

Onto the size of dessert plates

But me I’m happy cause I got my little nappy

And some opium to set me straight

I’m just a small town girl who wants to give it a whirl

While my looks still hold me straight

Straight up to illusion and fantasy’s fusion

Of reality mixed with drink

I’m just a small town girl who’s gonna give life a whirl

Looking at the Brandenburg Gate

A deluxe version of Lulu will be released in a tube-shaped container (13cm x 1.24m), and will include a two-CD digipack package, a large 1.2m x 1.6m poster (with song lyrics), and three photographs by Anton Corbijn (50cm x 50.8cm).

A new trailer is available below:

Lulu was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner who has produced albums for Reed, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, and LAURIE ANDERSON, among others and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record.

The idea for these two giants of modern music to work together was born after the 25th anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York City in October 2009. Metallica -singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Rob Trujillo - played with Reed on VELVET UNDERGROUND classics, 'Sweet Jane' and 'White Light/White Heat'.

"We knew from then that we were made for each other," Reed says.

After that triumphant performance, Reed suggested they all make a record together. At first they planned to record an album of Reed's older material, what Ulrich describes as "some of Lou's lost jewels - songs that he felt he'd like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it is we do to some of those songs." That idea "hung in the air for a couple of months." Then, a week or two before that session was to begin, "Lou called up and said, 'Listen, I have this other idea.'"

That idea was to record a series of songs Reed had written for American avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson and German theater group the Berliner Ensemble's production of the Lulu Plays, which premiered in Aprilat theTheatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, founded by Bertolt Brecht. The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind's early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.