Metallica - To Start Work On New Album
Metallica are hoping to finally start working on their next album after a busy couple of weeks ahead, including guitarist Kirk Hammett's inaugural Fear FestEviL in San Francisco, a Grammy's performance with classical pianist Lang Lang and the DVD/Blu-ray release of Metallica Through The Never.
Hammett tells Billboard that the quartet will start working on the follow-up to 2008's Death Magnetic "in a couple of weeks. When we start, that's going to be our main priority, and we're pretty excited about it because we've been saying we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it. We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now."
Hammett adds: "We're a band that never has a shortage of ideas. You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do? That's not Metallica. Metallica's problem is the total opposite. We have too many ideas. James (Hetfield) has, like, 800 ideas. I have 400. Those number alone are just crazy. That's formidable."
Hammett is also preparing for Metallica's Grammy appearance, during which the group will perform its 1988 single "One" with Lang Lang on January 26th: "That's going to be really interesting. It's going to be an arrangement that highlights some of Lang Lang's playing, but we're not lightening up the song just for him. We're still hanging onto all the heavy parts. He's just an amazing pianist; at one point he's going to be, like, weaving in and out of my guitar solo and playing parts of my guitar solo with me. I've never, ever experienced that before with anyone we've ever played with, so I'm going to be pretty psyched to be playing with him, to say the least. It's gonna be amazing."
Hammett tells Billboard that the quartet will start working on the follow-up to 2008's Death Magnetic "in a couple of weeks. When we start, that's going to be our main priority, and we're pretty excited about it because we've been saying we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it. We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now."
Hammett adds: "We're a band that never has a shortage of ideas. You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do? That's not Metallica. Metallica's problem is the total opposite. We have too many ideas. James (Hetfield) has, like, 800 ideas. I have 400. Those number alone are just crazy. That's formidable."
Hammett is also preparing for Metallica's Grammy appearance, during which the group will perform its 1988 single "One" with Lang Lang on January 26th: "That's going to be really interesting. It's going to be an arrangement that highlights some of Lang Lang's playing, but we're not lightening up the song just for him. We're still hanging onto all the heavy parts. He's just an amazing pianist; at one point he's going to be, like, weaving in and out of my guitar solo and playing parts of my guitar solo with me. I've never, ever experienced that before with anyone we've ever played with, so I'm going to be pretty psyched to be playing with him, to say the least. It's gonna be amazing."
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| Cynic Metalhead Paisa Vich Nasha Posts: 6808 From: India  |
Seriously, musicians' with 40 to 50 ideas makes up an awesome record. Stop chirping. Make a decent album.
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| Byners Posts: 215 From: Brazil  |
"...we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it. We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now." I was excited until I read this. Oh well... Let's just wait.
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| ManiacBlasphemer Black Knight Posts: 1085 From: Romania  |
They've been procrastinating ever since 1991... look at the time gaps between albums. They realized that releasing albums is no longer profitable, and the fact that they released bad ones since then confirms the rule. Why waste time to release new songs oftenly when for more than 20 years you played the same old classics in a venue that all people got familiarized with?
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| Nemo Atkins Posts: 257 From: UK |
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4038 From: UK  |
Written by Nemo Atkins on 17.01.2014 at 13:59 Who cares about when they release the next record. It comes when it comes...you don't have to stop being a fan just because it takes so long 
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| Hellcult Posts: 344 From: Poland  |
It doesn't change the fact that it is gonna be another rubish album by rubishllica i do love the old albums even black album, load and reload and those are not trash metal albums but rest of them is just for money just so the fans can hear another lazy boring album. i will listen to it but i don't think it will be worth another listening. Metallica is not Trash metal anymore so for me it's not worth listening!
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| caimanjosh Posts: 68 From: USA |
Written by Hellcult on 17.01.2014 at 22:10 Actually, that's just the problem -- Metallica IS "trash metal" these days, alas. Of course, back in the old days, they were "thrash metal" and damn good at it.
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| Hellcult Posts: 344 From: Poland |
Hehe - lost an 'h' lol true man, true! thx
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589 From: Canada  |
T - H - R - A - S - H metal. seems to be hard for people to grasp the name of that genre...  anyways, couldn't be less promising when Kirk himself says he's putting it off, I read that like "yeah, we don't really want to write another album but we have to for one reason or another and are putting it off and it will be shitty, probably"
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| qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537 From: Hungary  |
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 17.01.2014 at 13:17 About right!
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| theFIST Posts: 1061 From: Austria  |
Written by Guest on 18.01.2014 at 00:32 I don"t consider it more than an average album, but i think it was a major step up from the previous albums (metallica and the loads) as it, just like the name suggests, did sound more angry and brought some energy back
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| In Bone Factory Posts: 381 From: Iran  |
I'm a fan with big hopes... for old times sake... 
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| Nemo Atkins Posts: 257 From: UK |
Written by LeKiwi on 17.01.2014 at 16:38 My issue was more the fact that they'd said they'd been working on it for the last three years (they even mentioned working on it after doing their 30th anniversary shows in So What?). Lulu being the first album they released since I became a metal fan got me thinking they'd get started pretty quickly after that (since there's not really a lot they could have done to tour it), but after a year and a bit, I just got so sick of waiting (and I'd heard so much other good stuff) that I just gave up waiting and moved on. Didn't mean to say by that that I'm no longer a Metallica fan. Just that I'm a grumpy fan who's annoyed they've taken so long to actually do something resembling progress on it after Lulu came out.
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4038 From: UK |
Written by Nemo Atkins on 18.01.2014 at 20:20 I hear you...they're not a very reliable band, so - despite how much I enjoy most of their material - "moving on" is the right choice 
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| Lord Dimitriy Posts: 47 From: Ukraine |
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1364 From: USA  |
Whatever, not sure if I'll care much, obviously I will be curious to what it sounds like since it'll be their first album of new material (just by themselves, without Lou Reed) but I probably won't pick it up, since I've found better music since Death Magnetic came out and I don't really care much for Metallica these days anyway.
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