Metallica's web site has released more information about the upcoming official biography of drummer Lars Ulrich. The book (cover), which is due in stores in Denmark on June 1, will detail Lars' life growing up in Denmark through the current "Madly In Anger" tour, and will include interviews with Lars' close personal friends and family.
Titled "
Forkaelet Med Frihed: Lars Ulrich - Og Hans Band Metallica" (straight translation: "
Spoiled By Freedom: Lars Ulrich - And His Band Metallica"), the 320-page biography details
Lars Ulrich's very unique childhood and youth in Denmark, as well as his development from being an extremely fanatical heavy metal fan to an ambitious youth tennis player, and later a determined heavy metal drummer and one of the visionary minds behind
Metallica. The biography also describes the progression of
Lars and
Metallica through the 23 years of the band's existence and even takes a look in to the future of the band as well as the creative mind of
Lars, who speaks on his dedication to film and ideas of filmmaking.
The biography is based on many hours of exclusive interviews with Lars, supplemented by interviews with his family, friends and colleagues including his father Torben and close cousin Stein Ulrich, former Metallica producer and friend Flemming Rasmussen, Lars' heavy metal mentor Ken Anthony, friend and Copenhagen art counsellor Nils Staerk, old Danish music colleagues such as Mercyful Fate and Artillery, Lars' very close friend actor Sean Penn, Metallica manager since 1984 Peter Mensch, movie-director Joe Berlinger, and the journalist Geoff Barton (Lars' old idol from the U.K. magazine Sounds and later editor-in-chief at Kerrang! magazine).
The biography is published by Danish publishing company Lindhardt and Ringhof (web site) on June 1 in Denmark only, but the company is working on getting the book translated and published in other territories as well.
