Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich revealed last week in Los Angeles that the band has all but finished recording its ninth studio effort, with only a few touch-ups to be completed this week before mixing begins. As for what the band's first CD since 2003's "St. Anger" sounds like, Ulrich told The Pulse Of Radio it's hard for him to put a finger on it.
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It's Metallica, that I can tell you," he said. "
My dad was up at the house a couple, three, four weeks ago so I played him a couple, three, four songs and I said, 'Well?' And he goes, 'It sounds like Metallica.' And I don't know if you can define it, I mean we can sit and get into, you know, little definitions about that, but he just looked at me and said, 'That sounds like Metallica.' And that's pretty cool."
Metallica's new album is due out in September. The band expects to announce the record's title in a few weeks.
Ulrich told reporters on a Thursday (May 15) conference call that the new songs are "all over the place. There's a lot of variation, a lot of fast, slow, melodic... kind of hardcore, nutty super-fast speed stuff. It's a little more like how some of the earlier records were a little more dynamic within the songs."
Metallica wrote a total of 26 songs for the disc, with 11 actually recorded. Because most of the tracks are seven to nine minutes long, one may be dropped for length considerations.
Metallica returned to the stage for the first time in 2008 last Wednesday during a benefit concert for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. The group followed that up over the past few days with radio festivals in Arizona and Irvine, California.
Next up for the group is a headlining slot at Tennessee's Bonnaroo festival in mid-June, along with a string of European dates.
Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.
where did the time go..
cant wait i missed the solos
