Metallica's Lars Ulrich on New Album, "These are long songs ... we're talking seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute nutty-ass songs..."
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Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 10:15 AM
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From Billboard.com:
Metallica are "a couple of nips and tucks" away from completing its next album, which is still on target for a September release, according to drummer Lars Ulrich.
During a conference call yesterday (May 15) promoting this year's Bonnaroo Music Festival, which Metallica will headline on June 13, Ulrich told reporters that the group hopes to wrap up work on the album in time for the Memorial Day weekend holiday. Metallica recently met with a graphic designer to begin planning the package, though there's no confirmed title for the album yet and the songs still have working names.
"We sort of promised ourselves that unlike all the records we made in the '90s, [which] were just completely stressed-out and just nutty, that we were gonna try and have a little more sane environment -- and we've actually, surprising mostly to ourselves, been able to keep to that," Ulrich said. "We've pretty much finished the music now, so all the next level stuff is just starting to go down."
Ulrich said Metallica came into the project with 26 songs, which were knocked down to 14 when the group started working with producer Rick Rubin. There are now 11 slated for the album, though Ulrich said "length issues" might mean one more has to be eliminated.
"These are long songs ... we're talking seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute nutty-ass songs," Ulrich revealed. "We don't make them long or short on purpose; you just kind of do what feels natural. We're not really gonna edit them, (so) we're gonna lose another one at some point in the next month or so and probably end up with 10."
Ulrich described the material as "definitely pretty all over the place. There's a lot of variation, a lot of fast, slow, melodic ... kind of hardcore, nutty super-fast speed stuff.
McGruber - 5/26/2008 10:03:10 AM Raul, NFSB/skullhomo/skull~n~boners Puerto Rican drummer beats his latin luv log deep inside NFSB/skullhomo's nutty-ass.
NFSB - 5/25/2008 9:26:44 PM ...So he has a BABY SITTING SRVC?
ZBoy - 5/25/2008 7:51:43 PM Scrap....y'now...maybe he was molested after school alot too,i mean,look at his dad!!,that guy gives creepy a whole new meaning,he's a danish hippy!,figure that one out LOL
scrapmetal - 5/25/2008 7:35:40 PM COrrection: the pic infuriated Hetfield...
scrapmetal - 5/25/2008 7:35:11 PM RE: Lars-when I was working in the biz I heard more than one rumour he was on the make with his A&R man Michael ALago)spelling) & dont forget the infamous Playboy pic of him & Kirk frenching.That infuriated Hammet & caused their initial split-which caused Lars to accuse james of "homophobia".Coincidences? perhaps...God knows Kirk is very soft spoken & lives in downtown SF,home of the gay marriage.But I digest & speculate too much.
ZBoy - 5/25/2008 4:53:50 PM METALLICA=THE OLD STANDARD
bosox1 - 5/25/2008 4:36:34 PM METALLICA = THE GOLD STANDARD.
cucaracha - 5/25/2008 3:37:57 PM lars looks like the malcom in the middle kid but backward in reverse inside out version.
knacbob - 5/25/2008 3:26:45 PM My wife thinks Lars is gay. She brings this up any time I mention Metallica. She really thinks he's gay. I think he's just being nutty. Yeah, he's a nutty-ass.
killthepuppets - 5/25/2008 12:58:42 PM looks like mc4 got a little rattled...and yes motley did sell out...long ago! where do you think the power ballad came from.
NFSB - 5/25/2008 9:49:07 AM Youtube.com/motelycrue.....Saints of Los Angeles...not bad
MC4LIFE_ - 5/25/2008 5:02:26 AM killthe puppetfluffer....NO THE CRUE DIDNT SELL OUT YOU DUMBASS.AS FOR YOU ZBOOBS...YOU WOULD KNOW SHIT SONGS WOULDNT U SHITFORBRAINS...STILL TRYIN TO CONVINCE PEOPLE YOU'RE A BASS PLAYER THAT BURIES GUITARISTS FOR FUN??LOSERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oclaf - 5/24/2008 10:35:31 PM glam, two days later, but i hear you. one he was a full fledged member, the day he got the gig, is a day that you dont hear the rest of them talking about as it is history...but a great footnote, like their early work, jason wanted to be a part of that so bad and they were not looking for a hired gun, they needed someone to bring it like no other as there is no other like cliff, they knew he was irreplacable, but like AC/DC, if you could get that one person to bring it, yea not like cliff but close enough and not pretending, Jason was the man. He bought in, contributed, not so much with credit listed on an album but bands are business...your part of it you get your cut...and with investing, like a 401 or pension your set for life whether it last 10 minutes or ten years, he got his ten years and some, he is doing well. that final number was based on his contributions which James and Lars were trying to keep him from getting, much like Kirk...he knows without Metallica, he cant cut it, not saying that in a bad way...but he knows...but jason knew that he was hired for that enthusiasim that all bands are/need...and he knew it was time to enjoy the fruits of his labors...an when you see him in a bar locally, its not for the money of lack of, its for the rock...MUYA!!!
scrapmetal - 5/24/2008 7:35:52 PM lars is the only longwinded mofo-he cant give a short coherent answer if he tried.Now his songs are like his interviews,lengthy but short on substance.
ZBoy - 5/23/2008 7:38:37 PM y'now,theres just something about lars that makes ya think "i bet this guy got beat up after school at lot"
