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.
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"
ZBoy - 5/23/2008 7:27:37 PM great....now instead of 4 minute shit songs,we have 8 minute shit songs
NFSB - 5/23/2008 4:38:30 PM Nikki Sixx was on JKL the other night supporting his GF= That chick wt all the tatoos...it was a pile of steaming shit, very un-Jimmy like..
killthepuppets - 5/23/2008 10:31:59 AM AND MOTLEY CRUE DIDNT SELL OUT ???? AND ONLY 3 ALBUMS IN TOO...NOT TO BAD
MC4LIFE_ - 5/23/2008 5:44:28 AM BO-SUX TURD POLISHER...METALLICA=PLATINUM STANDARD (OF SELLING OUT)...IF ONLY U KNEW YOU POOR LARS GROUPIE
deadeye1 - 5/23/2008 2:40:21 AM tick,tock,tick,tock,tick,tock....... now there is one nutty lyric!!!!!!
analgravy2 - 5/22/2008 10:11:27 PM The band has been irrelevant the past 20 fucking years. That is a LONG ass time. There's no way in hell they'll come back. Just give it up.
bosox1 - 5/22/2008 9:30:17 PM METALLICA = THE GOLD STANDARD.
kankun - 5/22/2008 7:57:53 PM Ok kids,we'll wait for this álbum & remember mexico too,forever metallica!!!!!!
fizzgig - 5/22/2008 5:04:00 PM I didn't, but they're acting as though it won't suck just because it's long and fast.
killthepuppets - 5/22/2008 3:28:42 PM maybe itll be great...but i doubt youll ever admit that no matter what it sounds like.
killthepuppets - 5/22/2008 3:23:24 PM who says that the song sucks???
fizzgig - 5/22/2008 12:10:41 PM Just saw this headline over on BWBK: "Metallica's First SIngle Will Be Eight-Minute Tour-De-Fource, Featuring Some Of The Fastest Playing They've Ever Done." Get wise, motherfuckers! Speed and song length don't matter if the song still sucks!
Glam_Chowder - 5/22/2008 6:23:01 AM Oclaf - it depends. I don't know - was Jason ever an actual member of the band, or just a hired guy like Bruce Kulick? Not that big a fan, so I don't know. Like the lottery, sometimes the lump sum is better than the monthly check...you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. The article on "Blabbermouth" said it took almost two years for them to come up with a final "number" everyone could live with - just sounded like a buy out. Again, while performing on the albums, Jason had very few writing credits, so a large one time payment he could invest himself instead of depending on album sales (and having to continue a relationship with Metallica/Lars/management) - could actually be the better choice, both financially and emotionally, given the current state of Metallica, er, 'Tallica.
I_wish_you_Deth - 5/22/2008 1:22:34 AM I cant tell the nSfbs apart. Fucking initials and clones. yea right...
The album is reported to be named "the white album" because it has no artwork. The source did admit it may have been covered with white powder and not actually white. There may have been specks of brown in it.
I listened to some of the new music. and yea the band is not the same with out the original members. Its a totally different sound. I can only hope it is nine minutes of structured instrumental craftmanship and hard work which we all love about this band. and not sloppy solos of the same old marching mice riffs like the last album, "Burn" . I really do. I am getting tired of playing the same Megadeth songs over and over again.
As far as that stupid video at the web site goes, what a tease. how much did they spend on that piece of shit.
As far as KNAC, downloads go, I tried twice to watch and download the video, and got shit for my efforts.
Does that link work? Please post and let the world know.
and Attention all head bangers, say a prayer for Mr. Tyler, he needs it. Best blues singer in rock. America needs Aerosmith, sometimes the blues is a necessary evil. Like drinking beer after you realize the bourbon is getting you a little too high too quick. And you cant get laid if you too fucked up and keep puking between grinds. Oh I forgot Larz has no prob with that. It is not like that after all. Its like nfsb and nfsb. To the real nfsb, Right on Brother, keep the losers out of the site, . If you helped rid us of slobber blobber. I award you the whiter than bleach award for spring 2008.
