Lars Ulrich Metallican tulevasta albumista: ”Kappaleet eivät ole yhtä progressiivisia kuin viime levymme materiaali”

Yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metal -legenda Metallican rumpali Lars Ulrich kertoi hiljattain StarTribune.com-sivustolle yhtyeen tulevasta “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct”, joka julkaistaan 18.11. yhtyeen oman Blackened Recordings -levy-yhtiön kautta. Hän kertoi seuraavaa tulevan levyn musiikkityylistä:

”I don’t know if I have enough distance from it yet to really describe or explain it. Greg [Fidelman, producer] is back home mixing it as we speak. We’re mastering it starting on Monday. Here’s what I can tell you: I’m pretty [bleeping] sure it sounds like METALLICA. The songs are probably a little leaner and shorter than the last go-around, and slightly less progressive. They’re more one-dimensional, meaning each song really just has one individual mood instead of having many moods within one song. And I can tell you, it feels pretty damn good to have this new music and to be getting it out there.”

Yhtyeen pitkiä taukoja levyjen ja kiertueiden välillä Ulrich kommentoi seuraavasti:

”There’s just been a lot of other stuff going on. METALLICA has always been active. Since we started making ’Death Magnetic’, it’s coming up on ten years of steadily working. The last time we took a break was after San Diego in 2004. We started up songwriting for ’Death Magnetic’ in 2005, then we toured it for three years. We spent about a year on ’Lulu’, about two years on the ’Through The Never’ movie and soundtrack. We’ve been playing all the great festivals around the world and hitting some really amazing places like China, Malaysia and Indonesia. Really, we haven’t sat still in almost 10 years.”