It’s been six years since we’ve gotten a new Metallica album, 2008’s “Death Magnetic”. And after years of promises that work was underway on a new album, it seems as if the wait is almost over.
It’s not as if the band has been dormant. There was the album with Lou Reed, “Lulu”. The film “Through The Never”. The “Orion” festivals. And frequent touring. But now in an interview with METAL FORCES drummer Lars Ulrich says they’ll have completed their 10th album by this summer.
“We’re now coming towards the end of the musical creative process and we’re starting to look ahead and the process of how we’re gonna share this record with the universe. The month of June is basically when we’re gonna sit down and figure what we’re gonna do with it all; what we’re gonna call it and what’s gonna be on it”.
About the album’s release, Lars says “If the record doesn’t come out this year then it won’t be because it’s not done. It will be because there’s some sort of cosmic reason that it would be smarter to hold onto it until next year. But the record will be done this summer”.
At the helm is the same engineer on “Death Magnetic” which was somewhat of a comeback for the band. “Greg Fidelman is 24/7 on this record and has been since last summer,” Ulrich said. “He’s doing an insanely great job and has been putting his heart and soul in it pretty much every waking moment of his life in helping us engineer and produce this record.”