NewsJanuary 17, 2014 3:21 PM ET5,797 views

Metallica set to begin work on new album

In a new interview with Billboard.com, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett reveals that the band will soon commence work on the follow up to 2008's Death Magnetic. Hammett had the following to say:
"[We will begin] in a couple of weeks. When we start, that's going to be our main priority, and we're pretty excited about it because we've been saying we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it. We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now."
However, Hammett tells Billboard that it's going to be a challenge to orchestrate their glut of new ideas and riffs:
" We're a band that never has a shortage of ideas. You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do? That's not Metallica. Metallica's problem is the total opposite. We have too many ideas. James [Hetfield] has, like, 800 ideas. I have 400. Those number alone are just crazy. That's formidable."

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anonymous 1/17/2014 12:33:40 PM

Too many ideas? Isn't this the same band that made a documentary showing their frustrations of writing a record from scratch? And being creatively bankrupt?

anonymous 1/17/2014 12:33:53 PM

sean gurry is cay

agent_friday 1/17/2014 12:35:03 PM

800 ideas and "Fran-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic- tic-toc" makes the album.

anonymous 1/17/2014 12:40:52 PM

1200 ideas for a bad record. Should've stopped hurting us many moons ago. I will say that I respect their live shows for still playing mostly 80s stuff that people love to hear.

rick____tocchet 1/17/2014 12:45:29 PM

please, please, please stop.

anonymous 1/17/2014 12:46:45 PM

They did it all for the nookie.

horseheadxbookends 1/17/2014 12:57:05 PM

death magnetic is their best album

anonymous 1/17/2014 1:09:37 PM

"We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now." Let's help this guys out with some more excuses ASAP

anonymous 1/17/2014 1:53:08 PM

Im hoping for another vanflip, fire accident or maybe even switch things up with a plane crash.

anonymous 1/17/2014 1:55:24 PM

Stay in Antarctica please.

anonymous 1/17/2014 2:19:57 PM

1200 shitty ideas

anonymous 1/17/2014 4:06:57 PM

great now I gotta hear how " this album is like the old stuff its great" from all the aholes that never even heard kill em all..piss off Metallica this is another cash grab..1200 ideas and not one good one...

anonymous 1/17/2014 4:43:49 PM

Harvester of sorrow! 1988 was a long ass time ago....

anonymous 1/17/2014 4:51:11 PM

Me No like Metalliputas

anonymous 1/17/2014 5:01:35 PM

MY LIFESTYLE DETERMINES MY DEATHSTYLE

anonymous 1/17/2014 5:28:55 PM

I fowted...

anonymous 1/17/2014 8:39:40 PM

vomiting ensues

anonymous 1/17/2014 9:07:23 PM

band sucks

anonymous 1/17/2014 11:26:37 PM

hahaha Lars is so rich he could order all your deaths and have your corpses made into fine art for his extensive collection.

anonymous 1/17/2014 11:50:43 PM

Kerry King is confused.

anonymous 1/18/2014 12:09:24 AM

I AM THE TABLE!

anonymous 1/18/2014 4:58:00 AM

"We have like 1200 grammatically flawed ideas, ya know, like 'what don't kill me, make me more strong.' Shit like that, ya know."

anonymous 1/18/2014 6:41:46 AM

People with guest vocal ideas are stoked

anonymous 1/18/2014 8:36:02 AM

will not be better than Lulu or St. Anger, which were both undoubtedly superior to their early records

SuckMeBeautiful 1/18/2014 9:46:17 AM

hope the drums sound like Lars beating on broken trash cans again

anonymous 1/18/2014 10:58:45 AM

LuLu was slightly better than Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

anonymous 1/19/2014 12:12:59 AM

I just hope they do the right thing and make another sequel to the unforgiven. Then a prequel. Then have another crying session with Dave Mustaine. We could also use another "some kind of monster" to showcase how the biggest metal band in history are a bunch of crybabies stuck in a state of arrested development.

anonymous 1/19/2014 1:16:24 PM

in other news, i will also be pooping in 2014

anonymous 1/20/2014 7:05:10 AM

Hopefully I'll be able to download this garbage and not pay for it.

anonymous 1/20/2014 4:57:43 PM

Lulu is stoked

anonymous 1/20/2014 4:58:20 PM

Lulu is definitely in my top 10 best metal albums of all time

anonymous 1/20/2014 9:31:16 PM

please, nothing like post 90's albums. bring back the 80's thrash or at least the early 90's. no crappier please

anonymous 1/21/2014 5:38:53 AM

1200 bad ideas? Kill yourselves for Christ-sake, it's over.




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