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METALLICA Say Next Album Will Be Shorter, Heavier; Are Probably Lying

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Metallica love giving quotes to the press hyping up their upcoming music. Remember when Lars said that Lulu,their collaboration with Lou Reed, would blow …And Justice For All out of the water? Yea, ridiculous. Now, they've gone and put their foots in their mouths again when describing what their next studio album will sound like. Here is what they told Rolling Stone: 

"We're about seven, eight songs into it," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich tells Rolling Stone magazine about the record, which will once again be produced by Rick Rubin. "We do it in rounds. We come up with something, we leave it, go to the next thing, come up with something basic, leave it and circle back around. Next month we'll go back and start embellishing: 'Let's double that one part and come up with a middle bit.'"

"If Death Magnetic was a logical successor to …And Justice For All, the next album will be a heavier Black Album," Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett tells Rolling Stone, using the popular nickname for 1991's "Metallica". "We're not going to the depths of complexity that we did for 'Death Magnetic'. The stuff we're coming up with is more groove-oriented, a heavier version of what we were doing in the early Nineties."

"When people talk about the old stuff, they think 'Justice'," Ulrich tells Rolling Stone. "But look at 'Harvester Of Sorrow' on that album. It's a fairly simple five-minute song. And 'Fuel' [on 1997's 'Reload'] is an absolute scorcher live. Right now, I'm thinking shorter, more to-the-point."

Wait, who the hell is going around saying that Death Magnetic is the successor to Justice? Not me! Sure, it was a step up from St. Anger, but it isn't even in the same league. Ultimately, my biggest complaint about their last album was that the songs were too long and repetative. You don't have to repeat the same riff 20 times Kirk, we get it. So the fact that they're going for brevity is a relief. But, I still have my reservations, and seeing as though these guys just can't play their instruments like they used to, I doubt they will ever EVER match the awesomeness that was their first few albums.

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12 Comments

  1. Pyramid God Pyramid God says:
    January 9, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Agreed. Also, the songs on Justice were long so they probably see Death Magnetic as its successor because of that.However, there is one major difference: the long songs on Justice were actually brilliantly written whereas the songs on Death Magnetic are just repetitive and can get excruciatingly boring.

  3. Kapsberger says:
    January 9, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    My new conspiracy theory is that these knuckleheads didn't actually write or perform Justice. It was some other band, and they just Milli Vanilli'd these guys in front of it. A band possibly made up of Cliff Burton, who never actually died, Dave Mustaine, and an Apple IIe on drums.

  4. Writhing Funzo In My Sack Writhing Funzo In My Sack says:
    January 9, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    "If Death Magnetic was a logical successor to …And Justice For All"

    wat?

  5. Dexter_prog Dexter_prog says:
    January 9, 2012 at 5:30 pm

    "If Death Magnetic was a logical successor to …And Justice For All", in what universe?

  6. Roeseph Roeseph says:
    January 9, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    Metallica should just start a coaster company, because that's all their CDs are good for. These guys are totally delusional. Hey Kirk, when you said complex, did you mean repetitive?

  7. Obli\/ion Obli\/ion says:
    January 14, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    The problem with Metallica is they're so full of themselves, they can't sit back and take any constructive criticism. They each live in a giant ego bubble. They won't listen to anybody, and they don't care about what their fans think. Then there's James, whose putting all of his new found "life wisdom" shit into his lyrics. They need to retire him from writing lyrics. They need to pal around with some real fuckin' bands and get a clue. One thing I can always expect from listening to a Metallica album these days…Disappointment.

  8. BusterPinewood79 says:
    February 7, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    Can't play their instruments like they used to? Layoff the crack pipe. Apparently you haven't seen any shows or dvds from the Death Magnetic tour. (Nimes, Big 4, Mexico etc.) They're kicking ass.

  9. Metallicat001 says:
    March 27, 2012 at 1:00 am

    YOU ARE THE BIGGEST COCKHEAD!!! EVERYTHING METALLICA HAVE EVER RELEASED AND EVERYTHING THEY WILL EVER RELEASE WILL BE FUCKING WICKED> THEY ARE THE GREATEST 6 PEOPLE ON THE FUCKING PLANET!!!!!!!! (of course Lulu was awesome but Lou Reeds whale of a voice killed it)

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