New Metallica Album. UPDATE: Ulrich says 2016 release

I was in my 5th and final year of high school when Death Magnetic came out.

www.blabbermouth.net/news/kirk-hammett-confirms-identity-of-metallicas-new-album-producer/


As if we didn't know already.

You are feeding your favorite troll with that stuff

This means that Fidelman has only just started producing, he has been helping them record the demos over the past year.

Haha the last bit

KIRK IS HR.

haha !!

I want to ask you thornwithin: Is your signature a reference to something?

I wish it was Bob Rock. Then the album might actually sound decent.

I'm referring to Black album sound, one of the best sounding albums ever. He only made st anger sound that way cos the band wanted a raw sound. And he was probably high.

In all seriousness the more interviews that come out the more nervous I get, especially this one. I know Kirk usually has no clue what he is talking about but the whole "he doesn't piss anyone off" thing or whatever he said combined with Lars saying there are no short songs scares me. That means (in my eyes) that the band is going to be pretty much in full control with not a lot input from a producer which is the exact opposite of what they need to be doing right now. If LoS is even close to making the album as Lars suggested I fear we are in for a cluster fuck of riffs put together with no real purpose in eight minute long songs that have cool parts, but just are too long for their own good.

Add the eight years it has taken them to get another album out, which I'm assuming is because they were not inspired to sit down and get it done and it just makes this whole thing scream boring and uninspired. I REALLY hope I'm wrong because the boys have been in a weird bubble lately of vibes and fuck knows what else. When I read their interviews I feel like I'm reading an interview with a monk or some hippie from San Fransisco during the 60's.

I just feel like they needed a producer that is no bullshit and tells them when something sucks now more than ever. I don't want them going out with some uninspired bore fest. (It is entirely possible that this is their last album, unless they suddenly get a fire under their asses and start pumping out new material.)

A lot of that sounds distinctly underwhelming. I mean...


Now, I know as much about creating great albums as a pig knows about a shirt, but surely at some stage in that process a band needs to just fucking focus and put in a concerted effort, even if it's no longer the all-consuming, persevere-til-5-in-the-morning type of affair that it might have been in earlier times.

Then again, as suggested above, Kirk could be very much in the back seat on this one, or else just talking nonsense as he does.

But still, "trying to be a band"... awesome. 

See recent Lars interview for clarification.  


ultimateclassicrock.com/metallica-lars-ulrich-album-update/