Paul "Neanderpaul" Marshall and Brian "Sludge" Haddad of the Arizona radio station 93.3 KDKB conducted an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich at the April 23 "Big Four" concert at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California. You can now watch the chat below.
With METALLICA scheduled to enter the studio later this month, the band has been tight-lipped on what kind of project they're going to be recording. But whether it's a whole new album or not — which is unlikely — Ulrich told Metal Hammer magazine that there will be no shortage of material when studio album number 10 does get underway. He explained, "James [Hetfield, guitar/vocals] told me in Australia that he had over 700 (new) riffs. That was slightly overwhelming. When I spoke to him yesterday, he told me that he'd been playing guitar again in the last couple of weeks. And listen, when James tunes his guitar, he comes up with three to five usable guitar riffs. It's kind of frightening. James is not allowed to play guitar without being recorded. Literally! There are also hours and hours of jams and tuning-room shindigs."
Ulrich added, "We're gonna sit down and wade through two and half years' worth of riffs and jams and hopefully a lot of the seeds for the next METALLICA record will be in that . . . We can use the rest of the riffs for ringtones or... I don't know. Set up a web site: SpareRiffs.com."
Hetfield himself told The Pulse Of Radio that he's always working on music. "I can't turn off the creative part of me, which is — what a great gift," he said. "There's stuff coming out all the time, whether it's in the tuning room, in my hotel room, sitting at home with the acoustic, wherever. The stuff is coming out, and it gets recorded or written down or something, some way, and it'll come out at some point. Whether it's on this album, the next album, who knows."
The next full-length METALLICA album will follow up 2008's "Death Magnetic".
As for whether this month's recording project is "something new," Ulrich said, "Something new? Um... not necessarily. It depends on where you look at it from. I wouldn't call it something new."
METALLICA will head to Europe for more 'Big Four' shows this summer, before playing Rock In Rio in September and bringing the 'Big Four' show to Yankee Stadium in New York City that same month.
The band has also announced its first-ever gigs in India, which will take place in Delhi on October 28 and Bangalore on October 30.
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