METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich tells RollingStone.com that the band has written close to 20 new songs for its new album, and will likely enter the pre-production recording phase in the near future.
“We are fucking in it,” Ulrich says. “We’ve got lots of songs, and we’re honing them and tweaking them. It’s pretty close.”
He continues: “In our world, there’s been a distinct difference between the creative phase and the recording phase. With this project, we’re trying to bridge the two a little more organically and not have there be such a great divide between the processes. We want to see if we can bring some of the creative curiosity, the impulsive stuff that happens when you’re first playing a song into the studio. You want to tweak it and get it good, but you also want to record it in a way where it doesn’t feel labored over and overthought. We’re trying to figure out where that line is.”
Ulrich adds: “The creative elements are getting close to being done,” the drummer says. “Just remember, this is still ‘METALLICA time.’ When I say we’re close to being done, it means the next month or so. There’s a lot of stuff going on as life continues with family and personal events…. But we are certainly down there [writing] pretty much every day.”
METALLICA‘s new studio album, its tenth, will follow up 2008’s “Death Magnetic”.