METALLICA Fans To Name Band's European Tour
February 16, 2007METALLICA has extended an invitation to the members of their fan club to pick the name for the band's summer 2007 European tour.
As previously reported, METALLICA will headline the 11th edition of the Rockwave Festival, set to take place July at 1-3 Terra Vibe in Malakasa, Greece. METALLICA will perform on July 3. METALLICA has also been confirmed for the Werchter Rock festival on July 1 in Werchter, Belgium. More dates are expected to be announced soon.
METALLICA producer Rick Rubin told MTV.com this week that he wants the band to make a "defining" album when they enter the studio next month. Rubin admitted he was "really nervous" about working with the group after seeing the candid 2005 documentary about their near-breakup, "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster", but said that the band is now the opposite of how they appeared in the film. Rubin said, "They're really productive, really communicative — it seems like they really like being in the room together. It's a great process. They say they're more excited than they have been in a long time about making music...I asked them not to reinvent themselves so much as to make a defining album, like the purest of what METALLICA is."
Drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone magazine that Rubin wants to make the band sound like "the METALLICA that made them METALLICA without going backward."
METALLICA hopes to release its ninth studio effort by the end of the year.
(Thanks: Johan Mörling)
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