METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: 'We Never Want To Turn Into A Nostalgia Band'

March 19, 2013

With METALLICA frontman James Hetfield recently telling an Australian rock station that "gigs keep popping up" which delay work on the group's next album, The Pulse Of Radio asked drummer Lars Ulrich for his take on the band's more leisurely approach to recording. "There'll be a new record and we certainly never want to turn into a nostalgia band, but at the same time, you've got to keep yourself, I guess, creatively alive and that's what we do by playing these gigs and doing all these other projects and doing movies and festivals," he said. "I mean, it's just, all that stuff's a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of time, you know."

While METALLICA was Down Under performing at the Soundwave festival, Hetfield told radio station Triple M, "We're trying to write (new material),but gigs keep popping up that are too exciting to stay home for. We have lots of material (we've been) working on from the day [2008 album] 'Death Magnetic' ended all the way up until now."

Asked what the new material sounds like, Hetfield told Triple M, "I don't know where it's going yet but we've got lots of different sounds, different styles."

METALLICA will headline its second annual Orion Music + More festival this June in Detroit, and plans to release a theatrical 3D movie called "Metallica Through The Never" on August 9.

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