METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: 'We're Not In Super-Record Mode'

February 9, 2006

"It was the size of a shower stall, it was 250 degrees in there with 100 percent humidity, and we were at 8,000 feet of altitude, but for seventy-five minutes, it was a fucking blast," METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone magazine about the band's surprise Sundance throwdown in Park City, Utah. An estimated 1,500 fans crammed into 800-capacity Harry O's for the January 25 set, which included an ill five-song string of "Sad But True", "Fade to Black", "Master of Puppets", "One" and "Enter Sandman". The boys were in town to support "The Darwin Awards", starring Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes — with a cameo from METALLICA. Aside from one-off festival gigs this summer, the band is carckin' on its follow-up to "St. Anger". "We're not in super-record mode," said Ulrich. "We're having fun, writing, jamming and hanging. It's all good — no psychiatrists."

METALLICA will perform at Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals on June 3 and June 4, in Arnhem, Holland, on June 8, and at Download Festival on June 10 in England and June 11 in Ireland. Frontman James Hetfield told Launch that moving from the recording studio to the stage has become a seamless process for METALLICA."You sit there and you write something together and you go, 'Ah, we belong together. This is right. We can still create magic together,'" he said. "So it's very bonding before we go out onto the stage, too."

METALLICA also have three shows scheduled for March in South Africa.

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