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Metallica put Lords Of Summer online
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 21 March 2014
Metallica released a new track titled ‘Lords Of Summer’, sweet and gentle as a baby bird, into the big blue of ‘the internet’ earlier this week, having first revealed it live at a show in Bogota. I kid, it isn’t sweet, it’s really hoarse and gnarly, more like a ravaged old vulture.
Aaaaanyway, the eight-minute-long ‘garage demo’ of ‘Lords Of Summer’ represents the band’s first non-Lou-Reed-featuring new material since last year, when they released alternate takes from 2008’s ‘Death Magnetic’ LP.
Lars Ulrich has told Rolling Stone that, whilst the song is “fairly representative of where our creative headspace is at right now”, it won’t necessarily be making any official Metallica LP tracklistings, and, for now, is only meant as a sign to fans that the band are “writing and creating away”.
See? They haven’t been idle. And this is the proof: