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Metallica working on “heavier black album”

By | Published on Tuesday 10 January 2012

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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has said that songs for the band’s next album are sounding similar to those on their eponymous 1991 long player, better known as ‘The Black Album’ of course, but heavier.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Hammett said: “If [last album 2008’s] ‘Death Magnetic’ was a logical successor to [1988’s] ‘…And Justice For All’, the next album will be a heavier ‘Black Album’. We’re not going to the depths of complexity that we did for ‘Death Magnetic’. The stuff we’re coming up with is more groove-oriented, a heavier version of what we were doing in the early 90s”.

In other Metallica news, the band have announced that they are putting together a 3D film, which will force fans to sit through an ill-advised narrative in order to watch considerably less concert footage than they would like. Or maybe it will be brilliant. Here’s what drummer Lars Ulrich has to say about it: “Imagine if you took [Led Zeppelin film] ‘The Song Remains The Same’, which is 75% concert, 25% other stuff, and flipped it around. And all the non-concert footage, instead of being about the band members, is a story that unfolds, set against the backdrop of the concert”. Yeah, imagine that.



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