We're yet to ascertain from Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, who recently wrote to Metallica requesting they make a "kick-ass" album, whether or not "nutty-ass" is close enough. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich certainly seems excited about it, though.
Speaking at a press conference to promote the band's headline performance at Bonnaroo Music Festival next month, Ulrich said: "We've pretty much finished the music now, so all the next level stuff is just starting to go down. These are long songs ... we're talking seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute nutty-ass songs. We don't make them long or short on purpose; you just kind of do what feels natural. We're not really gonna edit them, so we're gonna lose another one at some point in the next month or so and probably end up with 10. It's definitely pretty all over the place. There's a lot of variation, a lot of fast, slow, melodic, kind of hardcore, nutty super-fast speed stuff. It's a little more like how some of the earlier records were a little more dynamic within the songs".